How easy is it to get feedback? How quickly do you see results?
Being in industry with a large firm, feedback is very simple to get, I just go give a talk at an internal seminar.
Results of a model or an implementation? Repeated observations/out of sample analysis often help with validating models. Implementation depends on the project.
Do you see the way economic models are built and tested improving or happening faster? Or is the main barrier not lack of diverse data points, but needing enough time to pass to stress the model.