🚨 Deadline approaching! Just 2 weeks left to submit to 1st Aarhus Workshop on Labor Markets 📅 Oct 22–24 |📍Aarhus, Denmark 🗓️ Submission deadline: Aug 22 Keynotes: Meghir, Taber, Shimer Topics: Structural & reduced-form on labor markets Submit 👉 app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/78820/s…

"Studies of convergence in the 1990s found no tendency for poor countries to catch up with rich ones... we revisit these empirical exercises with 25 years of additional data...absolute convergence since 2000, precisely when empirical tests of convergence fell out of fashion"

Impressive hire by Hertie. So happy for them and for Mauro Gilli

If you haven't read "AI Agents for Economic Research" by Anton Korinek , you should drop everything and do it right now. Get up to date or get left behind. Link in the next post.

Exciting news: I’ve received an ERC Starting Grant to study state capacity through the lens of quantitative economic history! Projects will focus on political econ & econ history. I am looking for: 🔹 1 Postdoc 🔹 2 RAs (1 full-time, 1 part-time) Application links in the thread

Some professional news: I have joined the University of Montreal’s Economics Department. Excited about this new chapter - looking forward to be a part of this amazing city and its great econ community!

Leader of a g7 country posts about a scholarship for 15 (!) students. Fifteen. Nobody takes growth seriously.

“Masterpieces usually arise in a climate full of pulp and trash.” Dobry odcinek Marginal Revolution podcast tylercowen i Alex Tabarrok, wspominający mocne klasyczne pozycje z lat 1990-tych: mercatus.org/marginal-revol…

The Veneto Workers Histories (1975–2001) is probably the easiest-to-access population-level employer–employee dataset there is. I’ve put together a page with practical user tips beyond the sparse official docs. 1/3 🧵

We are officially on the market this year with 3⃣ positions! Come work with us in 🇨🇦! I am happy to talk to anyone about our department, DMs open! Please share widely and let your students know. PS: You can visit our department if you are coming to this year CSMG, Nov 14-15!

If only there was anything to learn from these weirdos, eh? Today we cheer, tomorrow we discuss industrial policy top-down, with green requirements, privacy regulations, and “social justice” objectives for startups maybe.

On heterodox discourse: I don't believe I have ever seen an economist call themselves heterodox who didn't also have a strong political valence (right or left!) to their work. Otherwise it is just "new ideas". Any good counterexamples? 1/3

Unmissable for anyone eager to understand the foundations of modern macro

It pleases me to see that admist a tough market for academic economists, the Nordics are really stepping up. Here’s what I can see at EJM and JOE: Uppsala Econ: 1 AP Uppsala IFAU: 1 post-doc Stockholm U, Econ: 2 APs Stockholm U, IIES: 1 AP Stockholm U, CEMOF: 1 Post-doc Lund U,

Got picked up by a Serbian bicycle taxi driver in Chicago. He looked me dead in the eye and said, “Antoine Griezmann?” I said no. He winked and said, “Nice try.” I guess I play for Atletico Madrid now.

Top 10% of earners cannot account for 50% of US consumption, because they get less than 40% of disposable income and they save more than other Americans. 👇👇

Econ seminar culture is built on the assumption that the audience knows something that the speaker doesn't, and that the speaker values that information. A very important thing the audience knows and the speaker doesn't: Is the speaker making any sense at all? If nobody has any

Please let’s say this loud; we are not political actors in our capacity as economists. Highly important especially if you have progressive views: collapsing them with the reputation of “untrustworthy experts” makes those ideas radioactive to the public

We cookin’ 🔥 Montréal 🙌

What you are actually doing here is to bribe nokia to put these jobs into Canada by paying hundreds of thousands of dollars per job from taxpayer money. What this does is to lower the cost basis of nokia per employee. This has been going on for decades, called FDI which all civil