China and the new era of critical minerals diplomacy. Beijing’s export controls on rare earths and other niche metals are distorting markets and fueling resource nationalism by Camilla Hodgson www.ft.com/content/a501...

After a long journey, the Granular Trade and Production Activities (GRANTPA) Database is finally published in World Trade Review. Many thanks to my co-authors Sebastien Bradley, Mario Larch, and @yotoyotov.bsky.social 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🆓️Data access: [email protected]

Background paper of Asian Development Policy Report 2026 by @adb.org "Fragmenting Globalization: How Tariff Walls Reshape Bilateral Trade" is officially out. 🔗 Available here: www.adb.org/sites/defaul...

-"Assessing the impact of trade policies on environmental outcomes and welfare" @wiiw.ac.at ✅️✨️

Developing a tractable quantitative model of international trade in which agents make bilateral investments in resilience under general equilibrium uncertainty, from Benny Kleinman, Ernest Liu, @reddingecon.bsky.social, and David Xu www.nber.org/papers/w35416

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Era gol de Davinson Sánchez ...

i just want it to be winter again

Please circulate our Call for Papers for the POLITICAL ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE @gsb.stanford.edu, Nov 11-12. Submission deadline: Aug 31. Jointly organized with @allanhsiao.bsky.social www.gsb.stanford.edu/events/polit...

New updates to #Stata #arcplot and #ntwrk packages are now up. Examples show trade of #green products using COMTRADE #BACI data + #IMF's green taxonomy. Networks shows the two layer "shell" layout with custom nodes. More options coming soon! #StataViz

@centrefiw.bsky.social & @univie.ac.at invite to the 9th Workshop on International Economic Networks (WIEN) 📅 July 9–10, 2026 | Vienna 🎤 Keynotes: Matilde Bombardini & Thierry Mayer Program & Registration: www.fiw.ac.at/event/worksh... #InternationalEconomics #GlobalValueChains #EconomicGeography

Excellent piece by Nicolas Albertoni and Rupert Schlegelmilch on EU-Mercosur. -"uncertainty can become not only a constraint, but also a catalyst for cooperation and agreement". 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚀 "ntwrk": A Stata package for network analysis 🚀 ⭐ Yesterday at the @statacorp.bsky.social Germany 2026 conference in Munich, I showcased the #ntwrk package: github.com/asjadnaqvi/s... The package is a designed for both network analysis and graph layouts. Check it out! Up soon SSC.

Gravity models usually make distance a shipping cost. What if distance also makes encounters between buyers and suppliers less likely? A new firm-to-firm matching model fits granular customs data and helps resolve trade and labor-market puzzles. buff.ly/XURqW3P

📢 Just accepted in #JAERE! 📢 "The potential of Carbon Border Adjustments to foster climate cooperation" by Timothé Beaufils @timbeaufils.bsky.social, Joschka Wanner @joschkawanner.bsky.social, and Leonie Wenz @leoniewenz.bsky.social. 📎 Read it here: buff.ly/wYSfTox 📈📉 #Econsky

Here we go @chadpbown.com @soumayakeynes.ft.com ▶️🎧 HOW TO WIN A TRADE WAR

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Direktor @marioholzner.bsky.social im ORF über das Handelsabkommen der EU mit den USA, auf dessen Umsetzung sich die EU nun geeinigt hat. #tariffs #Zölle #trumptariffs on.orf.at/video/143238...

Unser neues Jahresgutachten zur österreichischen Außenwirtschaft. ⬇️

Guanyu Lu, Kenta Tanaka, & Toshi H. Arimura find evidence that Japan's regional emissions trading system improves the productivity of regulated manufacturing facilities during the initial compliance period, though not in the transitional period. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

Pleased to be part of the Asian Development Policy Report 2026, Global Value Chains and Inclusive Development @adb.org Thanks to my co-authors from @wiiw.ac.at @olreit.bsky.social and @stehrer.bsky.social and all researchers who contributed. Available here: 🔗 www.adb.org/adpr/edition...

Data from hundreds of thousands of ancient coins is used to reconstruct granular time series of trade and real consumption around the Mediterranean from the 4th to the 10th century, from @johannesmboehm.bsky.social and Thomas Chaney www.nber.org/papers/w35156

Comes out August 4th via @ucpress.bsky.social and can be pre-ordered on the UCP site with discount code UCPSAVE30 to save 30%. If you teach methods and/or are thinking about doing a PhD (but are intimidated by statistical analysis), this book is for you! 😊 www.ucpress.edu/books/truth-...

The EU-Mercosur trade agreement is finally happening www.piie.com/events/2026/...

open.spotify.com/episode/1AsD... Excellent Episode @chadpbown.com extremely insightful for understanding Trade and Industrial Policy! Looking forward to read How To Win A Trade War.

IV-PPML-HDFE. We are happy to introduce an instrumental-variable Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood estimator with high-dimensional fixed effects. We also provide a robust and user-friendly ‘ivppmlhdfe’ package for Stata and Julia. More details here 👇 ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...

New @centrefiw.bsky.social Policy Brief: The EU-India Free Trade Agreement by Michael Landesmann, Javier Mendoza & Robert Stehrer (wiiw.ac.at). It examines the geo-political & geo-economic drivers behind the FTA, principal features & anticipated economic effects. ➡️ www.fiw.ac.at/publications...

@lionel-fontagne.bsky.social, C Mitaritonna, G Orefice, & G Santoni find, following an air service agreement, airlines reorganise international routes, serve more passengers, operate more direct connections, & hence reduce the amount of CO2 emissions per passenger. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

UTAKin yhdessä itävaltalaisen wiiwin kanssa valmistelema Paluu huipulle vaatii tarkkuutta -raportti julkaistiin tänään Sitran julkaisusarjassa. Raportissa osoitamme, mitkä alat ovat Suomen kasvun ja tavaraviennin kannalta lupaavimpia. 1/x

Very happy to see our piece on 🇫🇮 Industrial Policy. Many thanks to my co-authors from @wiiw.ac.at Francesca Guadagno and Doris Hanzl-Weiss and @lauriholappa.bsky.social @alajanantti.bsky.social from @utak.bsky.social. 🔗 Available (in Finnish) here: www.sitra.fi/wp-content/u...

@sitra.fi julkaisi tänään ”Paluu huipulle vaatii tarkkuutta” -selvityksen, jonka @utak.bsky.social’n ja @wiiw.ac.at’n tutkijat ovat laatineet. Selvitys paikantaa aloja, jotka lisäävät tuotannon kompleksisuutta ja kasvua Suomessa. Keskeistä tietoa suomalaiselle teollisuuspolitiikalle!

A new #MacroCritical post is now up: "Energy Systems and the SNA" medium.com/macrocritica...

You can cut emissions and still lose the climate… New study highlights a critical gap: without protecting ecological boundaries (forests, freshwater, biodiversity), Earth’s natural climate regulation can break down. Climate policy must move beyond carbon alone. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Japan’s playbook on raw materials security is worth taking global ft.trib.al/tFZTVPP | opinion

Neoclassical economics emphasizes that international trade acts like an improvement in technology that is mutually beneficial. Tariffs are a tax on this trading technology, from Ralph Ossa and @reddingecon.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34915

Forthcoming in AEJ: Macroeconomics: "Environmental Subsidies to Mitigate Net-Zero Transition Costs" by Eric Jondeau, Gregory Levieuge, Jean-Guillaume Sahuc, and Gauthier Vermandel.

Russia acquired Western weapons components post-sanctions via 3 channels: gradual introduction of restrictions, goods transiting through Russia, or rerouted goods. L Scheckenhofer @feodorateti.bsky.social @torundavid.bsky.social @joschkawanner.bsky.social cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

Global trade is under pressure: former @wto.org Chief Economist Ralph Ossa explains why small, open economies such as 🇨🇭 Switzerland need to defend and adapt the rules-based system during these turbulent times. www.ubscenter.uzh.ch/en/news_even... #EconomicsForSociety #UZH #shareUBS @econ.uzh.ch

Our @mghodsi.bsky.social, @gfelbermayr.bsky.social, @yotoyotov.bsky.social, @heiderkariem.bsky.social report on #Iran was just released by @insm.de. Thanks for the great work and cooperation. www.insm.de/aktuelles/pu...

Aufhebung der EU-Sanktionen würde Irans BIP langfristig um mehr als 80% steigern. Gleichzeitig könnte BIP in EU & AT um 0,3% bzw. 0,5% wachsen. @gfelbermayr.bsky.social @heiderkariem.bsky.social @mghodsi.bsky.social #RobertStehrer @wiiw.ac.at @yotoyotov.bsky.social für @insm.de buff.ly/Jg5aELp

🏢Data from #Chinese cities, combined with modeling, paints an actionable picture of the #building #CO2 emissions. Without intervention, emissions could rise by 2060. #Zero-carbon buildings cut annual CO₂, though it requires $446.8B in investment. 🔗🧪www.nature.com/articles/s44458-025-00024-4

Iran protests: Will the collapsing economy topple the regime? An interview with our economist and #Iran expert @mghodsi.bsky.social, conducted by @iipvienna.com President Hannes Swoboda. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSYh...

New VoxTalks Economics w/ @talknormal.co.uk: What’s next for Trump’s tariffs? @baldwinre.bsky.social and Gene Grossman discuss the future of tariffs, trade rules, and global economic spillovers in a conversation recorded at the CEPR Symposium in Paris. Listen here: cepr.org/multimedia/w... #EconSky

I like the world without — unnecessary noise — and — reading this — every two sentences. — All I ask is coffee, — silence, — and one honest human thought at a time.

🎤 President of the IIP Hannes Swoboda interviewing Mahdi Ghodsi @mghodsi.bsky.social on the current situation in Iran 🇮🇷. 🎥 The whole video will be on our Youtube channel soon!

ECIPE calculates that between 2021 and 2025 the EU “sacrificed” €183bn in exports and €291bn in gross domestic product due to its failure to ratify the agreement. ecipe.org/publications...

New paper out in #Nature @commssustain.nature.com with Rosie Hayward (ASCII) and Peter Klimek (Complexity Science Hub) titled: "United States and European Union aid cuts risk exacerbating links between aid, trade, and human and environmental crises" 👇

The new @centrefiw.bsky.social Policy Brief has been published "One Year of America First 2.0: Assessing the Effects of Trump’s Trade Policies” by @ho2604.bsky.social It analyses Trump’s new tariffs, record policy uncertainty, effects on the US dollar, trade flows, & more 🔗https://shorturl.at/2ZW2T

A study of whether the world trading system promotes tariff cooperation finds that countries internalize most, but not all, of their impacts on one another and reciprocate altruistic behavior, from Rodrigo Adão, John Sturm Becko, Arnaud Costinot, and Dave Donaldson www.nber.org/papers/w34658

When it comes to carbon budgets, 2026 will be one of the world’s last years in the black. Warming of more than 1.5°C will be more likely than not by the end of 2027econ.st/48UAW69 Illustration: Petra Péterffy