Economics professor at BU. I mostly study hidden influence in U.S. politics. Some people call it corruption. I don't disagree. sites.bu.edu/fisman/
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Shout out to the people at the @massrmv - I booked an appointment for a Real ID at 10 this morning, filled out the paperwork in ~10 min, got an appt for 11:30. Met with a friendly and efficient RMV employee. Done by 11:45. Hooray for good government. Thanks for everything you do!
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My brother
@DFisman
has been using GPT to resurrect some of his older cartoons, and also to create some new ones. I have a feeling these ones will resonate...1/2
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I am sure others have done this breakdown, but if you want to experience how fast Sebastian Sawe ran the London Marathon, go to a track and try to run 400m in 68 seconds. If you are in truly amazing shape, maybe you can do a second one. Now imagine doing 103 more.
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Ray Fisman retweeted
Now is the time to let the AEA know who you'd like to see in editorial positions at AEA journals. Link for nominations (including self-nominations): aeaweb.org/journals/editoria…
Thanks! @AEAjournals
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Needless to say this is a timely topic, and so much great work being done in this area. Please submit your papers!
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📢 CALL FOR PAPERS! Submit your research for the 2026 Stigler Center-CEPR Political Economy of Finance Conference.
📍 Chicago | 🗓️ Nov 6-7, 2026 🔎 Theme: Crony Capitalism in the 21st Century. How does concentrated wealth reshape political power and democracy today?
⏰ Deadline: June 1, 2026 Submit here:
chicagobooth.edu/research/st…
#EconTwitter #PolSci #Finance
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During a recent seminar visit, a number of people asked about use of AI in the refereeing process. Every AEA journal includes the following in the email you get after agreeing to do a review. If you have any doubts about what constitutes appropriate use, please ask!
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Ray Fisman retweeted
REStat will sponsor 5 early-career researchers with the aim of broadening the set of scholars who are able to participate in the applied microeconomics research meetings at the 2025 NBER Summer Inst.
Applications due May 1st: nber.org/calls-papers-and-pr… #econtwitter @RFisman
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21 Jan 2025
“If policy favors those who are in cahoots with the government, as opposed to focusing on the most productive use of resources, the country risks economic stagnation,” write Filipe Campante and @RFisman.
Read: nyti.ms/4h0BWIx
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My small part in trying to get people to understand why it seems like running government like a business is a good idea, when in fact it's a terrible one (1/4): nytimes.com/2024/12/07/opini…
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7 Dec 2024
They wouldn't let me quote "some random person" from twitter @sabrinacartan had to have her brilliant tweet tweaked (3/4): x.com/sabrinacartan/status/1…
(I've used the house-renovator-taking-down-load-bearing-wall metaphor also...danpink.com/2013/03/are-meet… though she put it better...)
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this is like watching an amateur house flipper tear down a load-bearing wall
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.@raffasadun had the genius idea that they should actually hire Larry Culp for making government work better, if they're going to bring in anyone from business: (4/4)
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7 Nov 2024
Come work with us at
@NUEconomics!
Elisa Jácome and I are hiring a full-time Pre-Doc starting in the summer 2025 to work on projects on labor economics, public economics, economic history and political economy. More info attached! Apply here: forms.gle/y5RQmS8m4RMKNnM96.
@econ_ra
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5 Nov 2024
In Going Infinite, Michael Lewis suggests that @JaneStreetGroup was able to call the 2016 election before the networks but aggregating local polling data. Are others now using the same data/methods? And if so, is it the networks or other funds or both?
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Jane Street, as it's retold in Going Infinite, loses 300M on the bets, which were on overall market movements. But you could surely still profit from going long or short in particular industries.
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A reminder that the electoral college drastically raises the chances of knife-edge elections: direct.mit.edu/rest/article/…
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30 Oct 2024
Very happy to announce that the 🚨CBS-Princeton Money in Politics Conference 🚨 will be held June 19-20, 2025 in Copenhagen. If you work on this, no matter the context, send us your papers before January 10, 2025.
Link to the call in the next tweet
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Ray Fisman retweeted
29 Oct 2024
🚨Job🚨 Interested in working 2 years in beautiful Copenhagen with an excellent group of political economists? @JStuckatz and I are hiring a postdoc for a revolving door project at @CBScph. Start: summer '25. No teaching.
Deadline: January 5 '25
Link to job ad in next tweet
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