Restricting visas doesn’t lead to hiring non-immigrants—it leads to hiring foreigners. For every H-1B visa rejection, multinationals add ~0.4–0.9 foreign employees, especially in R&D hubs like India, China, and Canada. via @florianederer.bsky.social

Any IO papers on the impact of funding $ on academic research (e.g. published papers, weighted by citations or anything similar) in the sciences?

Fuhito Kojima’s Walras Bowley Lecture has just been uploaded to arxiv. It considers that administrative boundaries cause many markets to be fragmented, and how some of the resulting efficiency loss can be recovered. #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...

I’m old enough to remember when it was on pace to out-think humanity.

Check out if you’re interested in international trade or know someone who might be interested in pursuing a PhD! Can absolutely vouch for @petereppinger.com

Proud of being at CESifo! Looking forward to contribute to the network!

A survey of advances in modeling cultural transmission in economics and how these models differ conceptually from those employed in evolutionary anthropology, from @albertobisin.bsky.social and Thierry Verdier https://www.nber.org/papers/w33928

Second keynote by @albertobisin.bsky.social 🎉

Very cool conference … on the sleepy lagune - far from fancy weddings and tourist-masses Poverty, Persistence and Policy: Comparative Development and the Deep Roots of Prosperity | Venice Summer Institute | ifo | CESifo ifo.de/en/cesifo/even…

I know this take will probably be unpopular on Bluesky, but I think as educators we should be thinking about how to productively incorporate LLMs into our teaching. I think that if done thoughtfully, it has the potential to boost learning.

A *null* result I'm very proud of! Led by Rustam Romaniuc, 35 coauthors from all over France tested nudge interventions to boost voter turnout. None worked, and we are possibly not surprised -- but a well-powered null result *is* a result! Paper: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

Very interesting paper!

This recent fraud case is also a cautionary tale for any research based on proprietary data source.

This is great - congratulations.

I’m excited to join @Anthropic.com’s Advisory Council, to provide guidance on the economic implications of #AI. I’m thrilled to be part of this illustrious group, including @johnjhorton.bsky.social @akorinek.bsky.social @johnlist.bsky.social. #EconSky www.anthropic.com/news/introdu...

A pat on the back of Editors, Associate Editors, Referees, Administration, ... of the Economic Journal @resmedia.bsky.social

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Dapper academics and their desks: Richard Bellman and David Blackwell

Chuck Schumer was damned if he did and damned if he didn't. Eventually the wheel of karma will turn again in the favor of sensible people, but God, am I tired of waiting.

UniCredit Foundation launched new contests for research grants that are expiring in the next few weeks: 3rd Marco Fanno PhD Research Grant - Open to Economics and Finance Departments of Italian Universities for 2 grants in support of PhD students activities - € 40,000 each- deadline March 15, 2025

Proud of this paper!

Last paper out in JEBO! We propose an epi-economic model to understand how individuals change their behavior to adapt during an ongoing epidemic. Big thanks to @albertobisin.bsky.social Lorenzo Nemati Fard e @mstarnini.bsky.social! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In memory of Ed Leamer’s passing, check out his wonderful monograph

BBVA Foundation award to Olivier Blanchard, Jordi Gali, and Michael Woodford. Congratulations! www.frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es/noticias/fro...

Trump’s attack on US institutions, even if fully expected, is dispiriting, discombobulating and dangerous. In this very difficult time, we have to remember one thing: This is not normal, and it should not be normalized.

Very interesting Call for Proposals - happy to help distribute isps.yale.edu/democratic-i...

In which the time to think is now.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/opinion/trump-autocracy-bad-ideas.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Great postodoc opportunities ... economics and archeology .... fascinating project .... please look www.origins-project.com/open-positions

We are happy to launch our new Junior Seminar Series! This term, we’ll host promising young researchers presenting their original work to the #USIEcon department. idep.usi.ch/storage/app/... Check the full schedule below and join us in person in Lugano if interested!👇

foreign aid to fight infectious diseases is a kind of enlightened self interest, since infectious diseases that go around come around. Aid for fighting AIDS, now suspended by Executive Order, is no exception. marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/02/cons...

Happy Darwin day!

Someone should write a paper called "The Myth that Economists Did Not See the Tradeoffs Involved with Free Trade."

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Please email me if you are interested and have doubts of any sorts.

🌎Does unilateral decarbonization pay for itself? In our new working paper, @adrienbilal.bsky.social and I analyze whether large economies like the U.S. and E.U. can justify broad decarbonization policies based purely on domestic economic benefits. WP: nber.org/papers/w3336... #econsky

PLEASE RT :) Submit to the annual Network Science and Economics Conference, the largest US event for network theory and empirical research in and adjacent to economics Deadline Jan 30 (soon!) Conference Apr 11-13 at Stanford

Dissotterrare i navigli a Milano?

Director @durlauf.bsky.social explores how @albertobisin.bsky.social and Jean-Philippe Bouchaud bridge theoretical insights and practical understanding by adapting tools and theories from physics and mathematics to inform socioeconomic analysis. Listen every other Monday: bit.ly/3YdiCkj

Delighted to see them shared here ... thanks @durlauf.bsky.social As for the Renaissance ... I'm embarrassed :)

In case you missed it on the other site: fascinating new [preliminary] RCT evidence that use of chatgpt as an after-school tutoring method in Nigeria *dramatically* shifted learning outcomes #econsky blogs.worldbank.org/en/education...

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"increases in long-term rates, like the 10-year Treasury rate, might reflect the horrible, creeping suspicion that Donald Trump actually believes the crazy things he says about economic policy and will act on those beliefs." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/is-there-a...

Cooooool!

A great friend - with a great understanding and love for football :) very happy to see an autobiography out

Two cents: The increase in wealth inequality should not necessarily be a justification for wealth taxes (a whole complicated issue worthy of a distinct discussion) but it should certainly motivate democracies to find new ways to shield the democratic process from very large wealth.

I think there are people coexisting in academia with different ideas of what it’s all about. For some it’s about knowledge acquisition and dissemination, knowledge can be more or less practical, some people want to do good (according to some conception of good) and some of it shades into activism.

It's February at The Economic Journal ❤️ Lots of great papers, long (9) and short (2). Enjoy! academic.oup.com/ej/issue/135...

Dear friends and followers, for those of you who are interested, here is the recording of the Nobel banquet speech: shapingwork.mit.edu/news/daron-a...

In ancient Egypt, people drank low alcohol beer and wine to avoid the parasites in "raw water." The old graves, which I excavate, are full of children who died from diseases we now can vaccinate against. You are ghouls for promoting this garbage.