Rick Mishkin on Stanley Fischer, his former PhD thesis advisor at MIT.

Congratulations to Daron Acemoğlu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson. Here is Daron in 2010 on the changes in how economists do research. Full interview: simonbowmaker.com/s/Acemoglu.pdf

You can watch my full remarks about this and the following conversation with Lisa Abramowicz and NYU Stern's Richard Berner here: sffed.us/486M2nE

Gabriel Toledo (Gabriel Toledo) is a macro and labor economist studying the interaction between external labor markets for managers and firms' internal reallocation decisions. Learn more at gstoledo.github.io.

Hi, #EconTwitter! I want to share my JMP with you! How do firms find and replace managerial talent? Well, they can go out there and try to hire a good employee from another firm, which might be costly and involve frictions... ...or they can look for them inside the firm! (1/n)

Does the Federal Reserve need more regional banks in the West? The US population and biz are rapidly moving south and west. John Dearie argues at least 5 of the 12 reserve banks should be in western cities. (Currently just 3 are). He suggests adding Seattle and Phoenix. And

NYU Stern Economics is proud to announce its 2024 Job Market Candidates. Learn more at stern.nyu.edu/experience-ste… We will post a thread on each candidate on the following days!

Our featured job market candidate today is Youn Baek, who works on economic history and development.

Our featured job market candidate today is Chiara Gardenghi, an IO economist studying healthcare markets. In her JMP, she explores how manufacturers’ bundled discounts shape the take-up of childhood vaccines.

Our featured job market candidate today is Kazimier Smith, an applied microeconomist using IO techniques to study the economics of online platforms.

This is a great, old profile of Kevin Murphy. I just happened to come across it today when I was looking for something else. Full of great Murphy stories. magazine.uchicago.edu/0612/features/…

On this tariff day, I am happy to share the revised version of my paper "A Theory of International Boycotts". It's a cool piece to teach in an international trade class. Link in the first comment.

Tariffs, Trump, and the Global South on MSN msn.com/en-us/money/ma…

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How a brilliant Mexican economist paved the way for today’s Human Capital Index blogs.worldbank.org/en/investinpeo…

.Greg Ip, Chief Economics Commentator for The Wall Street Journal gives us an in-d analysis of Trump's economic score card in his first 100 days.

Happy birthday F.A. Hayek, born on this day in 1899. It is a good opportunity to read or reread his essay “The Use of Knowledge in Society”, which tylercowen called “the single greatest economics article ever written.” econlib.org/library/Essays…

Echoes of the 1970s. Switzerland pioneered negative interest rates in the 70s after the US suspended dollar convertibility into gold, the RoW questioned the dollar's reserve currency status and capital inflows into CH caused the franc to appreciate. h/t to Matteo Maggiori who

The turn away from free trade has been a major shift. In this episode of the Office Hours Podcast economists Tim Kehoe 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦 and Christopher Phelan share differing perspectives on how the President’s approach to trade policy is playing out for the United States. open.spotify.com/episode/6eBSDr…