Very happy to see this paper forthcoming! It was a lot of fun working with Stephan and Sergio on this project. The paper makes a simple point: the root cause of most bank failures is losses and solvency problems, rather than self-fulfilling bank runs.

The 4th release of the Global Sanctions Database (GSDB-R4) is published in a SI of the World Economy. The next update, which will cover more years and detailed financial sanctions in on its way. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tw… Gabriel Felbermayr Erdal Yalcin 🌐 Ohyun Kwon (權五顯)

🚨 Call for Papers! The 2026 EAYE Annual Meeting will take place at the University of the Basque Country 🇪🇸 on 18–20 May 2026 📅 Submit your paper or extended abstract by 1 Dec 2025 via CMT #EAYE2026 #EconTwitter

🚨 Working paper available: "Fiscal Transparency and the Benefits of Government-Funded Research" Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Higher property taxes raise long-run welfare. By shifting capital from housing to businesses they lower house prices and interest rates and boost wages, thereby improving life-cycle consumption smoothing. However, current homeowners lose from such a reform.econometricsociety.org/publications/q…

Examining how managers should deploy AI in sequential team workflows finds that optimal AI deployment is stochastic, replaces early and late positions in the workflow, and results in lower wage inequality, from Xienan Cheng, Mustafa Dogan, and Pinar Yildirim

Collusion doesn't just happen in smoke-filled rooms. It can be out in the open in earnings calls. New research uses NLP on 300k+ transcripts to spot the language that firms use to coordinate publicly. Regulators can use this tool to detect anticompetitive behavior.

Where should you send your paper first? The monotone “aim high” strategy is optimal if journal rejections do not change the paper quality. But if rejections (e.g., referee reports) ultimately improve paper quality the optimal order can change drastically.

🚨 Hiring Tenure-Track APs in Econ at the University of Copenhagen! 🚨 Join a great group in an exciting (and friendly) city 😀! Details will follow. PLS REPOST AND GET IN TOUCH to hear more. All fields, and I’m esp. interested in hearing from DEV candidates 😀! #econtwitter

I’ve started an ongoing project to collect all the datasets which economists can use, all in one place, organized by topic. Started with 50, further suggestions are extremely welcome. It will grow considerably.

The next WEFI WEFI seminar is Oct 13 @ 12 pm ET. Florian Ederer (Boston U) presents "Digital (Killer?) Acquisitions" (joint w/ Regina Seibel (Toronto) + Timothy Simcoe (Boston U)). Discussion by Merih Sevilir (ESMT). Register here: gsb-columbia-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Well deserved!

Webinar Carlos Serrano: "Acquiring Patents in Secret: Disclosure Timing in Markets for Technology". Tuesday the 21st of October 2025 , 11:00 London time i.e. 12:00 Brussels time, 13:00 Athens time. To find out how to join please visit: lnkd.in/daQGZbYv.

Technological progress over the 20th century has consistently increased demand for occupations with higher education requirements, occupations that pay higher wages, and occupations with a greater fraction of female workers, from Huben Liu, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Lawrence Schmidt, and