This new Stata command by Rodolfo Campos, Iliana Reggio, and Jacopo Timini for solving GE trade models (which builds on my earlier ge_gravity command) is a really nice step in what I think is a needed direction! rolf-campos.github.io/project/ge_gra…

Doug Irwin Douglas Irwin at #EHA2024 making a strong nuanced defense of the benefits of globalization #econtwitter Key sign of the quality? He refuses to use the bullshit term "neoliberalism"

There are now papers showing that the migration of academic communities from Twitter to other social media sites mostly failed. But they never fully returned to Twitter either. I wonder if we will ever see so many different communities interacting in the same online space again.

Proud of this recognition to the Census Linking Project (censuslinkingproject.org)!(Leah Boustan Myera Rashid Katherine Eriksson and Ran)

Congratulations Sascha O. Becker new fellow of Academy of Social Sciences

Our VoxEU column summarizing our (Sascha O. Becker Ludger Woessmann) recent JEL piece “Religion and Growth” cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…

Incredibly honored to have the great Barry Eichengreen introduce me before giving my address at 2024 EHA conference

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🚨Check out our paper on Failing Banks -- now available as an NBER working paper!🚨 Longer thread on the paper coming soon!

🚨We're hiring!🚨 Tenure-track Asst. Professor in the field of international economics. This position is in the School of Global Policy and Strategy GPS UC San Diego. We have an amazing international group in San Diego and it's a great place to live. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04066

Congratulations to the winners of this year Etta Chiuri prize at ⁦Siep - Società Italiana di Economia Pubblica⁩ Giuseppe Ippedico⁩ and Ann-Marie Sommerfeld Ad maiora 👏👏

FTW!

Nahaz Here's how I teach it in my grad class. Let me know if you'd like the source files! dropbox.com/scl/fi/ehtg3hq…

FWIW: My forthcoming book on the New Deal isn't just my early online series repackaged! Those old essays were but a starting point. I rewrote them all, extensively, on the basis of a great deal of additional research, adding much besides. Pass it on! amazon.com/False-Dawn-Rec…

I remember 10 years ago projects half the size of these wouldve taken years of fierce battle, hours of public comment. Post the pro housing revolution of the late 2010s, Berkeley unanimously approves high rise housing now and nobody even goes to meetings. berkeleyside.org/2024/09/13/hub…

⁦Douglas Irwin⁩ gave a great interview to Zachary Wolf about the history of tariffs & their role in raising revenues (almost nonexistent now) and protecting producers and workers, how they can hurt consumers, exporters and import- using industries etc. cnn.com/2024/09/14/pol…

This x100 Douglas Irwin Peterson Institute There are more things of importance to growth in heaven and earth than in some folks' tariff philosophy CNN

First Annual Historical Political Economy (HPE) Conference at USC is just about a month away (Oct 19-20). Updated program has a paper by Dan Carpenter added! dropbox.com/scl/fi/pny6u5j…

"...investment in Latin America is extremely hazardous...capital fared far better in Africa and Asia." cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Just published in Journal of Public Economics: "Later-life mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition" By David S. Jacks (NUS), Krishna Pendakur (SFU Economics), Hitoshi Shigeoka 重岡 仁, Anthony Wray sciencedirect.com/science/articl…