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!

Hello everyone, we have an important announcement: We are hiring on the junior market. Please send us your applications -- we want to recruit the best and brightest to join our exciting department. We may also hire at senior levels. Apps Close November 28th econjobmarket.org/positionGrou...

We are hiring! Join us in Sydney.

We are hiring! Join us in Sydney.

If I were a JMC, I would jump at this headfirst…

🚨 WE @unswecon.bsky.social ARE HIRING! 🚨 JMC: apply and email/DM for any question! A short 🧵 on @unswecon.bsky.social and why you want to apply and join us in Sydney👇 econjobmarket.org/positionGrou...

Yay Australia, come here it's great—we have beaches, kangaroos, and democracy! 🦘 (I don't want to know what the increase is in people I am competing against for faculty positions in Australia now 😬)

pleasantly surprised we're top of the list. would be nice if we upped science funding to match!

Congratulations to our own Loretti Isa Dobrescu and coauthors on this new publication!

Our PhD student Sydney Chauwa Phir on the welfare impact of misclassifying demand and supply shocks in a New Keynesian framework where monetary policy reacts more to demand-driven than supply-driven inflation.

Many congratulations to our friends at @econ.uzh.ch!!

Today’s seminar: Our super PhD student (on the market this year 😉) @a-calder.bsky.social presenting her work uncovering the effects of the US civil war on the timing and geographical spread of the social and political movement for women suffrage.

PhD candidate Sharunya Gnanasubramaniam presented today on her design for a field experiment which will consider tank-irrigated farming as a 'coupled-commons system' and test whether the erosion of one public good (extent of cultivation) crowds out contributions to another (public good maintenance)

Nice framework. And the normative complement would be that it is OK for majorities in power to delegate to technocratic bodies when they fear their future selves (the usual time inconsistency argument), but not OK when they want to lock in policy because the opposition might rule in the future.

🦘Join us in Sydney, Australia - Conference registrations now open! The UNSW Centre for Applied Economic Research and ESCoE will hold a conference on 8-9 December 2025 at UNSW Sydney, Australia. Register by 24 November 2025: tinyurl.com/5y7ks9c3 @unswecon.bsky.social @kevinfoxecon.bsky.social

we appreciate you joey

The whole gang or at least a representative sample of the gang is here for Open Day 2025 !! Stop by the Tyree room, top floor of the Scientia building, Kensington campus. We’re here all day!

I'm advertising for 2 full-time pre-docs at the Manos Institute for Cognitive Economics at UNSW. If you've got a strong honors degree in economics or computer science check us out at cognitiveeconomics.com. external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5346…. @cognitiveeconomics.bsky.social

Steven Callander (Stanford) revealing the secrets of the strategic interaction between seeking expert advice and accumulating own experience. Steve is a frequent visitor to our school and one of our most outstanding honours alumni (class of 1996 🎓)

🚨Announcing the 2025 Australian Political Economy Workshop (APEN 2025) 18 November, @unswecon.bsky.social ‪@lalthoff.bsky.social‬, @kathrynbaragwanath.bsky.social, P Bhattacharya, R Dahis, @anjaprummer.bsky.social , D Strömberg, L Welnner REGISTER AT sites.google.com/view/apenetw...

Hyping! 2025 Australian Political Economy Workshop @unswecon.bsky.social, 18 November Announcements, emails, speakers list coming this week!

@vicbar.bsky.social @ralphdehaas.bsky.social @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social & I Matavelli show that adherence to masculinity norms strongly predicts men's labour supply, risk-taking, health behaviours, and support for authoritarian leadership. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

Big congratulations to our friends @dmckenzie.bsky.social, @leoiacovone.bsky.social and our own @economeager.bsky.social for this writeup in UNSW's Business Think! Click below for an accessible walk-through of their forthcoming paper in Econometrica -> www.businessthink.unsw.edu.au/articles/col...

Today’s econ seminar featured Ruben Durante presenting amazing work on the effect of GenAI on demand for news (joint with @filipecampante.bsky.social and @ananyasen.bsky.social)

A couple of weeks ago we launched the Manos Institute for Cognitive Economics here @UNSW. I'm proud to serve as Director. Our mission is to understand the limits of human computational capacity and the individual reasoning process. Check out what we’re doing at cognitiveeconomics.com

My latest AFR column. We need: “To rely on youth–not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.” Are you up for that PM? www.afr.com/policy/econo...

Here we go! First plenary event at @sioecon.bsky.social 2025 in Sydney.

Me: "YAY conference in Australia!!" Silly people: "Oh but that's so far..." Counterpoint: #SIOE2025 @unswecon.bsky.social