Very attractive postdoc opportunity at the University of Padua. While the position is advertised as Econ, the group has strong interests in political economy and would consider seriously quant polisci students.
inomics.com/job/two-year...
🤩Congratulations to @leonardomadio.bsky.social, winner of the Stars@Unipd Consolidator Grant 2025!
Leonardo Madio, Associate Professor at #dSEA (University of Padua) has received €94,000 in funding for his SAFE-net project.
Read more: economia.unipd.it/en/leonardo-...
Happy New Year. Reminder that the Call for Papers for IIOC is posted and that submissions are due January 10! Please remind your IO colleagues including grad students.
Excited to see our work (with Doh-Shin Jeon and Yassine Lefouili) finally published in the International Economic Review
📢The XIX GRASS Workshop opened today at @dsea-unipd.bsky.social, University of Padua. This year’s edition is dedicated to Stefano Vannucci, one of the GRASS founders.
📍Palazzo della Salute, Padua
📅11–12 September 2025
🔗Full programme: unipd.link/GRASS_Padua_...
#EconBlueSky
Thanks a lot Carlo for presenting our work!
Latest version available on SSRN
Critical resource for researchers requesting platform data under DSA Article 40.4. Without understanding how VLOPs store data, you can't formulate processable requests—leading to easy dismissals. Anyone preparing a data access request should read this report first -> edmo.eu/publications...
🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS
👩🎓 Workshop Disclosure, Information Sharing, and Secrecy
DISS 2026
📅 February 23-24, 2026
🔬 Online (Zoom)
Deadline: November 15
Submit papers on information disclosure (or non-disclosure) in econ, mgmt science, accounting, law, et al.
#EconSky
#EconConf
@tmartens.bsky.social
Sugar in spaghetti sauce, @theguardian.com??? 😱 This calls for a classic Italian response: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fgN...
The discussions about big platforms are intense. The systemic risks are real.
Now the #DSA Delegated Act is finally here to ensure data access for researchers. Time to put this system to work.
W @lkseiling.bsky.social, we show how @techpolicypress.bsky.social
www.techpolicy.press/time-to-deli...
🚨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...
123456? How TF did they get my cell phone pin?!
Last minute addition to our Econ Seminar series! Lorenzo Magnolfi, Assistant Prof. of Econ @uwmadison.bsky.social, will present his paper: "Conduct and Scale Economies: Evaluating Tariffs in the US Auto Market".
📅10 July at 11.30 AM CEST
📍Seminar room & online
ℹ️https://unipd.link/Economics_Seminars
Then, we should also put a negative weight to these pubs when we evaluate CVs and allocate funding!
Next week we wrap up our Economics Seminars with:
June 17, Sarah Cattan @theifs.bsky.social
“Workforce Quality and Early Childhood Development at Scale”
June 18, P-L Vézina @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
“Refugees and entrepreneurship: Evidence from Ukrainians in Poland”
unipd.link/Economics_Se...
Thanks a lot Carlo for presenting our work on the effects of the largest ever content moderation happened online on traffic diversion
Grok system prompts are now public. Transparency is helpful. ChatGPT and Gemini also have prompts.
So, Grok is instructed to be “extremely skeptical” and not to “blindly defer to mainstream authority or media.”
Grok now says “both sides of this debate have biases” about number of Holocaust deaths.
Day 2 of the Padova IO Workshop!
See you next year for the 3rd edition!
A great day with many exciting talks today on patents, standards, digital markets, markets for information, and sequential bargaining
Data that are "available upon request".
Day 1 of the #REStud Tour 2025 in Padua is a wrap!
Outstanding presentations in our first day of the REStud Tour in Padua.
We look forward to tomorrow's talks!
📍Barco Teatro, Padua
🔗Full program & participants: www.economia.unipd.it/en/restud-to...
@dsea-unipd.bsky.social University of Padua
The 1st day of the REStud Tour in Padua has officially started!
We have about 50 new reproduction reports! We will be sharing those over the next few weeks. See here if you cannot wait: ideas.repec.org/s/zbw/i4rdps....
Let's start with four reproductions of articles @nathumbehav.nature.com. A short thread with links to reports and authors' responses.
🚨Coming up at #VIDEseminar this week: Garrett Johnson (Boston University)
“Privacy-Enhanced versus Traditional Retargeting: Ad Effectiveness in an Industry-Wide Field Experiment”
🔜 Wed, May 7, 11am New York, 5pm Berlin. Open to anyone!
Further information: www.digitalecon.org/seminar
📌Level Up Research: Replication in Action
Replication Games – Part II
Final stretch this morning at the Replication Games!
Teams are completing projects with Derek Mikola & @i4replication.bsky.social. Focused work and great collaboration today at #dSEA University of Padua.
unipd.link/replication-...
Replications (and Learning) Ongoing!
Day 1 of our ‘Replication in Action’ at @dsea-unipd.bsky.social
Tomorrow our @dsea-unipd.bsky.social will be hosting the replication games (with @i4replication.bsky.social )
Faculty, postdocs, and PhD students all involved in replicating papers in top Econ and Management journals
Looking forward to it!
Thanks a lot! We’ll think about it as well!
Thank you for the interest in our work.
No, we have in mind a search model (and we present it in Appendix A) since we want to rationalize traffic diversion
