NEW: Populist leaders like US President Donald Trump are challenging the authority of independent technocrats and judges. In new research, Gabriele Gratton (UNSW Economics) and Jacob Edenhofer 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (Oxford Politics and IR) show how such backlash is a predictable development.

Call for Papers: The 4th Annual Zurich Workshop in AI+Economics to be held Dec 5-6, 2025, hosted by ETH Zurich and University of Zurich. illuminating keynote to be given by tom cunningham (OpenAI) organized with S Galletta D. Yanagizawa-Drott Joachim Voth Info:

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Job Alert! Come and join my team! I am looking for a cool person with a background in economics to join my research team as a postdoctoral fellow for 3 years at Monash Business School (Department of Economics) and Monash University. careers.pageuppeople.com/mob/513/cw/en/…

It was an honor to speak at the National Press Club yesterday with Brian Schmidt about "Securing Australia's Sovereign Research Capability." IN FULL: Professor Brian P. Schmidt AC & Professor Richard Holden's Address youtu.be/gAiuuESaH04?si… via YouTube

🚨 NEW AND UPDATED🚨 Lecture notes on Econ 437 (Political Economy) Econ 101 (Introduction to Microeconomics) -- joint with Tarık Kara and Nuh Aygün Dalkıran ardagitmez.com/teaching

Today marked the end of the 4th year of our UniCatt Political Economy work in progress seminars. We started in summer 2021 as a group of junior scholars interested in political economy, and in 4 years we had more than 60 seminars, 2 special lectures, a research day, a workshop.

📣📣📣 I am looking for a Research Associate (Predoc) to work on exciting projects in the economics of media and political economy. Please share and apply! For more info: tinyurl.com/hertie-applied…. Deadline: June 31. #econra #econ_ra Econ RA Listings

Just 3 days left to submit to the 2nd Northeast Political Economy Conference. We (with Brian Knight) are inviting work from economists and political scientists on all political economy topics. 📅 Deadline: June 16 📍 Brown University, Oct 3 🔗 forms.gle/i4wi88Q6P3tJyJ…

🚨 Applications to our PhD program starting January 2026 close on July 31 🗓️ Fully funded scholarship for a 1 year Master’s coursework + 3.5 year research in our School. A 🧵 on our PhD program and school. (1/7) Program and application info 👇 unsw.edu.au/business/study…

If you know a brilliant undergraduate or master’s student who is interested in an Econ PhD Down Under, contact me/us 👇

What would a better HECS forgiveness scheme have looked like? All HECS is wiped after 25 years if it hasn't been repaid. It costs the government around 0.1bn rather than 13bn. It exclusively benefits low income earners, rather than high. It gets more people to study at uni.

Economics is far more expansive than it used to be. But recent work on social institutions lacks a unifying framework. I show how social institutions can be modeled as behavioral regularities using evolutionary game-theoretic models of norms.

✨Did markets make Americans more cooperative❓🔍 ✅YES‼️ Between 1850 and 1920, the US became the largest and most integrated economy in the world 📶🌎 We show that this shift didn’t just move goods and affect prices—it fundamentally changed culture and behavior 🧵 👇 1/17

To celebrate 75 years of Nash equilibrium a group of renowned speakers and participants gathered at the Maison Française d'Oxford in Oxford, UK  (2-4 July 2025). Recordings are available here: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Exploring how changing incentives—shaped by environment, history, information, and policy—drive cultural change, with a focus on gender roles and economic outcomes, from raquel fernandez nber.org/papers/w34077

🚨🚨🚨 Davide Cipullo Tommaso Colussi domenico rossignoli and I are excited to open the call for the 2nd UniCatt Political Economy workshop! We have 2 great keynotes: A. Casella and D. Yanagizawa-Drott. Send us your papers (theory or empirics) and let us meet in Milano on December 18.

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Great piece by Roland Fryer in The New York Times about our work on measuring gerrymandering. Given what's currently happening with off-cycle redistricting, it's more relevant than ever. nytimes.com/2025/08/12/opi…

Less than a week to go! We're looking forward to hosting more than 200 researchers for SIOE 2025! Program and info: sioe.org/conference/2025