@kcl-spe.bsky.social is hosting a Junior International Political Economy Researchers Workshop on 28 April and we have a great line-up of papers by early-career researchers. @adreher.bsky.social will also share expertise on publishing in the field. Register here: forms.office.com/e/q7rUFAVg21

#GrandCorruption , the grandest...

Looking forward to this online seminar on 9 April 👇👇👇

For those who don't speak "British", this means HMRC is 100% gonna be lenient.

My new @iza.org/LISER paper Control Without Credibility: Immigration to the UK Since the Brexit Referendum docs.iza.org/dp18419.pdf

#GrandCorruption in the US

One of my favourite events in the conference season: young scholars sharing their superexciting research with us. Please, do apply and visit us at @kingsqpe.bsky.social

Just a week left to apply!

Thrilled to share our new paper! A simple info app improved immigrant integration in Portugal AND transmitted democratic norms to Cape Verde with political spillovers strongest in areas with lower far-right support. With the amazing @catiabatista.bsky.social, #LaraBohnet & @gazeaud.bsky.social

🆕 How new export opportunities created good jobs in Vietnam Today on VoxDev, Brian McCaig (Wilfrid Laurier University), Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth Economics) & Woan Foong Wong (University of Oregon) discuss the far-reaching effects of the US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement: https://ow.ly/YRZJ50Ymjw2

Nice!

Ever eating BBQ (Taino)? With "Heinz" ketchup? How about peanut butter (Aztec,Inca)?

To establish new trade links, movement of people is essential first step: Air Canada sees surging overseas corporate travel following U.S. trade tensions | Reuters share.google/DqFviwEaXvcy...

Join us in London in May for our 6th Early Career Workshop! Details below:

📢 Call for papers! We are organizing the 6th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 14-15 May 2026 at King’s College London! Keynote: Shanker Satyanath (NYU) No fee, travel grants might become available! Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpe2026

This looks like a collage, with a background from 1930s Europe, and people with cellphones pasted on it... but it's real, the US today...

Let's see how good your football team would be without these immigrants.

@voxeu.org now offers a newsletter with a list of all columns published last week. You can subscribe by going to the link below and selecting VoxEU - weekly digest. Best source for research insights about pressing economic policy questions. cepr.us10.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

🌟New paper by Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (@oxmartinschool.bsky.social African Governance Programme) finds that African offshore finance is increasingly routed through Asian financial centres. www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/news/africas...

Diego A. Cerdeiro & Lorenzo Rotunno estimate that intra-EU trade barriers are between two to three times as large as between US states, with simulations suggesting that closing the gap could raise EU productivity by nearly 6%. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

Lorenzo Rotunno & Michele Ruta find that, paradoxically, US tariffs may ease political economy constraints by strengthening incentives for export-oriented industries to lobby for deeper integration elsewhere. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

This is good on what's it like in a UK uni these days: Why are UK universities failing? - LSE Impact share.google/NYPBoQNH1DLH...

This is not a distraction.

Two days left to submit your papers!

📣 REMINDER - Call for Papers: The Economics of Migration Junior Workshop 💡 The event aims to provide an opportunity to junior researchers on #migration #economics to present and meet in-person. 📅 May 26-27, 2026 at @uc3meconomics.bsky.social ⏳ Submit by Feb 1st. 🔗 economig2026.sciencesconf.org

Everything is so transparent with trump haha... take over Venezuela government, steal oil revenues, put them in an offshore account in Qatar for your own personal benefit. 💯

Cool stuff in there 🤓

10 days left to apply to our migration workshop!

🌟📣NEW CSAE Working Paper The Rise of Viet Nam’s Solar Panel Industry: Inputs, FDI, & Spillovers ✒️@meng35.bsky.social, @plvezina.bsky.social, Trang Thu Tran & Gaurav Nayyar 📄Read it here: ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...

Our paper on the rise of Vietnam's solar panel industry now out as a CSAE wp 🤓👇

Spoke with @olhazadorozhna.bsky.social about our paper on Ukrainian refugee entrepreneurs in Poland. Some fact and figures, and some policy discussions at the end 👇👇👇

What happened to Tyler Cowen? He used to be fun to read on econ and stuff, but now he seems completely unaware that the US is ruled by warmongering racist fascists...

A new paper by George Borjas—who served this past year in the Trump White House designing some of its anti-immigration policies—claims to display evidence of ideological bias among researchers who study immigration. doi.org/10.1126/scia... 🧵 Thread—>

Want to know more about the history and political game of Venezuelan oil? A thread with some research papers and short-form political forces at play.

It's not correct to put UK Greens and Mamdani as anti-growth, anti-system, parties. Going for the "both sides" narrative, suggesting these are "far left", as bad as the far right, and both "zero-sum" in their policies, is just not true. Reversing Brexit is pro-growth, and so is a good tax system.

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

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Our paper is out as an Econ4UA working paper👇👇👇

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Meng Yu Ngov, @plvezina.bsky.social, Trang Thu Tran & Gaurav Nayyar analyze how foreign firms, inputs, and subsidies have shaped the development of Viet Nam’s solar panel industry. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

"Labour is slow-marching working people ""to populist parties both left and right"" --> Media is at it again with the "both sides" nonsense. The green party wants to reverse brexit, and the FT finds a way to call it "nonsense economics", on par with Farage's... giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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

Vietnam's solar boom was built on three key pillars: 1⃣ Foreign direct investment (FDI) (mostly from China) 2⃣ Access to subsidised Chinese inputs 3⃣ Productivity spillovers from multinationals to domestic suppliers. Learn more ⤵️

Yeah tough tradeoffs: swallow your pride, solve the country's problems with a silver bullet.

A global boom in solar panels is powering the world's clean energy transition, and Vietnam has emerged as a solar panel manufacturing success story. But how exactly did Vietnam achieve this export success? Today's article has the full story ⤵️

And presenting this work on solar panel manufacturing at the Vietnam Firms and Labour Markets Online Seminar TODAY! See thread 👇 Registration link: share.google/Spbr1BnURaeB...

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...