Very happy to share our new paper on “The Global Incumbency Advantage”! 👇👇 We provide the first estimates of the incumbency advantage at the national level for all elections worldwide since 1945. with Raphaël Descamps, Ben Marx and @vincent-rollet.bsky.social. Short 🧵 below (1/n).

A week ago, I gave the “Recent Developments in the Political Economy of Elections and Democracy” lecture at the 2026 AEA @assameeting.bsky.social ! Video: www.aeaweb.org/webcasts/202... Slides: www.vincentpons.org/recent-devel... Thread with the TL;DR of my talk below.

ROBO is back! The 2025/2026 Rome-Bologna Applied and Political Economy Seminars start next week hosting @vinpons.bsky.social (HBS) and continue in the Spring with @erikadeserranno.bsky.social (Bocconi), @cangelucci.bsky.social (MIT Sloan) and Brian Knight (Brown) sites.google.com/view/robo-se...

SIOE 2026 at INSEAD Fontainebleau! 13-15 July. Call: www.sioe.org/conference/2...

"I cannot think of anyone who has done more to bring together organizational & development economics than Oriana." Andrea Prat of @columbiabusiness.bsky.social discusses the first 3 papers of the conference and relates them to the work Oriana Bandiera, our #Kuznets2025 speaker. #EconSky

One of the most beautiful strategy/org stories ever, told by the very protagonist. Strongly recommend this episode of acquired with Morris Chang. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

The call for papers for the NBER Organizational Economics Working group (April 10-11 2025) is out! If you have a paper you would like considered for presentation, please upload it to this link by 11:59 pm ET on February 14, 2025: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b... Pls retweet (or reskeet?)