Pedro Pascal as econ textbooks—a thread

Fantastic panel Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy on lessons we can learn from global experiences with industrial policy, with Dani Rodrik Nathan Lane Myrto Kalouptsidi and Rohit Lamba. Myrto talking Chinese shipbuilding excess capacity. Has 50-70% market share today.

This is, I believe, the formal definition of TFP:

Academics: "I'll just highlight the interesting stuff in this PDF" The PDF:

In the latest episode of Ideas of India I speak with Anne Krueger Anne O. Krueger about 'the political economy of a rent seeking society,' import substitution, trade and development, understanding license-permit-raj, India's 1991 reforms, the Washington consensus, decline of the

🌍🔍 Strategic climate change litigation is on the rise, but does it shift public opinion on climate policy? Our vignette experiment with UK citizens reveals no direct effects of legal actions and policy attitudes and actions. Legal cues might still play an indirect role. Link ⬇️

Can you name these path-breaking economists who changed the trade & development consensus in the 1960s & 1970s?

To give you a taste of The Nehru Development Model, here are the first two pages of the book. They will give you a good idea of what this long book is about.

Very proud of our recent PhD graduate Nicola Mauri Nicola Mauri publishing his single-authored paper straight at the Journal of Public Economics.🍾 Using theory and a clever empirical test, he finds that local governments have less fiscal autonomy than what the fiscal data could make you believe. 1/2

At Centre for Economic Data & Analysis (CEDA) we spend a lot of time internally staring at & thinking about food price data. And then you read Sayantan Bera who joins so many of these dots together, so insightfully & seamlessly. On rice, pulses, oilseeds, veggies & what's likely to come on food inflation:

New #GrandTamasha: former chief economic advisor to the Government of India Arvind Subramanian of Peterson Institute joins me to discuss the future of India's fiscal federalism. We talk 7 years of GST, the next Finance Commission, and tensions in center-state relations grand-tamasha.simplecast.com/episodes/the-f…

Thank you Shruti Rajagopalan and Ideas of India for the opportunity! It is always a pleasure discussing issues related to Indian federalism and governance with you! Taking this opportunity to repost our article on HT and our paper on President's Rule. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Our latest episode in the 2024 job market series is with Abishek Choutagunta (Abishek Choutagunta). Abishek and Shruti Rajagopalan talked about the centripetal federalism in India, state and local government finances, emergency powers, the S.R. Bommai judgment, constitutional design and

State of urban planning and development in India

this is a very important study: nber.org/papers/w33495?… riskier grant applications are less often funded. we have institutionalized a ton of risk-avoiding in science; slowdown of progress has coincided with peer review + big science by committee. Pierre Azoulay

Been thinking a lot about proxy leadership among female politicians in Bihar & Maharashtra with Priyadarshi Amar & Apurva Bamezai. Despite multiple news reports, there is limited info on how common proxy leadership actually is. We're digging into it in an upcoming working paper🧵

In the latest episode of Ideas of India Mercatus Center I speak with former SC Justice Jasti Chelameswar about his judgments on electoral qualifications, judicial conduct, transparency in judicial appointments, the right to privacy, separation of powers, dissent, and much more.

This was an amazing episode! One of my absolute favourites! Not many people write (or talk) about rural development and the functioning of PRIs with such depth and clarity as M.R. Sharan does, and Shruti Rajagopalan, as always, is an amazing host.

1/ Week 28: Theory paper in focus this week is the seminal article by Anthony Atkinson and Joseph E. Stiglitz that is now famously referred to as the "zero commodity/capital taxation" benchmark in public economics. It has led to much technical & policy debates. Let's find out.