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Florian Ederer
@florianederer.bsky.social
Austrian 🇦🇹
Economist 📈
Not an Austrian Economist
Allen & Kelli Questrom Professor
BU Questrom, NBER, ECGI & NBER
https://florianederer.github.io/
I was told that selectively coupling students to create the Kwisatz Haderach would not look good on my promotion file, but I chose to ignore that advice.
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Yes, I wonder if she knows about the game.
November 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
It's the only guilty videogame pleasure I allow myself.
November 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
The program is fully funded, offers rigorous economics training with BU Econ, and features faculty in IO, health, labor, innovation, and applied micro. Located in Boston's rich research ecosystem.

Curriculum:
www.bu.edu/questrom/phd...

Q&A:
insights.bu.edu/the-launch-o...
The Launch of Questrom’s PhD in Business Economics
What happens when economics meets business? Boston University’s new Business Economics PhD program - a collaboration between the Questrom School
insights.bu.edu
October 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
P.S.: My fantastic co-author Zhichun Wang is on the economics job market this year with super interesting work on the expansion and dynamic equilibrium effects of institutional landlords.

sites.google.com/view/zhichun...
Zhichun Wang
Welcome to my webpage! I am a PhD Student at Yale Department of Economics. My research focuses on industrial organization and urban economics. CV: Email: [email protected]
sites.google.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Mandated disclosure helps society learn from failure, but it can also make firms wait to learn from one another.

Transparency improves information flow, but too much of it can cause innovation to stall.
October 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Firms began taking longer to complete trials and waited to start new ones, especially when competitors’ results were about to be released.

They also reduced the number of trial sites by about half, becoming more cautious as other firms' data became public.
October 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Kandinsky in the far right is a good guess.
October 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM