public sector universities really killing it out there

The CfP for the European Commission's 2024 conference is up. The theme is 'Europe in a changing world'. Industrial policy and geoeconomics are front of mind. The submission deadline is May 15. Apply and share widely! joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/events/annual-…

Are you a PhD student working on international economics (broadly construed)? Come visit us Dartmouth 🌲 next year for a term! We'll pay you =). Applications due April 15: econjobmarket.org/positions/10543 More details: globalization.dartmouth.edu/programs/globa…

Recently published in REStud, ``International Comovement in the Global Production Network'', from Huo, Levchenko and Nitya Pandalai-Nayar:

restud.com/international-…

A short thread on this interesting new paper in JoE on testing the appropriate level of clustering.

TL;DR I do not think this is really a test of the *appropriate* level of clustering. Nor do I think such a test exists.

But I do think it may spur an interesting discussion 1/N

Machine learning for Quantitative Macro

sites.google.com/site/zfeng202/…

📢 Exciting news! 🌍 Join us for the 1st Naples Trade and Development Workshop on Nov 18-19, 2024, at Università degli Studi di Napoli "Parthenope". Do not miss Dave Donaldson, Amit Khandelwal, Alejandro Graziano, Julia Cajal Grossi, Rocco Macchiavello, and Beata Javorcik. #econtwitter #trade #development

Excited to see this paper published “When Tariffs Disrupt Global Supply Chains”: princeton.edu/~reddings/pubp…. With Gene Grossman Elhanan Helpman International Economics Section

About that debate on assumptions in economic theory:

STEG invites applications for proposals for PhD Research Grants of up to £15,000 (to fund research assistance, data collection/purchase, stipends). Research to focus on broad systemic patterns and processes of structural transformation and growth for LICs!
steg.cepr.org/call-for-propo…

📣 NEW Discussion Paper 📣

Jonathan Eaton & Samuel Kortum explore how to incorporate rich individual-level data into frameworks that have something to say about aggregates: cowles.yale.edu/research/cfdp-…

I was so lucky to be able to have Danny Kahneman as a best friend and collaborator for decades. He usually ended our conversations with 'to be continued...' but I now have to simulate his part which is impossible. My favorite image of us 'working'.

With Vanessa Alviarez, Michele Fioretti, and Ken Kikkawa, we developed a pricing theory for GVCs. Our research suggests economists could've partly predicted high pass-through rates of Trump tariffs, had they factored in the US importers' bargaining power: faculti.net/two-sided-mark…

Recently accepted in #JEEM :

'The economics of carbon leakage mitigation policies,' by Stefan Ambec, Federico Esposito, & Antonia Pacelli.

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Professor on their website vs. when you meet them:

Call for papers out for Spring Midwest Economic Theory & International Trade conference. IUPUI will host in Indianapolis May 17-19! Raymond Riezman Yoto V. Yotov IUPUI
sites.google.com/view/midwest-i…

The IEA is pleased to announce its new initiative: IEA Lecture Series in Economics.
The first series of lectures will be on Environmental Economics.

Registration link: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Alejandro Cuñat, Kalina Manova and I are co-organizing the 7th Workshop on International Econmomic Networks (WIEN) to take place in beautiful Vienna on July 5-6, 2024. Send us a paper for consideration! We're particularly keen on receiving submissions from young scholars.

What's the best development economics paper written in the past ~5 years?

(Was just having this conversation with someone, and am now curious to hear other views)

New book out edited by Maury Obstfeld and me, with thanks to Adam Posen

Floating Exchange Rates at Fifty piie.com/bookstore/2024… via Peterson Institute