💧 New publication in Governance: @thomasbolognesi.bsky.social & Manuel Fischer @pego-group.bsky.social explore why some megacities manage water effectively while others face major water loss — even with similar “good governance” principles. Polisky 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/gove...

"The top 0.001% (about 56,000 adults) have 3 times more wealth than half of the entire world population combined."

Paper alert😀 Policy Design and Governance Effectiveness: The Role of Non-Linearities in Urban Water Management w/ Manuel Fisher @pego-group.bsky.social #polsci #water doi.org/10.1111/gove...

Forthcoming in the AER: "The Price of War" by Jonathan Federle, André Meier, Gernot J. Müller, Willi Mutschler, and Moritz Schularick. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Conflicts over freshwater resources are accelerating. Data from the new update of the Pacific Institute Water Conflict Chronology. www.worldwater.org

1,600+ fossil fuel lobbyists at COP30, outnumbering every delegation except Brazil This isn’t ‘dialogue’; it’s the industry responsible for the crisis hijacking the negotiations meant to stop it If this doesn’t make you furious, you’re not paying attention www.theguardian.com/environment/...

📢 Just accepted in #JAERE! 📢 "Confronting the carbon pricing gap: Second best climate policy" by Katheline Schubert, Aude Pommeret, and Francesco Ricci. Read it here: buff.ly/XeYo6rd 📈📉 #Econsky

🚨 CNBC: "Announced corporate job cuts surging past 1 million so far this year, with 153,000 new layoffs just in October according to Challenger. That is the worst October since 2003."

𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆 Conférence de Citéco "Le #commerce international à l'ère de Trump" avec Isabelle Méjean ( @scpo-research.bsky.social, @caeeco.bsky.social, @cepr.org), @paulinewbx.bsky.social (CEPII) et Céline Boff (Brief.eco). www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi5H... #econsky #protectionnisme

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

📣 New paper out! @thomasbolognesi.bsky.social and PEGO member Manuel Fischer analyze good governance principles that make urban water governance more effective in 35 megacities cities worldwide. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/gove...

🌍📈 Paper “The Economics of Inequality and the Environment” out today in the Journal of Economic Literature @aeajournals.bsky.social, joint with Jasper Meya, Lutz Sager & Ulrike Kornek. See short summary and PM by PIK linked below, and the paper here 👉 pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

If you think the attack on the Fed's Lisa Cook has nothing to do with you, you're wrong — any one of us may be next paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-are-all...

Le chef de projet à l’Agence nationale pour l’amélioration des conditions de travail met en évidence plusieurs points de vigilance au sujet du déploiement de l’IA dans le monde professionnel.

L'angoisse!

We definitely need to ban congressional stock trading. And prosecute those who engage in insider trading.

Excited to be part of the Policy & Politics student reading list for our analysis of #policy #preference building in the case of #water management w/ M. Fischer and E Lieberherr @ethz.ch @eawag.bsky.social

1.5 months to go until my book Impact Evaluation in Firms and Organizations is out with @mitpress.bsky.social! An accessible introduction to impact evaluation & causal machine learning, with examples in #R & #Python: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255292... Examples: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

🥳 We are so excited to announce our call for proposals is open! We want your paper, panel, roundtable, open session, and pre-conference workshop ideas 👇 policyprocessresearch.org/coppr26-prop...

L’impôt plancher sur le patrimoine a été adopté par l’Assemblée nationale Il est plébiscité par les Français Sa logique économique est limpide Le Sénat, en première lecture, le rejette aujourd’hui Que fait on maintenant ? On continue ! 🧵

Le discours de G Newsom face aux décisions de D Trump depuis 140 jours et en particulier, les arrestations en masse d'immigrés et l'envoi de militaires à Los Angeles. Trad @lemonde youtu.be/8660KsNPLA8?...

🤖An in-person & online workshop on the Economics of #AI will take place on 10 June at @collegedefrance.bsky.social and on Zoom. The workshop covers implications of AI for labour, growth, & democracy. Co-organisers: Collège de France, RCEA Europe, & CEPR. cepr.org/events/econo... #EconSky #EconConf

The world’s two largest economies have agreed to a trade ceasefire — but who blinked first? www.ft.com/content/ce68...

There are nice contributions on collaborative governance, participation and co2 tax. 😀

Harvard sets an example for other US universities by standing up for intellectual freedom and the right to protest - both key to responsible science. One fuels innovation and critical thinking; the other ensures accountability and alignment with public values. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🧪

Wondering which EU #trade sectors will be hit hardest by the #Trumptariffs? Here's great clean and comprehensive charts and figures by the CEPII. www.cepii.fr/visualdata/t... #econsky #LiberationDay #Tariffs

How US tarifs rates have been calculated...

Nice work !

Important point de rappel sur la légitimité perçue et la légitimité de l'action...

Les juges font leur job en disant le droit. Mais au jeu de la légitimité face aux politiques, ils plient aussi le match: 44% des français ont confiance en la justice contre 16% pour les partis politiques. 74% des Français estiment que les politiques sont plutôt corrompus. Verdict sans appel.

A new dataset covering national election since 1946. It looks promising to advance research in political economy #EconSky #PolsciSky

source here: www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

The authors combine an inductive approach based on principal component analysis (PCA) that identifies policy preference spaces based on survey responses with a deductive approach informed by theories on preference formation.

Thier analysis reveals that each actor’s policy preference is a specific point within a broader policy preference space, which is defined along multiple policy dimensions. Thier results share how the willingness to solve a problem and group affiliation affect preference formation

They find that preferences along the policy dimensions are significantly associated with a single goal priority and, various actor types are significantly associated with policy preference dimensions. policyandpoliticsblog.com/2024/09/04/i...

Article Highlight in Policy and Politics: "Identifying and Explaining Policy Preferences in Swiss Water Management" by @thomasbolognesi.bsky.social, Eva Lieberherr & Manuel Fischer 👉 How do policy preferences form in Swiss water governance? 🔗 doi.org/10.1332/0305...

The Future of Aid 📊 https://www.ft.com/content/1168d5f1-2971-449d-8ab3-1606c84e776e

Nice resource for teaching

A new study finds that with every degree global warming, the global mean area burned by fires each year will increase by 13.8% www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Industrial lead emissions increase US infant mortality and contribute to sudden unexplained infant death, from Karen Clay, Edson R. Severnini, and Xiao Wang https://www.nber.org/papers/w33447

Stricter environmental regulations on US ship exhaust significantly improved the health of newborn babies near coastal areas, say researchers at UC Davis and Vanderbilt. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...

Cela semble absurde, et j’ai été choqué la première fois que je l’ai compris, mais la France – il n'y a pas d'autre mot – est bien un paradis fiscal pour milliardaire Explications détaillées 🧵

Here is a nice legal summary of the "impoundment crisis" precipitated by Trump 2.0's funding "pause". I agree this will probably end up at the Supreme Court....h/t @laderafrutal.bsky.social www.stevevladeck.com/p/120-the-im...