Call for papers alert! 📢 PSE Macro Days: Paris, Sept 25-26 Submission deadline: May 15 👇 parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/news/call-f… Paris School of Economics CEPR

The Globalization Cluster at Dartmouth is hiring a pre-doctoral fellow for a two year position starting this summer or fall. International candidates welcome. Take courses. Great placement record. Friendly group! Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/167442 DartmouthEcon Tuck School

Our Center for Monetary Research is hosting the 2nd Annual Macro-Finance Conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco this fall. If you have a recent paper on the linkages between financial markets, monetary policy, and the macroeconomy, please submit by May 31! frbsf.org/news-and-media…

Stanford Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2025 AI Index This is a treasure trove of data: hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-… Screenshot: technical performance

Striking cross-country variation: The countries in which the largest % of people think it's likely AI will replace their job in the next 5 years tend to be lower-avg-income countries (🇹🇭🇮🇩🇮🇳🇿🇦 )... ....in contrast to richer countries like 🇨🇦🇳🇱 🇩🇪 ...the 🇺🇸 being an outlier.

The race between automation and new work | Microeconomic Insights | The findings raise urgent new questions about how labor demand changes as new work emerges, and how AI technologies will reshape tasks and occupations in the decades ahead. microeconomicinsights.org/the-race-betwe…

The emergence of remote work explains the peculiar labor market dynamics after the pandemic, from Sadhika Bagga, Lukas Mann, Ayşegül Şahin, and Gianluca Violante nber.org/papers/w33787

Any Econ PhD students at Harvard (or elsewhere in the U.S.) worried about visa status, the Institute for International Economic Studies has openings for PhD students who have completed their coursework and are at the dissertation stage, starting in the fall. Apply here: su.se/institute-for-…

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Politics today in Germany, and everywhere: -538m for the university excellence strategy -4bn to reduce restaurant tax

AI-generated code continues a decades-long climb toward greater abstraction, from compilers to frameworks. Automation shifts what engineers do long before it erases the role.

11/The question isn't "Can AI substitute for humans?" It's "What happens when it does?" History's answer: Automated tasks become economically trivial while the economy reorganizes around what remains human. Growth is constrained by what's hard to improve, not what we do well.

We are excited to announce that the following new AEs with expertise in macroeconomics and international economics joined the editorial board of ECMA on July 1st, 2025: Jennifer La'O (Columbia University), Michael Peters (Yale University), & Stephen Redding (Princeton University)

The Great Divergence Sourced from Jones (2016)

Just how much US income inequality has increased and why it is growing is a topic of intense debate among economists. We spoke with Matthieu Gomez of Columbia Economics about what's really behind the rise in top incomes. #ResearchHighlight aeaweb.org/research/incom…