3/6 Saturday 7th at 8:00AM (Hilton Riverside, Jackson) Supply Chain Dynamics Featuring Daniel Yi Xu (chair), Cian Ruane, K. Kikkawa, Y. Miyauchi, Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, Enghin Atalay, S. Heise, Felix Tintelnot

What long-run effects should we expect from changes in input prices? Our paper w/Cian Ruane suggests that firms can substitute between intermediates much more easily than previously thought, consistent with Ben Moll Moritz Schularick Georg Zachmann’s recent work on Germany.

In our latest #STEGWorkingPaper Marvin Cardoza Francesco Grigoli, Nicola Pierri and Cian Ruane show how and why production networks matter for labour market flows using Dominican Republic data. ow.ly/7RUa50Ou2Nt #STEG #EconTwitter IMF Impuestos Internos

Everything you always wanted to know about the Irish economy since it joined Europe (but were afraid to ask); boiled down into 75 pages in this new book by John FitzGerald and myself. (And free to download for the next fortnight 🙂) cambridge.org/core/elements/…

❓ Allocation of capital and labour in firms may be mismeasured, with knock-on effects on average and marginal products figures. Mark Bils Pete Klenow Cian Ruane devise a correction applied to Indian and US data. Read their research summary ➡️ stone-econ.org/research/misal… UCL Economics

I think that the equilibrium is field-specific, and it starts with referees. I am happy to report that macro-development is asking (and sometimes publishing) big questions!

Call for Papers is out for the STEG Annual Conf. & Theme Workshops CEPR. Held Department of Economics, Oxford, Jan 8-11, 25. Submit by Oct 6. Broad topic range: structural transf., trade & spatial, industrial policies, political econ. Happy to organise this round w/ Gabriel Ulyssea & Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis🙌