Micael Castanheira
@micaelcasta.bsky.social
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Loves sunsets, kindness, and discussing economics.
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Yes! Yes, we are hiring! Two positions are opened, one in International Trade. The other one in Microeconomics. Full time. Great colleagues. Great location. Have you already applied ?
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
#job
#economics
#professorship
@ulbruxelles.bsky.social
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Erik Angner
about 22 hours ago
Maybe we shouldn't have trusted the cigarette companies when they praised the health benefits of cigarettes
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THE FAR SIDE DAILY
13 days ago
Elephan Gogh
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Robert Reich
13 days ago
America now has 935 billionaires with $8.1 trillion in collective wealth â a 20% increase from 2024. Meanwhile, the bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth. When 935 people control more wealth than half a countryâs population, we have a very serious problem.
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Many of us are struck by the combination of cleverness and pure inanity of many AI answers. Clever on some elaborate questions but not able to perform elementary fractions for instance. Now I better understand the reason:
msukhareva.substack.com/p/gpt-52-and...
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GPT-5.2 and Meaningless Benchmarks
Why ARC-AGI-2, AIME, and GDPval donât measure real capability
https://msukhareva.substack.com/p/gpt-52-and-meaningless-benchmarks
about 1 month ago
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Interesting. Do we have solid evidence that this is also the case in practice? I'd be happy to show whatever is the evidence in class.
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Gernot Wagner
3 months ago
ÂĄÂĄÂĄ100MWh battery!!!
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Joshua Goodman
3 months ago
Wow. This is the paper I have been waiting for. Mobile apps are brain rot, with meaningfully bad economic consequences for those who overuse them.
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Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...
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Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/science/nobel-prizes-science-basic-research.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
3 months ago
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Yes! Yes, we are hiring! Two positions are opened, one in International Trade. The other one in Microeconomics. Full time. Great colleagues. Great location. Have you already applied ?
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
#job
#economics
#professorship
@ulbruxelles.bsky.social
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American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2025 - January 31, 2026
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Ellen Prager, PhD
4 months ago
Let's look at the DATA! Not opinion, ideology, or politics. DATA and science. Climate change is not a hoax and the impacts are dire, costly and increasing. We have solutions to stem rising temperatures. We need investment, science-based policies and action đ§Șđ
climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/...
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Global Surface Temperature | NASA Global Climate Change
Vital Signs of the Planet: Global Climate Change and Global Warming. Current news and data streams about global warming and climate change from NASA.
https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/?intent=121
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James Medlock
4 months ago
How it started // How itâs going
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Benjamin Blumenthal
4 months ago
My paper "Voter Information and Distributive Politics" has been accepted for publication at the AEJ: Micro đ„ł Ungated version here:
osf.io/preprints/so...
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Olivier Simard-Casanova
4 months ago
97%
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Anne Applebaum
4 months ago
On MAGA International, from
@davidfrum.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Trump Is No Nationalist
The president and his followers are forging an international movement devoted to their authoritarian cause.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/maga-globalism/684143/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK38HByD3HgmGR1DKE-iDYWZA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Robert Reich
5 months ago
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
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UNSW Economics Dept
5 months ago
Todayâs 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
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EEA
5 months ago
More Award News from
#EEA25
Congrats to Julia Cagé & David Yanagizawa-Drott for their 2025 Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation Award, presented to them today
www.eeassoc.org/awards/yrjo-...
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George Akerlof is just as sharp as usual! When Trump Fires the Ref, What Game Are We Playing?
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/o...
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Opinion | When Trump Fires the Ref, What Game Are We Playing?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/opinion/trump-bls-fired-labor-jobs-data.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
6 months ago
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Larry the Cat
6 months ago
Horrible migrants are killing Europe, says horrible migrant arriving in Europe
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That's interesting : in an RCT, giving AI tools to developers actually slowed them down ! And yet, they are convinced they went faster.
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6 months ago
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Sad but seems right. Do far we still are dwarf Davids claiming to be Goliath
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7 months ago
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Time to buy pop corn (made in the EU) and watch the showđđŒ
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7 months ago
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Our World in Data
7 months ago
Read more about the role that vaccines have played in reducing child mortality:
ourworldindata.org/vaccines-chi...
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Vaccines have saved 150 million children over the last 50 years
Every ten seconds, one child is saved by a vaccine against a fatal disease.
https://ourworldindata.org/vaccines-children-saved
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Chad Loder
8 months ago
Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.
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Gabriel Zucman
8 months ago
A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich
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Keep going,
@valentimvicente.bsky.social
!
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8 months ago
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The growth of RW's clout is excellent for science, integrity, and general awareness. Kudos for all that
@retractionwatch.com
!
#science
#openscience
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8 months ago
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G Elliott Morris
8 months ago
open chart, keep scrolling down
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/republican...
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EU Tax Observatory
8 months ago
đĄ Mesurer lâĂ©vitement fiscal & environnemental: Notre collĂšgue
@mathieupar.bsky.social
, finaliste du Prix du meilleur jeune Ă©conomiste 2025, revient sur le pouvoir de marchĂ© des multinationales, lâoptimisation fiscale et la taxe carbone aux frontiĂšres.
@lemonde.fr
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Mathieu Parenti : « Mesurer lâĂ©vitement fiscal et environnemental »
A 39 ans, ce professeur Ă lâEcole dâĂ©conomie de Paris et chercheur Ă lâInrae sâintĂ©resse au commerce international et au rĂŽle des grandes entreprises dans la mondialisation.
https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2025/05/19/mathieu-parenti-mesurer-l-evitement-fiscal-et-environnemental_6607131_3234.html
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Just read this one: sound reset on what rankings do.
#econsky
theconversation.com/from-doing-b...
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From Doing Business to B-READY: World Bankâs new rankings represent a rebrand, not a revamp
The World Bank has long sought to replace itâs annual index that fell to scandal in 2021. But a new replacement repeats some of the flaws.
https://theconversation.com/from-doing-business-to-b-ready-world-banks-new-rankings-represent-a-rebrand-not-a-revamp-254958
9 months ago
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Chris Murphy
9 months ago
âDepartment of Government Efficiency.â
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John Holbein
10 months ago
Wow! Three scholars at Columbia, Michigan, & Maryland just introduced a measure of the partisan leanings of employers in the U.S. The data is constructed by linking voter registrations to online worker profiles. VRscores capture the political affiliations of 21.8M workers across 2.6M employers.
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Justin Wolfers
10 months ago
New chart just dropped.
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Tarik Abou-Chadi
10 months ago
For the
@economist.com
, I wrote about the Le Pen verdict. In liberal democracies, the law needs to be applied even if that strengthens the far right. But here, we should not just assume that this will help the RN. On the contrary. It's a good moment for democracy.
www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
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The Le Pen ruling is good for liberal democracy, writes Tarik Abou-Chadi
The Oxford professor says it shouldnât matter whether the verdict emboldens the hard right or not
https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2025/04/02/the-le-pen-ruling-is-good-for-liberal-democracy-writes-tarik-abou-chadi?giftId=aac4a37d-6fc2-4d3f-8969-2e7d6f8f50cf&utm_campaign=gifted_article
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EEA
10 months ago
Julia CagĂ© & David Yanagizawa-Drott awarded the 2025 Yrjö Jahnsson Award in Economics for their important contributions on political economy & the media, based on deep historical research in France, the USA, and Africa. Full info âčïžhttps://eeassoc.org/awards/yrjo-jahnsson-award
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Michael Wong
10 months ago
I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue Iâm editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.
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Guy Grossman
10 months ago
Please take a moment to watch this video. Says it as it is. So refreshing.
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We are honored to honor GĂ©rard! GĂ©rard's insights and high standards have strongly influenced my research and what I want to transmit to my own students today. Register promptly ! đđŒ
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Guntram Wolff
10 months ago
A great contribution to the question whether ESG rules prevent investing into defence by
@smerler.bsky.social
for
@bruegel.bsky.social
www.bruegel.org/analysis/sus...
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Sustainability rules are not a block on EU defence financing, but reputational fears are
To mobilise private capital for weapons, the European Commission should clarify the status of defence investing in its sustainable finance framework
https://www.bruegel.org/analysis/sustainability-rules-are-not-block-eu-defence-financing-reputational-fears-are#footnote7_57x7zgm
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Benjamin Blumenthal
10 months ago
Policymaking under Influence is now online (
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) at the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization! đ
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Policymaking under Influence
Abstract. Policymaking is an arduous process and politicians often fail to change the status quo despite their best efforts. I introduce the notion of infl
https://doi.org/10.1093/jleo/ewaf001
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That's the very definition of open secret đ€Ł
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This is a very interesting experiment. Point 1: it works. Point 2: We have no clue about long-term effects. I knew my way a lot better before GPS. I unlearned that: can there be negative side-effects on human expertise? -- 1/2
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Bruegel
10 months ago
đ Transatlantic clean investment monitor 3: battery manufacturing đ Check out the third installment of Bruegel and Rhodium Group's transatlantic clean investment monitor. đ Analysis here, first published 6th March:
buff.ly/UVumpW9
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)
10 months ago
Soviet joke Yuri Gagarinâs daughter answers the phone. âNo, mummy and daddy are out,â she says. âDaddyâs orbiting the earth, and heâll be back tonight at 7 oâclock. But mummyâs gone shopping for groceries, so who knows when sheâll be home.â (Source: Francis Spufford) đ§Ș
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Difficile mais nécessaire à entendre...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lh...
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Guerre en Ukraine : "Washington est devenu la cour de Néron", lance Claude Malhuret
YouTube video by Public Sénat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lh0TUTtvI
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Interesting:
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Jon Cooper
11 months ago
Let this sink in.
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Guntram Wolff
11 months ago
Investors dare to imagine a world beyond the dollar - If the EU could seize this moment and issue joint debt, it would tap in to a deep well of willing buyers keen to trim US exposure.
on.ft.com/4iHtsH1
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Investors dare to imagine a world beyond the dollar
The US could dismantle its own exorbitant privilege by pushing the big bond market beasts into the arms of others
https://on.ft.com/4iHtsH1
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While the
#trumpetshow
is a looming catastrophe for the USA and much of the world, it (reluctantly) puts the EU at the center of global
#safety
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#security
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#health
policies. Let's hope it's up to the task:
www.lalibre.be/debats/opini...
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La lutte contre les futures pandĂ©mies doit s'organiser sans les Ătats-Unis
Le retrait des USA de l'Organisation Mondiale de la SantĂ© (OMS) et la nomination de Robert Kennedy Jr, un vaccino-sceptique, Ă la tĂȘte du MinistĂšre de la SantĂ© sont prĂ©occupants.
https://www.lalibre.be/debats/opinions/2025/03/04/la-lutte-contre-les-futures-pandemies-doit-sorganiser-sans-les-etats-unis-Z4NVLTBQ4FAIZOZX376L2XLAQE/
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