Rafael Araujo (Rafael Araujo, rafaelcraraujo.github.io) focuses on environmental issues and their social effects. He will start in 2023.

In politically polarized societies where trust is low, things can look bleak. But we find that by encouraging folks to invest in broad financial assets that allow them to share in the risks & returns of others, we can build trust, & do so particularly among political partisans.

Pasen y vean el sitio en que venimos colaborando desde hace un tiempo con Mauro y Leo, tiene un par de encuestas interactivas para comparar ingreso propio con la distribución general y, sobre todo, una interfaz para generar gráficos de un montón de series distintas. Quedó lindo!

For most of history, almost all human beings lived in non-democratic settings. Most electoral democracies - with meaningful, free, fair and multiparty elections, are quite young. Only 10 are over 90 years old - all others, people who are a live today remember a time before.

Brazil faces important decisions on infrastructure building in the Amazon. Assessing the deforestation cost of each project is crucial. Here, we (Arthur Bragança Juliano Assuncao) discuss our research on modelling deforestation with a market access approach #EconTwitter

With data on pigeons!

We are happy to launch the Call for Papers for the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Urban Economics Network of LACEA! Meeting date and location: Dec 1-2, Rio de Janeiro at FGV - EPGE. Keynote speakers: Nathaniel Baum-Snow & Jeffrey Lin Deadline for submissions: July 24th

Know anyone with a deep love of economics, history & political economy who wants to get more research exposure before doing a PhD?

Structural transformation alters the distribution of power in society and enables groups with distinct values and weak economic interest in the status quo to mobilize for change, from Valentín Figueroa and Vasiliki Fouka nber.org/papers/w31708

Thrilled that "Road Endpoints and City Sizes" has been accepted at REStat! doi.org/10.1162/rest_a… Transportation infrastructures often take years to complete and open gradually, in stages. Does the timing of opening persistently impact surrounding economic activity? (cont.)

How, when, and why women in the US obtained legal rights equal to men’s regarding the workplace, marriage, family, SS, credit markets, and elsewhere in the economy, from Claudia Goldin nber.org/papers/w31762

With all due respect and affection to the intrepid carrier pigeons of the postal service who became heroes of France during the Siege of Paris.

Como dicen, no son especialistas en elecciones ni en estadistica. Si lo fueran, hubieran analizado elecciones anteriores, distribuciones provinciales, y hubieran visto que estos histogramas son muy comunes, lo opuesto de "imposible". Explico:

Markets Under Siege: How Differences in Political Beliefs Can Move Financial Markets Saumitra Jha (Stanford University), Peter Koudijs (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Marcos Salgado (FGV EPGE) 📝Inscrições: sbe.org.br/encontro/45o-e… #45EBE #SBEconometria #PremioSBE2023

Sobre el debate me voy a limitar a comentar lo que se discutió relacionado con mi tema de especialidad, el comercio exterior. No puedo más que anticipar mi frustración con lo que se dijo desde ambos lados.👇🏾

Those at #EconometricsinRio can still enjoy this view. #EconTwitter #FGVEPGE

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP19220 Markets under Siege: How Political Beliefs Move Financial #Markets Saumitra Jha Stanford Graduate School of Business, Peter Koudijs ErasmusESE, Marcos Salgado FGV/EPGE ow.ly/ixGe50SxRJt #CEPR #RPN #Economics

Marcelo Leiras, profesor director de tesis, investigador. En estos dias un monton de gente me decia "fue profesor mio en tal materia, me enseñó monton" o "me ayudó a irme a hacer el doctorado". Ayer le pude decir esto y sonrió. Marcelo no está más pero todo eso queda.