
Klaus Desmet
@klausvanieper
Economist @SMU, @nberpubs, and @cepr_org, Alum @Stanford, @uclouvain_be, @UWCUSA and @CollegeIeper
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https://people.smu.edu/kdesmet/ 12-08-2015 08:04:02
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📢TODAY! Join us Online Spatial & Urban Seminar at 11:30 ET, 4:30 pm (UK), or 5:30 pm (Euro)! Levi Crews (UCLA) presents “Agriculture, Trade, and the Spatial Efficiency of Global Water Use” (osus.info) Hosted by Urban Economics Association #EconTwitter


Great work by our PhD student @IvanH16. Think about this when going into the voting booth tomorrow. SMU Economics

📢A reminder that we are hiring! Come join our lunch table at SMU Economics next year🌞. 🚨Last few days: apply by ➡️November 15⬅️ to ensure full consideration! We are interested in candidates with a research focus in *applied/theoretical metrics*. aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…




📢#CallForPapers 📷Deadline: 15 December 2024 CEPR Workshop on Ethnicity, Identity and Conflict, organized by @j_fgomes and Klaus Desmet in Brussels on 23-24 June 2025. Confirmed speakers Elias Papaioannou, Marta Reynal, Moses Shayo and Mathias Thoenig


📢CALL FOR PAPERS The Economic Journal Special issue: Climate Change and Inequality 📅Deadline: 28 February 2025 Editor: alberto bisin ➡️Learn more and submit: bit.ly/3YKS3lR @OUPEconomics #EconTwitter

#Predoctoral Research Fellowship opp: ✅Work with Stanford faculty mentor Allan Hsiao ✅Boost skills ✅Expand networks ✅Strengthen candidacy for top doctoral programs ✅Tuition, health insurance & stipend included Students from developing countries encouraged to apply!



A big welcome to our new Associate Editors JEEA the Journal of EEA Thrilled to have you on board! Alexander W. Bloedel Klaus Desmet paula gobbi Matias Iaryczower Diego Känzig Chen Lian Benjamin Marx ISABELLE MEJEAN Michael Thaler Johannes Wohlfart academic.oup.com/jeea/pages/Edi…



(1/2) Measuring global GDP is challenging, especially in middle- and low-income countries where reliable statistics are scarce. In new research, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg combines nighttime lights, land use, emissions, and a random forest model to estimate subnational GDP.


New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP19931 Spatial Dynamics Klaus Desmet Klaus Desmet SMU Cox School of Business SMU Economics SMU, Fernando Parro University of Rochester ow.ly/3Utf50UXm7y #CEPR_ITRE #EconTwitter


Reviewing a decade of advances in spatial dynamic modeling, with applications to trade, climate, migration, infrastructure investment, structural change, and policy, from Klaus Desmet and Fernando Parro nber.org/papers/w33443



PhD students interested in urban economics: Apply to join us at Tufts University for summer school July 21–23. Learn from leading scholars, including Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Melanie Morten, Alvin Murphy. Get feedback on your research and meet other urban economists. urbaneconomics.org/workshops/summ…


Happy to see our paper with Klaus Desmet and Ignacio Ortuño Ortin in print! Want to learn more about the role of identity and economics in #Secessionism? Check it out! All our data and codes are also available here (doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…).

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20337 On the Measurement of Social Heterogeneity Klaus Desmet Klaus Desmet SMU Cox School of Business SMU, Ignacio Ortuño-Ortin UC3M Economics, Romain Wacziarg UCLA Anderson School of Management ow.ly/3oR850W6ho3 #CEPR_PoE #EconTwitter

