Econometricians: We present a new empirical method that comes with several caveats and should be use with caution... Applied microeconomists:

Me then, me now. Oh well. It worked out. It will work out

Economists when they see a policy change

México anunció la supercomputadora Coatlicue. Y sí: es una gran noticia… pero también una que exige mucha claridad. México necesita esta infraestructura para entrenar modelos propios, preservar nuestras lenguas e historia, y hacer ciencia seria. Pero hoy no sabemos dónde se

Made with #python #numpy #matplotlib

La División de Economía del CIDE se enorgullece en compartir las publicaciones académicas durante el año 2025 del claustro de profesoras y profesores de la división. ¡Felicitamos a cada uno de los profesores investigadores por su ardua labor y por ser un #OrgulloCIDE!

New Paper: The Software Complexity of Nations (Research Policy, 2026) Most work on economic complexity relies on trade, patents, employment, or publications data. These sources, however, systematically misrepresents software. Code does not cross borders through customs,

¿Cómo afectan los incentivos fiscales regionales al crecimiento económico? El Dr. Ventosa junto con exalumnos de la Lic. en Econ. del CIDE, Cepeda y Romero, Utilizan el programa de la Zona Libre de la Frontera Norte en Baja California usando el método de control sintético.

y como dicen en el CIDE: al final, todo sale :)

Been busy writing on consciousness and AI with the brilliant ⁦Erik Bekkers⁩ ! We introduce a moral dilemma called the «Unplugging Paradox » Watch this space 😎

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Interesting research from Anthropic: When you have increasingly large models and increasingly complex tasks it's more likely that the models will give you different answers if you run the same query multiple times. On easy tasks, larger models actually become more coherent.

One of my favorite things about economic theory is that I often have an intuitive sense of how things work and then when I go and write it down, I discover it’s more complicated.

I discovered the existence of Tom Sargent youtube channel and it is simply amazing. Great stuff! youtube.com/@thomassargent…

Can AI coding agents reproduce published social science findings? In new work with Mohsen Mosleh, Fabrizio Gilardi, and Joshua Tucker, we introduce SocSci-Repro-Bench — a benchmark of 221 reproducibility tasks from 54 papers — and evaluate two frontier coding agents: Claude Code and

This week, nature published an article on how I use mathematical models to study what is otherwise very hard to measure: the scale and dynamics of cartels. How a mathematician is cracking open Mexico's powerful drug cartels. 👇🧮🧑‍🔬 nature.com/articles/d4158…

¿Para qué abrir QGIS si ya tienes R abierto? Nuevo post: R como sistema de información geográfica, desde cero. — Shapefiles y GeoPackages explicados sin rodeos — Cómo importar geometrías y datos tabulares — Mapas coropléticos de México por estado 🗺️🇲🇽 🔗alejandroromerog.github.io/blog/RComoSIG-…

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Important new Fed paper on coding employment federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/f…

Drought in #Mexico: What data reveals Satellite-based indicators show a clear north–south divide with more frequent & severe droughts in northern states & significant intra-state variation. Better data can strengthen climate adaptation & fiscal resilience brnw.ch/21x1noh