Economic outcomes often depend on the distribution of some maximum value (e.g. the highest valuation, best idea, or lowest cost). If the average number of options is large, do such outcomes change when some agents have more options than others? 1/ A thread about this paper 🧵

How do firms search for and screen workers? When do the best workers match with the best firms?

Replication Crisis xkcd.com/3117/

I don't think people realize that in important respects tariffs are now higher & more inflationary than what was announced on last Wednesday. Since then we've gone from 54% to 125% on China, our 3rd largest trading partner. That outweighs delaying the increases on 70+ others.

Trump dump www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/b...

Trump’s claim that this is just temporary pain and that the stock market is going to boom is silly. Markets are forward looking and if investors would have believed Trump’s claim , stock prices would not fall now.

Recently Yann Calvó López and I wrote two long blog posts where we detail how vulnerable modern supply networks are. A trade war triggered by Trump's chaotic tariffs is the same type of aggregate shock as the Covid crisis, but worse. 2/ www.noahpinion.blog/p/americas-s...

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Nu ook in het Engels, op veler verzoek. Nu te delen met Amerikaanse vrienden en familie enzo. ;) (dit keer met werkende URL hopelijk)

In publicly dismissing Zelensky as a negotiator who "has no cards," our POTUS has deliberately acted to undermine confidence in the elected President of Ukraine, and in doing so could do more to undermine democracy in Ukraine than 1000 Russian missiles. How can this serve US interests?

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In NYC there is a shop selling cashmere sweaters for dogs, in Amsterdam there is a toothbrush shop. If you are a goth looking for a partner you should move to a city. Finally, there is a forthcoming JET paper explaining this www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hoge inflatie: aanbod, vraag of minder bereidheid om overheidsobligaties te houden? AEA discussie tussen Jason Furman, Christina Romer, Ben Bernanke en John Cochrane www.aeaweb.org/webcasts/202...

🙏 www.dansendeberen.be/2025/01/05/n...

At Tinbergen Institute we have a webinar for all BSc and MSc students that want to know more about an academic career. Event Title: Discover Your Path: Exploring Academic Careers Date: December 12, 2024 Time: 14:00 - 15:00 For more details and registrering: tinbergen.nl/news/1067/di...

Robert Dur, Pieter Gautier en Maartje Schulz - Interview met Pieter Hasekamp en Bas Jacobs - Begrotingsbeleid - KVS Preadviezen 2024: esb.nu/begrotingsbe...

With the kids in Den Haag. “Doe het niet”

SaM 2025 at Vilnius University. Submit your papers! sam2025.econ.lt/home

Laaghangend fruit.

Op bezoek bij Anna Dijkman (Toegevoegde Waarde podcast) om over de optimale werkweek te praten. fd.nl/bedrijfsleve...

Dutch elections. “Let's talk about the art of how things break Things that were hard to make” youtu.be/cVqhyNJpnvA?...

Zouden Amsterdam en Utrecht na een Nexit bij de EU kunnen blijven?

Parents are very passionate about school choice in Amsterdam. However, for academic outcomes it does not matter if you are not placed at your preferred school