After wrapping up our course today, Abdullah Almaatouq and I took a well-deserved break in the evening. And while waiting for the World Cup to start I listened to some talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!
First was a great session on establishing fair standards for AI-driven recruitment with Frida Englund Sandvik, Eduard Fosch Villaronga, Rania Wazir, Adam Leon Smith, and Irene Kamara at Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfjuSpkbPpU
Next was an excellent panel on copyright law and generative AI with Fernanda Galera Soler, Juliano Souza de Albuquerque Maranhão, Mariana Valente, and Saskia Ostendorff at CPDP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3ktLc3BIZc
Last was a slate of talks at the CEPR Tilburg Macroeconomics conference:
Ralph De Haas - Technoparks and Firm Upgrading
Yanran Guo - Informality and Entrepreneurship in Brazil
Thuy Lan Nguyen - The Macroeconomic Effects of Cash Transfers in Brazil
Marcos Sorá - Bank Branches and the Allocation of Capital across Cities
Samuel Marshall - Minimum Wages and the Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity
Georgios Angelis - The Matching Function: A Unified Look into the Black Box
Gustavo Moreira de Souza - A.I. In the Office and the Factory: Evidence from Administrative Software Registry Data
