Mallesh Pai @malleshpai Twitter profile

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 months

During my undergrad, a friend and I randomly showed up at Prof's office. We weren't even in his uni. We told him we want to work on game theory/ mech design/ social choice. Instead of kicking us out of his office (which he should have), he gave us stuff to work on and mentored us…

Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay

@AbhiroopMukho

3 months

Take a bow Prof Arunava Sen. #EconISIDelhi salutes you as you retire! Look forward to seeing you as emeritus faculty soon. #EconTwitter

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

2 years

When i tried to retweet, Twitter asked me if I'd like to read the article first 🤣🤣

QJE

@QJEHarvard

2 years

#QJE Nov 2022 #9 , “Competing Models,” by Montiel Olea ( @ppm_o ), Ortoleva ( @pietroortoleva ), Pai ( @malleshpai ), and Prat ( @andreapratnyc ):

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

1 year

Heh cool trophy! (Was great fun working with Kanishka and Karsten, this is icing on the cake!)

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

2 years

🍾🥂 (to the outcome, but also to a great time working with 3 amazing coauthors @PpM_O , @PietroOrtoleva and @andreapratnyc !)

QJE

@QJEHarvard

2 years

Recently accepted by #QJE , “Competing Models,” by Montiel Olea ( @ppm_o ), Ortoleva ( @pietroortoleva ), Pai ( @malleshpai ), and Prat ( @andreapratnyc ):

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 years

My first TE 🍾

TheoreticalEconomics

@EconTheory

3 years

Accepted: (Bad) reputation in relational contracting, Deb, Mitchell, Pai,

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

1 year

Rereading a classic that should be required reading for econ students if it isn't already:

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

2 years

One of the really fun things i got to do this summer is visit the amazing lab they're building at @a16z crypto research and chat with @Tim_Roughgarden @skominers and others about cool game theory/ mech design questions they're facing up and down the stack... 1/n

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 years

@NikhilBasavappa when you get out of grad school, you cut out the first 2 hours and skim the whole thing.

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

8 months

Apropos @ShengwuLi 's tweet about history of economic thought--- i still remember how blown my mind was when i read the first paragraph of rothschild and stiglitz:

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

4 years

Someone give this man a Nobel prize. oh. wait. :)

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

4 years

Well this is a surprise!!

AEA Journals

@AEAjournals

4 years

Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 AEJ Best Paper Awards! Check out the winning papers here.

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

7 months

Old joke: Advisor tells their graduating student to leave 20$ bill in the hardcopy of thesis in the library. Oh as a reward for the first reader, the student asks? No, when you come back to town you have backup cash for lunch the prof replies.

Daniel Gould, MD, PhD

@DJGould94

7 months

A PhD is temporary. That typo in your thesis is forever.

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

1 year

Paul Halmos on the subject:

Peyman Milanfar

@docmilanfar

1 year

measure theory is almost entirely pointless

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

4 years

@chiarapack I see you got answers already but if isn't available online freely, yes! Indeed, I once emailed a prof (in France) as an undergrad (in India)... he literally snail-mailed me a preprint of the paper!! I think i still have it somewhere...

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

1 year

Spent a lot of time trying to come up with a pithy, informative thread about a new paper I'm pretty excited about, "Censorship Resistance in On-Chain Auctions" (with @MaxResnick1 and @eljhfx :

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

1 month

A fun sidequest successfully achieved to our theory conference :)

Mingzi Niu

@mingzi_niu

1 month

Three generations of academic family ☺️ @malleshpai

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

2 years

@AnthonyLeeZhang addendum -the "most sophisticated crypto traders" turned out to be yolo degens like the rest of us.

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

9 months

Also should they sign this statement at the top of the paper? Or at the bottom?

Nandini Gupta - also nandinigupta.bsky.social

@nandinigupta201

9 months

Should authors sign statements before submitting as to their contribution? Ex post “wasn’t me” excuses that your coauthors or RAs did the data work would be better supported. And, it’ll help editors decide whether they are ok with papers produced by RAs who are not coauthors.

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 years

@ben_golub As a robustness check, the authors should prove that their approach would also work for all other viruses. The details can be put in an online appendix.

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

2 years

With ~40 mins to go to @alexoimas talk (JOIN!! , see below), a brief 🧵on what this seminar series is about and why we're doing this (1/n)

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

2 years

@KhoaVuUmn Post tenure...

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

11 months

A senior colleague in a talk once put up her related literature slide, smiled at the audience, and said "and here is a list of papers i plan to read that appear related"

Dr. Savannah Pearlman

@Savannah__P

11 months

Is citing something that you have not read academic dishonesty?

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

2 years

Somehow I feel both seen and attacked simultaneously.

Anna Hughes 🇵🇸

@AnnaGHughes

2 years

academics will pack like 12 papers to read on a 3 hour flight and then skim one abstract, put on Shrek 2, and fall asleep

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

2 years

That was amazing analysis by @Mylovanov (and friends) who are somehow thinking analytically on the side while helping their fellow citizens and suffering a massive bombing campaign. Stay safe, and hopefully we can talk (and help) more whenever this ends

Tymofiy Mylovanov

@Mylovanov

2 years

Going live at 10 pm Kyiv, 3 pm EST. Oksana Syroid, Nataliia Shapoval, Timofiy Brik and myself. Todays update and analysis

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 years

@akbarpour_ Accept the offer and renege later if needed. I normally wouldn't recommend this but if schools are being that asshole-y then whatever.

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 years

@ben_golub @ElliotLip Elliot's daughter has now experienced econ refereeing too--- have a quality insight, immediately get shot down because it doesn't generalize to infinite dimensional Banach spaces.

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

9 months

As a researcher in crypto I want to work on the important problems vexing everyone in this space: how should we design txn fee mechanisms? can we limit MEV without limiting chain efficiency? who is @GwartyGwart and how are they right about everything?

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

4 years

I saw this shocking exchange yesterday on Twitter. Person 1 posted politically controversial but reasonable position. P2 asked reasonable question. P1 gave calm reply. P2 said thank you that makes sense, I'm going to go think about that now. Ban both now!!!

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 months

My migration story was made into a major Hollywood movie. The screenwriters took some artistic liberties (e.g., I flew over rather than took the route indicated in the movie), it captures the gist of my struggle (e.g. I did fly economy):

Life of Pi (2012) ⭐ 7.9 | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

2h 7m | PG

www.imdb.com

Florian Ederer

@florianederer

4 months

I just spent another afternoon perfecting a 30-minute presentation about my migration story for 9-year olds. The presentation contains many hardships that I faced in my life such as when my parents refused to buy me a dedicated pair of giant slalom skis when I was 12 years old.

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

1 year

Thanks @jasondhartline ! Delighted to bring some virtual value to #EC2023 (heh)... More seriously, for those of you who have thoughts on things you like/ dislike about your experiences e-attending conferences, have suggestions etc: DM/ email me!

Jason Hartline

@jasondhartline

1 year

Delighted to have @MalleshPai as the Virtual Chair for #EC2023 . @AcmSIGecom is committed to its meetings being broadly accessible and inclusive. Not able to join us in London? Block out July 9-12 to join the virtual meeting, packed with livestreams, networking sessions, etc.

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 years

Dear @SpaceCityWX @mattlanza : in situations like this, dry humor works better :-)

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

2 years

This week @kse_in / @kse_in Seminar: the inimitable @skominers on "Redistribution and Marketplace Design" (joint work with @akbarpour_ and Piotr Dworczak). Noon Eastern on 5/18. Join!! Sign up link here:

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

2 months

I remember when, in my second year of grad school my research got me to one of my fave papers. the introduction is, err, short :)

Quanta Magazine

@QuantaMagazine

2 months

Michel Talagrand has been awarded the Abel Prize, one of the highest honors in mathematics, for applying tools from high-dimensional geometry to complex probability problems. @jordanacep reports:

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

4 months

tl;dr summary (more seriously, cool dashboard + visualization @sui414 @0xangelfish @JadenDurnford !)

angelfish ⚡️🤖

@0xangelfish

4 months

Excited to share a new Flashbots blog post and dashboard illuminating Ethereum’s order flow market. Links below!

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

4 years

@ben_golub Appears to be taking Gandhi's maxim of "be the change you wish to see in this world" fairly literally :)

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 years

@BorgersTilman When I have such fears, I normally re-read the preface of Arrow and Hahn and find myself soothed...

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 years

RIP Konrad :(... An amazing scholar and a gentle thoughtful soul you could have wonderful conversations with... Condolences to his family and friends.

Frank Witte ☀️🇪🇺 Придет свобода

@Alarcos

3 years

My colleague Konrad Mierendorff died on Saturday August 7th 2021 after a fall on the #Wasenhorn , Switzerland. Konrad was a gifted Economist, both as a researcher and a teacher. He loved the mountains and was on his own journey into Alpine climbing. 1/5

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 months

Rani Spiegler has a fantastic book about the culture of economic theory. Looks like a wonderful read for all, highly recommended for students interested in economic theory, and also for colleagues (EC types) who want to understand us! For now, a trailer:

Help a Theorist

An unofficial trailer for Ran Spiegler's forthcoming book:"The Curious Culture of Economic Theory"MIT Press book page: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262548229...

www.youtube.com

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 years

And mentors of mentors of scholars (think how many of us are students/ mentees of Krishna/ Mailath/ gul/ Jackson/...). RIP Hugo Sonnenschein. Thanks for teaching my teachers how to fish.

msiniscalchi 🇺🇦🇮🇱

@msiniscalchi

3 years

Very few people have had as much impact on economic theory as Hugo Sonnenschein, both as scholars and as mentors of other scholars

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 years

@ShengwuLi @ben_golub My favorite ecta footnote (much cornier)

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

10 months

@DinaPomeranz Heh for some of our research agendas, getting 20 newspaper articles can only happen if we do something very bad. So I'll take the top 5 :)

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

2 years

I didn't think that after 2 years of pandemic/ zoom fatigue, I would be excited about another zoom seminar but this was amazing. Thank you @JeanTirole !! Next up, @DrDaronAcemoglu (April 6, 12noon Eastern). Sign up details: @kse_in .

TSE

@TSEinfo

2 years

@JeanTirole gave yesterday the first economics seminar in the @kse_in series in support of Ukraine on "Privacy and the control of citizens". If you've missed the event, watch the video here: Thank you @KyivSchool @unibirmingham @uc3m @MITEcon @UBMannheim

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

1 month

What a fun two days! Our third economic theory mini conference in the books.... Thanks for coming @JuanDubra1 (also Léonie Baumann, Nicole Immorlica and Rakesh vohra!)

Juan Dubra

@JuanDubra1

1 month

Third mini-theory conference in Rice University. lots of fun people, including @malleshpai

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

6 months

For those confused this is the context ( @GuilleAngeris also claimed there were 110 papers so far this year)

Tarun Chitra

@tarunchitra

7 months

OH: “You’re really helping onboard the next 1 billion CFMM papers from economists”

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 years

This paper is for all the first year econ PhD students who ask whether we see walrasian equilibria in the real world :)

T Loch

@TedLoch

3 years

1/4 Biologists often interpret resource exchanges among organisms as symbiotic mutualisms. My latest in @PNASNews shows these can be modeled as Walrasian equilibria.

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

7 months

So much liquidity on the other side but ... :(

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 years

@ShengwuLi Cool paper! Why didn't you title it OSP is in P :)

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

2 years

Here's a talk i gave (which they were nice enough to record) while i was there on the aggregating the wisdom of the crowd by also eliciting higher-order beliefs. (2/n)

Mechanisms to Infer the Wisdom of the Crowd with Mallesh M. Pai |...

The classic wisdom-of-the-crowd problem asks how a principal can aggregate information about the unknown state of the world from agents without understanding...

www.youtube.com

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

2 years

While people look at omicron data and case numbers to glean the future, let me offer some hopeful news: liquid hand soap was in stock at the local Costco today for the first time since Feb 2020.

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 months

A cool thing about this space is that some top minds are thinking about it. And among the academics (and more generally) in the space, @noamnisan is top of the heap. A must listen for academics esp in the EC community wondering what there is to do round here...

Zero Knowledge Podcast

@zeroknowledgefm

3 months

🎙️This week, @annarrose & @tarunchitra chat with @noamnisan , exploring his journey from complexity theory to pioneering AGT, his move to blockchain and his work at @StarkWareLtd + his latest work on PoS Tokenomics and more.

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

1 year

Can faculty attend? Asking for a friend...

𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐡𝐢𝐥 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧

@m_sendhil

1 year

Are you doing a ecoomics-related PhD? Interested in AI/ML? Then apply to our Summer Institute in Machine Learning! Learn from awesome faculty Meet other like-minded students Get exposed to cool, new ideas (march 24 deadline)

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

1 year

@msiniscalchi i thought the decision theorists had moved on from that wine:

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

2 years

@ben_golub @paulgp you joke about this but apparently back in the day cake mix companies realized that their clientele found making a cake from a mix "cheating"--- so they added back some slight "baking experience" e.g. add an egg or mix some milk.

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

11 months

⏰⏰ Just under a week to go for @AcmSIGecom EC Preview week!! A quick run through of the planned activities (fully virtual) below, tl;dr: mentoring workshop registration (free!) preview week registration (free!): (1/n)

Mentoring Workshop registration

Event Timing: June 19th, 2023 Event Address: Virtually (https://sites.google.com/view/ec23mentoring/schedule) Contact us at [email protected]

docs.google.com

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

6 months

@ElliotLip And satterthwaite and Kalai.

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

10 months

Censorship resistance in block chains doesn't just mean that valid transactions in a blockchain get in *eventually*. For blockchains to be useful for e.g. finance they have to get in *fast*. This has been understood for a while:

The Problem of Censorship | Ethereum Foundation Blog

blog.ethereum.org

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

2 years

@instrumenthull @wwwojtekk sure, but at some point then is self-made just tautologically vacuous? like you went to a good uni--- oh you have a uni degree, not self-made. your parents have enough money to invest in your startup? not self-made.

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 years

Great advice. I'd add: if you have slides for your papers, post those too: people much more likely to glance at your slides.

Susanna Berkouwer

@BerkouwerS

3 years

3rd+ year PhD students: have a website! Formatting doesn't matter. Google sites or your dept website is fine; github if you're showing off. - Include your CV + email - List your fields/interests + any ongoing projects - Post PDFs of recent publications + good working papers

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 years

Power back (for now). After 36 hours. Let's see how long this lasts.

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

2 years

Tymofiy is a friend and former colleague who's been doing incredible work as the president of the KSE in Ukraine to establish the kind of democracy and durable institutions we take for granted here.

Tymofiy Mylovanov

@Mylovanov

2 years

You have been asking how you can act. Here it is. "Kyiv School of Economics" (501.3(с) nonprofit registered in Washington DC) is collecting funds for humanitarian aid to Ukraine! (USD) Euro is also accepted, please follow the QR code.

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

2 years

@Andrew___Baker @wwwojtekk They're capturing back cities faster than i can learn how to pronounce them.

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 months

One of the amazing things about this space for mechanism designers is that ideas get taken to fruition and you can see them actually get to practice (not to say we're the only people who came up with MCBP, but I'd like to believe we had a part). It's super satisfying…

barnabe.eth

@barnabemonnot

3 months

@_danielmarzec @MaxResnick1 Was planning to release this ROP next week but we'd be interested to think more about it! h/t to @0xQuintus for sharing your note too, great stuff to get started

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 months

If you're working on research projects without a not even stuck phase you're either a genius or not aiming high enough probably.

Roger Grosse

@RogerGrosse

3 months

There's a phase of research I call Not Even Stuck (by analogy with physicists' Not Even Wrong), where things don't work but you don't understand the problem well enough to know what the blockers are. If you can get from there to Stuck, you've made a lot of progress.

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

2 years

@robseamans @KhoaVuUmn If there's a sociologist in the room, "this is the first study to *rigourously* examine..." just to keep the feud running.

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

2 years

This was fun! Some folks we know ( @skominers , @Tim_Roughgarden ) many I didn't. Very accessibly scratched the surface of some fascinating questions...

cdixon.eth

@cdixon

2 years

Join me in my Space! a16z crypto research chat

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

1 year

A lovely (and super elegant) paper! Congratulations @toomash 🎉🎉

TheoreticalEconomics

@EconTheory

1 year

In contests like rent-seeking or R&D, should the efforts of earlier movers be disclosed? The paper shows that such transparency enhances total effort, maximizing it with full transparency and minimizing it with none.

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 years

@ben_golub @AlexKontorovich Unrelated: his advisor Jacob Laurie had the best sentence in his talk at icm 2012... Something to the effect of "you might think this is theory for it's own sake... it's not... it's theory for the sake of other theory". I've always wanted to use that in a talk

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 years

Just retweeting so this reaches @ben_golub

Demetri

@PhDemetri

3 years

I believe eigen fly I believe eigen touch the sky

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

2 years

Really excited for the 4th FIE4Ukr seminar: starring the amazing @S_Stantcheva !! Wednesday 9 Pacific/ 11 central/ Noon eastern US time.

Frontiers in Economics 4 Ukraine Seminars

@kse_in

2 years

Please join for Frontiers in Economics 4 Ukraine seminar Wednesday at 5pm BST (6pm CET) @S_Stantcheva @HarvardEcon on wealth & property taxation Chaired by George Zodrow (Rice) Register here: #FIE4Ukr @KyivSchool @kse_in

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

8 months

it's actually a bit worse than that--- even if you *can* move, in most cases actually moving requires changing cities/ uprooting family/ partner's career ... in industry, you probably find another job in the same area (silicon valley, nyc etc)

Gautam Kamath

@thegautamkamath

8 months

This is the real blackpill of academia: lack of mobility. This is especially true *after* tenure, when the bar to get hired becomes much higher. Certain celebrities can easily jump from top school to top school, but most mere mortals are locked in early. Better like where you are

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

8 months

One of those occasions where you don't want deep liquidity...

Max Resnick

@MaxResnick1

8 months

Things got ugly at the flashbots bbq last night. @0x94305 had a few too many to drink, stumbled and fell in the pool. Call that loss versus rebalancing.

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

8 months

Wait so there are people who think Tarun's OH is stuff he actually overhears rather than giving him plausible deniability? "Asking for a friend"...

danning.eth⚡️🤖

@sui414

8 months

BONUS: there will be an additional jiujitsu match between @socrates1024 and @tarunchitra tonight at the comedy, opening with a TEE debate ✌️🥵🍿

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 years

@ShengwuLi I have to disagree (if only because, e.g. you and your advisors etc give amazing talks and are presumably great teachers). My suspicion--- giving good talks and/or teaching well, just like research, requires effort. Too many folks substitute away...

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

6 months

see full list below! hired most likely by some combo of stan reiter, mort kamien and nancy schwartz. (cc: @CaltechEconThry )

Elliot Lipnowski

@ElliotLip

6 months

Myerson, Holmstrom, and Milgrom all being juniors at MEDS at the same time

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

2 years

@M_ttM_ @IvanWerning Cass rules I think are fairly optimal (i'd argue max 10 mins of intro prob less, max 3 refs if they're very relevant)

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 years

(HT: @YingHuaHe but since he's never going to tweet this observation) An alternate title: "The advisor as a plumber" (with apologies to Al Roth and Esther Duflo)

Khoa Vu

@KhoaVuUmn

3 years

Real footage of an adviser fixing the first draft of his PhD student

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

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Front run= steal and be first to banger tweets. Back run= Know others' tweets in advance to be first reply guy. Liquidation= be first to cancel someone for making dumb comment.

Quintus

@0xQuintus

3 months

Someone needs to ask it: What does Farcaster MEV look like?

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

2 years

A general econ-twitter request: i teach a topics elective to undergrads, and decided to change it up this year. My new goal, feasibility permitting is to try and use a crypto (and associated DeFi stuff) as a running theme/ example to illustrate micro-theory ideas...

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 years

@ben_golub wait im still very confused. how can a straw have two holes? does this community think a donut has two holes?

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 years

The Monty hall problem was a fixture on the basic Kellogg prob & stat core class when I was a grader... Many got it wrong, none showed this quality of out of the box thinking...

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

6 months

Congratulations @Aaroth 🎉🎉🎉 so richly deserved!!

Universität Bern

@unibern

6 months

His research aims to incorporate social norms into #algorithms and to better protect privacy: The most highly endowed #prize of the #unibern , the Hans Sigrist Prize, will go to the US computer scientist @Aaroth : . @Penn @CIS_Penn @Wharton

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 years

@Aaroth @geomblog @KLdivergence @Aaron_Horowitz This is the tight confidence interval. Outliers in both directions. Eg

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

8 months

@florianederer @Undercoverhist my understanding--- for the longest time ecta had the option to submit in english or french. while noone took up the latter option it was repealed only recently. for instance here's @DrewFudenberg manual for ecta in 1997:

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

2 years

This should be a great way to spend an ~hour a week for the next 2-3 months (more if you go to the course page and also try the problem sets)... strongly recommended! (maybe i'm asking for too much but are those lecture notes coming soon @algo_class ?)

Tim Roughgarden

@Tim_Roughgarden

2 years

Lecture 1 of my Foundations of Blockchains lecture series is now available: (Will try to post one new lecture a week for the next 2-3 months.) tl;dr thread below: 1/12

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

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analogy to the spam problem right now: spam: don't know what transaction will get through so send many hoping 1 of them does. Academic papers: don't know which parts your referees will actually read so write main points in multiple places hoping they'll read one of them.

Dan Robinson

@danrobinson

23 days

Love to have a paper with Abstract, Intro, Background sections so I can say the same thing three times in a row

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 years

Going around today. Reminds me of the time @msiniscalchi judged me for pineapple on my pizza :)

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

1 year

And we're super excited to have you here!!

Shihan Shen

@SShenEcon

1 year

I am thrilled to announce that I will be joining @RiceEcon as an assistant professor of economics starting the 23-24 academic year! Words cannot express how grateful I am to my advisors, family and friends for their immense support.

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

6 months

@alisoncook err what if you told us which italian restaurant while you were at it 🤤

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 years

@NikhilBasavappa

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

2 years

Here's a fun day on (one sliver of) recent CS and Econ work on (Algorithmic) Fairness... It's a star studded cast folks: @JubaZiani , @aislinnbohren , Cynthia Dwork, @m_sendhil , Annie Liang, @ArielProcaccia , @asheshrambachan and @HodaHeidari !!

Aaron Roth

@Aaroth

2 years

Mark your calendars (February 23) for the SIGEcom winter meeting: a free virtual day of tutorials, talks, and conversations on the intersection of algorithmic fairness and game theory/economics. We've put together a stellar lineup. I personally can't wait!

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

2 years

@finance_prof_ @KhoaVuUmn We'll leave checking second order conditions to those pesky theorists. The FOCs work all the time anyway.

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 years

@ShengwuLi Also true of authors of foundational papers. After my undergrad I was pretty sure there was a very prolific economist named Gul Pesendorfer.

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

10 months

🚨🚨Reminder: ACM EC'23 starts in a little over a week! The program looks awesome and we're hoping you're planning to attend. For folks not planning to make the trip to London: we have a virtual option which will be hosted on the @TheVirtualChair

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

2 years

While you should tweet about stuff you are truly interested in, Make sure at least x of your tweets are top general interest tweets.

Arpit Gupta

@arpitrage

2 years

Treat every tweet as a job tweet

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

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@danielluo_pi bulow-klemperer teaches you to just make more friends instead of setting the optimal reserve.

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

2 years

@FlorianOswald @akbarpour_ @ShengwuLi @ben_golub At the risk of talking my own book, there's a fun set of replication exercises around competing firms using ML for pricing. e.g. @EmilioC_ et al (), my paper () and others...

Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Pricing, and Collusion

(October 2020) - Increasingly, algorithms are supplanting human decision-makers in pricing goods and services. To analyze the possible consequences, we study experimentally the behavior of algorithms...

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

8 months

As we continue to understand the MEV supply chain and understand the advantages that integrated searcher-builders have, here's a new angle (or, as I argue below, a very old angle revisited):

SMG

@specialmech

8 months

Footprints in the Dark Forest SMG researchers mapped the hidden relationships between builders, searchers, and on-chain orderflow by analyzing top-of-block winners and the block builders who got them there. We learned a few things (hi beelder.eth 👋) Check it out 👇

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

3 years

@OxfordFrom There are whole departments that didn't match this...

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

1 year

@ben_golub Err but you could spin a contagion story (some large sellers think the tweet is real, then they worry that some kind of price war is breaking out in the industry to eg curry favor with Dems)...

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Mallesh Pai

@malleshpai

5 months

This seems like a cool idea as a PoC. The hard part to getting this to work IRL imo is tying the financial incentives (which are settled on-chain) with IRL verification. For instance, the broker could create a separate address for each ticket they buy and just sell you the…

Pantera Capital

@PanteraCapital

5 months

And so we’re releasing the concept of SUIFT, the Simple Unified Inception For Ticketing auction. SUIFT provides a fairer auction that ensures resellers cannot easily resell tickets:

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