IO Economist @NYUSternEcon.
Manhattan, NY
Joined October 2011
- Tweets3.4K
- Following746
- Followers6.7K
- Likes8.5K
Chris Conlon retweeted
Great public goods! 👍
Happy to announce the release of our first curated dataset from @GLL_Brown @Brown_Economics @Watson_School @RhodesCenter We logged every US tariff rate: threats, announcements, signed into law since January 2025. 749 of them, timed to the minute, with the exact quote and source. Only 30% are executive orders. The rest is the noise markets trade on. Free, updated weekly:
globallinkages.org/datasets/…
Chris Conlon retweeted
"People need to understand how far left the former Goldman Sachs MD, Chairman of one of the largest PE firms in the world, and chair of Bloomberg-fucking-LP, is"
Give me a break no-neck.
Chris Conlon retweeted
FREE ACCESS until July 15—IJIO special issue on Market Power and Macroeconomy, edited by Alon @eizenb_alon & Chris @conlon_chris: "The anatomy of costs and firm performance" by De Loecker et al., Chris's "Did profits cause inflation?" + 5 more papers!
sciencedirect.com/special-is…
IIOC is coming early (to Boston) this year. Looking forward to catching up with everyone and seeing some great papers!
The full program for the upcoming Boston IIOC is posted. This is a great chance to see some terrific papers! editorialexpress.com/confere…
Chris Conlon retweeted
The full program for the upcoming Boston IIOC is posted. This is a great chance to see some terrific papers! editorialexpress.com/confere…
Pretty sure what's bringing down oil prices this afternoon is not the G7 meeting about potentially releasing reserves before deciding NOT to do that
but rather Trump telling a CBS reporter the war was "rather complete"
Chris Conlon retweeted
Our paper "When Does Mandatory Price Disclosure Lower Prices?" is out in the Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics!
When does price transparency lower prices -- and when doesn't it?
Paper: doi.org/10.1086/734145
Summary: promarket.org/2024/07/23/whe…
Congratulations to Nano Ochoa for writing a great JMP and a great outcome!
Beyond excited to share that I will join @JohnsHopkins
as an AP of Economics in 2027, after a postdoc at @YaleCowles and @YaleCADMY!
Huge thanks to my advisors Daniel Waldinger, @conlon_chris, @giulia_bran, and @ChrisANeilson. The best and kindest mentors I could have asked for
Chris Conlon retweeted
“I’m going to show people i know economics. I’m going to talk to… Oren Cass.”
Jon noticed some anger from economists in the comments last week. He gets into that and so much more with the Chief Economist of American Compass @oren_cass on a new episode tomorrow. #theweeklyshow #jonstewart #politics
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Oren Cass does not have any formal training in economics beyond the introductory undergraduate level. Cass obtained his title of "chief economist" by giving it to himself.
pinpointpolicyinstitute.org/the-point/oren…
Another great lineup for a great conference !
The 2026 Triangle Micro Conference w/ @UNC_econ, @DukeEcon, @kenanflagler is on April 24/25. Very grateful to @LawEconCenter for support.
If interested in attending, program and registration information is here: cris.web.unc.edu/tmc/
Please share widely #EconTwitter!
Chris Conlon retweeted
One of the best minimum wage papers to date, leveraging IRS tax data on businesses, matched to individual survey data, and a clean difference-in-difference design using 19 sizable increases in the 2010-2019 period. Sheds light on jobs, revenue, reallocation effects.
#QJE Feb 2026, #7, “Who’s Afraid of the Minimum Wage? Measuring the Impacts on Independent Businesses Using Matched U.S. Tax Returns,” by Rao (@nirupama_rao) and Risch: doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjaf053
Chris Conlon retweeted
i guess this depends on how you look at things, the largest supermarket chain in the country has been de facto banned in new york and so has literally set up shop on the border
New York City has an amazing concentration of independent grocery stores, but the way that Amazon (Whole Foods) and Walmart use their power to block them out by getting unfair deals from big suppliers is making it almost impossible to survive.
Tell your reps to support @MicahLasher and @CordellCleare important Consumer Grocery Pricing Act.
assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?de…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
There are no Walmart stores in New York City.
walmart.com/store-director…
Look I am sure that if you believe in the labor theory of value it must be jarring to learn that prices depend not only on costs but also consumer willingness to pay.
We should come up for a word to explain this phenomenon. Maybe we can call it “demand”?
What if “losers” were actually compensated and people just forgot?
NYC taxi medallions plunged in value after Uber we bailed them out. (Guess who sponsored original bill in assembly?)
Also we bailed out teamster pensions for $36b and on the hook for closer to $83b in ARP
Chris Conlon retweeted
Brandon Kaplowitz works in macroeconomics and deep/reinforcement learning. Learn about his JMP and other research: brandonkaplowitz.com.
Chris Conlon retweeted
@NYUSternEcon has two great students on the job market this year: Agata Farina (@AgataFarina) works in experimental economics and microeconomic theory. Check out Agata's job market paper and other research: agatafarina.com
Chris Conlon retweeted
Together with Liran Einav and @motoyogo, we are organizing a conference for financial and IO economists on asset demand systems to better understand the equilibrium relation between asset prices and portfolio holdings on May 14-15, 2026, in Princeton.
Having read the decision it seems clear that the FTC lost the monopolization case on market definition:
1. The judge did not accept that TikTok and Youtube were outside of Meta's market.
2. The judge ruled that the market that mattered was 2025 not 2015 or 2010. 1/3
This quoted post is unavailable.
One can:
1. Argue that the judge got the market definition wrong and TikTok and Youtube are not relevant competitors.
2. Argue that we should break up Meta because it used to be monopoly.
3. Disagree with FTC strategy to bring a Sec 2 case instead of a Sec 7 merger case. 2/3