Avner Kreps

@avner_ak

PhD student @NUEconomics studying industrial organization, firm behavior, competition, and information. On the '26-'27 job market.

Chicago, IL avnerakreps.com Joined August 2016

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Avner Kreps @avner_ak 2d

Competing turkey processors shared detailed price, quantity, and cost data with each other through a common data provider. When the provider left the market, the relative prices of participants fell by 5% in the following year. Were they colluding?

A 🧵 about my JMP: 1/

Avner Kreps @avner_ak Nov 4

I'm on the econ job market! I'll write a thread on what I'm up to in my own words soon enough, but here's a perceptive thread on my JMP from @captgouda24 who reads more econ papers than anyone I know of.

Nicholas Decker Verified account @captgouda24 Nov 4

Firms learning information about the world, as they will do more with the aid of AI, has both good and bad components. Accurately forecasting demand reduces waste, but also enables collusion. This paper, an astonishing work, quantifies both. 1/

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Avner Kreps @avner_ak Jul 21

Very excited to share this paper (in the works for more than 4 years!) that evaluates a core piece of the IO/antitrust toolkit.

To paraphrase Churchill, we find that merger simulation is the worst form of merger screening except for all the other forms that have been tried. 1/

NBER Verified account @nberpubs Jul 21

Comparing predictions from merger simulations to realized prices for 101 mergers. Simulations without cost synergies overpredict price increases but screen harmful mergers well, from @bhattacv, @IllanesGaston, @avner_ak, José D. Salas, and David Stillerman nber.org/papers/w35473

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Avner Kreps @avner_ak Sep 17, 2024

New working paper! We study firm productivity and learning-by-doing in cloud computing, one of the most rapidly adopted new technologies in recent years, using a very large and diverse sample of firms across industries and regions. Check it out and let me know what you think!

NBER Verified account @nberpubs Sep 17, 2024

Analyzing productivity dispersion and learning in cloud computing and the mechanisms through which firms become more efficient over time, from @jamesbrandecon, Mert Demirer, Connor Finucane, and @avner_ak nber.org/papers/w32938

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