🚨 We're hiring an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Economics Only 5 days left to apply. See details 👇

New in @bjpols.bsky.social! Dave Hope, @lhaffert.bsky.social and I show that low taxes on the rich have a hidden cost: They undermine public support for broad-based taxation. 🖋️ cup.org/45lgPwN

Pierre-Louis Vezina, Cevat Giray Aksoy, and Piotr Lewandowski show that, far from displacing local businesses, Ukrainian refugees in Poland sparked an entrepreneurial boom as they inspired Polish entrepreneurs and created new supply chain opportunities. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

Out on @voxeu.org today: A column summarizing our recent research on the entrepreneurship effect of Ukrainian refugees in Poland 👇

📢 #CallForPapers 7th Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration CEPR @ebrd.bsky.social King's College London & Sapienza University are co-organising a workshop on 28-29 May 2026 in Rome Submit by 23 January cepr.org/events/7th-w... @micheledimaio.bsky.social @plvezina.bsky.social #EconSky

🚨 PhD Opportunity on the Economics of AI 🚨 I'm recruiting a fully funded 3.5-year PhD student to study how generative AI is transforming UK labour markets! This position is a unique collaboration between King's College London and the AI Security Institute.

💡 LOFT Conference Coming to London 💡 A call for papers has been issued ahead of the 2026 Conference on Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory (LOFT), the first time the event has been held in London, and it's coming to King's! More here 👇 sites.google.com/view/loft2026

We got a new paper out on Ukrainian #refugee entrepreneurs in Poland, with Cevat Giray Aksoy and Piotr Lewandowski. Check it out here: cevatgirayaksoy.com/wp-content/u... and see below for a THREAD!!! 👇 #EconTwitter

We got a VoxDev column out! ==> Meng Yu Ngov, Pierre-Louis Vézina, Trang Thu Tran & Gaurav Nayyar show that Vietnam's solar boom was built on three key pillars: voxdev.org/topic/energy...

🚨🚨🚨 Job alert! 🚨🚨🚨 The Department of Political Economy @kcl-spe.bsky.social are hiring a permanent Lecturer in Economics. It's a fantastic department that's really going places. Please share widely! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPL723/l...

This Wednesday we are very happy to be hosting Eleonora Alabrese (@eleala.bsky.social, U. of Bath) on "Bad Science: Retractions and Media Coverage". Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

Tremendous turnout for the launch of my wonderful @kcl-spe.bsky.social colleague @rubenruizrufino.bsky.social's timely new book. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

📢 We’re hiring! King's College London Political Economy is recruiting an Assistant Professor (Lecturer in the UK system) in Economics. Apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130885-... Feel free to contact me for information about the role and our department. @kcl-spe.bsky.social @kingsqpe.bsky.social

📣Call for papers now open for our annual Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration. Rome🔥, May 28-29, 2026. More details below👇

CfP🗣️: 7th edition of the Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration. 28-29 May 2026, in Rome! Organised by CEPR/King's College/EBRD/Sapienza Keynotes are Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi) and Vicky Fouka (Stanford). Submit your papers: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Deadline 23 Jan. 🤓🔥🍕🍝🍷

We're hiring a Full Prof in Economics (open-field) at the Econ dept in King's Business School. Come join us in central London - apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/12... #Econsky 1/2

This Wednesday we are very happy to be hosting Sandra Sequeira (LSE) on "Financial Security, Climate Shocks, and Social Cohesion". Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

It was a pleasure to host the 2nd Transatlantic Political Economy Conference (T-PEC) earlier this week, organized by our own Cevat Aksoy, @nicolasajz.bsky.social and @clpennec.bsky.social. Thanks to all speakers, discussants and attendees, and special thanks to Elias Papaioannou for his keynote.

Working from home expands the ability of people in rural areas, with family and outside commitments to work. This should increase employment for potentially millions globally, from Cevat Giray Aksoy, @nickbloom.bsky.social, Steven J. Davis, Victoria Marino, and ... https://www.nber.org/papers/w33851

NEW - Globalization, Higher Education, and Neoliberal Values: Evidence from the Bologna Process - https://cup.org/3LG3lVj - @mgiani.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Are university still a left-wing thing in Europe? Unsure: HE is a hierarchical institution with egalitarian employees I find that universities increasingly inculcate selfish career concerns for status while leaving universalist concerns for global justice unchanged

📢 Event Announcement! Join us on December 3rd afternoon at King’s College London for our upcoming London Inequality Workshop. We’ll have three excellent speakers, followed by informal drinks nearby! ✅ Planning to attend? Please register here: tinyurl.com/LINWorkshop12

🆕 Enemies of the people: How Stalin’s Gulags shaped Russia Gerhard Toews (New Economic School) & Pierre-Louis Vézina (King's College London) discuss how Stalin’s forced deportation of educated ‘enemies of the people’ inadvertently concentrated human capital in Gulag towns: https://ow.ly/Eceb50Xch32

Stalin’s forced deportation of educated ‘enemies of the people’ inadvertently concentrated human capital in Gulag towns, fostering inter-generational prosperity and long-term development despite the destructive intent of the repression. Read today's article to learn more:

Congrats to Joel Mokyr on winning the Economics Nobel Prize! Throwback to two years ago, when he visited King's College London and gave a talk on his upcoming book about Europe and China's divergent economic and political paths over the past millennium youtu.be/Ti8JkeXrDqs?... @kcl-spe.bsky.social

This Wednesday we are very happy to be hosting Massimo Morelli (Bocconi) on "The Financial Drivers of Populism in Europe" Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

This Wednesday we are very happy to be hosting Massimo Morelli (Bocconi) on "The Financial Drivers of Populism in Europe" Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

Today is the deadline for submission! 📢Call for Abstracts: PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference at King’s College London 📅 Date: 26th Nov 2025 ✍️ CfA: 400 words (by 29th Sep) ➡️ Details & Application Form: tinyurl.com/5n7xv5cr

Kicking off this year's seminar series with Lucy Barnes (@lucy-barnes.bsky.social) on "Economic Orientations and Preferences Over Redistributive Taxation." Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are? @simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions Thread 🧵1/10

New WP thread! 🤓 Vietnam's solar panel exports boomed between 2018 and 2022. With my PhD student Meng Yu Ngov, Trang Thu Tran, and Gaurav Nayyar we look at how this industry success can be attributed to attracting FDI and importing parts and components, as well to Chinese subsidy spillovers.👇

Apply to our (virtual) seminar series to discuss your research in French Economic History ! Deadline 29th August

📣Conference announcement: Our PhD students are organizing a graduate conference. See call below. Call for abstracts: PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference at King's College London Conference date: 26 Nov 2025 Abstract submission deadline: 29 Sep Apply here (+ details): tinyurl.com/5n7xv5cr

Join us at King's College London for a great seminar series in Quantitative Political Economy! If you're in London and would like to join, let me know

🔥 Excited to share our 2025/26 QPE Seminar lineup! Externals welcome. Please get in touch at [email protected] or [email protected]. 📅 Full schedule 👇

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🚨 New paper in Science Advances @science.org Can changing how we argue about politics online improve the quality of replies we get? T HeideJorgensen, @gregoryeady.bsky.social & I use an LLM to manipulate counter-arguments to see how people respond to different approaches to arguments Thread 🧵1/n

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Very pleased that our local projections dif-in-dif paper is now out in the Journal of Applied Econometrics. Joint with @dgirardi.bsky.social, Jorda, and Taylor. It's a tool that we think many applied economists will find useful (indeed many already have). 🧵

Link to the paper: doi.org/10.1002/jae.... Slides deck: danielegirardi.github.io/posts/docume... lpdid STATA command: github.com/danielegirar... [or just type "ssc install lpdid, replace" in STATA] [4/4]

Our Local Projections Difference-in-Differences (LP-DiD) paper is out in the Journal of Applied Econometrics. LP-DiD is a convenient, flexible and computationally fast framework for estimating DiD using simple well-specified regressions.... [1/4]

Arti Grover & Pierre-Louis Vezina find an increasing role for political alignment or differences in shaping companies' location decisions. Geopolitical differences have a larger negative impact on #FDI today than they did 10 years ago. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

@guglielmobarone.bsky.social‬, David Chilosi, @carciccar.bsky.social, & Guido de Blasio challenge the idea that unification increased Italy's North-South divide and find that neither region experienced widespread benefits from the united state. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky #Italy

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🆕 The number of people in the #UK living below the Happiness Poverty Line is rising, according to a new report authored by our academic Dr Maria Cotofan with the World Wellbeing Movement 📝

📢 Just out: Our new policy brief for @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social! 🧠 We distill cutting-edge findings from the 6th Workshop on the Economics & Politics of Migration that policy audiences can't afford to miss 📄 Read it here: stderr-editors.com/blog/how-mig... #EconSky #Immigration

Our academic, @mehmetmars7.bsky.social brought insights from his #gametheory research to a global audience at the prestigious Norway Chess tournament ♟️📺 Read more ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/academi...

🚨🚨Job alert!!🚨🚨 The Department of Political Economy at KCL is hiring 3(!) permanent education track lecturers. We are looking for outstanding scholars interested in research-led education in the following areas... 1/

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Research by Dr Cevat Giray Aksoy on hybrid working and changing labour markets features in a new @financialtimes.com article on the return of office mandates 💼 Read it here 👇 www.ft.com/content/f583...