1/19: Excited to share a paper on how people perceive & understand trade and trade policies! Which factors shape the support for different trade policies? Thread below with the key takeaways #EconTwitter 🧵, and full paper here: scholar.harvard.edu/stantcheva/fil…

RIP Jonathan Eaton. He leaves behind an impressive legacy that transcends beyond the trade literature. A thread to honor his immense contributions: 🧵

New: "A theory of economic sanctions as terms-of-trade manipulation" by John Sturm Beck (John Sturm Becko). How can a country design cost-effective trade sanctions? doi.org/10.1016/j.jint… 1/2

In a network formation model, supply chain uncertainty pushes firms to choose safer but less productive suppliers. This lowers the volatility of GDP but also its expected value. Uncertainty also increases the importance of stable firms in the network econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

Sabotaging foreign productivity can raise domestic real income, but the destruction of foreign productivity needs to be comprehensive, otherwise everyone loses, from @JinLiu79496180, Martin Rotemberg, and Sharon Traiberman nber.org/papers/w32798

Railroad network expansion in Germany (1835-1914) increased creation of new ideas and formed specialized knowledge clusters. New ideas were formed by combining ideas coming from cities connected by the railroad. But denser network meant that new ideas diffused less on average.

youtu.be/0uzc-5BQKz4?si… here is the condensed version of Max's JMP

Learning from Leonardo (Leonardo D'Amico) has been one of the greatest privileges of my PhD. This has been an incredible project to be part of.

New working paper on solving and estimating models of combinatorial choice! adrkul.github.io/pdf/spatial_po…

It’s already a world war.

Happy to announce that the market has cleared for me: this summer I’ll be joining HKUST (@HKUST), where I will continue to work on topics related to geoeconomics, trade, and finance. Very excited about this new chapter and thankful to everyone who made it possible!

Two interesting papers and two great discussions expected this Wed at ACFOW, a venue for Asia-Pacific corporate finance researchers: sites.google.com/view/acfow! Join if times suit you! Qifei Zhu Maxim Alekseev

New paper on recent US tariffs with Matt Rognlie and Adrien Auclert Our focus: effects of temporary increases in tariffs (“tariff shocks") Three Qs: 1 Will tariffs lead to a recession? 2 Will they reduce the trade deficit? 3 Why are they not appreciating USD? (as in std theory) 🧵

A conference on international finance in Hong Kong from June 2-4. A very high-quality program. Many IF scholars will get together and discuss research. You are very welcome to register! Conference program here. internationalfinancesociety.com

[ HKUST Opens Doors to Harvard Students Amid Global Academic Shifts ] In light of global academic shifts, HKUST is extending an open invitation to international students currently enrolled at, or holding confirmed offers from, Harvard University to continue their academic