Jeff Qiu
@jeffqiu.bsky.social
IO economist. Assistant Professor at the University of Guelph in Canada. Formerly at the US DOJ antitrust division. https://sites.google.com/site/yinjiaqiu
The best books to read before—or after—you learn antitrust law Something fun I originally posted in 2023 bookdna.com/best-books/r...
The best books to read before—or after—you learn antitrust law
Jonathan B. Baker shares the 5 best books on reads before—or after—you learn antitrust law. Have you read The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly?
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I once sat through a deposition where the opposing counsel offered us fancy avocado toasts, but we weren’t allowed to touch them for ethical reasons. Things have changed.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.The U.S. has now accepted a luxury jet as a gift from Qatar, which the Air Force has been asked to upgrade so it can be used as a new Air Force One for President Trump, a Defense Department spokesman confirmed Wednesday.
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UKRI policy fellowships 2025
Spend 18 months as a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) core policy fellow, Natural Hazards and Resilience policy fellow or What Works Innovation fellow to inform policy to address pressing national an...
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Court finds that Google monopolizes online advertising - very big deal. Huge congratulations to the folks at the Antitrust Division that worked so hard on this. #antitrust #Google #tech #bigtech www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/t...
Google Is Illegally Monopolizing Online Advertising Tech, Judge Rules
The judge ruled that Google monopolized the market for two of three sets of products. It was the second time in a year that a U.S. court found it had acted illegally to remain dominant.
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Big news day in adtech! #Google #Antitrust Now, the big question is: what comes next? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/t...
Google Is a Monopolist in Online Advertising Tech, Judge Says (Gift Article)
The ruling was the second time in a year that a federal court had found that Google had acted illegally to maintain its dominance.
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We are sad to announce that former faculty member and Minnesota Econ Ph.D. alum Patrick Bajari passed away on Monday. 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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Attn: #FundSocSci
Jennifer Doleac@jenniferdoleac.bsky.social · last yr.Reminder: Arnold Ventures has research funding available. We have an open RFP for causal research related to crime/criminal justice in the US, and can consider other topics as well. (This includes "last mile" funding for high-quality projects with cancelled government grants.)
Wait until they found out how many economist plagiarized "We leverage a novel instrumental variable that is plausibly exogenous."
Noah Williams@bellmanequation.bsky.social · last yr.Possibly the dumbest of the many dumb plagiarism claims nationalpost.com/news/mark-ca...
@budgetlab.bsky.social: Trump’s auto tariffs will cause vehicle prices to rise by 13.5% on average, the equivalent of an additional $6,400 to the price of an average new 2024 car. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/fis...
The Fiscal, Economic, and Distributional Effects of 25% Auto Tariffs
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Carl Shapiro has an excellent review of Louis Kaplow's intriguing antitrust book "Rethinking Merger Analysis" in the latest JEL issue.
If econ memes had a Nobel Prize, @khoavuumn.bsky.social would have won it by popular acclaim. He's beloved in our community of online economists for his kindness and wit. Definite follow.
Khoa@khoavuumn.bsky.social · last yr.I have deleted my Twitter account. Not an easy decision but I'm done with it.
Trump fires both Democratic commissioners at the #FTC. Clearly contrary to the intent of the FTC being an independent agency. We’re well on our way to being ruled by an autocratic, authoritarian regime. This has to be stopped. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Exclusive: Trump fires both Democratic commissioners at FTC, sources say
President Donald Trump fired the two Democratic commissioners at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, two sources familiar with the situation said, in another major test of the independence of regulatory agencies.
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President Trump has taken an extraordinary and dangerous step of firing two FTC Commissioners. This is a dramatic ratcheting up of the politicization of the agency--the opposite of the direction it should be going in.
These anti-science actions have made me really sad and depressed not just because my salary won't increase, but because I think of my late wife, who was a deep believer of science and who was hoping that science would save those who experience the same cancer in the near future.
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Ioana Marinescu@imarinescu.bsky.social · last yr.🚀 Exciting Opportunity! 🚀 #AI keeps me up at night. What will happen to work & workers? 🤔 I'm partnering with Schmidt Sciences to offer up to $200,000 in funding for early-career researchers! 💡 🗓️ Apply by March 31 2025 🙏 spread the word! 🔗 Learn more & apply schmidtsciences.org/ai-at-work #EconSky
👋 Hello BlueSky! 👋 Yale Economic Growth Center & @yaleeconomics.bsky.social launch our accounts today. We join #EconSky #GlobalDev community @cgdev.org @theigc.bsky.social @j-pal.bsky.social @princetondevo.bsky.social @voxdev.bsky.social @worldresources.bsky.social & others to come. egc.yale.edu
Receiving breaking news about cuts to the federal workforce every day makes me extremely disturbed and disheartened. My former colleagues are dedicated public servants who sacrifice themselves to serve the nation. Without them, this country could never be great.
We are recruiting an Econometrics Adviser. The role would suit someone with a recent PhD (or a masters and some experience), and an interest in empirical IO. This is a unique opportunity to work on high-profile cases and with great data! www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
New blockbuster issue of the JEP out now: @zliscow.bsky.social on the economics of permitting, @instrumenthull.bsky.social and coauthors on shift-shares, and a symposium on the 2023 US merger guidelines: www.aeaweb.org/issues/793 #EconSky
Journal of Economic Perspectives
Vol. 39 No. 1 Winter 2025
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Funding is crucial for research. Cuts like this wouldn’t just reduce research output in the short run—they’d have long-term consequences, too. Research productivity relies on learning by doing, meaning these cuts could slow innovation for years to come. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
Researchers say it would hurt facilities that work on medical issues such as cancer research and heart disease. Elon Musk contends the old policy was ‘a ripoff.’
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IT IS OFFICIAL! MY JOB MARKET PAPER IS IN PRINT!!!! TL/DR: Superstar firms have used globalization to grow bigger, leveraging economies of scale. Their marginal costs have fallen, but little has passed through to customers as markups have risen. www.sganapati.com/files/Ganapa...
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
There is a common notion in antitrust that greater output benefits workers. But this paper shows that if firms have market power, this is not always the case. At high levels of markups, firms may REDUCE their (labor) input demand when they become more productive. www.dropbox.com/s/33hq4dlpfz...
Happy to share that my and @cconlon.bsky.social's micro BLP paper was just accepted at the Journal of Econometrics! jeffgortmaker.com/files/Incorp... It's our 2nd tied to our PyBLP software, so here's a thread on surprising (to me) benefits of combining methods research with open source work. 1/6
I literally showed that child mortality video this in class today. Everyone seems only vaguely impressed until I describe how my first born almost died shortly after birth (www.ryancbriggs.net/blog/2015/10...). It’s wild to me how much we need stories to even start to grasp something numerical.
Isaac is a lucky boy — Ryan C. Briggs
About two weeks ago, my first child, Isaac was born. We spent a standard two days in the hospital and then went home. After about 5 hours at home, in his third day of life, Isaac developed a fever of ...
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Max Roser@maxroser.bsky.social · 2y agoFew people even know about this; when people are asked in surveys how child mortality has changed the majority says it has stagnated or increased. If you consider that many don't know about humanity's biggest achievement, then it's not surprising that many are so pessimistic about our future.
I think my @nyulaw.bsky.social colleague Daniel Francis provides a clear and balanced summary of the Neo-Brandeis shift in antitrust. It is worth a read for all IO Economists (and perhaps more importantly macro economists who've recently discovered IO). www.promarket.org/2024/11/25/a...
After Neo-Brandeis - ProMarket
Daniel Francis reviews the evolutionary and revolutionary dimensions of the Biden administration’s antitrust work, and argues that these two projects have been in deep tension. He concludes that the a...
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