Prof. Meredith Crowley @meredith-crowley.bsky.social speaks to Indian broadcaster @firstpost.bsky.social about Trump and Xi's recent talks in S. Korea with analysis of trade deals, rare earths, tariffs and technology - plus the current direction of US-China relations. youtu.be/vU7ZRx4gEEg?...

JI Coordinator and Prof. of Economics @meredith-crowley.bsky.social has been interviewed by DW News about upcoming trade negotiations between the US and China: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hoR...

What is the impact of compulsory land acquisition on industrial composition & local employment? In this NEW 2 min JI video, Megan Haasbroek discusses how industrial policy in developing countries is shaped by the use of eminent domain. #landreform www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNPt...

Nobel Laureate, Philippe Aghion, has delivered this year's Marshall Lectures @econcam.bsky.social w/ great humour and aplomb to record-breaking audiences! JI Coordinator @meredith-crowley.bsky.social also hosted a celebratory dinner at St John's College, Cambridge. www.joh.cam.ac.uk/about-us/new...

NEW PUBLICATION forthcoming at the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics by @LinqiWang07 with @christianhafner and Oliver Linton @econcam.bsky.social 'The Permanent and Temporary Effects of Stock Splits on Liquidity in a Dynamic Semiparametric Model' ➡️ doi.org/10.1080/0735...

Huge congratulations to Janeway Institute Deputy Director, Constantine Yannelis, who has won a 2025 Leverhulme Prize! It was awarded for his work on financial economics, human capital investment, corporate finance, applied microeconomics and student loans. ➡️https://leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2025PLP

How do spillovers across interconnected arenas - like markets, constituencies, or research fields - shape competition? Read the new JI WP by JI Coordinator & Arthur C. Pigou Professor of Economics, Sanjeev Goyal et al: janeway.econ.cam.ac.uk/publication/...

Next week! The Cambridge Faculty of Economics is thrilled to be welcoming Nobel Laureate Phillippe Aghion to deliver the annual Marshall Lecture on Oct 22 &23 (5pm, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge) entitled “Rethinking Capitalism: The Power of Creative Destruction”. bit.ly/48zzSpN

We're excited to be sponsoring a fantastic line-up of speakers at the Long-Run #Productivity Conf on 20th Nov 2025, organised by Jagjit Chadha (Cambridge) & colleagues. See the programme & register your interest by 7th Nov here: janeway.econ.cam.ac.uk/event/long-r...

Can we optimise team allocation by taking into account social values and sources of unequal productivity? Ana Lleó-Bono @econcam.bsky.social explores this question in a NEW JI WP. ➡️ www.janeway.econ.cam.ac.uk/publication/... #KeynesFund #EconTwitter @meredith-crowley.bsky.social

JUST PUBLISHED by Jagjit Chadha et al: 'The Role of Macroprudential Policy in Times of Trouble' which looks at whether macroprudential policies support broader economic stablility, esp the welfare of households. Read the paper here: bit.ly/48KnG5k

Congrats to JI & Productivity Institute Postdoc Ali Sen who has moved to the Brunel Centre at the University of West England, Bristol as a Research Fellow. Ali's interests are productivity, structural change, production networks and intangible capital. sites.google.com/view/aliysen...

🔔Event reminder: Don't forget to register your interest to attend by 15th September!

Congratulations to JI Postdoc Megan Haasbroek who has moved to Oslo this Sept as a postdoctoral researcher at the BI Norwegian Business School. Megan is an applied economist w/ interests in international trade, economic geography & development economics. Find out more: www.meganhaasbroek.com

🎉Congratulations to Léonard Bocquet, a JI Research Fellow, who is joining the Univ of Amsterdam as an Assistant Prof this Sept. His interests are macroeconomics, labour economics, trade economics & network economics. Find out more about his work: sites.google.com/view/leonard...

Congratulations to JI & #KeynesFund (Camb) Postdoctoral Researcher Fellow, Caroline Liqui Lung, who joins City St Georges, Univ of London this Sept as a Lecturer (Ass't Prof). Caroline mainly works on the intersection of Behavioural Economics & Microeconomic Theory. Find out more: cwliquilung.com

I write in @theguardian.com on why a VAT rise in the UK may be quite progressive and may hurt growth less than other taxes would www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Final Reminder: Deadline for this Call is tonight - Sept 1 - at 23:59!

Attention Cambridge PhD students: apply by 5th Sept 2025 for the Keynes Fund PhD Small Awards Scheme (or later in the year by 15th March 2026). Discover all the details on how to apply here: www.keynesfund.econ.cam.ac.uk/phd-awards-s...

📢'The New Global Economy: Trade Wars & De-dollarisation' is a JI conference taking place on 27-28 Sept in Cambridge with keynotes by: 🎙️Silvana Tenreyro (LSE) 🎙️Oleg Itskhoki (Harvard) See the full 2 day programme & register interest by 15th Sept here bit.ly/41przs6

JI Call for Papers deadline fast approaching: 1 Sept 2025! Apply to join the JI-sponsored Long Run Productivity Conference at Clare College, Cambridge on 20 Nov 2025. Follow this link to apply: cepr.org/events/long-...

Register your interest by 1 Sept to join this JI conf organised by JI Deputy Director C. Yannelis @econcam.bsky.social , Isil Erel (Ohio State) & Zhiguo He (Stanford). Find out more: www.janeway.econ.cam.ac.uk/event/2025-r...

Why does the standard measure of Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) drop during armed conflicts & how can this be adjusted? Find out more in a NEW JI WP by C. Rauh (Cambridge)@econcam.bsky.social , S. Brochet & H. Mueller. janeway.econ.cam.ac.uk/publication/... #econtwitter #keynesfund

In a new JI WP, Edoardo Gallo @econcam.bsky.social w/ M. Bigoni (Bologna) & G. Camera (Chapman) observes that 'monetary systems outperform social exclusion mechanisms in promoting cooperation in globalized social and economic networks'. Read the paper here: janeway.econ.cam.ac.uk/publication/...

Listen to JI Coordinator @meredith-crowley.bsky.social talking to Chris Horseman @chrishorseman.bsky.social about the 'main principles of Trump's trade policy in his 2nd term' including imposing high tariffs on countries with large trade deficits in relation to the US. (Starts at 3.00)

Today @meredith-crowley.bsky.social was back on Radio 4's The Briefing Room w/ @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social discussing Trump's #tariffs & the legal status of a Trump trade deal. Does anything stop Trump or a successor from changing it? ➡️ Starts at 8.55 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

It's the Faculty's open day today & tomorrow, and a lovely sunny one too: if you are interested in any of the courses in Economics at Cambridge, or just want to find out what we do, please come along to the foyer of the Marshall Library to find out more.

Are you an Alumni of the Faculty? If so you should already have our latest newsletter on email: * The pay gap: new research links gender, personality and wages * Remembering James Trevithick * Academics honoured by Royal Economic Society * Jordi Galí's Keynes Lecture news.cam.ac.uk/t/cr/AQiQkhI...

NEW JI WP published: 'ETF (Mis)pricing' by Andrei Kirilenko, Wladimir Kraus, Oliver Linton @econcam.bsky.social and Mingmei Xiao @econcam.bsky.social Read the paper here: www.janeway.econ.cam.ac.uk/publication/...

Many congratulations to V.M. Carvalho, A. Burstein and B. Grassi basileg.bsky.social whose work has been accepted for publication by the Quarterly Journal of Economics #QJE doi.org/10.1093/qje/... ➡️Download a pdf here: www.nber.org/papers/w27958

JI Call for Papers: Long-Run Productivity Conference, 14 Nov 2025 📅Deadline to submit: 1 Sept 2025 www.janeway.econ.cam.ac.uk/event/call-p... This conference will explore the determinants, measurement, and long-run trends in productivity growth.

Professor Aytek Erdil has been quoted in the Economist. Britain's newly qualified doctors often get their first choice of location in a new lottery but he says the algorithm encourages “a complicated game” of guesswork among applicants. www.econ.cam.ac.uk/media-mentio...

The Faculty's Professor Flavio Toxvaerd in the Economics Observatory writes about the consequences of market power in supply chains. which could harm consumers as much as when they sell goods. www.econ.cam.ac.uk/media-mentio...

The Faculty's Tiago Cavalcanti writes in CEPR's VoxEU that the US-China trade war has created jobs - elsewhere. He says that while the trade war with China has failed to create jobs at home, it did boost employment in Brazil. www.econ.cam.ac.uk/media-mentio...

Did you miss this year's Keynes Lecture delivered by Prof. Jordi Galí @bse_barcelona on 'Rethinking the New Keynesian Model'? ➡️Catch up now: youtube.com/watch?v=I0Qd... #KeynesFund

📢 Job Vacancy: Apply by 10 July 2025. RA req'd for climate-economy project aimed at measuring the interaction of climate, religion & economic message frames in Indian newspapers over long time-series using large language models. #KeynesFund Apply: bit.ly/4lbLBOb

It is with great sadness that we have learned of the death of Mr James (Jim) Trevithick, who was an academic in the Faculty from 1976 to 2002. Jim was interested in macroeconomic issues such as inflation and unemployment. www.econ.cam.ac.uk/news/2025/re...

Apply by 9th June to become a Fellow @resmedia.bsky.social ! Join Sriya Iyer @econcam.bsky.social to further the work of advancing economics for the benefit of all. bit.ly/4eV1tAZ

Domestic transport costs in emerging economies are often substantial, even compared to international trade costs. How do these costs shape the local labor market effects of trade liberalization? Read the new WP from JI postdoc M. Haasbroek @econcam.bsky.social 📢 bit.ly/45zjbch

The Faculty's Professor Meredith Crowley has appeared on @DeutscheWelle TV discussing the US court’s so called 'Liberation-Day' tariff ruling that Trump overstepped his authority, and the potential implications for global trade. www.econ.cam.ac.uk/media-mentio...

Thank you to all the excellent speakers & attendees at our recent 'JI PhD Workshop on Economic Networks' at Corpus Christi, Cambridge: bsky.app/profile/corp... Find out more about what was being discussed: www.janeway.econ.cam.ac.uk/event/janewa...

📣New JI WP📣published by @jagjitchadha.bsky.social @econcam.bsky.social et al. : 'The Interest Rate Effects of Gov't Debt Maturity: Solving the Bond Conundrum'. Read the paper and find out more: www.janeway.econ.cam.ac.uk/publication/...

Prices from Speculative Markets: Bursting Bubbles or Deflating Balloons? .. is a new JI WP published by Christian Hafner, Andrew Harvey, and JI Postdoc Linqi Wang ‪@econcam.bsky.social‬ www.janeway.econ.cam.ac.uk/publication/...

Huge thanks to all the speakers and participants at the recent '2nd Workshop on Computational Complexity and Economic Decision Making', sponsored by us. If you're interested to find out more about what went on at the event, find out here: www.janeway.econ.cam.ac.uk/event/2nd-wo...

What is the strategy behind Trump's tariff policy? On BBC Radio 4's Briefing Room last month, @meredith-crowley.bsky.social discussed #Tariffs (again) with David Aaronovitch looking at 20th century economic history for context & clues. Starts 7min 12s. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

📢 Call for papers deadline: July 1 2025 📍Conference: 27-28 Sept 2025, Cambridge @cam.ac.uk ➡️Organised by JI Coordinator @meredith-crowley.bsky.social 📌Submit here: mailchi.mp/cepr/the-new... 🌟We're delighted to be co-sponsoring with ESRC, The Bank of Canada and @cepr.org

Congratulations to Prof Chryssi Giannitsarou who has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust research fellowship for 10 months for a project titled "The role of executive compensation for firm investment and monetary transmission". www.econ.cam.ac.uk/news/2025/le...

The Faculty's Assistant Professor Stefan Bucher has been interviewed by the Young Scholars Initiative. He explained how AI could tilt the balance of power to big firms. www.econ.cam.ac.uk/media-mentio...

The 2025 IFS Annual Lecture was delivered by JI Coordinator Prof. Meredith Crowley bsky.app/profile/mere... on trade wars and the future of globalisation. Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPIA...

Join this dynamic panel discussion on Thur 5 June reflecting on key challenges & opportunities for #UK #tradepolicy, especially its influence on UK economic growth & #productivity. Register here 👉 acss.civiplus.net/civicrm/even...