I’ve seen a lot of research on Stack Overflow, but what’s going on with Kaggle in the age of genAI?
Daniel Ershov
@ershovd.bsky.social
Digitization. Assistant Professor at UCL School of Management. CESifo and CEPR Research Affiliate. Toronto PhD. Repost $\neq$ endorsement. danielershov.com
My new professional goal is to separately identify and estimate the organic and marketing-WOM-driven demand for Geese.
Immediately feeling 20 years closer to death after seeing listicles like “20 Greatest Classic Rock Albums… of the 1990s”.
NEW: How did the introduction of the Ultra-Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) change London’s geography of work? In a new @theifs.bsky.social paper, @joelkariel.bsky.social, Fizza Jabbar and I have taken a look – and it turns out people adapt in surprising ways. A thread. 1/
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
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🚨🚨Update: for the next @cepr.org -IO gathering on NOV 7, 2025 at 2PM CET, we've got a great set of IO job candidates lined up to give 10min versions of their JMP talks and then discuss them with audience members. Please like, repost/reshare, and register here: forms.gle/QTKETdgQq9j1...
Centre for Economic Policy Research@cepr.org · 10mo ago📢 #CallForPapers - CEPR-IO Virtual Gathering Interested PhD candidates attending European universities are invited to submit a draft of their job market paper by 26 October for consideration to present at the next CEPR-IO virtual gathering. More information: cepr.org/events/cepr-... #EconSky
📢 #CallForPapers - CEPR-IO Virtual Gathering #PhD candidates are invited to submit their #jobmarket paper for an opportunity to present at the next CEPR-IO virtual gathering. Don't miss out - the deadline is 26 October! #EconConf #EconSky @ershovd.bsky.social
Centre for Economic Policy Research@cepr.org · 10mo ago📢 #CallForPapers - CEPR-IO Virtual Gathering Interested PhD candidates attending European universities are invited to submit a draft of their job market paper by 26 October for consideration to present at the next CEPR-IO virtual gathering. More information: cepr.org/events/cepr-... #EconSky
Great opportunity for IO job market candidates!
Daniel Ershov@ershovd.bsky.social · 10mo ago❗❗❗🚨🚨🚨 Next @cepr.org IO Virtual Gathering is taking place on NOVEMBER 7 at 2pm CET. 1st hr is dedicated to JM presentations by IO candidates graduating from Eur / UK schools. If interested, please submit a draft of your JMP & CV at: t.co/aUTPTWSten by OCTOBER 26! 🚨🚨🚨 ❗❗❗ #econjobmarket
❗❗❗🚨🚨🚨 Next @cepr.org IO Virtual Gathering is taking place on NOVEMBER 7 at 2pm CET. 1st hr is dedicated to JM presentations by IO candidates graduating from Eur / UK schools. If interested, please submit a draft of your JMP & CV at: t.co/aUTPTWSten by OCTOBER 26! 🚨🚨🚨 ❗❗❗ #econjobmarket
wrote a little thing for general consumption about llms and the likely overblown risk of cognitive offloading: www.mgmt.ucl.ac.uk/news/long-re...
Long Reads: Is AI the end of critical thinking? | UCL School of Management
Embracing AI platforms such as ChatGPT does not signal the death of critical thinking, argues Dr. Daniel Ershov
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Call for papers, 4th UK Workshop on Digital Economics, London 28 November 2025: competitionpolicy.ac.uk/events/4th-w... This is always a great event
Centre for Competition Policy
High quality independent research into competition policy and regulation
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Modeling computers and AI as cognitive tools provides a lens to interpret evidence on inequality, workflows, and teams, from Ajay K. Agrawal, @joshgans.bsky.social, and Avi Goldfarb https://www.nber.org/papers/w34034
🚨Free data alert!! 🚨 Please share. Large new dataset of Amazon product reviews, including full text and photos and product characteristics, with individual *reviews labeled as fake reviews*. I believe this is the first publicly available data of this kind. github.com/bretthollenb...
Not that I always love AI everywhere, but the moral of Green Eggs and Ham is that they’re actually good once you try them…
Mark Williams@mrfw17thc.bsky.social · last yr.I do not want AI on a train I do not want it in the rain I do not want AI on a boat I do not want an AI goat I do not like the AI spam I do not like it, Sam [Altman] I am
A.I. Might Take Your Job. Here Are 22 New Ones It Could Give You. @robcapps.bsky.social wrote an excellent article @nytimes.com with views from yours truly, @emollick.bsky.social, @erikbryn.bsky.social and others. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/m...
A.I. Might Take Your Job. Here Are 22 New Ones It Could Give You.
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1/2 System as a whole (ie, academia) worked, but more narrow Econ ref process didn’t. Unfortunately, seems very hard to pick up, aside from the unrealistic (in retrospect) amount of work for a 2nd yr PhD.
Ben Schneider@benmschneider.bsky.social · last yr.How did the system work? It was an R&R at the QJE (allegedly) so the economist reviewers clearly had no idea.
@ershovd.bsky.social, Yanting He, & Stephan Seiler analyse over 100 million tweets from 2014 to 2021 and find that the vast majority of commercial content on social media is not appropriately disclosed by the influencers who post it. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A DOMINANT PLATFORM SUDDENLY MODERATES A LARGE SHARE OF ITS CONTENT? 🚨 With Matt Mitchell, Martin Quinn & @mikybartoli.bsky.social, we study one of the largest moderation shocks ever: Pornhub’s 2020 purge of 10M+ non-verified videos (80% of content). 🧵👇
Pornhub's removal of all non-verified content led to a 41% drop in traffic within 1 month. Much of the displaced traffic was absorbed by competing platforms, including less regulated fringe websites (+55% visits) and mainstream competitors (+10%). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Pat Bajari was one of the most influential economists of the past 30 years, and an amazing person cla.umn.edu/economics/ne...
Remembering Patrick L. Bajari (1969-2025)
Patrick L. Bajari was a pioneer spanning the academic and business worlds.
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Our edited volume, The Hashtag Hustle: Law and Policy Perspectives on Working in the Influencer Economy (with @cgoanta.bsky.social @dasfiesch.bsky.social & Isabelle Wildhaber) is available, open access www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook-o...
To be slightly blunter than The Atlantic allowed me to be: the tiktok ban is a protectionist subsidy to Meta and Google worth hundreds of billions of dollars: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
How the United States Learned to Love Internet Censorship
America was once seen as the home of the free internet. That era is now over.
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How low has Pitchfork fallen? C. 2004 P4K would have given this a -20 with a picture of a monkey in a wig giving the finger.
I strongly believe in reading ALL of Adam Smith's work. Please start from this recent paper on identifying/measuring dynamic complementarity: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I've gotten a flurry of requests to access my slides on "Models, Measurement, and Language in Economics" (presumably thanks to the great new year's reading list from @rohitlamba.bsky.social). The file is publicly available via my web page, but here is the link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ntgkb...
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Hi, #EconSky! I’m Anderson, a 6th year PhD candidate at the University of Virginia. For those going to ASSA this week, I’ll be presenting my job market paper, The Effects of Privacy Regulation on the Supply of Stolen Data, during the CSMGEP session tomorrow at 8AM. Here’s a short thread about it
From economics publishing to congestion effects to the run on Silicon Valley Bank, here are the ten most-read research highlights of 2024. www.aeaweb.org/research/top...
2024 in Research Highlights
Economists addressed issues related to economics publishing, congestion effects, bank runs, and more.
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