These are 10 of my favourite #UrbanEconomics articles published in academic journals in 2023, continuing with a tradition from the last few years (order is alphabetical by first author, no ranking implied):

b) Bacolod, Blum, Marcos A. Rangel & Strange, Regional Science and Urban Economics. With data on individuals practising cognitive skills on Lumosity, shows young people with greater problem-solving skills concentrate in big cities; those in big cities improve in cognitive tests faster doi.org/10.1016/j.regs…

🚨🚨 Conference alert: Call for Papers 🚨🚨 I'm so excited to co-organize the conference "The Workplace of the Future" in Tilburg on Sep 3 & 4, 2024. Keynote lectures by @orianabandiera and John A. List Submit now: david-schindler.de/CfP_Workplace.…

Hope to see you in Rotterdam end of June!!

Call for Papers is Open: The 47th Annual NBER Summer Institute will be held in Cambridge, MA from July 8 to July 26, 2024. Meetings will be held in person with a livestream available for most sessions on YouTube. Full information and submission link here nber.org/calls-papers-a…

If you need a model of strategic price-formation under incomplete information, the right tool for the job is auction theory. We develop a many-firm many-worker labor market model, building on Milgrom and Weber (1982).

NEW Discussion Paper: "Dynamic Price Competition with Capacity Constraints" By Jose Betancourt (YalePhysicsDept), Ali Hortaçsu (UChicago Economics), Aniko Öry (Tepper CMU), and @mrequalsmc (Yale School of Management): cowles.yale.edu/research/cfdp-…

Excited for this year’s Human Capital in Macroeconomics ⁦St. Louis Fed⁩ #EconTwitter

🚨 NEW: Leading the WSJ homepage this AM is an exclusive look at a new report from the team Economic Innovation Group on how American communities have become heavily reliant on income from government transfer programs. We call this “The Great Transfer-mation.” Let’s dig in.

'Macroeconomics Across Time and Space'. Great conference today at the Philadelphia FRB.

📣#RES2025 Annual Conference Call for Submissions opens today – those wishing to present at #conference can submit a paper or a poster for review. ⏰Deadline 13 January 2025 👉bit.ly/4hku5q7 #EconTwitter #EconEvents #RESEvents #RESConference

Wages are not very cyclical because reservation wages are based on previous wages. Just Accepted new paper by Felix Koenig (@feli_koenig), Alan Manning (alan manning), and Barbara Petrongolo zurl.co/WcXrQ

The Tariffs, and Tariffs alone, created this vast wealth for our Country. Then we switched over to Income Tax. We were never so wealthy as during this period. Tariffs will pay off our debt and, MAKE AMERICA WEALTHY AGAIN!

The next edition of the "Firms, Labor Markets, and Development" Workshop will be held in Bari, Italy, on 20-21 June. Keynote speaker: @mushfiq_econ Deadline to submit: Feb 28 We are happy to receive support from STEG: steg.cepr.org/events/firms-l…

🚨New data alert! A beta version of the Global Tariff Database is now available! 🔗feodorateti.github.io 🔎If you're looking for cross-country data on bilateral tariffs, this might help you.

Receiving an outside offer has little effect on renegotiation and a worker's wage with the current employer. Just Accepted new paper by Junjie Guo (Junjie) zurl.co/rGMmO

📢 Workshop on 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼 at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco 🌁 San Francisco, October 27, 2025 🚨 Keynote speaker: Yuriy Gorodnichenko 📆 Submission deadline: July 31, 2025 ➡️ Full CfP: treinelt.github.io/files/CfP_Expe… Yeji Sung Sanjay R Singh

I was chatting with a few people who plan on entering the PhD job market this coming Fall. Word on the street is that the academic job market could be difficult for job seekers. As I was chatting I started to outline a few tips for them. Those tips revolved around how they

Never seen this

Preparing a lecture on subjective expectations for the Econometric Society summer school in Dynamic Structural Econometrics, and I found a Wolpin paper from 1985 (!) on the use of expectation data to estimate choice models.