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Congratulations Diego, very deserving —have been increasingly impressed ever since we met at the LSE cep computer lab in spring 1994?

How costly are port disruptions? In this volatile environment, what are the returns to investment in infrastructure? How frequent do macroeconomic shocks need to be to warrant investment? It's all in our new working paper 1/5 #ports: nber.org/papers/w32503?…

📃new WP 📃 Lennart Stangenberg and I show in an experiment how the prospect of innovations that reduce the cost of nullifying the negative externalities associated with CO2 emissions hampers society's ability to coordinate on collective action now. drive.google.com/file/d/1tzIj_1…

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP19098 #Investment in Infrastructure and Trade: The Case of Ports Giulia Brancaccio NYU Stern, Myrto Kalouptsidi Harvard University, Theodore Papageorgiou Boston College ow.ly/2gem50RYGL3 #CEPR_IO #CEPR_ITRE #CEPR_MG

thank you VoxDev for featuring our work! voxdev.org/topic/firms/im…

Belated congratulations to a superb scholar and public intellectual on his election to the National Academy of Sciences!

Delighted to participate at Euro UEA 2024 kaj copenhagen BUILD, Aarhus U presenting joint paper with Shengbin Wei, now at BC,"The Global Leapfrogging of Urban Growth: 3700 BC--2000 CE", surrounded by lots of bright young economists amidst the exploding interest in urban economics!

Terrific and fascinating!

Note yet another presentation of Songlines! Thank you Aldo Elizalde

Did you know that, on average, your enemies have more enemies than you do? It's known as the "enmity paradox" in social network analysis. And in this time of polarization in our society, it's interesting to contemplate. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Last day of the Berlin School of Economics Quantitative Spatial Economics course. So much work, so much learning (students and teachers), and so much fun! Wonderful cohort doing great modeling: sites.google.com/view/bqse/bqse… 📢We'll have spots for visitors in 2025 if you are up for the challenge!📢😉

Very thoughtful essay by Penny Koujianou Goldberg. Wondering, was the new law based on some in-depth study? Is Greece’s Six-Day Work Week a Harbinger? by Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg Project Syndicate?referral=8bb2c7 prosyn.org/tLLdtUj

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Fantastic, Eirene! Warmest congratulations!

To Overleaf users: does any of you experience while on it an intermittent keyboard failure or is it my Lenovo vintage 2017?

So many things have been ignored while she was VP, sharp,articulate, warm,affable,multilingual incl.Indian ones,former prosecutor,esp, needed since too many lenient judges have gone all out to favor the opponent; her assignments she didn’t choose,Oval Office ran policy, not hers.

This looks interesting! WWI soldiers exposed to left-wing partisans within their regiment were vote more for the left after the war. web.stanford.edu/~saumitra/pape…

This beautiful moving song is about Cyprus on the 50th anniversary of the tragedies that divided Cyprus.Happy that thanks to Chris Pissarides and George Constantinides I contributed constructively to the Econ dept at U Cyprus! youtu.be/YnDvx7lpDJo?si…

Unbelievable that he is getting away with all that!

Wonderful session Urbanization&urban systems,2024 UEA Washington DC, curated/chaired by Frederic Robert-Nicoud, with fascinating papers by GSEM's Frederic Robert-Nicoud et al., MIT's Albert Saiz et al. ,capucine_riom and delighted to present "Songlines" with Aldo Elizalde & Sotiris Kampanelis