I’m sharing my slide deck on the demographic future of humanity, 🔗 Slides: sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Slide… prepared for the keynote address I will give tomorrow to the 7th EBRD and CEPR Research Symposium on “The Economics of Demographic Change”: 🔗 Symposium: ebrd.com/home/news-and-…

We study how trade policy can reduce global emissions. Unilateral carbon border taxes have limited efficacy at cutting foreign emissions. By contrast, coordinated trade penalties under a climate club prove highly effective. econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

💻 If you’re serious about computation in economics, you eventually need to get serious about hardware. And that includes FPGAs 🔌. ⚙️ Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) allow users to configure programmable logic blocks to execute specific algorithms, avoiding the

NEW: There’s been a lot of discussion lately about rising graduate unemployment. I dug a little closer and a striking story emerged: Unemployment is climbing among young graduate *men*, but college-educated young women are generally doing okay.

Gran iniciativa desde la Universidad del Pacífico

Conference in International Macro call for papers: Montevideo, Uruguay Dec 10-11. Keynote: Ricardo Caballero Send your papers! (December is perfect summer weather, escape the winter in the north.)

Had fun presenting our paper on a modern treatment of Tâtonnement price dynamic at the Minnesota Macro conference.

Level up in HANK modeling! BASEforHANK Winter School DIW Berlin, Dec 8–17, 2025. Week 1 online, Week 2 in Berlin. Hands on with BASEtoolbox.jl + Julia. Christian Bayer Benjamin Born Ralph Lütticke. Apply by Sept 21—details in the tweet below. #HANK #Econ

🎉 Thrilled to share that my JMP "Uncertainty and Unemployment Revisited: The Consequences of Financial and Labor Contracting Frictions" is accepted at JPE Macro! In short: 𝐔𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭. 🔗 yajiewang.info/research

The Matlab codes for Chapter 10 is (tentatively) at my lecture notes page. We will work on supplementary materials (data, codes, exercises, slides, etc.) later on - we are focusing on finishing the book for the time being. sites.google.com/view/toshimuko…

For anyone that missed it live but wants to watch it, here is the video... youtube.com/live/DoFrOjJIG…

What happens when the U.S. restricts H-1B visas? Firms don’t stop hiring talent, they just move jobs abroad. For every visa rejection, multinationals add ~0.4–0.9 foreign employees, especially in R&D hubs like India, China, and Canada.

folks, in case you missed it late on Friday, I wrote a post pondering the "family feud" inside the Current Population Survey between downbeat stock metrics and upbeat flow metrics

We are hiring (again!). We are searching for up to four tenure-track hires. Two of these are open-field/open-rank. Two are endowed at the full professor level -- one with a focus on applied micro and poverty, the other with a focus on demography.

🚀 Join us in Bonn! We have 2+ postdoc openings in macro at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn’s Institute for Macroeconomics. Join a vibrant group studying heterogeneity in macro. 3-year posts starting Sep 1, 2026. Questions? Ping Christian Bayer or me. #EconJobs #EconTwitter

The one and only Norges Bank PhD internship is back: Come to Oslo to write a paper with us! Deadline for application: November 2. Several papers have reached R&R and WP status over the last year. norges-bank.no/en/topics/Rese…

Great initiative! For macro/finance/international topics, we’ve assembled a number of links to different datasets (as well as code and other resources) here: sites.google.com/view/interconn… The NBER IFM data page is another great resource.

In a chat the other day, someone doubted my claim that the post pandemic inflation has got us back to the Greenspan price level trend. Here's the evidence!

After the midterms, back to research again … at least for some weeks before finals 😓

I presented my paper, "The Impact of the Uncertainty in Bank Lending Standards", yesterday at the XLIII Encuentro de Economistas del BCRP in Lima, Peru. Today, I'll be moderating a session about "Uncertainty Measures" using Peruvian data. Very relevant and interesting topics!