#AcademicRunPlaylist - 5/3/24

It warmed up considerably in the afternoon here in Boston, which made for a pleasant walk while listening to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was an interesting talk by Petra Mahy on formal and informal regulation of restaurant work in Indonesia and Australia at the Crawford School of Public Policy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIPK-aANBpo

Next was an excellent talk by Sihao Chen on merging the strengths of LLM and information retrieval techniques at the Allen Institute for AI. While this work by no means solves some of the fundamental issues with using LLMs for search/summary (don't), it does point towards leveraging LLM's parsing strengths towards improving more reliable methods https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg_9zZuE9fA

Next was an intriguing talk by James Wilson on community detection in multilayer networks at the Network Science Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBtFvGslDzY

Next was an engaging talk by Joseph Stiglitz on capitalism, neoliberalism, and freedom at the LSE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVhGkgb1dwc

Next was an informative with Camelia Kuhnen on the latest BLS jobs report at the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncev2ot1Kok

Next was a great slate of talks at the New York University School of Law by Sam Weinstein (financial regulation in an era of declining antitrust enforcement), Ramsi Woodcock (antitrust as corporate governance), and Ittai Paldor (potential concerns of cross-holding by institutional investors) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPRPjWOBV7g

Last was a thought-provoking talk by David Volant on the effects of common investor relations representation at the Journal of Accounting Research's 2024 conference https://www.youtube.com/live/_-gQ-obo4mc?si=ZMU9dX0RwxCBLMRi&t=8688