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The economics of research and development. With Heidi Williams ift.tt/7lJkeyW

I was deeply honored to give the 37th Tinbergen Lecture (kvsweb.nl/tinbergenlezin…) in beautiful The Hague late last week. I entitled my talk "Shaping the World Economy in the Age of Global Value Chains", to pay homage to Jan Tinbergen.

I’m very happy to see this recognition of the way in which UNSW Business School helps prepare our students for amazing careers. We immerse them in an environment with great peers and outstanding instructors who do cutting-edge research, while helping shape public debate on big issues.

Per capita wage growth is not a useful thing. Try real disposable income per capita instead. It's up.

Great summary by John, as usual! This is not looking good for academic jobs, in a year with a lot of JM candidates coming from post-pandemic delays/postponements and post docs. It's what I feared from my casual observation of FEN and ERN posts! Good luck candidates! #econtwitter

The hometown of my colleague (Diego García) was devastated this past week with the flooding as you might have heard on the news. The whole town is facing an unimaginable loss. Apparently, 95% of the town lost their cars. They set up a GoFundMe to help. gofund.me/af4774d8

Many Aussies on here seem to think tertiary education should be free, because of some combination of: 1. It used to be free. 2. There are social benefits. Both are bad arguments. (1/N)

The calm before the storm! A 120 strong cohort will present, discuss & chair the annual FIRN conf. Excited to see old, new and future colleagues in the 2-12yo semi participants! All paper 💭🐦from tomorrow ... can't wait! #FIRN2024 #familyfriendlyconference

First session of #FIRN2024 on 'Firm management'. Great papers on #CEO #overconfidence Dan Daugaard, environmental #externalities Wing Wah Tham Cara Vansteenkiste , and family business groups with excellent discussions by UNSW, ANU, and UTS Business School, kept on track by Ellie C

#FIRN2024 session 2 is #philanthropy. Cara Vansteenkiste presenting on self-serving philanthropy during M&As, Emdad Islam on philanthropy along supply chain & Yuyang on self-serving director appointments after #esg incidents. Great discussions followed & check that gender balance!

When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018. Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: scim.ag/3WWWoSD

Call for Nominations for the CSWEP Carolyn Shaw Bell Award is now open! For the award details and how to nominate a scholar, go to aeaweb.org/news/call-for-… Nominations are due by September 19, 2025.

📢Extremely proud to announce the program of the 14th MoFiR Workshop on banking, which will be in Singapore next June 2-3 at NUS and INSEAD. 📢 Check out the agenda here: sites.google.com/view/mofirsemi… Karsten Müller Ben Charoenwong Alberto Zazzaro CEPR