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We are hosting a conference in honour of Emeritus Professor Alan Woodland. Join us in celebrating his remarkable and lasting contributions to economics. Registration: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/conference...

MARKET POWER IS POWER New working paper with @bartonelee2.bsky.social Thread below! 1/5 gratton.org/papers/Marke...

The Economic Journal Editorial Board and Royal Economic Society are delighted to welcome three new Editors this spring: Esteban M. Aucejo, Pauline Grosjean, and Marta Serra-Garcia. 👉 bit.ly/4daRPwv @unswecon.bsky.social @resmedia.bsky.social @academic.oup.com #EconSky

PhD student Daniel Robbins presented a novel framework, grounded in endogenous growth theory, used to measure firms’ age-heterogeneous responsiveness to R&D incentives.

Great to see this finally on The Economic Journal site! “From Gridlock to Polarisation?” (with @bartonelee2.bsky.social and @marcjacob.bsky.social ). academic.oup.com/ej/article/d...

This week our PhD student Danyue Liang presented her paper which examines whether exposure to a female mayor during high school affects students' college application ambition.

Delighted to see this review of @drodrik.bsky.social’s stimulating new book out in “Economic Record”, co-authored with @grattonecon.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our PhD student, Jacky Hsueh, presented a New Keynesian model with job-to-job search that he developed to investigate whether the surge in remote work following the pandemic affected the steepness of the Philips Curve in the United States.

Sydney Phiri presented a framework linking measurement error of inflation and output to misclassification of shocks as demand-driven or supply-driven and showed how misdiagnosis weakens the benefits of responding differently to demand versus supply inflation.

Sharunya Gnanasubramaniam presented her results from a field experiment which show that credible coordination can stabilise infrastructure maintenance under climate stress by sustaining cooperative beliefs and counteracting the material disincentives created by scarcity.

BusinessThink on our paper with @bartonelee2 and Hasin Yousaf, “Bad Democracy Traps” “Why we don’t trust politicians (and what this means for democracy)” www.businessthink.unsw.edu.au/articles/tru...

Seminar today: Laurenz Guenther exploring the role of political representation gaps in fuelling the rise of anti-immigration far-right populism in Europe.

PhD student Pakasa Bary presented his paper which documents a steepening of the Phillips Curve after the pandemic and develops a macro framework linking this shift to changes in remote working.

New site live! resilientdemocracylab.org

Today, our fantastic PhD student GVA Dharanan presented an early draft of his paper on efficiency in a private information multi-unit auction with externalities and the conditions under which this efficiency is achievable.

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Our Master of Economics is back!!! 🥳🎖️🙌🎉 Want to know more about this exciting Masters program? We've got you covered with a short video here: thebox.unsw.edu.au/video/mec-hero

🚨 Join us in Sydney for the 3rd UNSW Resilient Democracy Lab Workshop 26-27 Feb 2026 Info, program, and registration👇 www.resilientdemocracylab.org/events

Our very own Timothy Neal's research was cited and quoted in the NYT article about the recent high-profile retraction in climate science. Read the article ungated here: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/b...

Four more days to apply!

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Our PhD student Takeshi Yamamoto recently presented his research exploring how best to chair a committee using a model where a committee chair chooses the timing of their speech to try to achieve the best decision.

🕵️‍♂️Some of you have yet to apply to our @unswecon.bsky.social junior position, and I can't fathom why. 👀 DEADLINE: November 28. QUESTION? Email me. LINK: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

🚨 POSTDOC POSITION 🚨 Pauline Grosjean, Ieda Matavelli, Ralph De Haas and I are hiring a postdoc for our projects on masculinity in economics. Position is 2 years, at UNSW In Sydney, Australia. Starting Sept 2026. Please reach out with any questions. Apply: econjobmarket.org/positions/12...

This Friday seminar: @anjaprummer.bsky.social uncovering the virtue of divisive designs in optimal mechanisms.

PHd student seminar: Zhuoran Du presented his research on credibility in economics publications, comparing what a "z curve" model predicts against what actually replicates.

>the< place for fascinating papers: @theeconjournal.bsky.social 👇 @resmedia.bsky.social

My latest Economics Explained column in the Australian Financial Review points out that company taxes fall mainly on households. That they hit young, low-skilled, and female workers the hardest. And that they made the income tax schedule 40% less progressive.

Fascinating paper by @grattonecon.bsky.social, @bartonelee2.bsky.social, and Hasin Yousaf! The paper addresses a fundamental question: Why do some democracies chronically avoid ambitious, long-term reforms even when they have decent institutions? They argue that what matters is not only

Coogee-Bondi coastal walk Phenomenally gorgeous day

I’m going all the way to Bondi if it kills me because that’s where the gelato is

Amazing keynote by the one and only @dynarski.bsky.social on what works for greater equity and inclusion in the education system 📊🎢🎟️✨💫🌟

Day 2 of Step Up (“What works in education?”) is kicking off with our own @masyhurh.bsky.social talking about a randomised trial of vocational training in Indonesia 🇮🇩!

Us with @grattonecon.bsky.social and @economeager.bsky.social

STEP UP 2025 'What works in education? is underway!

Gorgeous lively morning on Coogee Beach

Good morning! It’s Thursday here Getting ready to start a conference on what works in education at UNSW @unswecon.bsky.social

🎈2 ARC Discovery Grants announced today for our school! 1. @profholden.bsky.social, Hongyi Li & Robert Akerlof: "The Economics of Limited Computational Capacity" 2. Pei Cheng Yu & coauthors: "Crafting Policies for Unpredictable Technological Impacts on Income" Congrats to both teams!🥂

Apps close Nov 28 🚨

#EconSky this is a great and actually open opportunity. Plan accordingly. @duus.bsky.social

This week’s PhD seminar featured Joanna Bleakley and her research on how best to estimate the effect of monetary policy on the macroeconomy using structural vector autoregressions (SVARs), evaluating which SVAR identification schemes are most effective in different contexts.

There's still time to join us in Sydney! Keynote speakers are Vipin Arora (U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis), Catherine de Fontenay ( @pc.gov.au & Economic Society of Australia) & @graftonquentin.bsky.social (Australian National University). @unswecon.bsky.social @kevinfoxecon.bsky.social

Preparing some (ambitious 🤣) slides for this year's @unswecon.bsky.social Annual Honours Alumni Event.

It's not our style to speculate on others' budgetary issues, But you may want to know we are hiring on this year's junior JM. 😉

ePODstemology is back! Patrick Vu from @unswecon.bsky.social discusses the replication crisis, preregistration, null results, publication bias, open science, and all the other philosophy of science issues stalking psychology (and other social sciences!): www.buzzsprout.com/1763534/epis...

🚨NEW VERSION IS HERE!!! 🔥ADDING FUEL TO THE (GUN)FIRE 2.0❤️‍🔥 LINK: gratton.org/papers/Addin... A short 🧵 👇 1/8

honestly we think these four pictures alone are enough of a solid argument for anyone to apply to UNSW!

We are really excited to have one or more slots this year. I'm personally very aware of how much incredible talent is coming up on the market -- the fact that we can make one or more hires this round is great news for us. Juniors are what make a department exciting, relevant and good. Apply!