A reminder that this is a last day to submit your research to WEI III: verotutkimus.fi/en/wei2025/ Organising with Oskar Skans @oskarnskans.bsky.social

Submit your "core" labor economics papers (wages, employment..) to this great workshop I co-organize for the third time - join with, e.g., Cardoso, Machin, Mogstad and Spitz-Oener for some serious Labor Economics in Helsinki in August!

A summary of my thinking on shared prosperity, work and AI in ten bullet points.

Economics is hard. Even the basics. Exhibit #52783

I don't think the argument for the price system rests on full information. I think it rests on Hayek 1945, hence precisely on dispersed local knowledge --i said that before. But let's leave it here. I think we clarified quite a bit, and I hope some of our readers (if there are any!) learned a bit.

Call for Papers: Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality The popular WEI workshop will be organised again in Helsinki, Finland on 21 – 22 August 2025 with Magne Mogstad and Stephen Machin as keynote speakers. Submit your paper by 30 March! verotutkimus.fi/en/wei2025/

From a soon-to-be-released project with @jevinwest.bsky.social, here's a way to think about what is happening. (2/2)

Read this last year. Highly recommended. The part on behavioral Econ was particularly interesting as someone in the field.

The #QJE received 1,972 new submissions during 2023:Q4 – 2024:Q3. 1,340 (68%) submissions were desk rejected and 632 were sent to referees. If sent to referees, median days to first decision = 34, mean days = 38, max days = 92. Thank you for your submissions, and to our referees!

Remember the "twin deficits"? They may be back paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-dollar...

Just say no to the gilding of the Gilded Age, and remember the postwar boom paulkrugman.substack.com/p/americas-f...

This paper finds that both ice and hot days increase workplace accidents by ~7%. Results suggest: 1. Little heterogeneity on hot days, on ice days older workers are more affected and accidents are more severe. 2. Main mechanisms are sleep problems on hot days, slipping on ice days.

Norway gives more foreign aid per capita than any other OECD country

A rare miss by Jim Hines, nobody can predictably beat the market, even I. @iipf.bsky.social

Tuore tutkimuksemme osoittaa, että verovelvollisuuden siirtäminen ostajalle (käännetty alv) hillitsee harmaata taloutta rakennusalalla. Laki astui voimaan 2011, ja sen nettovaikutus verottajalle ilmoitettuun arvonlisään on keskimäärin 5%. www.doria.fi/handle/10024... @vatt-tutkimus.bsky.social

Dear friends and followers, I'm sharing here the Nobel prize acceptance speech I gave on behalf of Simon Johnson, James Robinson and myself. Thank you everybody.

Kuva Juhan blogista!

Very nice post by Noah Smith about my favorite subject: Me! www.noahpinion.blog/p/how-paul-k...

Tutkimuksemme 2018 alkoholilain uudistuksesta: aiempaa vahvempien alkoholituotteiden myynti PT-kaupassa jopa viisinkertaistui suhteessa myynteihin Alkossa aiemmin. Silti alkoholin kokonaiskulutus ei noussut. @verotutkimusfit.bsky.social www.doria.fi/handle/10024/190563

Tutkimus: Vuoden 2018 alkoholilaki siirsi myyntiä Alkosta kauppoihin – kulutus ei lisääntynyt @samijysma.bsky.social, @tuomaskosonen.bsky.social, Arnaldur Stefánsson, Lukas Worku @labore.fi, VATT, FIT Tampereen yliopisto, Islannin yliopisto Lue lisää 👉 labore.fi/julkaisu/tut...