It's been great fun talking to @angusbylsma.bsky.social about coins, trade, the 'end of antiquity', and even a little bit about methods and questions in economics and economic history.

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

Whoa. "[F]inetuning exclusively on Haruki Murakami's novels unlocks verbatim recall of copyrighted books from over 30 unrelated authors...Our findings offer compelling evidence that model weights store copies of copyrighted works." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

We are hiring! VU Amsterdam (Dept of Spatial Economics) seeks AP in Urban and Real Estate Economics. Research fit: (spatial) general equilibrium + reduced-form work on land/housing, commuting, amenities, local public goods. RT. #UrbanEconomics #AcademicJobs workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/va...

Hopefully today’s SCOTUS decision on tariffs will mean the end of the preposterous EU-US trade ‘deal’. And hopefully the EU will be more respectful of the fundamental principles governing international trade, in particular MFN. Let the US exit the system if they want, let’s not help them destroy it.

Learning spillovers between firms are widely seen as important but are hard to estimate cleanly. We ran an experiment with energy-efficient motors in the Dhaka leather-goods sector. Links to non-technical summary and video below. With Ritam Chaurey, Gaurav Nayyar, and Siddharth Sharma.

So nice to see this in print! My paper on green trade policy, deforestation, and palm oil. 🌲🌳

Excited for #ASSA2026 session on Spatial Environmental Economics!🌍Sat 10:15am Migration climate trade floods ...🧭 Amazing group: TCarleton BStaiger @allanhsiao.bsky.social @johannesmboehm.bsky.social @bsprungkeyser.bsky.social @jmcolmer.bsky.social SKortum @constanzaabuin.bsky.social IRudik

Applications are invited for a 3-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at our Centre in Paris, starting on 1 Sept 2026. The post is in connection with the research programme on economic & environmental history. Application deadline 19 Feb 2026. Click below for further particulars & how to apply.

Worth reposting in light of the US essentially giving Moscow its full backing

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Shoutout to the trade community – trade is likely to be one of our focus areas! Make sure to apply if you work on international trade.

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We are hiring tenure-track assistant/associate professors in Economics at the University of Oslo. Fields: macro, micro theory, international trade, development Application deadline: November 30! More info at: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

Great programme for the CEP/LSE-Warwick Junior Trade Workshop on 22 September @cep-lse.bsky.social @warwickecon.bsky.social cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/_ne...

NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY. We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration. I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.

Let the sabbatical begin! Thank you to @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social economics for hosting me for the year (and thanks for the nice office view!)

Peter Temin, economic historian at MIT, has passed away. He worked both on problems of understanding the past (e.g. "Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression?") and how how the past shapes the present (e.g. "The Vanishing Middle Class.") Terrific scholar and mentor, generous critic.

If this is accurate, then unless the EU eliminates all tariffs on industrial imports from all its WTO partners, it will be joining Trump in destroying the international trade rules that have applied since WW2. The difference being that while Trump hates the rule-based order the EU claims to value it

Today's trade deal between the US and the EU -- if as reported in the press, and if independent from other agreements -- is a massive mistake on the EU's side. Instead it should have called Trump's bluff. Trump would not have imposed 30% on EU imports for long.

Thank you ‪to @peterfrankopan.bsky.social‬ for discussing our paper on his terrific substack blog: peterfrankopan.substack.com/p/coins-in-t...

Are you a PhD student working on topics related to globalization? Come hang out with us at Dartmouth for a term as a Globalization Ph.D. Fellow! We're now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 academic year: globalization.dartmouth.edu/programs/glo...

Trade and the End of Antiquity featured in today's Chartbook Top Link.

Call for papers: @theigc.bsky.social/@yaleegc.bsky.social conference on Firms/Trade/Development, Oct. 24-25, 2025. The leading conference in the firms & development space! Early decision deadline (to accommodate visa processing): May 30. General submission deadline: July 18.

On 14th April, as part of a first of a series of events, nine Institute professors gave briefings, tying their expertise to the the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second presidency and its global implications. Watch the recording now, in case you missed it 👇 shorturl.at/xnGla

There is still a time to apply for our Master in International Economics Third and final deadline on April 15 @gvagrad.bsky.social @dominic-rohner.bsky.social @johannesmboehm.bsky.social Please repost

Dekle, Eaton, Kortum (2007): "We incorporate imbalances into a quantitative model of bilateral trade, calculating how relative factor costs and welfare would change if current accounts were all balanced." US welfare declines 6%. pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

Just such beautiful variation though

1/ NEW RESEARCH: Our study reveals 46% of pesticides embedded in EU agricultural consumption originate from imports, despite imports constituting only 17% of consumption. This includes substances prohibited in the EU. This regulatory gap fuels leakage effects and hurts EU competitiveness 🧵

The research group at the Workd Bank is doing an off-cycle hire for a trade economist worldbankgroup.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

I gave a talk in Edinburgh a few weeks ago and had a great time. They have a fantastic group.

Europe is about to commit its greatest strategic mistake. on.ft.com/4bVGZZ9

On Europe as a destination for US-based scientists: it's a great place to live and work. Salaries aren't as high as US ones, but for seniors they're fine and we live well. (More could be done for juniors in some states.) We get European benefits. And the ERC offers great support for top researchers.

With trade policy once again the centre of attention, now seems like a good time to re-share the starter pack of academic economists who study international trade go.bsky.app/G3dqAYg

1/🚨New chapter in Handbook of Regional & Urban Economics: Spatial Environmental Economics 🌍 How do spatial forces affect the environment? How does enviro shape spatial outcomes? Thread, chapter explore this nascent subfield via stylized acts, models, building blocks for rsrch. w Clare Balboni.

The end of history viewpoint so prevalent in contemporary thought is dealt another severe blow: venal corruption and systematic corruption are back. This like other 'I didn't think that could happen again' moments underscore the value of economic history and history more generally.

Being a professor in France imparts the privilege of receiving, every once in a while, an email from a member of the public where they share with you a grandiose manifesto of their revolutionary ideas*, which they also mass-mail to every other university professor in the entire country.

🌟 Economics for a Better World 🌟 @gvagrad.bsky.social 🎓 Passionate about economics & policy? Our Master’s in Economics provides rigorous academic training & practical skills for real-world impact. 🧵👇 1/6 (please repost) @johannesmboehm.bsky.social @dominic-rohner.bsky.social

I've gotten a flurry of requests to access my slides on "Models, Measurement, and Language in Economics" (presumably thanks to the great new year's reading list from @rohitlamba.bsky.social). The file is publicly available via my web page, but here is the link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ntgkb...

Great anecdote here from former FT editor Richard Lambert on the time Manmohan Singh came to the FT to talk with him and Martin Wolf. H/T @andymukherjee70.bsky.social

Recently accepted by #QJE, “When Did Growth Begin? New Estimates of Productivity Growth in England from 1250 to 1870,” by Bouscasse (@paulbouscasse.bsky.social), Nakamura, and Steinsson (@jonsteinsson.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

1/ 🌍🎓 Looking for a Master's in Economics that stands out? Check out our program @gvagrad.bsky.social We combine rigorous training and a strong policy focus, designed to prepare you for global challenges and opportunities. www.graduateinstitute.ch/academic-dep... Please Repost

Cool RCT on air purifiers -> test scores in China. Air purifiers on day of test improved scores by 0.1sd! Reduction in indoor PM2.5 from purifiers was ~20ug in their setting. So, effect would prob be smaller at avg US PM levels, but maybe larger on wildfire smoke day. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

In a geopolitical age, it's irresponsible to maintain a taboo on discussing the European Central Bank's potential role in Europe's strategic priorities. on.ft.com/3DiZ3zi

Xavier Jaravel and I wrote a rather provocative op-ed for Project Syndicate: we argue that central banks should prepare direct monetary transfers as a tool to stimulate demand when "all else fails". prosyn.org/EXQF80e

Xavier Jaravel and I wrote a rather provocative op-ed for Project Syndicate: we argue that central banks should prepare direct monetary transfers as a tool to stimulate demand when "all else fails". prosyn.org/EXQF80e

Any Austrian economists here who might want to host a visit by me in April? (To be clear: I mean economists working in Austria, not followers of Hayek.)

As I am noticing some some momentum, here is a starter pack of 40+ profiles related to the Swiss 🇨🇭 economy 📈📉 go.bsky.app/9Hv8CCy 🐄🍫🧀🏔️⌚💡

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