Paul Oyer

@dbergstresser And people say economists are dismal. Go figure.

Nothing I hate more than jackasses who go around trying to convince people that anything is possible if they just follow their dreams.

@Andrew___Baker You can tell him that at a GSB reunion.

I have never been so happy to see a successful extra point as that one.

Thank goodness that when I have a really bad day at work, I am not on National television

Are menu compensation plans really taking hold after economists have been suggesting them for decades? wsj.com/articles/a-per…

Interesting article on the winners and losers from pay transparency. nytimes.com/2023/01/14/bus…

While Congress wastes time and does nothing, some progress elsewhere… nytimes.com/2023/01/05/bus…

@steve_tadelis What ever happened to Pollyanna Steve that was so much fun to mock?

@florianederer I don’t know that his game has declined — I said we play less since he became dean. But he plays with his kids and may be better than ever, for all I know.

But @pauloyer once told me that Jon's tennis game has declined. So maybe I have to rethink this wish.

Honestly, I ask you, what can't this man do? At a party hosted by Sharon Oster I once remarked to his father Rick Levin that in my next life I want to be reborn as Jon Levin. Rick smiled and said: "Me too, he's a much better economist than I ever was." poetsandquants.com/2022/12/29/dea…

I recently did a webinar with three excellent former GSB students and former Stanford athletic stars -- Toby Gerhart, Justin Davis, and Nij Nnamani -- about their take on sports and economics. They were fantastic! youtube.com/watch?v=lzyJoz…

The day will come when there is not an interesting new story about FTX. But we are not there yet. wsj.com/articles/ftx-f…

This is the most interesting and educational take on FTX that I have seen yet.

I've been predicting the demise of democracy and Bitcoin for a while now. If you had asked me a few months ago which of these predictions I would suddenly feel much more confident about as of November 9, I would have guessed wrong.

Every time my WSJ feed looks like this I think the fun in the labor market really is over but I've been wrong for a long time.

That’s sad. He (Willig) provided my initial antitrust education in graduate IO and @florianederer has subsequently taught me the rest.

@causalinf 1996, to be exact.

The Princeton econ themed series continues in my podcast, almost with no end in sight tbh. Here's who I have upcoming: - Phil Levine - graduated 1990 - @pauloyer graduated in the 1990s - Dan Hamermesh, assistant prof there around the time Orley got there

How to be a negative externality on all other departments and universities in one easy step. nytimes.com/2022/10/03/us/…

Thanks, @SportEcon, for this review of the book! sportseconomics.org/book-reviews.h…

@florianederer I will absolutely dust her on the High Rustler!!

I'll be attending like every year, but this time with my 8-year old daughter who has already announced that she "ski[s] so much faster than @pauloyer."

I thought we had gotten too lavish in our spending when trying to recruit new faculty but it turns out the real money is spent recruiting freshmen. espn.com/college-footba…