Associate professor of economics.
Stockholm/Prague
Joined February 2011
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If you’re interested in institutions, capitalism, and markets, check out the new Handbook of Research on Economic Freedom. It presents up-to-date research overviews on two dozen topics relating to economic freedom. Published by @ElgarPublishing today! See e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/handboo…
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The Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University is now accepting applications for the 2027-28 Visiting Scholars program.
For a complete description of the program and how to apply, please visit:
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AI is becoming remarkably good at econometric coding. But how good?
We tested 14,400 runs across 40 econometric tasks in Stata, R, and Python.
Success rates jump from 79% with chatbots to 97% with coding agents.
It's no longer about writing better prompts. It's about letting agents execute, test, and revise their own code.
Letting AI agents write econometric code
Sebastian Galiani @Tulane, Federico A. López & Raul A. Sosa @UdeSA
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Erik Dahmén och det industriella företagandet ratio.se/publikationer/erik-…
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Roger Scruton recalls the exact moment he became a conservative during the 1968 Paris riots:
“When I looked down the street and saw all these rowdy students throwing stones at policemen, I just said to myself, ‘Whatever they believe, I believe the opposite.’”
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China's exports of machinery and electrical equipment to Russia reached a new all-time high in Sep. '26. There's nothing good about China's massive export surge. China continually seeks to undermine and destabilize the West, as it does here with Ukraine...
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The French state crowded out by government spending. thetwocents.substack.com/p/t…
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GDP growth is actually very good and we should aim for more of it
An AI agent emailed hundreds of researchers for help. It told us why | Science science.org/content/article/…
Visst kan AI vara kreativ – det krävs ingen mänsklig hjärna sydsvenskan.se/kultur/visst-…
Coordination without consensus: interoperability as a foundation for polycentricity cambridge.org/core/journals/…
The just price: a market-process account cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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🚜 New working paper: “Wheels of Change: Agricultural Automation and Human Capital in the 20th Century”
Q: How does the next generation adapt to automation?
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Wealth and Property Taxation in the United States | The Quarterly Journal of Economics academic.oup.com/qje/article…
How China became rich - by Ben Southwood and Robin Rivaton worksinprogress.news/p/how-c…
When does more inequality go with less democracy? - by Tibor Rutar statsandsociety.substack.com…
