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AI, Economics, and Marketplaces. PhD candidate in Economics @PennStateEcon
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Gonzalo Ballestero retweeted
The Penn State AI and the Economy Workshop is back for its 3rd edition!
Organized jointly by @ballesterogh, @RanShorrer, @hadi_hoss, and Chloe Tergiman, it will be held on October 27–28, 2026
Full program below
Gonzalo Ballestero retweeted
Six more PhD students and research professionals join us at #AIESI2026 from across the US: Yale, Cornell, Penn State, UNC, and the University of Washington. Welcome, all—we look forward to welcoming you to campus.
Gonzalo Ballestero retweeted
I couldn’t make it to #ACMEC26this year, but multiple independent sources report that @Gonzalo did a great job presenting our paper w/ @hadi_hoss & Samarth Khanna.
Gonzalo Ballestero retweeted
Closing the second meeting of the AI and the Economy Initiative. Here is a thread with the highlights @PSULiberalArts @PennStateEcon @SmealCollege @ISTatPENNSTATE @PennStateCSRAI
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Glad to see this paper forthcoming in IJIO. A meaningful milestone for me personally!
Forthcoming IJIO article by Gonzalo Ballestero
📖Algorithmic collusion under sequential pricing and stochastic costs
doi.org/10.1016/j.ijindorg.2…
@Sciencedirect
I am sharing a set of slides from my lecture on agentic AI tools for Applied Economists at @penn_state. Materials are available here: github.com/ballesterogh/A-Pr…
This builds on this thread and great work by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, @aniketapanjwani, and @VelikovMihail
Want to start using Claude Code for academic research?
Or see incredible things other researchers are doing with Claude Code?
Here's a thread of 5 great tutorials, skill and projects you can start using right now.
I'm also keen to do an online "reading group" to work through these and others every week. Beginners welcome. Let me know below if you're interested.
1/ Chris Blattman shares an entire suite of tools he build in the last 4 weeks:
Excited to share that my paper on Algorithmic Collusion is now published in the International Journal of Industrial Organization. Many thanks to the referees and editor. Special thanks to @RanShorrer and @luliquesadalcs for their guidance along the way
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Gonzalo Ballestero retweeted
@ballesterogh told us about strategic algorithmic monoculture. His work (w/ @RanShorrer @hadi_hoss and @samarthkhanna98) shows that LLMs adjust coordination to incentives and are effective convergence coordinators, but lag behind humans in diverging
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Join us next week!👇
📢 Our inaugural workshop is happening next week!
Join leading researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to discuss how AI is transforming the economy
Organized by @ballesterogh, @RanShorrer, @hadi_hoss , and Chloe Tergiman
Gonzalo Ballestero retweeted
Terence Tao spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study - no teaching, no random events of committees, just unlimited time to think. But after a few months, he ran out of ideas.
Terence thinks that mathematicians and scientists need a certain level of randomness and inefficiency to come up with new ideas.
Gonzalo Ballestero retweeted
This winter I co-taught a grad seminar on when & how LLMs can stand in for human subjects in social science research, to a mix of CS & social science students. It was fun (albeit w/occasional friction) to talk methods w/such a diverse group.
Reading list:
statmodeling.stat.columbia.e…
Gonzalo Ballestero retweeted
📢 New policy brief: AI agents that can simulate human behaviors and attitudes can help test ideas in social science. Our latest brief introduces a generative AI agent architecture that simulates the attitudes of 1,000+ real people. Learn more: hai.stanford.edu/policy/simu…
Gonzalo Ballestero retweeted
When admissions are correlated, diversifying your college applications is the optimal strategy. We spoke with @SNageebAli and @RanShorrer of @PennStateEcon about why the standard advice to apply to reach, match, and safety schools is sound. aeaweb.org/research/applicat…
Gonzalo Ballestero retweeted
This is a useful paper on open-ended survey data. Open-ended questions can help reveal individuals’ motives, mental models and decision-making processes. Open-ended survey data have been used to study what’s on top of people’s minds w.r.t. important economic policy questions.
Excited to talk about AI at the CSRAI Rump Sessions next week. Hope to see you there!
Join us this Wednesday for our next Graduate Student Rump Session w/ students and scholars from
@ISTatPENNSTATE, @PSULiberalArts, @psuarts_arch,
and @PSUEngineering.
🗓️ Wednesday, Nov. 5
🕝 2:30-4:00 p.m.
📍 E202 Westgate Bldg. and Virtual via Zoom
📷 csrai.psu.edu/rump-session
Gonzalo Ballestero retweeted
Thrilled that my Minimalist Market Design monograph is forthcoming in the Econometric Society Monograph Series. The revised and much expanded version is now available on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2401.00307
This thread unpacks the framework — scholarly, reflective, personal. (1/20)
Gonzalo Ballestero retweeted
Early career mismatch matters: Overqualified are less motivated yet outperform others in the same job; underqualified exert more effort but still lag, from Julie Berry Cullen, Gordon B. Dahl, and Richard De Thorpe nber.org/papers/w34215
Gonzalo Ballestero retweeted
Come join us @PennStateEcon for the Midwest Trade & Theory Conference in mid-November. Submission deadline is September 6.
Details here:
sites.google.com/view/midwes…
Read more at: econ.la.psu.edu/news/ @PennStateEcon
