This paper combines new evidence from the Annual Capital Expenditure Survey with a model of custom software to examine its macroeconomic implications.

arXiv📈🤖 Antitrust on Aisle Five: How Well Do Divestiture Remedies Work? By Dong, Koh, Raval et al

The 2026 Barkley Marathons is over. There are no finishers. #BM100

Apple cowardly still has not pulled X and Grok from the App Store (Link)

The Federal Trade Commission is hiring PhD Economists (very late, because shutdown)! Please repost/quote so JMCs can see. - no experience: www.usajobs.gov/job/851497400 - some experience: www.usajobs.gov/job/851497300 - much experience: www.usajobs.gov/job/851496000 #Economics #EconSky

National Chains and Trends in Retail Productivity Dispersion: Dominic Smith; G. Jacob Blackwood; Michael D. Giandrea; Cheryl Grim; Jay Stewart; Zoltan Wolf

WSJ: "Some will say this means U.S. should never admit such refugees, but the alternative is abandoning allies who assist USA in war to retribution of our enemies..How many will assist us if they believe there will be no exit for them if U.S. leaves" www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

Opinion | The Ambush on the National Guard

The alleged shooting by an Afghan ‘partner’ shouldn’t condemn all who assisted the U.S. and now live here.

wsj.com

E-bike plus trailer and I can transport 5 kids. Try doing that with your mid-sized SUV.

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham@paulgp.com · 9mo ago

I am very smug on my e-bike with my two kids

Postdoc at the Minnesota Population Center, @minnpop.bsky.social Applications open now and being evaluated on a rolling basis. Pass on to demographers you know! (This one requires folks to relocate to the Twin Cities, because it involves work in the restricted data center)

Attention IO job market candidates: Sometimes speakers in the CMA's external economics seminar series have to cancel at relatively short notice. We would love for these slots to go to JMCs to present their job market paper. Drop me a message if you are interested or share with those who might be.

I’ve been an Apple fanboy for 15 years and even I find this shameful and disgusting

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed www.404media.co/apple-banned...

NEW: In new research, @dominicsmith.bsky.social and @socampdi.bsky.social show that retail concentration has increased in most markets across the United States, with the expansion of large retail chains driving the trend toward a more concentrated retail landscape.

How Has Industry Consolidation Changed the Way Americans Shop? - ProMarket

In new research, Dominic Smith and Sergio Ocampo show that retail concentration has increased in most markets across the United States, with the expansion of large retail chains driving the trend toward a more concentrated retail landscape. Their findings are based on new product-level census data for all U.S. retailers. They explain the implications of this increased concentration for the everyday shopping experience of clothing, electronics, groceries, and much more.

promarket.org

Tomorrow I will be finishing a 321 mile bike ride from Cleveland to Cincinnati to raise money for Gigi's Playhouse Cleveland in memory of my Aunt, Amy Jo Smith. Amy died in March and Gigi’s Playhouse was her second home since they moved in nearby. support.gigisplayhouse.org/gigifit-acce...

Next week I will be biking 321 miles from Cleveland to Cincinnati in memory of my Aunt Amy Jo. I am raising money for a nonprofit that supports people with Down Syndrome that was incredibly helpful to my Aunt. support.gigisplayhouse.org/gigifit-acce...

GiGiFIT Acceptance Challenge 2025 - 321, Go for Amy Jo: Ride Across Ohio for Acceptance

This July I am riding 321 miles from Cleveland to Cincinnati with 2 other people to raise money for Gigi's Playhouse Cleveland in memory of my Aunt, Amy Jo Smith. Biking and Amy: Two of Amy's great...

support.gigisplayhouse.org

My attempt to defend the stroller division title for the #econ5k. Pushing 5 more pounds than last year, but she sang to me the entire run. We got some nice company on the cooldown.

Submit your papers to the 2025 @escoeorg.bsky.social conference! Keynotes include @erikbryn.bsky.social, Carol Propper (Imperial) and Vipin Arora (BEA). Attendance is free and the conference takes place on KCL's beautiful central London campus. #EconSky 1/2

ESCoE Conference on Economic Measurement 2025 - Call for papers closes 13 Jan 2025 - ESCoE

ESCoE will hold its annual conference, organised in partnership with the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS), on 21-23 May 2025.

escoe.ac.uk

No one asked, but I'll share the PBS kids shows that I think made me a kinder and smarter person: (Honorable mentions: Sesame Street and ZOOM) bsky.app/profile/itsa...

Has anyone created a similarity index for HS codes? For example nickel wire and nickel scrap are under different HS4s but a similarity score on description would say they are similar. #econsky

Me: What did you learn at school today? 3yo: We learned economics. Me: What did you learn about economics? 3yo: We learned about capital. Me: Huh? 3yo: We learned about capital A for Apple. I guess he does pay attention when we read to him. www.amazon.com/ABCs-Economi...

Dani Sandler and Marit Rehavi will be speaking next Wednesday via Zoom about career pathways of government economists and disparities in pay, and on how managers influence employees’ career paths and wage disparities in both the government and private sectors.

Society of Government Economists@sgeecon.bsky.social · 2y ago

SGE Seminar on September 18th @ 12:00pm ET - Career Trajectories and Earnings Gap in the Government: Evidence from Research www.sge-econ.org/2024/08/27/c...

I organized a session on "Youth" for #ASSA2024 through @sgeecon.bsky.social. I am looking forward to the presentations on Sunday morning. My co-author Charlene Kalenkoski will be presenting our joint work on teen social interactions, time use, and well-being using #ATUS. See you there!

Society of Government Economists@sgeecon.bsky.social · 3y ago

It's #ASSA week. SGE is sponsoring 7 sessions: sge-econ.org. Topics include crime, taxes, family, youth, measuring income, price indexes, and rural development. All at the Marriott Rivercenter, Conference Room 5. We will have swag.

Consumer prices rose 0.1 percent in November, and were up 3.1 percent from a year earlier. Core prices, excluding food and energy, were up 0.3 percent month/month and 4.0 percent year/year. #NumbersDay Data: www.bls.gov/news.release... Full coverage: www.nytimes.com/live/2023/12...

I’ve been wondering this as well. I have a collection of data that would be convenient to have in an SQL db, but do I really want to be my own db admin?

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham@paulgp.com · 3y ago

Yeah, I meant the more precise statement of “how many of you stand up a server database that holds tables with primary keys and secondary keys, etc” but everything else is useful too!

I’m very glad this is continuing. I miss the in-person race, but it must have been incredibly difficult to plan a race in a different city each year.

ECON5k@econ5k.bsky.social · 3y ago

Get ready for the 2024 #ECON5k! More information at sites.google.com/view/econ5k. Co-organizers are @dbergstresser.bsky.social, @inaganguli.bsky.social, and Sandra Goff

#Econsky may be number 12 on this list, but as everyone knows there are AT LEAST 15 feeds in the top 10.

Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · 3y ago

Just updated the Likes data for this list of science-related BlueSky feeds: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Here’s the Top 30 most popular feeds 👇