We had another fabulous #TradeDay at BU! Great presentations by Matilde Bombardini David Hémous Fernando Parto and Lin Tian

Improved transportation networks can enable export expansion by promoting interaction between exporting firms, facilitating knowledge spillovers. Today on VoxDev, Lin Tian INSEAD & Yue Yu University of Toronto outline their research on high-speed rail in China: voxdev.org/topic/infrastr…

Improved transportation networks can enable export expansion by promoting interaction between exporting firms, facilitating knowledge spillovers. Last week on VoxDev, Lin Tian INSEAD & Yue Yu University of Toronto outlined their research on high-speed rail in China: voxdev.org/topic/infrastr…

Congratulations to Milan Quentel. "Gone with the Wind: Renewable Energy Infrastructure, Welfare, and Redistribution" won the UEA Prize for Best Student Paper at our #EMUEA2024 European meeting. Congrats to honorable mentions Jade Ponsard and Anaïs Fabre on their papers...

Wrapped up the third edition of INSEAD-SMU International Economics Workshop last week!🍾Huge thanks to our keynotes Pol Antras & Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, presenters, and participants for their valuable insights and contributions. Here’s to more collaboration and discovery! #inseadSMU2024

A new India-China fact (to me): The Chinese state prioritized primary education over secondary/tertiary, while the Indian state did the opposite. Chinese primary enrollment rate passed India in 1950, secondary 1975, and tertiary only in 2000!

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP19661 Geographic #Fragmentation in a Knowledge Economy: Theory and Evidence from the United States Yang Jiao Singapore Management University, Lin Tian Lin Tian INSEAD ow.ly/1jfc50U5lz3 #CEPR_ITRE #US #economics

🆕 How does internet connectivity impact developing economies? 🔊 Today on #VoxDevTalks, Lin Tian (INSEAD) tells Tim Phillips Talk Normal about the profound but uneven impact of the internet on developing countries: voxdev.org/topic/macroeco…

Interesting to see some basic demand theory applied to tariff choices. So… What’s wrong with it? Used in isolation on a single small trading partner the formula makes some sense. But if applied widely to many non trivial ones it does not. 1/2

88% of the variance in bilateral balances can be explained without making any reference to asymmetries in bilateral trade costs. See my EER-paper with Yoto V. Yotov "A solution to the mystery of excess trade balances" cepr.org/voxeu/columns/… via CEPR WIFO

I do not think that the government's formula is an appropriate way to think about reciprocal tariffs. And it is unclear what the note references or doesn’t from my research with Cavallo et al. But I believe our work suggests the value for the “elasticity of import prices to

Universities should make clear that their formidable financial endowments are not there to simply be envied or admired. Part of their function is to be drawn down in the face of emergencies, and covering federal funding lapses surely counts as one. My column today in New York Times Opinion.

Trade flows are measured with error: theguardian.com/australia-news… The Guardian found the errant bills of lading that explain US import tariffs "imposed on tiny Australian territories that are either uninhabited or claim to have no trading relationship with the US".

*Trade war: my theory of the case* 1. What is the goal/ideal outcome/trump admin hopes: 10% tariff across the board with no retaliation + direct non-tariff favors from other countries to settle this at 10% + a possible full-scale bilateral trade war with China. (1/n)

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20155 Field Choice, Skill Specificity, and Labor Market Disruptions Valerie Smeets Aarhus Universitet, Lin Tian INSEAD, Sharon Traiberman New York University ow.ly/WUlP50VGa1n #CEPR_ITRE #CEPR_LE #EconTwitter