We propose methods to (i) identify the full effects of country-specific policies in the gravity model and (ii) estimate trade elasticities without tariff or price data. A true pleasure to work with Mario and the young talents Angelos Theodorakopoulos and Rebecca Freeman. Thanks! Gravity rules💪

Thanks to WIFO, Gabriel Felbermayr, and Heider Kariem for the collaboration in organizing and hosting the second annual workshop on sanctions. A wonderful interdisciplinary and intergenerational event with quality presentations and great participants from around the globe.

What a great collaboration between fellows in our Center Drexel LeBow and economists at wiiw and Universität Bayreuth to create such a useful public good.

It was a true pleasure and a privilege to deliver a keynote on “#Sanctions with Gravitas” at the XXVII Applied Economics Meeting. Great to see old friends and many smart and ambitious young researchers. Thanks, ALDE, Facultad de Economía y Empresa UMU & Universidad Murcia for having me! Gravity rules 💪

📢NEW DATA! Happy to share the new release of the International Trade and Production Database for Estimation - ITPD-E-R03. Thanks to my co-authors Mario Larch & Serge Shikher and to the USITC! For details: ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper/2… Enjoy the data and have a great summer!

🚨🚨In a new working paper, Federico Carril, Jordi Paniagua, and Marta Suarez-Varela construct a dataset on food crises' severity, intensity, and causes. Then they use the data to demonstrate that food crises increase forced international migration. ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper/2…

Good news on trade. Arne, Mario, Philipp and I construct a dataset on ‘trade specialists’. We find that the trade costs for the specialists are four times lower than for non-specialists. The corresponding welfare gain from globally efficient trade is 80%! ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper/2…

Happy to see our survey on #sanctions with Gabriel Felbermayr, Cliff Morgan, and Costas Syropoulos published at the Annual Review of Economics. go.shr.lc/3Rtj9dP

Arne, Fernando (Fernando Rios-Avila (~ ‾⌣‾)~), and I are happy to share the updated version of the “jwdid” command for heterogeneity-robust estimations with non-linear outcomes and high-dimensional fixed effects, along with the corresponding paper. We hope it is useful. ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper/2…

Submission deadline for this PEDL young scholars workshop (to take place the day before the Oct 24-25 International Growth Centre/Yale Economic Growth Center Firms/Trade/Development conference) is Sept 7 (soon!). For researchers post-PhD but untenured (or <=8 years out). Hope to see many of you there.

🇪🇸🇪🇸Muy contento de compartir el capítulo "Gravity for Undergrads" en español. Muchas gracias a los profesores Federico Carril-Caccia y Jordi Paniagua, que se ofrecieron voluntariamente a aportar este bien público al alumnado hispanohablante. 🙏💪 🇪🇸 ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper/2…

If you teach an undergrad international trade course and want some hands-on experience with real data & Stata or R, consider my “Gravity for Undergrads” Chapter. It may be useful in econometrics, undergrad seminars, and undergrad theses. Gravity Rules 💪 yotoyotov.com/Gravity_Underg…

A series of great workshops indeed! We will soon announce the amazing lineup that we have for the Fall term and you are welcome to attend. Thanks Ohyun (Ohyun Kwon (權五顯)) for the hard work on this!

The CGPA is very excited to continue to support the Philly Trade Group workshops. The fall term includes a great lineup of presenters including keynotes by Sam Kortum (Sept. 26th), Arnaud Costinot (Oct. 24), and Treb Allen (Nov. 21). For more details see: sites.google.com/site/ekwonomis…

很高兴和大家分享中文版的《写给大学生的贸易引力模型》！非常感谢權五顯Ohyun Kwon (權五顯) 和余淼杰教授的翻译工作，让更多中国学生受益。希望对大家有所帮助。引力万岁！💪 ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper/2…

Friday’s PTG workshop was a great success! 🎉 An great keynote by Samuel Kortum (Yale), excellent presentations by Manho Kang (Georgia Tech) & Nicolas Wesseler (UBC), and nice interactions with the many visitors. More 👉 ekwonomist.com/ptg Hosted by Drexel Econ & CGPA. 🌍📊

Happy to see our work on estimating the impact of country-specific characteristics on trade published at the Journal of Applied Econometrics (open access!) Grateful to my amazing co-authors, the editor, the referees, & many colleagues. Gravity rules 💪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ja…

「学部生のための重力モデル」を日本語で共有できてとても嬉しく思います！こ の公共財を日本の学生のために提供してくれた板倉教授、木股君、内田教授に心 より感謝します。みなさんのお役に立てれば幸いです。重力モデル最高！💪 ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper/2…

We are continuing the international trade workshops of the Philly Trade Group tomorrow with presentations by Jack Liang (Temple) and Sarah Webb (Maryland), and a timely keynote on “A World Trading System For Whom? Evidence from Global Tariffs” by Arnaud Costinot (MIT).

I am surprised by the large fraction of policy reports and academic papers, even in top journals, that do not follow (or even acknowledge!) some of the most widely accepted practices for estimating gravity. The following recommendations may be helpful. ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper/2…