Every dev econ JMC should submit. Great way to practice your pitch & to get the word out on your work. A beer on me to anyone with a cornier title than I had 8 yrs ago. Still can't believe Paul Novosad Radhika Jain (and David McKenzie) didn't stop me... blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

Tarifabschluss von Verdi und Länder ist ein weitere Beweis, dass die Beteiligten Inflation nicht verstanden haben. Das als Erfolg zu verkaufen ist mehr als gewagt. 👇

I am looking for 1 to 2 predocs joining me SIAW-HSG to work on political economy, natural resources, and urbanization. The positions are funded by the SNSF Grant: "Mining regions: Pollution, politics, and structural change".

My former university, the best in Russia in the 21st century, HSE University, banned aspiring students to mention my work, academic articles or opinion columns, in their essays. This ban is for certain categories, but I belong, with a couple of hundreds of others, to one of them.

NEW: Using Satellite Imagery to Detect the Impacts of New Highways By Kathryn Baragwanath, Gordon Hanson, Amit Khandelwal, Chen Liu, & Hogeun Park, in NBER: nber.org/papers/w32047

🚨 Together with Richard Bluhm I am hiring a research assistant for our new Political Economy of Global Development Lab Uni Stuttgart Details here 👇 dropbox.com/scl/fi/j8xozsn…

Der Vorsitzende des Wissenschaftsrat Wolfgang Wick 🇪🇺 macht konstruktive und interessante Vorschläge zu attraktiven Stellenprofilen neben der Professur. Hoffentlich hört die Politik zu und fördert die dafür nötigen Strukturreformen! #IchBinHanna #ProfsFürHanna forschung-und-lehre.de/karriere/mehr-…

🚨JOB OPPORTUNITIES🚨 We are looking for a PhD student and assistant professor (fixed-term) for our new Political Economy of Global Development Lab Uni Stuttgart Job Posting here ivr.uni-stuttgart.de/dokumente/jobp… and ivr.uni-stuttgart.de/dokumente/jobp… Please RT widely

In the spirit of the olden days of #EconTwitter, I thought I’d write down some notes on finishing up my first year on the tenure track (in a liberal arts setting) in economics. These will be in no particular order and kind of stream of conscious. Let’s have a convo about it! 1/N

I have one additional predoc opening SIAW-HSG to work on topics in political economy, natural resources, and urbanization. Application deadline is August 10th, 2024.

Something doesn’t add up here: #ECB wants to continue targeting 2% inflation, but expects more often adverse supply shocks. Short thread 🧵 1/N

APPLY NOW for an Assistant Professor, Postdoc, or PhD position at my Chair at Uni Göttingen Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät Göttingen , linked to our new project "Tapping innovative data sources to analyze the impact of authoritarian states on global development"; details here 👇 #econjobs

We had a Urban/Regional Econ workshop this week at ifo Institut ! Great papers, good discussions, and most importantly, a very fun crowd. Thanks Stephan Heblich , Oliver and Sebastian for organizing it with me and all the participants who travelled to München! CESifo

🚨JOB OPPORTUNITIES 🚨 We are looking for an assistant professor (fixed-term) and PostDocs (1-2 yrs) for our new Political Economy of Global Development Lab with Richard Bluhm Angelika Budjan Uni Stuttgart Job Posting here: ivr.uni-stuttgart.de/en/eco/researc… Please RT widely

Focusing for a moment on the POLICIES at play. Voters were asked whether they supported 100 different policies, but weren't told whether the policy was from Trump or Harris. Nearly all of Harris' policies got majority support from the public, and... 🧵

Nice to see this in print in Journal of Urban Economics! How do official Chinese-funded infrastructure projects diffuse economic activity in developing countries? Strongest effects in least-developed regions and near cities. 1/2 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

1/13 It's curious that Trump's tariff hikes are the largest since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 widely seen as one of the worst policy blunders in US history. They were enacted at the onset of the Great Depression. A thread 🧵

The usual conundrum about the interaction between economic policy and the stock market. The stock market crash is going to put pressure on the Trump administration to retreat on tariffs (at least, de facto. I am sure the rhetoric will be triumphant). My guess is that the

I cannot resist reposting this.... Stock market crashed indeed led to retreat on tariffs (presented, as forecast, as a major victory... The art of the deal), and a stock market jump... But am I the only one to think that things are not rosy, that the conflict with China is

The State of Development Journals 2025: Quality, Acceptance Rates, Review Times, Open Access, and What’s New blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…