Economics Professor @UCL, working on Econometrics. Views are my own.
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We’re running an EXPERIMENT to explore new ways of evaluating ECONOMETRICS research quality.
If you’re an established econometrics researcher, you may already have heard from us. If we missed you and you’d like to participate
EMAIL: [email protected]
This might be controversial among my friends, but purely aesthetically, UCL purple is simply a better website background colour than Oxford blue. 😉
homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uctpmw0…
All econometricians should check the Metrics arXiv regularly. You can find pathbreaking new work almost every day. Two random examples from the past few days:
arxiv.org/abs/2605.05037
arxiv.org/abs/2605.10842
Honoured to have been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, and very grateful for the support.
thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fund…
The Department of Economics in Oxford invites applications for Assistant/Associate Professorships across all fields: econjobmarket.org/positions/…
Econ PhD candidates:
Applications open: Nuffield Postdoctoral Research Fellowships: econjobmarket.org/positions/…
Deadline: September 30
Recent fellows include Claudia Noack and Christophe Gaillac --- tough acts to follow. If you're ready for a top-tier postdoc, please apply!
Shameless plug: Still time to join the World Congress of the Econometric Society (Aug 18–22, Seoul)! Stellar invited speakers 👉 eswc2025.org/speakers/03.htm…
Even the keynotes look pretty sharp 👉 eswc2025.org/speakers/01.htm…
Register by June 30!
Just checked my LinkedIn feed for the first time in a while --- way more interesting than Bluesky, way less noisy than X. Maybe this is the place to be?
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"I'm going to govern in econometrics" is a winning campaign slogan for the ages.
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This week we marked 40 years of unit roots & cointegration with a workshop hosted by the Oxford Bulletin journal. Yesterday, we enjoyed a panel discussing the key concepts and results of cointegration analysis developed over 4 decades.
#UnitRoots #Cointegration #EconConference
Two insights from Economics:
1 Markets are flawed.
2 Government allocation is often worse.
Two insights for research assessment in Economics:
1 Journal rankings are flawed.
2 Replacing them with something else is often worse.
(this post is not about SQARE but about DORA!)
🚀Exciting news! We’ve been awarded a UKRI Metascience grant to modernize research practices in Econometrics! Our project will develop innovative platforms—including SQARE.org—to enhance research evaluation & collaboration.
gov.uk/government/news/fello…
@economictricks
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Today is a sad day as I have learned of the passing of my friend and @usc_econ colleague University Professor Richard Easterlin. Here is a happy photo of us back in 2018. Dick would have turned 99 in January. He was a highly productive and optimistic economist. A thread.
New working paper with Koen Jochmans and Stéphane Bonhomme: 'A Neyman-Orthogonalization Approach to the Incidental Parameter Problem' is now available on arXiv. We explore bias correction in panel and network models: arxiv.org/abs/2412.10304
Detecting a clear structural break in social network migration over recent days. The process appears non-stationary with a strong upward trend. We might finally be observing that long-anticipated regime shift in platform adoption.
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Goodbye Twitter. Hello Bluesky
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Logged into Bluesky for the first time in months, and it’s amazing to see the momentum building and the community growing! If this keeps up, we might all be able to close our Twitter accounts soon. Find me on Bluesky: @weidnerecon.bsky.social #Bluesky #SocialMediaShift