Enterprise value, economic and policy uncertainties: the case of US air carriers
Bahram Adrangi, Arjun Chatrath, Madhuparna Kolay, Kambiz Raffiee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07766 …
Treefera, which uses satellite imagery, drone imagery, and AI to provide real-time insights into supply chains, raised a $30M Series B led by Notion Capital (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/03/treefera-secure…
Do conditional cash transfers in childhood increase economic resilience in adulthood? Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic shock in Ecuador
Jos\'e-Ignacio Ant\'on, Ruthy Intriago, Juan Ponce
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06903
OatFi, whose APIs handle underwriting, origination, and capital deployment for B2B payment providers, raised a $24M Series A led by White Star Capital (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/06/03/oatfi-24-milliom-b2b-credit
Elasticity of substitution and general model of economic growth
Constantin Chilarescu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02936 https://arxiv.…
A mean field game model with non-local spatial interactions and resources accumulation
Daria Ghilli, Fausto Gozzi, Cristiano Ricci, Giovanni Zanco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01200
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.00263 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qfi…
techno-political rant
Say what you want about using the right tool for each problem, but there are tools that suck no matter what.
I'm tired of people portraying legit technical criticism as "biased" and "religious", while at the same time they present themselves as tolerant and open-minded (spoiler: for the most part, they aren't).
Almost every day of my life I have to deal with the nasty consequences of ultra-dumb decisions made by the very same people who are obsessed with productivity and criticise all day long whoever pushes for any design that shows any minim amount of care and/or deep thought (mostly via strawmen arguments).
And, of course, unironically: this has a lot to do with capitalism, as many of our other social and economic problems.
They arrive, have a strike of super-productivity for a few weeks/months and then use that as a trampoline to raise through the ranks or abandon ship before having to face the consequences of their technical crimes.
Then others arrive and are obviously slower at that same job... so the uneducated observers start believing that these newcomers aren't as good as the class traitors who wrote the initial nasty code.
To make things worse, if any of these newcomers dare to speak openly about introducing good practices... this ends up creating a new mental association (in the minds of uneducated observers) between "good engineering" and "lack of productivity".
The ones trying to fix the mess are indeed slower, not because they try to do things the right way though, but because they have to waste vasts amounts of time fixing what is objectively broken besides doing the "visible" work.
Most of today's established "super-productive" ones, if they were starting today, would be probably "vibe coders", certainly not what we commonly understand as a programmer. Not because AI-coding is the future, but because they never cared about the trade at all. They were here only for the grift.
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.16643 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eco…
Hybrid Monetary Ecosystems: Integrating Stablecoins and Fiat in the Future of Currency Systems
Hongzhe Wen, Songbai Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10997 htt…