PILoSSopher
@pilossopher
Ass. Prof. of Economics @DukeEcon💰, dog enthusiast 🐕 , baller 🏀, runner 🏃♀️, kickboxer 🥊 ; @UChi_Economics grad; Last name spelled PILoSSoph
The Fujita/Moscarini/Postel-Vinay series of Employer-to-Employer transitions is now available on FRED. Check it out! Many thanks to @stlouisfed and @SerdarBirinci9 in particular for helping make that happen! fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FMPSA fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FMPSA3MA
The costs and benefits of a shorter workweek Gregor Jarosch, @pilossopher, Anthony Swaminathan @DukeU @DukeEcon ow.ly/oI5650WrFzw
I have a friend who did a PhD with me but left research and every time he sees me on my laptop he asks whether my value function iteration has converged😂
I went last year and can highly recommend this- it was an excellent conference !!! Not to mention that Sydney is a nice place to be in December 😂
Come to Sydney in December for the 2nd Annual e61 / UNSW Micro 4 Macro Workshop. Deadline: 31 July. Last year's workshop was a great success, with excellent papers and discussion. Another great macro conference on the calendar!
Using survey data from Germany combined with an 'what is the optimal length of the workweek' model suggests 37 hours, from Gregor Jarosch, @pilossopher, and Anthony Swaminathan nber.org/papers/w33577
A new model of collusion in the labor market finds employer cartels fix a wage ceiling and harm to workers large in slack or concentrated markets or if combined with product market collusion, from @agottfries and Gregor Jarosch nber.org/papers/w33501
📢 We just posted a MATLAB suite for panel local projections. It supports estimation and inference, including small-sample refinements, fixed-effects, controls, cumulative responses... Available at github.com/TinchoAlmuzara… together with replication files.
💥On panel local projections with macro shocks💥 Our new WP w/ @martinalmuzara: ▫️ micro data and macro questions (e.g., firms and monetary policy) ▫️ heterogeneity and impulse responses ▪️ how to compute standard errors? ▪️ what is the role of cross-sectional variation? 🧵
That was quick! The price of avocados at my local @AldiUSA store has already gone up by 10 percent. Here's my @Instacart screenshot from today (Feb 2, 2025).
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Officer-Involved: The Media Language of Police Killings,” by Moreno-Medina, Ouss, Bayer, and Ba: doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…
I would like to invite you to our "The Micro and Macro Perspectives of Labor Market" Virtual Reading Group co-organized with Jesse Wedewer at @DukeEcon.
Returning home after 2 days in beautiful Sydney at the inaugural @E61Institute Micro4Macro w'shop, organized by myself, @GregWKaplan, Gianna LaCava and John Romalis. Great program and exciting to put a new top macro conference on the map. Looking forward to edition 2 in 2025!
In an economy with realistic firm heterogeneity, a federal minimum wage cannot meaningfully reduce the efficiency losses due to monopsony power. Minimum wages do redistribute, but at the cost of lower production. By Berger, Herkenhoff and Mongey econometricsociety.org/publications/e…
Banning noncompetes in the US would raise wages by 4%.
Congratulations to Maryam Farboodi on winning the 2024 Elaine Bennett research prize! aeaweb.org/about-aea/comm… #EconTwitter
#AMEC (@NYFedResearch) will host a Symposium on “The U.S. Labor Market in the 21st Century" on November 22. Please register and attend if you are interested and share the invite with your friends, students, colleagues! The Symposium has three sessions …. 1/n
Announcing the next #AMEC symposium: The U.S. Labor Market in the 21st Century Friday, November 22 9:30 am - 3 pm Open to the public and the media. Agenda and livestream link>> nyfed.org/4eAov0A