So happy to see our paper accepted by RES! We find that digital advertising boosts consumer welfare. The high-income benefit from reduced prices. The low-income benefit from free media goods brought by digital ads. They spend more time on leisure and have a drop in real income.

We are looking for four PhD economists to join the WTO ‘s Economic Research and Statistics Division. Please take a look at the following link for more information about this exciting opportunity: wto.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External…

Super excited to be presenting my work with Daniela Vidart in the NBER Summer Institute this week. Bright and early Friday morning in Behavioral Macro. Be there or be square!

A great opportunity for the Asian IO community and probably one of the best annual IO conferences in Asia-Pacific

Thrilled to see our article in print! Jobs in Peru require a wider range of skills compared to similar roles in the US. For a shorter take, check out our VoxDev piece. UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy UCSD Development Economics 👉voxdev.org/topic/labour-m…

Jonathan Eaton was an exceptional scholar and a wonderful mentor. Cecilia Fieler and I wrote an intellectual obituary describing his academic work and legacy that was just posted on VoxEU. cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…

@EconUCSD congratulates UCSD PhD alum Carlos Góes (Carlos Goes) on winning the @WTO 2024 Essay Award for Young Economists. Seen here with WTO Director-General Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Brilliant work by Carlos, UCSD Econ winners for two years running.

Matching frictions and increasing returns to scale in matching between suppliers and buyers drive the agglomeration of economic activity. Revealed by the matching rates after unanticipated supplier bankruptcy and a general equilibrium trade model econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

Truly honored to be awarded this prize together with my amazing coauthors Chris Edmond and virgiliu midrigan. Bob Lucas has long been an academic hero and a great source of inspiration to me — receiving this prize in his name is so amazing. Thanks JPE committee!

I'm hiring RAs to work on data analysis for projects on education, infrastructure, and political economy in Latin America. Spanish/Portuguese language helpful; remote work possible. Please share, and/or apply! Links in next tweet. #econra Econ RA Listings #EconSky

Looking for a predoctoral opportunity for next year? Join Dani Rodrik and me at the Reimagining the Economy Project Harvard Kennedy School hks.harvard.edu/centers/wiener…

How agricultural productivity gaps have evolved over the last four decades, from Douglas Gollin, David Lagakos, Xiao Ma, and Shraddha Mandi nber.org/papers/w33529

🚨Excited for incredible lineup at NBER conference on **Energy Markets, Decarbonization, and Trade** 🗓️This Thurs/Fri 3/20-21: Organized w Natalia Ramondo, supported by Sloan Foundation Full agenda and streaming link in next post below👇

My Op Ed with Professor James Heckman Prof. James Heckman wsj.com/opinion/the-re…

A beta version of my slide deck for my upcoming lecture on Geoeconomics at Oxford this Friday is now online: sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Lectu… I’m looking for feedback: What else should I include? Are there any important citations I might have missed? Please note: I don’t have room for

Post-doc opportunity. Please apply if you are interested in firm-to-firm trade networks: 👇 aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

VoxDev has a great summary of our new paper. The lesson is also relevant for the design of domestic offset market for China’s national ETS.

Our new paper on industrial policy in the renewal energy sector — a comparison between the U.S., EU, and China and an inquiry for potential green policy coordination.

My new paper with Aaron Flaaen, Ali Hortacsu, Felix Tintelnot, and Nicolas Urdaneta on tariff passthrough along the supply chain.

Proud UCSDEcon student Paula Donaldson Paula Donaldson discovered something huge: We have been measuring government spending effects wrong for years. When using state comparisons to estimate fiscal policy, we assumed interest rates affect all states equally. But they don't🧵