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NEW: Generative AI is already taking white collar jobs An ingenious study by Xiang Hui Oren Reshef zhou Yu looked at what happened on a huge online freelancing platform after ChatGPT launched last year. The answer? Freelancers got fewer jobs, and earned much less

Brexit raised UK import prices by 11% and consumer prices by 0.6% through trade policy uncertainty alone Alejandro G. Graziano #Brexit #UKTrade #trade #TradePolicy Read the blog 👉citp.ac.uk/publications/b…

Some thoughts on data analysis

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My latest on trade and growth

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Great piece. Looking at firms confirmed what many thought and what theory predicts: small firm exit but large ones are stable. Result: no Brexit effect in aggregate data.

In 2015, a consequential election delivered a majority for Brexit. In 2024, we can now study the economic impact of Brexit with data up to 2022. This is a thread in which I try to go full circle back to the origins of Brexit. But let me comment before on what we observe so far:

The pyfixest package has come so far so quickly, it really is amazing. Recently, Alex Fischer added a way to output beautiful publication-ready regression tables using stargazer 🤩

#Trump proposed imposing up to 20% tariffs on US imports from all countries & 60% on imports from China. Nicolò Tamberi's simulations show that under this policy total US imports of goods & services could fall by 37% & US real GDP could fall by $680 billion in case of retaliation.