Another amazing paper

📢Here it is! The Call for Papers is out for the 4th Kiel-CEPR Conference on Geoeconomics! Join Pol Antras, Kenneth S Rogoff, Silvana Tenreyro + Beata Javorcik, Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, Ilyana Kuziemko, & more in Paris more in Paris to present your geoeconomics research👉ifw-kiel.de/institute/even… Moritz Schularick

Something is rotten in econ academe when 2nd-year MIT PhD students fake research to get into QJE. That some still express surprise shows willful blindness to a system built to reward speed & visibility over rigor & insight. Integrity should be a standard, not a personality trait.

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Interested in international economics and geopolitics? You may want to consider submitting to this conference. I am looking forward to guest editing the corresponding JIE special issue.

Truly an amazing paper

I think part of the value of hard math education early on is to convince kids that if you just think about a seemingly impossible problem enough, you sometimes can actually solve it. I think this is something that people don't naturally believe until they experience it

Our report on the effect of unemployment benefit sanctions on job search and re-employment is out. (DE / FR). Joint work with Rafael Lalive, P. Arni, M. Wolf & B. Kaiser Disclaimer for the football fans: the referee on the pic is not representative of my views or opinions in any way

🚨 We're thrilled to host the CEPR International Macroeconomics and Finance Programme Meeting 2025 at Université de Lausanne! Submit your work by 15 June — it’s shaping up to be an exciting event!🌟 #CEPR #Macroeconomics #InternationalFinance #HECLausanne #CallForPapers HEC Lausanne

Why did Britain industrialize? It's complicated! Fortunately, Joachim Voth, Alex & I wrote a paper: now you can also read a summary here: broadstreet.blog/p/where-have-a…

I am going to print this, put it up on my wall, and look at it when any situation looks utterly hopeless.

Coming back to Japan and my post yesterday about my work with Gustavo Ventura on Japan. Let’s try a simple exercise. Take Japan’s demographics as given (more on this below). Now, assume GDP per working-age adult (or per hour worked; same result) had grown from 1991 to 2019 at the

CNRS is opening an interdisciplinary tenure track position (CPJ) at the crossroads of economics and statistical physics (and also science of information processing). Among host laboratories is the CERGIC/EqCo at the ENS de Lyon.

Applications close tomorrow, July 1st at 23:59 (UTC+2, Zurich time)!

🚨New Paper: Using Machine Learning to Compute Constrained Optimal Carbon Tax Rules 🚨(with F. Kübler, O. Surbek). Method to systematically find Pareto-improving policies in stochastic models with het. agents. HEC Lausanne | Department of Economics Enterprise for Society Center Grantham LSE Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

New paper. We analyze tariffs, export controls, and sanctions using AI and corporate text. Including the ongoing trump trade war.

Now published online (In Press): (Market) power is (political) power! The pressure of declining competition on democracy sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

From The Economist today: "How scared should you be of “the China squeeze”? "For a chokehold to be effective, a country must have a near-monopoly on supplying a particular good or service, says Matteo Maggiori of Stanford University. “Sanctioning power is non-linear, which means

Lot's of activity below while I was on a long flight to Korea. Looking forward to delivering together with Jesús Fernández-Villaverde the Lunchtime Plenary on Geoeconomics at the Econometric Society World Congress: eswc2025.org/speakers/02.ht… Here are my slides: …allocation.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/geoecon_plenar… With