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DEADLINE DAY CALL!!! Call for Expressions of Interest! WE ARE IN NEED OF YOUR EXPERTISE!!! Join us on the road to redefining youth advocacy in resource mobilization. We seek qualified individuals to help us review and upgrade our strategic plan as we enter a new phase.

The brilliant Oleg Itskhoki and Dmitry Mukhin on tariffs and trade imbalance:

Terrific program for this year’s NBER Summer institute session on macro public finance, co-organized with Aleh, Dirk, and Florian. Join us there or watch the livestream! July 17!

ActionAid International Kenya (AAIK) invites applications for membership in its General Assembly. We seek Kenyan citizens with a demonstrated commitment to combating poverty and injustice, willing to serve in a voluntary governance capacity. Applications are due by June 20,

Harvard’s N. Gregory Mankiw ’80 joined Alan Blinder ’67 for a Princeton Reunions talk hosted by the The Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies on "What Does the Fiscal Future Hold?" Read here for more info and photos: bit.ly/3HQUjD1

We discuss the elephant chart, globalization, household surveys, Smith, Rawls, Ricardo...

And now the book is available!

Institutional economists engaging with culture Daron Acemoglu & James Robinson have a new, interesting paper on culture. In a rather Weberian way, they argue that politics, institutions and culture are “co-determined.” Free download of preprint version: nber.org/system/files/w…

Slides for today's NBER ITI session on trade war, streamed here: nber.org/conferences/si… dropbox.com/scl/fi/d7nhquk…

Tax rates deserve the attention they get in the public debate. But what the government asks you to reveal for tax purposes can matter a lot too. Our paper on the French wealth tax shows how powerful information requirements can be. Summary here.👇

In a new op-ed Esther Duflo reminds us: “'Development aid is not a waste of public money.” 📖 Read via Le Monde: lemonde.fr/en/opinion/art…

Evaluating Laffer curves produced by reforms to nonlinear income taxes, focusing on individual taxpayers, from Ana Gamarra Rondinel, James R. Hines Jr., and José F. Sanz-Sanz nber.org/papers/w34059

📢 #TaxTransparency: OECD releases data exchange formats for the global minimum tax and crypto reporting, as well as a set of new FAQs to support CARF and CRS reporting. 🔗 Learn more: brnw.ch/21wUwFC

A wonderful opportunity to contribute to ATAF’s work on tax and gender!

🗞️ [OUT NOW] This new report presents a revised version of the transparency framework under #BEPS Action 5, resulting from an effectiveness review conducted to enhance the operation of the standard on the exchange of information on tax rulings. ➡️ oe.cd/6aj

OECD’s Tax Policy Reforms 2025 is out today analysing the tax reforms implemented in 2024 across 86 jurisdictions. Read the press release and learn more: brnw.ch/21wVFab #TPR2025

🚀 Calling all policymakers, program implementers, and M&E pros! J-PAL’s free, self-paced #EvaluatingSocialPrograms course launches September 16. Learn how to design randomized evaluations and use evidence to measure what works. bit.ly/3VHBfLa

Deadline for PEIO 2026: September 30.

📆 Save the date: the 3rd edition of the World Inequality Conference will take place on 4–5 June 2026 at Paris School of Economics. The call for papers is open until December 1. 🔗 More details & submission: inequalitylab.world/en/event/world… The conference is organized in partnership