[ON AIR] It is expected to generate billions of dollars for Senegal and boost its economy. #AfricaInBusiness #ChannelAfrica

Just published in Journal of Public Economics: "Job displacement costs of phasing out coal" by Juan Pablo Rud (Royal Holloway Economics Department), Michael Simmons (Umeå University), @GerhardToews, & Fernando Aragon (SFU Economics).

Some thoughts on major future economic stabilization challenges, populism, protectionism. shorturl.at/Ck86N last panel. My 15 minute intervention at 5 minutes in. (but the whole panel is worth listening to. 😀)

My new working paper with Roosevelt Institute on how neoliberalism failed rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/h…

Joseph E. Stiglitz Roosevelt Institute The paper you are morally obligated to write, Joe, is one which explains why Joe Stiglitz-endorsed socialism failed in Venezuela and why Joe Stiglitz-endorsed socialism led to serfdom in Venezuela.

Recent advances in applied micro and econometrics. A reading list: christinecai.github.io/PublicGoods/ap…

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Just published in Journal of Public Economics: "How fiscally autonomous are local governments? An empirical test" By Nicola Mauri (Université de Lausanne) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

你是否曾好奇，50年、100年或更久以前，人们的日常生活是什么样的？ 这里有一个罕见的回顾系列： 1. 这是一家看起来真正很幸福的家庭，美国，1959年

Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway $BRK.B just reported its Q3 earnings and there's some MASSIVE news within Here's a thread with the biggest information for Buffett's Q3 earnings ⬇️🧵

China Struggles to Drive EV Adoption in Small Towns and Cities Siyi Mi:✍️ “A slowdown in China means a slowdown for the world,” “It’s challenging now to push EV adoption into small towns and cities,” she said. “From a policy perspective, there are not many tools left the

Trade-driven deforestation in Brazil compromises forests' ability to filter air pollutants, leading to 700,000 premature cardio-respiratory deaths over two decades, from Xinming Du, Lei Li, and eric zou nber.org/papers/w33143

🚨 Job Market Paper Alert🚨 What happens when OPEC’s market power meets climate policies? 🌍💡 Check out my JMP ‘Pump it? Market Power and the Energy Transition in the Global Oil Market’ 🧵 (1/10) Website: bit.ly/3YXhT5Y Paper: bit.ly/4ezywdU #EconTwitter

Just published in Journal of Public Economics: "The value of electricity reliability: Evidence from battery adoption" By David Brown (University of Alberta) & Lucija Muehlenbachs (U Calgary, Resources for the Future) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Guys, Are you ready for a Trump tariff thread and what this means? This is going to be a bit of a technical one but I'll make it easy & fun & we'll go through literature & analysis. Let's go.

I instantly lose respect for anyone who posts on LinkedIn. Unbearably cringe.

Alex This isn’t really true… the long term trend shows that prices have flattened out, to a large extent. We’ve reached the point of diminishing returns, the technology is mature and mass produced. Cost of raw materials is becoming significant. There appears to be room in the

We must stop focusing hydrogen research and investment into dead-ends. EVs out-sell fuel cell cars 1000:1. Find out what's hot and what's not as the famous Michael Liebreich - @MLiebreich.bsky.social Hydrogen Ladder enters the peer-reviewed literature. New paper in Nature Reviews: nature.com/articles/s4435…

Global hydrogen demand has grown 𝟯𝘅 𝘀𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿than experts predicted. For 50 years, analysts projected rapid uptake (6-15% pa.). Instead hydrogen tracks global GDP @ ~3% pa. Will hydrogen finally take off - or are we still being too optimistic? 📖nature.com/articles/s4435…

For those of you that really want to nerd out ERCOT did a study in 2018 about the dynamical effects associated with high renewable penetrations. A lot of the favorite new concepts we've learned with the Iberian blackout showed up here: interarea oscillations, dampening,