Center for Regulatory and Industrial Studies
@cris_uncecon
Founded in @unc_econ at @unccollege to support research in Industrial Organization and Data Science. Director is Jonathan Williams: https://jonwms.web.unc.edu
Mark your calendars for April 24/25 for the 2026 Triangle Micro Conference with @UNC_econ and @DukeEcon, hosted by @kenanflagler. #econtwitter Previous years' programs here: cris.web.unc.edu/tmc/
The 2025 Triangle Micro Conference with @UNC_econ and @DukeEcon, hosted by @kenanflagler, is on March 28/29. If you're interested in attending, program and registration information is here: cris.web.unc.edu/tmc/ Please share widely #EconTwitter!
Stanford's "Deep Generative Models" 📽️ Lecture Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=… 📷Course website: deepgenerativemodels.github.io (audio generated by NotebookLM)
Nearly everyone has given up on urban K-12 reform. Politicians no longer talk about it. There's but one city, Houston, attempting wholesale reform and early results are incredibly promising. Cities from across the US are starting to pay attention. In 2023, after years of falling…
Very cool and topical call for papers at Management Science: “Business and Its Interrelationship with Democratic Resilience, Geopolitics, and Society in a Time of Change.” October 1, 2025 deadline for 5-page detailed paper proposals. pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.12…
Rivals' prices, and the ability to monitor them, play a special role in pricing algorithms. Zach Brown and I discuss the research and the implications in the latest CPI Antitrust Chronicle on Surveillance Pricing. Read the article here: tinyurl.com/2pj93aat
🔍 Have you explored the #TPRC53 program on SCHED? Build your own personalized agenda so you don’t miss the sessions that matter most! Make the most of your conference experience 🎯 🎟️ Early Bird Registration ends AUG 15! 🔗tprc2025ab.sched.com
IO, trade, and the solar industry in one paper. Am I in heaven?
Are you, or do you have, a PhD student who plans to be on the market this fall and works on a topic related to real estate? We're attempting to create a top-notch opportunity for you here. Please spread the word. df.uzh.ch/en/news-events…
We are hiring at Rotman Strategy in the Fall. Apply here. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-As…
"Tracking 2,400 students from two major universities … Men and women have similar work aspirations, apply at similar times and rates, & receive comparable numbers of job offers, but women are more likely to reject them." nber.org/papers/w34051?…
Aapo Aaltio, Riku Buri, Antto Jokelainen & Johan Lundberg focus on cartel detection tests designed for auctions that require only bid data from the auctions in the latest published EARIE Research Summary. Read more: earie.org/ijio-research-…
California's $20 fast food minimum wage reduced employment by 3.2 percent (roughly 18,000 jobs) over the first year since its enactment, from @jeffreypclemens, Olivia Edwards, and Jonathan Meer nber.org/papers/w34033
The July-August 2025 issue of @Mrktng_Science is now available online! pubsonline.informs.org/toc/mksc/44/4
New Gen AI paper🚨: "The Labor Market Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence" with Filip Jolevski (@FilipJole), Vitor Melo (@MeloVitor_), and Brendan Moore (@BrendanDMoore). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
Building the first known database of biological drug patents to find robust evidence of strategic patenting practices by biologics manufacturers, from @MichaelFrakes2 and @MelissaWasserma nber.org/papers/w34024
AI that actually understands your network traffic? Yes, it's happening! In our latest blog, we introduce Network Comprehension, a CableLabs research initiative that brings AI to the packet level, analyzing raw network data directly on customer premises equipment (CPE), with no…
This paper challenges a classic antitrust assumption: 📉 Third-degree price discrimination often REDUCES output & welfare vs. uniform pricing. 🛒 Using supermarket data, it finds Bork-style output tests may understate harm. ⚠️ Logit demand fails badly and masks welfare losses.
New @UNCResearch publication: "Cluster GARCH" in the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics by @UNC Latané Distinguished Professor @ProfPHansen Coauthored with Chen Tong and @ilya_archakov @AmstatNews @UNC_econ #econtwitter tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
My awesome colleagues from across campus @MartinUribeEcon and @SSchmittGrohe have joined X - make sure to follow them! #econtwitter
Recently accepted to #REStud, "Endogenous clustering and analogy-based expectation equilibrium," from Jehiel and Weber: restud.com/endogenous-clu… #econtwitter
Undersea cables are the unsung heroes of global communications, carrying 99% of Internet traffic. As the U.S. builds the data centers and other infrastructure necessary to lead the world in AI and next-gen technologies, these cables are more important than ever. That’s why the…