• Initial Conditions and the Big Push (Daniel Velasquez, CMC)

    Estella 1021 (Emmy Noether Room), Pomona College Claremont, CA, United States

    This paper examines how initial conditions shape the long-run impact of large temporary shocks on economic geography. Using WWII supply contracts in the United States, we show that temporary spending […]

  • In-Context Kernel Ridge Regression with Transformers (Mingsong Yan, UCSB)

    Estella 1021 (Emmy Noether Room), Pomona College Claremont, CA, United States

    Large language models (LLMs) can use examples provided in a prompt to make predictions for new queries without updating their parameters, a capability known as in-context learning. In this talk, […]