Economist at Northwestern Kellogg, former CEA, Researching Industrial Organization (IO). 'A watched optimizer never converges.' Views are my own.
Chicago, IL
Joined February 2009
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@MSinkinson and I wrote a piece on new Biden Admin guidance on accounting for competitive effects in regulatory review (that we worked on).
The guidance is firmly grounded in economics.
And should welcomed by champions of competition from both parties.
thehill.com/opinion/finance/…
Michael Sinkinson retweeted
A "Must Read" for every competition fan.
With articles by Paul #Heidhues, @MonikaSchnitzer @ameliafletecon @GregorySCrawfor @jcremer @DavidDinielli @mike_luca @TobiasSalz @ProfFionasm @MSinkinson and many more
Volume 40’s final issue is now online! This special issue is a timely collection of Articles on competition in digital markets, written by leading economists and policy experts from the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe. yalejreg.com/issue/volume-40…
Michael Sinkinson retweeted
A little weird tho that a private business CAN choose to DENY a customer because he/she is a member of a protected class, but a private university CANNOT choose to ACCEPT a customer because he/she is a member of a protected class.
Some professional news... I'm on leave from Yale for the year and serving on the Council of Economic Advisers down in DC. All opinions on here are my own.
Junior researcher interested in the media industry? @queensu has a blockbuster lineup for this conference and are looking for poster presenters! Great opportunity if you’re researching media markets!
Michael Sinkinson retweeted
I'm hiring pre-doctoral research assistants for a new Sustainable Economy Lab starting summer 2022!
Rigorous economics with a social mission.
Want to do an econ PhD? Have background in econ/stats/CS? Please apply!
Info: sites.google.com/site/allcot…
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Michael Sinkinson retweeted
"Delinking buyer and seller commissions will make markets for #realestate agent services more competitive," write @sgil1122, @paulgp, @MSinkinson in the latest for @ProMarket_org:
promarket.org/2021/11/29/rea…
Michael Sinkinson retweeted
I really enjoyed seeing the kids interview their dad here…
youtu.be/uKlfqTz4-q4
Michael Sinkinson retweeted
Say hello to one happy family!
New economic sciences laureate Guido Imbens (centre) celebrates the news with his family in their garden early this morning.
#NobelPrize
Michael Sinkinson retweeted
Ok for those of you who have not been paying attention. There are 5 (actually 6) bills working their way through the House -- who knows what will happen in the Senate. Here is the quick summary. My take in brackets [] #EconTwitter
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LastPass has decided the time has come to monetize. (FYI switching to Bitwarden only takes a few minutes)
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Michael Sinkinson retweeted
So over the summer I’ve been working furiously to put together a slide deck that folks can use to their classes with covid examples, recent economic data and studies, and discussion questions.
Now, it's time to share it. You can download it all here: users.nber.org/~jwolfers/tea…
Taught remotely today, some quick tips: 1) if you want to use Zoom's beta feature of "PPT as Virtual Background" (no OBS overhead), your students *also* need the latest version of Zoom (5.2)... they mostly did not have it, this did not go well... 1/2
and 2) if you're using that feature, others have written macros to get around the "no animations" constraint with PPT+Zoom that create a "flat" PPT of duplicated slides with no actual animations: neilmitchell.blogspot.com/20… 2/2
Welcome to the brave new world of in-person teaching! Had a great first session with our incoming EMBA class.
Michael Sinkinson retweeted
We're so excited to welcome three new economics faculty at @YaleSOM.
1) @dianavanpatten combines fascinating historical data, ingenious quasi-random variation and trade theory to study the effect of large firms on economic development.
dianavanpatten.com/
Michael Sinkinson retweeted
Harvard College has prohibited all University-related international and domestic travel.
thecrimson.com/article/2020/…