Dumb and dumber 3

When people ask me if we like living in London, I say yeah, we love that city, but it's been tough to live its decline... London’s economy loses its lustre - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

*** NEW RESEARCH *** Images of ICE targeting US cities have been commonplace in since January 2025. What's the economic effect of this new immigration enforcement regime on businesses, both workplaces and retailers, in targeted areas? Thread... 🧵

Wes Streeting has resigned to take the job he was born to do…regional sales manager for Moss Bros

Ooooooo I'm making the Department of Homeland Security mad with my new research y'all Check out @planetmoney.bsky.social's coverage of my research on the labor market effects of ICE in Trump 2.0 and DHS' response here: www.npr.org/sections/pla...

This Wednesday we are very happy to be hosting Sascha Becker (@essobecker.bsky.social) on "From the Death of God to the Rise of Hitler". Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

Séminaire DIAL jeudi 7 mai de 12h30 à 13h45 @univdauphine.bsky.social. Pierre-Louis Vézina @plvezina.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) : " #Refugees and #Entrepreneurship: Evidence from #Ukrainians in #Poland" (Joint with C.G. Aksoy and P. Lewandowski). dial.ird.fr/evenements/r...

🎙️ New episode of Policy Implications. I spoke with @dariia.bsky.social about her new paper on UA migration to PL and what it tells us about migration and voting. The findings challenge the simple idea that more migration automatically boosts the far right. Listen here: tinyurl.com/52ar3c7k

Camden, Hackney, Stratford

1/ Migration between UA and PL is often framed as a story of crisis, pressure, and displacement. But it is also a story about skills, talent, and long-term economic strategy. In the new episode of Policy Implications, I spoke with Ivanna Kyliushyk about exactly that. Link: tinyurl.com/2zz84p5r

As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I take a look at my life and realise there's nothing left.

@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 👇