🌟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...

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 🔥🔥🔥

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🆕 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 👇