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My new paper with @hafrouzi , Andres Blanco and Erik Hurst develops and estimates a model of why workers should hate inflation. We show the current inflation period reduced worker welfare by about 1 month of consumption (about $5000 for the median household). 1/N

Submit a paper to RMET and join us in Banff, Canada, May 23-25. Submissions due January 17,2025. Emily Blanchard will give a keynote talk. Eugene Beaulieu freit.org/RMET/2025/

Six years in the making... Mussa is the mother of all exchange rate puzzles, as it requires explaining empirical co-movements across exchange rate regimes, not just under floats, presenting the real challenge for any theory of exchange rates

🚨 I'm on the market! Time for a JMP🧵for #Econtwitter! Recent years have seen a rise in economic policies with geopolitical aims. Pipeline partnerships, reshoring / friend-shoring, CHIPS Act, AI embargoes... When are such policies warranted? How should they be designed? 🤔 [1/N]

Two postdoc opportunities on industrial policy Columbia University: 1. Center for Political Economy's Firms & Industrial Policy Idea Lab: cwp.submittable.com/submit/303472/… Deadine: Dec 2. 2. Columbia's Initiative for Policy Dialogue: aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph… Official deadline today (11/25)! Please spread word.

✨CALL FOR PAPERS✨ Please send your work by January 7th! Very excited to host it in our new DC building 😀

Very glad that our paper got into the workshop with other great papers!

Announcing the third Summer School in International Economics. Hosted by CESifo on July 16-18, 2025. Lectures by Treb Allen, Luigi Bocola, Alessandro Dovis, ISABELLE MEJEAN, Liliana Varela and Daniel Yi Xu. PhD students, apply by January 21: cesifo.org/en/event/2025-…

Congratulations to Andrei Levchenko for being appointed as AER coeditor, handling papers in international economics and starting on February 1. I’m delighted to have him on our team. AEA Journals

Congratulations to Chris Boehm and our former UT Austin graduate Niklas Kroner on getting their paper "The US, Economic News, and the Global Financial Cycle" accepted at Review of Economic Studies The Review of Economic Studies! 🥳 UT-Austin Economics Link to working paper: dropbox.com/scl/fi/wak4l8w…

Really excited about this new working paper! A few years now working on this project. If you are interested in agriculture, weather shocks and aggregate economic implications, check this thread by Nicolás de Roux

It’s out! Great presentation earlier by Stefania Garetto Nina Pavčnik and Natalia Ramondo. I hope it is useful for policy makers and PhD students considering the field. An overall message is that I think there still a lot to be done here!

Great program!!

1/ Excited to share our new working paper: "Diet, Economic Development, and Climate Change"—joint with Lucas C. Corrêa Dias & Jordan J Norris . (tinyurl.com/3ayuv4y9) A short thread 🧵:

Non-technical write-up of my work with Pontus Rendahl on the impact of market power on economic growth and wealth inequality.

For PhD students and scholars interested in joining: I will take part in teaching International Trade and the Environment at #PSESummerSchool (June 9-12). parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/summer-scho… Below is a description (1/7)

🚨Workshop Alert🚨 Disaggregating National Accounts (DNA): From Macro to Micro The workshop will convene academics and practitioners using microdata across the globe to discuss the frontier of disaggregating national accounts Let us know if you would like to join us Duke Economics

Excited to see this paper finally out! It began as my second-year PhD trade class term paper and took 9 years to finish!

Press release of the updated draft of my JMP👇 I show that eradicating malaria can boost per-capita GDP in sub-Saharan Africa by ~7%, driven by improved education outcomes and fertility responses. Malaria vaccination is highly cost-effective! Full paper: crctr224.de/research/discu…

Join us on July 30, 11 am ET, for the next Vietnam online seminar. Nghiem Q. Huynh (Nghiem Huynh) will present “Place-based Policy, Migration Barriers, and Spatial Inequality.” Register here: eventbrite.ca/e/vietnam-firm…