Bulgaria is so proud! Congratulations, Stefanie Stantcheva ! So well deserved!

It was a great pleasure to deliver my course on trade policy analysis with new quantitative trade models at the Inter-American Development Bank (Inter-American Development Bank). Had stimulating discussions with great colleagues & friends. Thanks Christian Volpe Martincus for the hospitality! Gravity rules 💪

If true, this will lead to a very cool dataset 👇

#Tariffs #TradeWar #International #Macroeconomics A few observations that I hope we can agree on: >

Prof. Hoyle is one of the best teachers I've met, and I have learned a lot from him. I fully agree with Joe that “as college teachers, we change the lives of our students every day.” Therefore , I dearly recommend his FREE! teaching book.👇Thank you, Joe! scholarship.richmond.edu/bookshelf/375/

The Globalization Cluster at Dartmouth is hiring a pre-doctoral fellow for a two year position starting this summer or fall. International candidates welcome. Take courses. Great placement record. Friendly group! Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/167442 DartmouthEcon Tuck School

Despite the current challenges and prior doubts regarding the ability of the WTO and GATT to promote international trade, the evidence from our meta-analysis is that the WTO/GATT effects on trade have been positive and significant. Happy 30th anniversary and thanks, WTO!

Two sad news for science this weekend: 1. The (allegedly) fraudulent paper by the MIT student 👇 thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materials… 2. And the revelation that one can buy citations at Google Scholar 👇 arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607 On the bright side ... I am going fishing

Tariffs may have limited impact on trade deficits. For the U.S., external imbalances are shaped more by asset valuations and return differentials than by trade flows alone. Two complementary perspectives: 🔗 stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy… 🔗 itskhoki.com/papers/Optimal…

A nice paper by Harald Oberhofer and Zhenyi Wang, which highlights the importance of using domestic trade flows in gravity estimations. 👇

🚨🚨Good news for the EU!! The great Lionel Fontagné & I propose new measures of the potential of trade blocs. An EU application shows that the EU has been very successful, but only half of the potential benefits from the EU have been realized to date. 👇 ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper/2…

We propose methods to (i) identify the full effects of country-specific policies in the gravity model and (ii) estimate trade elasticities without tariff or price data. A true pleasure to work with Mario and the young talents Angelos Theodorakopoulos and Rebecca Freeman. Thanks! Gravity rules💪

A great event indeed. Wonderful people, excellent presentations, especially from young researchers, and a beautiful Vienna! Thanks, Heider, Gabriel Felbermayr, and WIFO!

📢 NEW DATA! Javier Flórez, Mario Larch, Sebastien Bradley, and I are very happy share the update of the most disaggregated dataset of consistently constructed international and domestic trade flows -- GRANTPA. So, let’s estimate GRAVITY with GRANTPA. ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper/2…

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Congratulations! Wonderful news for Bulgaria!! 🇧🇬🤍💚❤️ The European Commission officially gives Bulgaria the green light to join the Eurozone on January 1, 2026.

It was a true pleasure and a privilege to deliver a keynote on “#Sanctions with Gravitas” at the XXVII Applied Economics Meeting. Great to see old friends and many smart and ambitious young researchers. Thanks, ALDE, Facultad de Economía y Empresa UMU & Universidad Murcia for having me! Gravity rules 💪

📢NEW DATA! Happy to share the new release of the International Trade and Production Database for Estimation - ITPD-E-R03. Thanks to my co-authors Mario Larch & Serge Shikher and to the USITC! For details: ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper/2… Enjoy the data and have a great summer!

🚨🚨In a new working paper, Federico Carril, Jordi Paniagua, and Marta Suarez-Varela construct a dataset on food crises' severity, intensity, and causes. Then they use the data to demonstrate that food crises increase forced international migration. ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper/2…

Call for papers The CEP/LSE – Warwick Junior Trade Workshop will bring together PhD students in the field of international economics for a day of job market paper presentations and discussions. Submit papers by 27 July. More ➡️ cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/ev…