James Nesbit

Economist
F3 Distribution Optimization and Grocery Innovation
Amazon

[email protected]
Curriculum Vitae

My name is James Nesbit. I have a Ph.D. in Economics from NYU. My research interests are econometrics and machine learning. As of March 2021, I am working as an economist at Amazon.

Working Papers

Text as Instruments
March 2021
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A Robust Machine Learning Algorithm for Text Analysis
(with Shikun Ke and José Luis Montiel Olea)
Revise and resubmit, Quantitative Economics
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Published Papers and Forthcoming

(Machine) Learning Parameter Regions
(with José Luis Montiel Olea)
Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 222(1), 2021, 716-744
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Short-Term Fluctuations in Incidental Happiness and Economic Decision-Making: Experimental Evidence from a Sports Bar
(with Judd Kessler, Andrew McClellan, and Andrew Schotter)
Experimental Economics, April 2021
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