My July reading suggestions are out. Merger simulations tested at scale, AI agent collusion turning out to be more fragile than feared, backdoors in neural networks that no statistical test can catch, user innovation, and why the AI labs keep hiring philosophers. networklawreview.org/july-2026/
Anja Rösner
@anjaroesner.bsky.social
Researcher @rockwoolfonden.dk Interested in IO, Competition Economics, Applied Microeconomics, PhD from @dice-hhu.bsky.social @hhu.bsky.social www.anjaroesner.com
Thank you, @profschrepel.bsky.social, for including our paper (with @anjaroesner.bsky.social) in your reading suggestions! Interested readers can access our paper on the relationship between managerial incentives and collusion here: doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
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My July reading suggestions are out. Merger simulations tested at scale, AI agent collusion turning out to be more fragile than feared, backdoors in neural networks that no statistical test can catch, user innovation, and why the AI labs keep hiring philosophers. networklawreview.org/july-2026/
In his contribution to CEPR's Europe 2050 series, @tomvalletti.bsky.social offers a provocative reframing of Europe's innovation deficit: the problem is not only one of scale, capital, or regulation, but of market structure. Read the paper to see his solutions. ow.ly/BblM50Zey9S #Europe2050 #EconSky
🚨 New paper alert 🚨 I am happy to announce that the paper "Do managerial incentives facilitate anti-competitive behavior? Evidence from collusion" (with @anjaroesner.bsky.social , @rockwoolfonden.dk ) has been published in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Are you or one of your students going on the #EconJobMarket this year? If so, you should check out two new resources that I posted to my website today. lillyspringer.github.io/JobMarket_No... lillyspringer.github.io/JobMarket_Sl...
🚨I am excited to announce our new working paper: "Artificial Intelligence, Communication, and Strategic Pricing: Evidence from Large Language Models" with @anjaroesner.bsky.social (@rockwoolfonden.dk) and Benjamin Schröder (@dice.hhu.de) Paper link (SSRN): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
1/ From the US FTC to Saudi Arabia, antitrust agencies are building computational tools. Bid-rigging detectors. Contract scrapers. LLMs for spotting illegal information exchanges. Antitrust 3.0 is here. The question is what gets left behind. #computationalantitrust
New working paper on competition in meal delivery 🍔📦 Using detailed local data and within-market variation, we uncover how competition shapes prices and demand across restaurants. Turns out, the effects are more nuanced than you might expect. Take a look 👇 papers.ssrn.com/abstract=632...
Local Aspects of Digital Competition: Evidence from a Meal Delivery Platform in Germany
We study competition in the ready-to-eat meal delivery market in Germany, a sector characterized by digital platforms, while the competition is tightly local. W
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Yesterday, it was Women’s Day Today, you can read our paper on parenthood and women’s under-representation in academia Parenthood leads to women leaving academia - not just career slowdown 👇👇👇 Joint work with @cairosofie.bsky.social, @riaivandic.bsky.social and @valentinatartari.bsky.social
👶📚 Does #parenthood affect academic careers equally? A new study shows that after the first child, many mothers leave #academia and are less likely to reach tenure (a permanent professorship) – while fathers’ careers remain largely unchanged. berlinschoolofeconomics.de/about-us/new...
Friends, I have created a Starter Pack of economics journals (and working paper series) active on Bluesky. Hope this is useful for academic, policy, and industry economists alike. #Econsky Please let me know if there are any that I missed!
🚨 Working paper alert 🚨 I am happy to share the working paper “When the Patent Quid Pro Quo is Distorted: Protection-Disclosure Imbalance and Follow-on Innovation” Link: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
If you want to know more about the relationship between NASA technologies, licensing, and follow-on innovation, you can take a look at our paper "Reaching for the society: The commercialization effects of NASA technology licensing" (w @anjaroesner.bsky.social) Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.re...
Reaching for the society: The commercialization effects of NASA technology licensing
How does technology transfer of government inventions affect follow-on innovation? Recognizing the importance of technology development and commercial…
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Reaching for the Public: How NASA’s Patents Spark Innovation Back on Earth open.substack.com/pub/uycetink... What if government patents didn’t block innovation—but fueled it instead? NASA’s data says yes. Public science can be the spark for private creativity. 🌍✨
Last year I said that giving the Prize to AJR was a missed opportunity to award Joel Mokyr. This year he's getting it. So incredibly well deserved! Aghion & Howitt share it with him and I think it's a great selection! www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 was awarded “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Joel Mokyr “for having identified ...
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🎖️ The Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt! Over the last two centuries the world has seen sustained economic growth. This year’s laureates explain how innovation provides the impetus for further progress. #PrizeinEconomicSciences #NobelPrize
The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.
Happy to announce our paper just landed in Research Policy! 🚀 @marekgiebel.bsky.social & I ask: when NASA licenses technology, does it boost innovation on Earth? Spoiler: yes. Turns out “rocket science” is also innovation economics. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #EconSky #NASA #Innovation
Reaching for the society: The commercialization effects of NASA technology licensing
How does technology transfer of government inventions affect follow-on innovation? Recognizing the importance of technology development and commercial…
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🚨 Working paper available: "Fiscal Transparency and the Benefits of Government-Funded Research" Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
🚨 Working paper available 🎉 "Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Innovation - Evidence from Compensatory Patent Term Adjustments" Link: ssrn.com/abstract=531... #EconSky
I am excited to share my job market journey and its outcome. I will be joining the fantastic @rockwoolfonden.dk in August as a Researcher in the “Productivity & Prosperity” unit in Copenhagen, and I could not be happier with this outcome.
I am very happy that the paper "The Impact of a New Workplace Technology on Employees" (with @alexanderlammers.bsky.social) is now available online!!
New #openaccess article in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics: "The Impact of a New Workplace Technology on Employees" (by Marek Giebel & Alexander Lammers) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
I am looking forward to presenting my paper "Reaching for the Society: The Commercialization Effects of NASA Technology Transfer" (with @anjaroesner.bsky.social)! If you cannot attend the workshop, you can find a recent version here (SSRN): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Reaching for the Society: The Commercialization Effects of NASA Technology Transfer
How does technology transfer of government inventions affect follow-on innovation? Being aware of the importance of technology development and commercialization
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Day 2 of the DISS workshop is about to start with a great line-up: @dwehrheim.bsky.social Michael Andrews (UMBC) @marekgiebel.bsky.social Michael Klein (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Keynote (at 5 p.m. CET / 11 a.m. ET): Ginger Jin (University of Maryland) @zew.de @tmartens.bsky.social
Last chance to be on the "economists on Bluesky" listings before all authors registered on RePEc are alerted to it in the monthly email. Listings: ideas.repec.org/i/ebluesky.h... Where to add your BlueSky handle to your RePEc profile: authors.repec.org #RePEc #EconSky
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Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research. A Place of Joy.
#EconJobMarket Meet @anjaroesner.bsky.social @dice-hhu.bsky.social 🧾 𝗝𝗼𝗯 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿: Do Consumers Care? Collusion, Inattention, and the Power of Information 🔎 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗧𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰: Empirical Industrial Organization (primary), Applied Microeconomics (secondary) 🖥 Personal Website: lnkd.in/eZq8m5X6
1/🚨 Excited to share that I am on the 𝗷𝗼𝗯 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁! My research focuses on industrial organization and its intersection with 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀, 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿, 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆, & 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆. In my Job Market Paper, “𝘋𝘰 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘦? 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘐𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯,” 🧵
I am happy that also my paper “The effect of subsidies on R&D in the financial crisis—the role of financial constraints of firms and banks” is now available online!! academic.oup.com/icc/advance-... #EconSky 📉📈
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The Industrial Organization Society is now on Bluesky! Our call for papers is open and our conference will be held May 3-5 in Boston. Check it out and tell your grad students. www.indorgsociety.org/conference
International Industrial Organization Conference | Industrial Organization Society
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