Congratulations to Hassan Afrouzi (PhD 2017) on being selected as a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow in Economics. sloan.org/fellowships/...

2026 Fellows | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Our mission is to make the world a better place through the advancement of scientific knowledge.

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Congratulations to professor Wayne Geerling, who received the 2025 Kenneth G. Elzinga Distinguished Teaching Award during the November 23, 2025 during the recent Annual SEA Meeting in Tampa, FL. It's the second time in 5 years that a department instructor has won! 🤘🏆 @waynegeerling.bsky.social

My book is officially out in the world! 🎉📚 Thanks @mitpress.bsky.social!

MIT Press@mitpress.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Designed for an introductory course in probability and statistics for economics and business undergraduates, Jason @abrevaya.bsky.social's textbook "Probability and Statistics for Economics and Business" introduces students to the R statistical programming language: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255336...

📢 Kiel-@cepr.org-Research Seminar. Christoph Böhm @utaustinecon.bsky.social presents joint work w/ @nityanayar.bsky.social on dynamic gains from trade. Both are currently in Kiel teaching in the ASP program! Don’t miss future talks - register here for the series 👉 www.ifw-kiel.de/institute/ev...

How News about the US Economy Drives Global Financial Conditions New blog post by Chris Boehm and @kronerniklas.bsky.social (UT graduate @utaustinecon.bsky.social 🤟) based on paper recently published in @reveconstudies.bsky.social. Short summary below ⬇️

The latest issue of the @qjeharvard.bsky.social features a paper by @ericchyn.bsky.social and his co-authors, "The Long-Run Effects of America’s Largest Residential Racial Desegregation Program: Gautreaux."

The Quarterly Journal of Economics@qjeharvard.bsky.social · last yr.

The August 2025 issue of the #QJE is now online here: academic.oup.com/qje/issue/14...

Congratulations to @mikegeruso.bsky.social and Dean Spears on the release of their new book, After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People.

Mike Geruso@mikegeruso.bsky.social · last yr.

So excited that this will be out in the world tomorrow! And grateful to everyone who helped make it happen.

Our work now published showing how better AI can improve both accuracy and diversity in hiring relative to supervised learning tools and status-quo human hiring.

The Review of Economic Studies (REStud)@reveconstudies.bsky.social · last yr.

Li, @lindseyraymond.bsky.social & @peterbergman.bsky.social show that incorporating exploration into an interview screening algorithm improves demographic diversity & hiring efficiency, while traditional supervised learning-only tools improve hiring rates at the expense of minority applicants. 👇

What's happening with inflation expectations? Two often used household surveys disagree: - the Michigan MSC says inflation expectations are up - the NY Fed SCE says they're not... Which one is it? New blog by Oli Coibion and @ygorodnichenko.bsky.social says: MSC is right! Find out why ⬇️

𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬: 𝐀𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐔𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑 (MIT Press) has an official publication date of November 25, 2025! Instructors interested in using the book for free in the fall can comment or send me a message. Great resources available. #econsky probstats4econ.com

UT Austin jumps to #21 in the latest US News rankings of Economics programs. 🤘 www.usnews.com/best-graduat...

Congratulations to Economics major Kevin Chen, who is a co-author on the recently published Nature Human Behavior paper, "The global landscape of academic guidelines for generative AI and LLMs." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The global landscape of academic guidelines for generative AI and LLMs - Nature Human Behaviour

The integration of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) in academia brings benefits for access and collaboration as well as challenges that include misinformation a...

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How quickly will workers adapt to AI-driven changes? New blog post: 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞: 𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 by @nityanayar.bsky.social, Beraja & Adao Link: sites.utexas.edu/macro/2025/0...

A write-up of how I have leveraged the National Science Foundation's Access program for academic computing resources! access-ci.org/using-hpc-to...

Using HPC to Improve the Mortgage Industry - Access

NSF ACCESS resources at the Texas Advanced Computing Center are central to a study into mortgage relief failures during the U.S. foreclosure crisis.

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🔹 Keynotes: Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé @columbiauniversity.bsky.social & @cepr.org and Olivier Coibion @utaustinecon.bsky.social 🔹 Policy panel on monetary policy & geopolitics: Kristin Forbes @mitsloan.bsky.social, Fritzi Köhler-Geib @bundestag.de, & @ollirehn.suomenpankki.fi @suomenpankki.fi

Our Monetary Policy Conference is in full swing! Kicked off by an inspiring keynote from Olivier Coibion @utaustinecon.bsky.social, we're now in intense parallel sessions, diving deep into the data & discussions. We look forward to more debates today & tomorrow! @cepr.org @schularick.bsky.social

10 year ago, Oli Coibion ( @empctmacrotx.bsky.social ) and I had a paper in AEJ Macro about inflation expectations in the U.S. (www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...). We found that oil/gasoline prices strongly predict inflation expectations. This "iron law" continues to hold. #inflation #EconSky

The 28th annual Texas Econometrics Camp was held this past weekend at the Canyon of the Eagles (Burnet, TX). Great talks by PhD students and faculty, and some s'mores too! @smueconomics.bsky.social @riceuniversity.bsky.social @uh.edu @tamu.bsky.social

We're excited that Rafael Veiel will be joining the department as an Assistant Professor in the fall! 🤘 @rveiel.bsky.social

Forthcoming QJE paper by @ericchyn.bsky.social on the effects of residential segregation. Important work!

The Quarterly Journal of Economics@qjeharvard.bsky.social · last yr.

Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Long-Run Effects of America’s Largest Residential Desegregation Program: Gautreaux,” by Chyn (ericchyn.bsky.social), Collinson (@racollinson.bsky.social), and Sandler (@dismalscientist86.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

How much would people pay to avoid business cycles? Professor Olivier Coibion and his collaborators answer this question in a new @nber.org working paper.

NBER@nber.org · last yr.

Studying how much individuals would be willing to pay to eliminate business cycles, from Dimitris Georgarakos, Kwang Hwan Kim, Olivier Coibion, Myungkyu Shim, Myunghwan Andrew Lee, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Geoff Kenny, Seowoo Han, and Michael Weber https://www.nber.org/papers/w33476

"Examiner and Judge Designs in Economics: A Practitioner’s Guide" by @ericchyn.bsky.social and his co-authors is forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Literature. @aeajournals.bsky.social www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Examiner and Judge Designs in Economics: A Practitioner’s Guide

(Forthcoming Article) - This article provides empirical researchers with an introduction and guide to research designs based on variation in judge and examiner tendencies to administer treatments or o...

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Tariffs—or the anticipation of them—could affect prices, according to Booth's Michael Weber (paper with @utaustinecon.bsky.social’s Olivier Coibion, @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social’s @ygorodnichenko.bsky.social) www.chicagobooth.edu/review/podca... #econsky

Trumponomics: Expect Higher Inflation—with or Without Tariffs

Chicago Booth’s Michael Weber explains how tariffs—or the anticipation of them—could affect prices.

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The February 2025 issue of AEJ: Economic Policy features articles by both Marika Cabral and Jackson Dorsey. @aeajournals.bsky.social

AEA Journals@aeajournals.bsky.social · 2y ago

The February 2025 issue of AEJ: Economic Policy (17, 1) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/792.

Oli Cobion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Michael Weber wrote a new blog post on what Americans expect from the Trump tariffs: sites.utexas.edu/macro/2025/0... Key results: they expect to bear a share of tariffs, firm managers expect to raise prices. Disagreement b/n Dems & Reps, and many more in blog

Empirical Macroeconomics Policy Center of Texas@empctmacrotx.bsky.social · 2y ago

New work by our co-director, Oli Coibion, together with @ygorodnichenko.bsky.social and Michael Weber on the upcoming Trump tariffs ⬇️

Congratulations to Chris Boehm and former UT Austin grad @kronerniklas.bsky.social on getting their paper "The US, Economic News, and the Global Financial Cycle" accepted at Review of Economic Studies @reveconstudies.bsky.social !🥳 @utaustinecon.bsky.social Link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wak4l...

New @nberpubs.bsky.social working paper on school desegregation by Cody Tuttle and his co-authors.

NBER@nber.org · 2y ago

Being bused to an inner-city school durably sensitized students to issues of inequality and fairness, making them more likely to support the Democratic Party more than forty years later, from Ethan Kaplan, @jspenkuch, and Cody Tuttle https://www.nber.org/papers/w33365

Meet @aeacswep.bsky.social new Board Member: @caitlinmyers.bsky.social (CeMENT Co-Director) is Professor of Economics at Middlebury College and a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. To read her full bio, visit our website: aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...

‪Meet @aeacswep.bsky.social new Board Member: @nityanayar.bsky.social (At-Large Rep) is Associate Professor of Economics at University of Texas at Austin. To read her full bio, visit our website: aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...

Americans are stockpiling ahead of Trump’s tariffs, according to consumer data collected by @utaustinecon.bsky.social’s Olivier Coibion, @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social’s @ygorodnichenko.bsky.social, and Chicago Booth’s Michael Weber. www.chicagobooth.edu/review/ameri... #tarrifs #econsky

Americans Are Stockpiling Ahead of Trump’s Tariffs

Survey responses suggest a large share of consumers are preparing for higher prices.

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