Economist. Assistant professor of finance and business economics @usc.
Los Angeles
Joined September 2013
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🥇 Congrats to Michael Blank, @gregorschub & @rainozhang for ranking #1 Gold in econ.GN Preprints (April 2026) on Kurate.org!
Had a fantastic workshop day at @OpenAI in SF! Huge thanks to OpenAI's Economic Research Team for the invitation. We had a blast presenting our upcoming paper on “Household Impact of Generative AI” (joint with @SchubertGregor & Michael Blank). Lots of fun and great job, Gregor!
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🚨 New Working Paper! 🚨
Time to talk about "The Household Impact of GenAI", covered by the @WSJ !
In this paper, we ask what GenAI is doing to productivity outside of work - and find evidence of large impacts.
arxiv.org/pdf/2603.03144
(w/ @rainozhang, Michael Blank)
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What happens when we encourage AI use for research and use AI to review papers?
We are running an experiment to find out: the UCLA Human × AI Finance conference!
Write a finance paper with AI in 4 weeks (by 3/18). AI agents review the submissions:
humanxaifinance.org/
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Trade raises workers' efficiency, ss globalized employers reorganize tasks, but also increases pay disparity within occupations at these employers, from Sascha O. Becker, Hartmut Egger, Michael Koch, and Marc-Andreas Muendler nber.org/papers/w34549
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Excited to share a new paper on how social interactions trigger and amplify lottery stock mania. Looking forward to your comments!
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I hope that this will become a standard open-source for research in (international) macro and finance on portfolio holdings. The data can be downloaded here: globalcapitalallocation.com/…
Constructing representative security-fund-level longitudinal data for the United States using regulatory filings of portfolio holdings from Form N-PORT, from Bruno Cavani, @m_maggiori, and @jschreger nber.org/papers/w34494
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Open call for papers, AI and Economic Measurement. Conference to be held in Stanford, CA on May 7, 2026. Submit applications by 11:59pm EDT on February 2, 2025. More information: nber.org/calls-papers-and-pr…
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NBER Asset Pricing Lessons. Conference review
grumpy-economist.com/p/nber-…
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Outlining a research agenda and nine grand challenges for studying the economic impacts of transformative artificial intelligence, from @erikbryn, @akorinek, and @professor_ajay nber.org/papers/w34256
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We are hosting the 14th Advances in Macro-Finance Conference in Santa Barbara on Oct 17 and 18. Please submit your paper at forms.gle/DaP86ZptjX4J1KRe9
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How is #AI changing #jobs?
1st episode of our live podcast series from the @PSEinfo CEPR Policy Forum, w/ @davidautor @MIT explaining to @timsvengali why #automation could increase the value of human expertise in some roles and reduce it in others
Listen: cepr.org/multimedia/automati…
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(1/4) When some job tasks are automated, do the tasks that remain become more or less valuable? 🧵👇
In a new working paper, @davidautor and @ProfNeilT argue the answer depends on how much expertise is required for the tasks still done by humans.
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An overview of the arsenal of tools that large US corporations use to influence policy and politics, from @m_bombardini and @xftrebbi nber.org/papers/w33696
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Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Diffusion of New Technologies,” by Kalyani (@AakashKalyani), Bloom (@I_Am_NickBloom), Carvalho (@marcela_cfmello), Hassan (@t_a_hassan), Lerner, and Tahoun (@tahoun100) doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjaf002
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Conceptualizing Regulation. A grumpy economist review of "Commandeering Regulation," a new basic parable suggested by Carl Danner at Cato Review. Links in the first reply.
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NEW: This research note uses the quantitative approach developed by @xftrebbi (@BerkeleyHaas), @rainozhang (@usc) & @mikesimkovic to provide a descriptive overview of the main differences in costs of regulatory compliance across U.S. states.
promarket.org/2024/12/15/a-n…
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LinkedIn launches its first AI agent to take on the role of job recruiters tcrn.ch/4fi4bBX
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The Census Bureau released the Business Dynamic Statistics today through 2022. New employer firms in 2022 about 520K -- 15% higher than 2019. 16% of the firm births in 2022 are in High Tech (NAICS 51/54). Pace of firm births rapidly increasing in 2021 and 2022.
