Economist and Teacher, Finance and Entrepreneurship @YaleSOM @YaleSOMVentures @nberpubs

Joined August 2009
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Congratulations to @ProfSongMa on being named to the World Economic Forum's @wef Young Global Leaders Class of 2026! 🎉 Selected from thousands of nominees, he'll collaborate with global leaders on AI, innovation, and finance. Read more: yalesom.io/4tJvFa4
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Interested in learning more about data markets? "Data Sales and Data Dilution," with @ProfSongMa and @ErnestLiuEcon. JFE has made our article free to download for the next 7 weeks: authors.elsevier.com/c/1kuRM…

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Yesterday, @ProfSongMa sat down with Dr. Bill Janeway to explore how venture capital has fueled key innovations, spanning industries such as biotechnology, clean energy, artificial intelligence, and more. #VentureCapital
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Econs using Overleaf: If you learn few basic Git commands you won’t need to manually upload figures &tables every time there are updates. Git can sync everything automatically. Use git push to update Overleaf & track changes with a commit message. #EconResearch #Overleaf #git
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I cannot believe this is the 9th iteration of the seminar series for @workshopefi. Thanks to my co-organizers @camhembert, @ProfSongMa, and @WallskogMelanie for keeping it going and growing. Join us for another season of papers on entrepreneurial finance and innovation:
12 Sep 2024
We are excited to announce the Fall 2024 @workshopefi schedule. We'll host four excellent papers. Presentations start Sept. 23rd at noon ET. Schedule: workshop-efi.com Sign up to email announcements: workshop-efi.com/signup A 🧵on each paper follows:
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Please join us for the 2024 Fall Series of the @workshopefi seminars. Thanks to everyone to keep this community going (by submitting presenting discussing and attending)!
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We are excited to announce the Fall 2024 @workshopefi schedule. We'll host four excellent papers. Presentations start Sept. 23rd at noon ET. Schedule: workshop-efi.com Sign up to email announcements: workshop-efi.com/signup A 🧵on each paper follows:
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A programming guide for economists, regardless of language, to: • Simplify data & program management • Maintain accuracy & efficiency • Ensure reproducibility • Keep a workflow organized throughout the project's lifecycle static1.squarespace.com/stat…
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10 Jul 2024
📢Call for papers! WEFI 2024 Fall Series will start mid-September. We invite you to submit your Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Finance, and Innovation papers. Email to contact@workshop-efi.com. Deadline: Aug 15, 2024. Thank you for all your support to keep WEFI strong!
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New market maps covering the latest AI startups: 1. AI for Accounting by a16z
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just discovered this very cool set of resources of data/code management by Brendan Price brendanmichaelprice.com/work…

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距离 OpenAI 发布 GPT-4o 才过去 2 天。 用户正在发现令人难以置信的功能,这些功能彻底改变了我们使用人工智能以及与人工智能交互的方式。 迄今为止最令人印象深刻的 12 个用例:
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Congrats to Prof. @BarbaraBiasi for winning the American Economic Association (@AEAjournals) 2024 Best Paper Award for her research on teacher salary structures! Read the full @YaleSOM story to learn more about the research: som.yale.edu/story/2024/prof…
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As usual, 3Blue1Brown does a fantastic job stepping through the basics of (parts of) the GPT algorithm. One of the best introductions to the idea of embeddings that I’ve seen youtu.be/wjZofJX0v4M?si=YfkP…
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10 Great Papers to Expand Your Econ Frameworks 1) Rational Fools - Amartya Sen Sen at his best, engaging with Econ models whilst having a strong philosophical background. This paper presents insightful challenges to revealed preference theory. jstor.org/stable/2264946
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So I finished this beautifully written book by @francoisfleuret, highly recommend, like you wouldn't believe this, but if you know some statistics you can skim the whole thing and get a (obviously incomplete) very rough shape understanding of how all this works in like an hour
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Sam Bowles was a 28 year old Harvard assistant professor of economics at Harvard when he taught a course on his specialty, the economics of educational planning. The reading list for this 2nd semester course in 1967-68 has been transcribed. irwincollier.com/harvard-rea…
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Entrepreneurship PhD students: apply for the 2024 @nberpubs Entrepreneurship Research Boot Camp (week of July 15th). My student experience 10 (!) years ago was instrumental to my career. Thanks to @NBER and @robinson_fuqua for keeping it going. conference.nber.org/confsubm…
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10 Great Economic History Books 1) The Economic Consequences of the US Mobilisation for the Second World War - Alexander J Field A fantastic recent work reassessing the long run growth effects of WW2 on the USA. Interesting implications for growth theory and TFP calculations.
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Announcing a short course! ifp.org/economics-of-ideas/ Pierre Azoulay (@pierre_azoulay) Matt Clancy (@mattsclancy) Janet Freilich Ina Ganguli (@inaganguli) Ben Jones (@bfjo) Chad Jones (@ChadJonesEcon) Kyle Myers (@KRoyMyers) John Van Reenen (@johnvanreenen) me (@heidilwilliams_)
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Implications of recent advances in machine learning for causal effects, including methods to adjust for differences between treated and control units in high-dimensional settings, and methods for identifying and estimating heterogenous treatment effects: aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12…
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