Stephan Lauermann
@s_lauermann
How Can We Assess the Nature and the Effectiveness of Informal Political Processes? lt.org/publication/ho…
🚨@davidecipu @TommasoColussi @d_rossignoli and I are happy to share the call for the 25/26 Political Economy – Work in progress seminars. Tuesday, 5-6 pm, Universita’ Cattolica. Open to anyone doing political economy! Link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… #econtwitter #poliscitwitter
📆 7 May @15:00 CEST - CEPR Virtual IO Seminar Series #VIOS 🗣️@s_lauermann @UniBonn presents "Recruiting Bidders". Discussant: Juuso Välimäki @AaltoUniversity ✍️ow.ly/vgvG50VKCEs
A change in my thinking about mathematics over the last few years is that I’ve come to believe that it is not useful to think of mathematical objects as being “poorly behaved” or “pathological” — everything that is true is beautiful.
An oldie of mine on investment and uncertainty, in case anyone happens to be interested rn
For those interested in hearing more game theory, here is a terrific podcast series, featuring @Jeffely, @ArielRubinstein, @ShengwuLi, @skominers, @RFisman, Emir Kamenica, Candice Prendergast, and many others. tws-partners.com/podcast/
Last week we had the great pleasure of hosting our annual Christmas Microeconomic Theory Conference in Bonn! Many thanks to our organizers, speakers and participants for the fruitful exchange and great contributions @dfg_public @UniBonn @EPoS224 @s_lauermann @DilmeFranc80213…
Super excited to publicly launch "All Day TA", a product @joshgans and I have been working on with our team over the last year. Short version: if you teach in spring, you will want to use this! It's the future of higher education. A short thread: 1/x
We just added another chapter in the history of political prediction markets. Count 2024 as a clear win for prediction markets over polls, economic models, and polling aggregators.
Nobu Kiyotaki; “This is a Mickey Mouse example, but don’t underestimate the power of Mickey Mouse.”
AI “factfulness” does seem to be improving in newer models, even for subjects where the consensus of training data would push the AI to be wrong. For example, GPT-3.5 believed “learning styles” were real, a common myth shared by most educators👇. Now, GPT-4 & Bard get it right.
Depressingly, a debunked theory is believed by the vast majority of teachers. The belief in Learning Styles (that some people are auditory learners, visual learners, etc) is not only wrong, it can hurt. But the research shows that when teachers learn why, they change. So, a 🧵1/
The explanation of ChatGPT that I wrote is now a printed book ... (hopefully) available in bookstores everywhere! And it's my thinnest book ever... (It's also an ebook) amazon.com/What-ChatGPT-D…
Bonn Graduate School of Economics, @UniBonn, number 1 in the EU and number 4 in Europe in terms of research output of alumni. 💪Indeed, we have great students. @HCM_Bonn , @ECON_tribute
Define the RePEc Genealogy department H-Index as h such that h graduates have an H-Index of at least h. Here are the top departments given their graduates listed in the RePEc Genealogy genealogy.repec.org/stats.html#dep… #dailyRePEc