New working paper with surprising results on the effects of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) on child labor, joint with Ryan Abman, Clark Lundberg, and Michele Ruta. (1/8)

I hope to see you in beautiful Romania At a great conference!

We're seeking a one-year visiting lecturer in Economics! Join me as a colleague in our department. Feel free to ask any questions ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/452972

Listened to this Trade Talks Podcast three times and still did not have enough. One of the best, if not the best, of the 180.

This is a thread about what was right and what was wrong in the recent Senate hearings on AI harms featuring OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, as well as IBM's Christina Montgomery and Gary Marcus (one of the researchers in this field I respect most).

KU Philosophy Shepherd University Economics Media Library Want to help your students see the differences in cross-country GDP per capita with Gapminder’s Dollar Street? Anna Maximova (Anna Maximova), Steve Muchiri, and Mihai Parachiv (Mihai Paraschiv) have a project ready for you to use this Fall! Learn more: doi.org/10.58311/jecon…

The latest Trade Talks Podcast features Isabela Manelici discussing Romania’s income tax break for workers in the IT sector + its effects on the sector itself and on other downstream sectors. Fun fact, my brother is part of the cohort who benefitted from the policy’s 2013 expansion.

I’ve tried to be open minded and all that, but this X business is a bit bollocks, isn’t it? It seems deliberately vague and therefore slightly oppressive. The little bird was much more, um, uplifting. Am I alone?

"Gravity estimations with Staggered Difference-in-differences" ideas.repec.org/p/ris/drxlwp/2… Most credit for our new working paper goes to my brilliant co-author Arne J. Nagengast Deutsche Bundesbank. Thanks to all colleagues who gave us great comments and suggestions! @EconTwitter

Yet another excellent Trade Talks Podcast episode. This one provides insight into the Chinese shipbuilding sector and the industrial policy that contributed it its rise of the past 25 years or so. tradetalkspodcast.com/podcast/194-in…

#LasPalmasRealMadrid commentary on ESPN+ goes toe to toe with a good-night-sleep story. Where is the energy lads?

I am very grateful to Jesse LaBelle, InmaMartinez, and Ana Maria Santacreu for the hard work to create this amazing dataset, and also very happy that we can make it available to the research community and policy makers.

In a famous paper, Kehoe and Ruhl (2013) found that “least traded products” - products that are not traded or only lightly traded - tend to be important sources of trade growth following an FTA.

Would it not be nice to have the ability of adding more than 4 apps in the Apple iPhone dock? I certainly believe so.

Last year's St. Louis Fed Professors Conference was a great one (see below). If you're an economics professor/instructor, we'd love to see you at this year's event (November 7-8). events.stlouisfed.org/event/ee46ad48…

The is a principle known as the Charleston’s Fence, which is always worth remembering.“ Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place.” More, if needed, can be found here fs.blog/chestertons-fe…

EMERGENCY PODCAST EPISODE Trade Talks is back! Tariffs from the new U.S. President call for an emergency relaunch of the longstanding trade podcast. Aime Williams joins to explain what happened with Canada, Mexico, and China. tradetalkspodcast.com/podcast/201-tr…

Trump’s tariff announcement on April 2 was so big, Soumaya Keynes joined Chad P. Bown to cohost an emergency episode. They cover history, the dollar, and even the U.S. legal system to clarify what we know about the tariff actions so far. EPISODE #207: tradetalkspodcast.com/podcast/207-wh…