How does present bias shape economic growth, the creation of ideas, natural resource extraction, and pollution? I show that the intuition that present bias is always detrimental is not universal. It depends entirely on the Elasticity of Intert Substitution(EIS) (1/N) #EconSky #econtwitter

Hi @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social The E-Loket login stopped working this afternoon, right before a major deadline for FWO Fellows. The system appears to be down, preventing us from continuing work on our progress reports. This is causing significant stress for many applicants. I hope this can be fixed!

I was curious about the state of labor *supply* on the job market. I pulled the stock of New First Year PhDs, ABDs and PhDs granted at Graduate Depts from the CSWEP reports. The left plot is the Flow of economics PhDs, and the right is the stock of ABDs.

Today we have @bardharstad.bsky.social (Stanford University and CEPR) presenting his work “Contingent Trade Agreements” at the AERNA Webinar! When🗓️: Nov 26th 2025 4pm- 5pm CET Link🔗: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi... @aereorg.bsky.social #Trade #Environment

Does unilateral decarbonization pay for itself? In our new short working paper, @dkaenzig.bsky.social and I analyze whether broad decarbonization passes cost-benefit analyses based on purely domestic economic gains in large economies like the U.S. and E.U. WP: nber.org/papers/w3336...

New paper: benjaminmoll.com/challenge/

Surveying the literature that links macroeconomics and climate change through: loss and damage, mitigation and the energy transition, and adaptation, from Adrien Bilal and James H. Stock https://www.nber.org/papers/w33567