Avi Goldfarb
@avigoldfarb.bsky.social
Professor at Rotman, University of Toronto. Economics of digital technology and AI.
Tell your PhD students: NBER Digital Economics and AI PhD workshop submission deadline is December 1. Apply here: www.nber.org/calls-papers...
Digital Economics and AI Tutorial
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November 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Tell your PhD students: NBER Digital Economics and AI PhD workshop submission deadline is December 1. Apply here: www.nber.org/calls-papers...
The NBER Digital Economics and AI conference submission deadline is coming up on December 1. Submit here: www.nber.org/conferences/...
Digital Economics and AI Meeting, Spring 2026
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November 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The NBER Digital Economics and AI conference submission deadline is coming up on December 1. Submit here: www.nber.org/conferences/...
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Abundant AI geniuses will be great, but only if we can work out what to use them for, from Ajay K. Agrawal, @joshgans.bsky.social, and Avi Goldfarb https://www.nber.org/papers/w34316
October 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Abundant AI geniuses will be great, but only if we can work out what to use them for, from Ajay K. Agrawal, @joshgans.bsky.social, and Avi Goldfarb https://www.nber.org/papers/w34316
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Details on how to access anonymized data from the Creative Destruction Lab, including a description of dataset construction and included variables, from Amir Sariri, Evgenia Gatov, Geneva Neal, Kyle Robinson, Sonia Sennik, Wei Yang Tham, Michael Vertolli, and Av... https://www.nber.org/papers/w34127
August 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Details on how to access anonymized data from the Creative Destruction Lab, including a description of dataset construction and included variables, from Amir Sariri, Evgenia Gatov, Geneva Neal, Kyle Robinson, Sonia Sennik, Wei Yang Tham, Michael Vertolli, and Av... https://www.nber.org/papers/w34127
The Economics of Bicycles for the Mind. Working paper with @joshgans.bsky.social and Ajay Agrawal. A bicycle amplifies human locomotion. Computers & AI amplify human intelligence. We model cognitive tools, showing when they affect productivity, inequality, & teams. www.nber.org/papers/w34034
July 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The Economics of Bicycles for the Mind. Working paper with @joshgans.bsky.social and Ajay Agrawal. A bicycle amplifies human locomotion. Computers & AI amplify human intelligence. We model cognitive tools, showing when they affect productivity, inequality, & teams. www.nber.org/papers/w34034
What happens when good products fail? Dinara Akchurina and I have a new paper looking at false positives in COVID rapid tests. Details here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... (1/2)
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July 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
What happens when good products fail? Dinara Akchurina and I have a new paper looking at false positives in COVID rapid tests. Details here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... (1/2)
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AI Can Strengthen Canada’s Economy — If We Let It - @avigoldfarb.bsky.social joined the Canada’s Economy, Explained podcast from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce chamber.ca/ai-can-stren...
AI Can Strengthen Canada's Economy — If We Let It - Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Avi Goldfarb joins host Marwa Abdou to explain why Canada’s early leadership in research hasn’t led to widespread adoption.
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June 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
AI Can Strengthen Canada’s Economy — If We Let It - @avigoldfarb.bsky.social joined the Canada’s Economy, Explained podcast from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce chamber.ca/ai-can-stren...
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Mike Scherer, a leader in industrial organization economics, in the study of innovation, and in many other topics since the 1960s, has died at 92. Strikingly eclectic, he wrote (inter alia) about weapons procurement and the commercialization of classical music. More than anything /1
June 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Mike Scherer, a leader in industrial organization economics, in the study of innovation, and in many other topics since the 1960s, has died at 92. Strikingly eclectic, he wrote (inter alia) about weapons procurement and the commercialization of classical music. More than anything /1
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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.
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.
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June 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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.
Forthcoming NBER Economics of AI & Political Economy volume. Draft chapters here: www.nber.org/books-and-ch...
The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Political Economy
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February 27, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Forthcoming NBER Economics of AI & Political Economy volume. Draft chapters here: www.nber.org/books-and-ch...
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'Ajay Agrawal (University of Toronto), Erik Brynjolfsson (Stanford University) and Anton Korinek (University of Virginia and CEPR) jointly present "The Economics of Transformative AI: A Research Agenda".'
@cepr.org @akorinek.bsky.social
#ai #EconSky
@cepr.org @akorinek.bsky.social
#ai #EconSky
CEPR Webinar Series on the Economics of Artificial Intelligence - 1
YouTube video by CEPR & VideoVox Economics
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January 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
'Ajay Agrawal (University of Toronto), Erik Brynjolfsson (Stanford University) and Anton Korinek (University of Virginia and CEPR) jointly present "The Economics of Transformative AI: A Research Agenda".'
@cepr.org @akorinek.bsky.social
#ai #EconSky
@cepr.org @akorinek.bsky.social
#ai #EconSky
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Roy Baumeister called ego depletion "one of the most replicable findings in social psychology." As someone who spent 20 years studying it—and ultimately had to admit it wasn't real—I have to respectfully disagree. Here's my perspective of what went so wrong.
The Collapse of Ego Depletion
Science's Biggest Self-Control Failure
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January 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Roy Baumeister called ego depletion "one of the most replicable findings in social psychology." As someone who spent 20 years studying it—and ultimately had to admit it wasn't real—I have to respectfully disagree. Here's my perspective of what went so wrong.
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NBER Innovation Boot Camp is back this summer for a 4th run (thanks open_phil!)! Lectures by Heidi Williams, Pierre Azoulay, Ina Ganguli, Ben Jones, Chad Jones, Kyle Myers, and me, a great policy panel and keynotes, plus attendance at Summer Institute innovation session. www.nber.org/calls-papers...
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January 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
NBER Innovation Boot Camp is back this summer for a 4th run (thanks open_phil!)! Lectures by Heidi Williams, Pierre Azoulay, Ina Ganguli, Ben Jones, Chad Jones, Kyle Myers, and me, a great policy panel and keynotes, plus attendance at Summer Institute innovation session. www.nber.org/calls-papers...
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⏰ Deadline approaching ⏰ -- send us your best work on Behavioral IO and Marketing by 12/15 #econsky
CALL FOR PAPERS 📈📉
The Behavioral IO and Marketing Symposium (biomsymposium.org) will be held on 5/15-16 at UMichigan. This is an opportunity for IO and Quantitative Marketing researchers working on behavioral economics topics to interact.
Submit to [email protected] by *December 15, 2024*.
The Behavioral IO and Marketing Symposium (biomsymposium.org) will be held on 5/15-16 at UMichigan. This is an opportunity for IO and Quantitative Marketing researchers working on behavioral economics topics to interact.
Submit to [email protected] by *December 15, 2024*.
Home - Behavioral IO and Marketing
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December 4, 2024 at 4:14 PM
⏰ Deadline approaching ⏰ -- send us your best work on Behavioral IO and Marketing by 12/15 #econsky
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#econsky Economists: If you ever wondered what is “quantitative marketing” about, @avigoldfarb.bsky.social’s syllabus is a great place to fill in the gap.
If you never wondered about it - you can learn about it nonetheless.
If you never wondered about it - you can learn about it nonetheless.
My PhD syllabus for Introduction to Quantitative Marketing @rotmanschool. Updated for 2025. Comments welcome.
Feel free to suggest additional papers. Self promotion encouraged! All University of Toronto PhD students welcome to audit. Please get in touch.
Feel free to suggest additional papers. Self promotion encouraged! All University of Toronto PhD students welcome to audit. Please get in touch.
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December 15, 2024 at 2:39 PM
#econsky Economists: If you ever wondered what is “quantitative marketing” about, @avigoldfarb.bsky.social’s syllabus is a great place to fill in the gap.
If you never wondered about it - you can learn about it nonetheless.
If you never wondered about it - you can learn about it nonetheless.
My PhD syllabus for Introduction to Quantitative Marketing @rotmanschool. Updated for 2025. Comments welcome.
Feel free to suggest additional papers. Self promotion encouraged! All University of Toronto PhD students welcome to audit. Please get in touch.
Feel free to suggest additional papers. Self promotion encouraged! All University of Toronto PhD students welcome to audit. Please get in touch.
avigoldfarb.com
December 15, 2024 at 2:22 PM
My PhD syllabus for Introduction to Quantitative Marketing @rotmanschool. Updated for 2025. Comments welcome.
Feel free to suggest additional papers. Self promotion encouraged! All University of Toronto PhD students welcome to audit. Please get in touch.
Feel free to suggest additional papers. Self promotion encouraged! All University of Toronto PhD students welcome to audit. Please get in touch.
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Super excited to publicly launch "All Day TA" (http://www.alldayta.com), a product @joshgans.bsky.social and I have been working on with our team over the last year. Short version: if you teach in spring, you will want to use this! It's the future of higher education. A short thread: 1/x
December 13, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Super excited to publicly launch "All Day TA" (http://www.alldayta.com), a product @joshgans.bsky.social and I have been working on with our team over the last year. Short version: if you teach in spring, you will want to use this! It's the future of higher education. A short thread: 1/x
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🌟 12 Days of SRI! 🌟
Data-driven, AI-aligned. In May, leading experts from diverse fields gathered at SRI’s annual conference to discuss the future of AI research.
🔥Catch up on the key takeaways: uoft.me/sri-absint24
Data-driven, AI-aligned. In May, leading experts from diverse fields gathered at SRI’s annual conference to discuss the future of AI research.
🔥Catch up on the key takeaways: uoft.me/sri-absint24
Absolutely Interdisciplinary 2024 fosters innovation and collaboration — Schwartz Reisman Institute
At SRI’s annual academic conference, leading researchers from diverse fields came together to tackle the complexities of AI alignment and how to better understand the social impacts of data-driven tec...
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December 9, 2024 at 7:13 PM
🌟 12 Days of SRI! 🌟
Data-driven, AI-aligned. In May, leading experts from diverse fields gathered at SRI’s annual conference to discuss the future of AI research.
🔥Catch up on the key takeaways: uoft.me/sri-absint24
Data-driven, AI-aligned. In May, leading experts from diverse fields gathered at SRI’s annual conference to discuss the future of AI research.
🔥Catch up on the key takeaways: uoft.me/sri-absint24
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The Economics Department at the University of Pittsburgh is hiring! We have an Open Rank position. You can find details and application instructions here: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2024 - January 31, 2025
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December 10, 2024 at 4:43 PM
The Economics Department at the University of Pittsburgh is hiring! We have an Open Rank position. You can find details and application instructions here: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
NBER Digital Economics and AI meeting at Stanford. Deadline December 16. www.nber.org/conferences/...
Digital Economics and AI Meeting, Spring 2025
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December 6, 2024 at 1:48 PM
NBER Digital Economics and AI meeting at Stanford. Deadline December 16. www.nber.org/conferences/...
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Will there be an AI Era? Reflections on going to see Taylor Swift. open.substack.com/pub/joshuaga...
Will there be an AI Era?
Reflections on Taylor Swift
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November 24, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Will there be an AI Era? Reflections on going to see Taylor Swift. open.substack.com/pub/joshuaga...
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If you submit your papers to me at QME, I will tell you to ignore the part of the referee report that complains about results not being surprising.
A reviewer says to you, “your results are not surprising.”
What do you say back to them?
What do you say back to them?
November 23, 2024 at 8:00 PM
If you submit your papers to me at QME, I will tell you to ignore the part of the referee report that complains about results not being surprising.
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Academic intergrity is an important and difficult topic to cover well. But I think the gossipy speculative one-dimensional tone of this article is not constructive, does a poor job of conveying what is actually going on & undermines the important topic being covered. A long thread w/ some examples:
In 2023, Harvard Business School suspended a star professor over charges of research misconduct.
As it happens, one of her papers also had funny data from a *different* B-school superstar -- a "mad, fraudulent unicorn,” per @jamesheathers.bsky.social... (1/3)
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
As it happens, one of her papers also had funny data from a *different* B-school superstar -- a "mad, fraudulent unicorn,” per @jamesheathers.bsky.social... (1/3)
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Fraudulent Science of Success
Business schools are in the grips of a scandal that threatens to undermine their most influential research—and the credibility of an entire field.
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November 20, 2024 at 7:40 AM
Academic intergrity is an important and difficult topic to cover well. But I think the gossipy speculative one-dimensional tone of this article is not constructive, does a poor job of conveying what is actually going on & undermines the important topic being covered. A long thread w/ some examples:
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Latest in HBR on generative AI. hbr.org/2024/11/gene...
Generative AI Is Still Just a Prediction Machine
To understand the strategic implications of AI’s new capabilities, managers need a framework for when AI will be helpful and when it might fail. Under the hood, generative AI tools are still predictio...
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November 18, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Latest in HBR on generative AI. hbr.org/2024/11/gene...
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In general, people who are not members of NBER can submit papers to be considered at NBER conferences. Here's the link to the current calls for papers: www.nber.org/calls-papers...
Open Calls for Papers, Proposals, and Applications
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November 18, 2024 at 5:55 PM
In general, people who are not members of NBER can submit papers to be considered at NBER conferences. Here's the link to the current calls for papers: www.nber.org/calls-papers...