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...

We have a new tenure-track job in @lsegovernment.bsky.social at AP level (empirical political science, open subfield): jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Please apply and share with colleagues who might be interested!

Call for papers: Junior workshop on the Economics of Migration 👇👇👇

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📢 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

Looking forward to presenting our work on solar panel manufacturing at the Vietnam Firms and Labour Markets Online Seminar on 1 Dec. See thread 👇 Registration link: share.google/Spbr1BnURaeB...

🚨New working paper: Compositional Effects, Internal Migration and Electoral Outcomes osf.io/preprints/so... #polisciresearch

OK that's a good title.

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. 🤓🔥🍕🍝🍷

Econ prof job at King's 🔥🔥🔥

Nice!!!

🆕 From brain drain to brain bridges: How mobile PhD scientists connect home countries to global science Today on VoxDev w/ Rodrigo Ito @unumerit.bsky.social, Diego Chavarro, Tommaso Ciarli, Robin Cowan (University of Strasbourg) & Fabiana Visentin (Masstricht University): voxdev.org/topic/migrat...

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:

A new VoxDev piece on our work on enemies of the people. While we ended up writing about how human capital can foster growth, we've learned a lot while working on this about the atrocities authoritarians are capable of... and this makes the current groundwork of the US regime scary as hell...

This. Stop focusing on how to appeal to voters and focus on how to use the justice system and the media to root out racism/populism/authoritarianism.

New Paper 📢📝 "Asylum Seekers, New Businesses, and Job Creation" by @zohalhessami.bsky.social @sebastianschirner.bsky.social & Clara Wobbe Have a look at how asylum seekers affect host-country economies from a supply and demand perspective. 🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...

Russia has become the largest single-country buyer of Ecuadorian bananas, purchasing 1.5 million metric tons during 2024 and the first half of 2025. How is it related to global diversification of cocaine trafficking routes? 🤔

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.

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For those interested, here's a thread explaining the paper's core ideas 👇 @aeajournals.bsky.social 1/14

➡️ Are you wondering about the potential effects of the Trump tariffs on China? ➡️ Are you especially interested in the renewable energy sector? 👀 Read on #EconSky 👇

📣 Join us for a new monthly online (Zoom) seminar: Science of International Migration Seminar (SIMS). We have a great initial lineup of speakers including @mclem.org, Leah Boustan, Giovanni Peri, and @profzeke.bsky.social. Things kick off Ocotber 9th! Register here: stanford.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

*** NEW RESEARCH ALERT *** How do firms respond in the face of increased restrictions to hiring skilled immigrant workers? [THREAD]

What up Athens! Excited to be here for my sabbatical year, based at the Athens University of Economics and Business. Time for research and sunshine. Come visit!

📣 UPDATE: Discover the 🆕 Conference Program of the 18th @afd-france.bsky.social World Bank International Conference on #Migration & #Development 📅 Event held Sept. 25-26, 2025 in Paris 🤝 W/ keynote's from: Paula Gobbi, @dmckenzie.bsky.social & @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social #EconSky #Inequality

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.👇

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.👇

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

(1/10) New paper at PNAS: what predicts Ukrainian refugees’ destination choice? We experimentally study the drivers of location choice in a conjoint design: we find that job opportunities, wages and networks are most important, much more so than welfare benefits.

I remember around 2011 when The Arcade Fire released the video for "the Suburbs", and it had scenes of martial in the US, with children taken away, tanks... I wondered how cd people see such a dystopian future... and here we are...

Today, academics and citizens meet at Petralia, Sicily, to talk about how immigration can help with the challenges rural areas are facing. Moderated by @cubel.bsky.social and with @peppeippedico.bsky.social Claudio Deiana and Elisa Cavasino as speakers.

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]

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). 🧵

This is the best conference at the intersection of migration economics and development. Always the world's leading work and top researchers, year after year. Submissions due Tuesday July 15—> #EconConf #EconSky

Striking graph in the FT on how migrants drove the Biden boom. Also includes this stat: "60 per cent of the top US-based artificial intelligence companies had at least one immigrant founder" 1/2 on.ft.com/44frdpU

Friendshoring was a thing