Ignacio Marra
@ignmarra
PhD Candidate in Economics @ULBruxelles & @ecares_ulb
Trade, Development & FDI
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http://ignaciomarra.com 30-06-2015 07:33:12
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Great hires by Duke Economics! Welcome everyone!
On November 14th, I will present our study entitled “The Value of Organic Certifications”, an event organized by Mexico’s Secretary of the Economy (x.com/se_mx) in collaboration with Inter-American Development Bank and ConnectAmericas for the #food and beverage sector.
My coauthor Ignacio Marra will present our joint paper "Linkages with Multinationals: The Effects on Domestic Firms' Exports" at the Annual Conference of the Swedish Network for European Studies in Economics and Business on May 10 at 10:00AM (CET). Program: bit.ly/44cL9aF
Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI” The most interesting thing I've read recently about LLMs - a purportedly leaked document from a researcher at Google talking about the huge strategic impact open source models are having simonwillison.net/2023/May/4/no-…
Last week, my colleague Ignacio Marra presented our joint paper “The Value of Organic Certifications” at the XXIV Conference on International Economics held at the @uahes. In this paper, we examine the effects of #organic certifications on firms’ #exports of agricultural products.
In a new IDB (Inter-American Development Bank) Working paper with Ignacio Marra and Franco, we examine the performance of a variety of #MachineLearning models, including large language models, at classifying products according to the Harmonized System (HS): bit.ly/3K75VAn #Trade #Customs
Workshop Alert! The first European University Institute + Geneva Graduate Institute on "Supply Chains in Developing Countries" is taking place on Dec 4-5 in Florence, with a stellar line-up👇 Link to register: eui.eu/events?id=5578… Julia Cajal Grossi
🚨𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 | 2024 RIEF Doctoral Meetings | April 25-26th Université Paris Dauphine - PSL tinyurl.com/2nuzm7j9 👉Global issues: int. trade / int. macro / int. taxation 👉 Environmental econ. 👉 Urban econ. *Selected papers will be assigned a senior discussant*
In a new Inter-American Development Bank Working Paper, Jerónimo Carballo (Jeronimo Carballo), Ignacio Marra de Artiñano (Ignacio Marra), Monika Sztajerowska, and I examine whether and how investment promotion policies affect emissions of pollutants. You can read the paper here: bit.ly/41hhhZS #FDI
Two of my teams are hiring! Come work with me, Pierre Bachas, Kieran Byrne, and Florence Kondylis on the micro and macro impacts of electronic tax invoices in Rwanda OR join me and Ana Fernandes to examine how quality regulation in international markets affect exporters from LICs.
The full program of the FI(L)MAD workshop is here! Mariapia Mendola Michele Di Maio Marco Sanfilippo and I look forward to welcoming presenters and discussants in Siracusa! Many thanks 🙏 to everyone who sent (194!) papers. We really had to split hairs. Link: dagliano.unimi.it/firms-labor-ma…
Call for (1 or 2) RAs to join ongoing/new applied micro projects in low-income countries. General description at the link below, more details via DM/mail, application (CV + short description of previous experience) to: [email protected] shorturl.at/bkUvI
😍😍Ready to take off to Sicily! So much looking forward to this amazing program 🌞🌞 Marco Sanfilippo Francesco (Ciccio) Amodio Michele Di Maio
Looking to hire full time RA July - December. Excited about trade, firm-to-firm networks , and industrial policy? Have experience with Python, R, Stata, Databricks, SQL? Come work at the research unit, world Bank. Email [email protected] and [email protected]
On August 14, I participated at a workshop organized by Uruguay XXI, in which we discussed how the sustainability dimension can be incorporated into the design and implementation of public policies.
