Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano@respublicae.eu
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Economist. Back at LSE as a Professor at @LSEPublicPolicy Summer 2023. Non-resident Fellow @bruegel_org. Recovering MEP. Currently @ChicagoBooth.
Joined Apr 2022
Outstanding @AdamPosen on Brexit and competitiveness in Europe.
RT @NicholasTyrone: A good explanation of why Britain joining something like CPTPP could never possibly replace this benefits of being in the European single market:
https://t.co/tq1P6sfjSn
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Why worrying?
RT @michaelxpettis: 1/3
Very interesting and worrying article: "In Russia, technology was one of the few sectors where people felt they could succeed on merit instead of connections. The industry also maintained a spirit of openness.
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Mayo de hace 79 años. Un niño judío húngaro regala una flor a otro, momentos antes de morir en las cámaras de gas.
RT @AuschwitzMuseum: A heart-breaking moment saved in an SS picture of deportations of Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. It was taken 79 years ago, most likely in late May 1944.
A little child found a dandelion in the grass and is handing it or showing it to an older boy. All the people in… https://t.co/HJPPJUPGS3 https://t.co/PZgdAViVUq
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@RobinBrooksIIF Careful. Financing populist governments so that they can fool the electorate into thinking that they are good, so that then the adjustment comes when the technocratic government comes in and faces disaster, keeps the electorates in the dark and lengthens the agony.
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RT @DrJimFan: What if we set GPT-4 free in Minecraft? ⛏️
I’m excited to announce Voyager, the first lifelong learning agent that plays Minecraft purely in-context. Voyager continuously improves itself by writing, refining, committing, and retrieving *code* from a skill library.
GPT-4 unlocks… https://t.co/SZU0n8nWsW https://t.co/hjTxk6Qb1x
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Mind blowing. Now part of standard photoshop.
RT @heyBarsee: It's called Generative Fill.
1. Just select the part and write what you want, Photoshop borrowed this feature from Adobe Firefly.
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Astonishing level of realism in the AI/generative tools of Adobe.
RT @heyBarsee: It's called Generative Fill.
1. Just select the part and write what you want, Photoshop borrowed this feature from Adobe Firefly.
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Clean regression discontinuity design showing large (1/5 reduction) causal impact of shingles vaccine on Alzheimer. Strong evidence of virus origin.
Fantastic thread explaining it.
Great news.
RT @PGeldsetzer1: Biggest thing to ever come out of my little group. Pls help spread this finding!
We found clean, CAUSAL evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a good chunk of dementia cases. So, could a virus cause Alzheimer’s->YES!
Hear me out & see preprint: https…
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RT @PGeldsetzer1: It does! We estimate that over a 7-year follow-up period, getting vaccinated averts one in five new dementia diagnoses. In the paper, we demonstrate through extensive robustness checks that it is essentially impossible that this finding is due to confounding.
8/ https://t.co/QUvw2yYsAh
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RT @PGeldsetzer1: We first show that just a one-week difference in age causes a massive (47 %-point) difference in the probability of ever getting the vaccine.
This is paradise for getting at CAUSATION rather than correlation!
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RT @PGeldsetzer1: Biggest thing to ever come out of my little group. Pls help spread this finding!
We found clean, CAUSAL evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a good chunk of dementia cases. So, could a virus cause Alzheimer’s->YES!
Hear me out & see preprint: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.23.23290253v1
🧵1/ https://t.co/lCPqXj7i2q
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RT @JStein_WaPo: Larry Summers tells @tylerpager: “The IRS is not another [government] program, it's a necessity if we are to have a functioning tax system in the USA. A scale back would be a historic error”
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RT @JonSteinsson: "if we want a plastic-free ocean, we should start by focusing on areas where our leverage is greatest. Interception in rivers is the fastest and most cost-effective way to prevent plastic from reaching the ocean"
https://t.co/sNNbKFuVJ7
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Happy to see this confluence of views is still possible.
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RT @BarackObama: Bob was also a fierce advocate for the Obama Presidential Center, believing that it would be transformative for young folks on the South Side. His commitment helped inspire us to build the Center there.
We’re deeply grateful for Bob’s remarkable service to a university and a… https://t.co/WDt3WcZ66c
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RT @BarackObama: Michelle and I were saddened to learn about the passing of Bob Zimmer, the 13th President of the University of Chicago.
Bob was a visionary leader and one the most influential university presidents in the country. During his time at the University of Chicago, he built upon its… https://t.co/RvPzhuJCPg https://t.co/F0C1o9UzKg
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@mansanchezgz @HansbergRossi @IvanWerning @andyneumeyer @TimTkehoe @rgarciaverdu @econoflove @HannoLustig @ricardovlago Muy bonito recuerdo! Gracias!
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RT @judith_arnal: En un informe que se publicará mañana y que ha visto Bloomberg, el 57% de los CEO de la Mesa Europea de la Industria están considerando mover operaciones o inversiones de la UE a EE.UU. ante la pérdida de competitividad europea.
El tema es muy grave.
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RT @Brad_Setser: The real Irish economy (GNI*) is about EUR 250b.
That is roughly half the size of the measured Irish economy (EUR 500b).
So the "fake" (created by Irish tax residents) Irish economy is about equal in size to the Central Bank of Ireland's estimate of the real economy.
6/6
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What an astonishingly effective, principled, and brave leader. RIP. https://news.uchicago.edu/story/robert-j-zimmer-chancellor-emeritus-and-13th-president-university-chicago-1947-2023
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Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Economist. Back at LSE as a Professor at @LSEPublicPolicy Summer 2023. Non-resident Fellow @bruegel_org. Recovering MEP. Currently @ChicagoBooth.
Joined Apr 2022
