Trade JMCs: Each year, I compile a list of international-trade job-market papers. To make sure you're on my list (& save me some work), please reply with your info in the following format: Firstname Surname (School) - JMP title - homepageURL [Spatial JMCs: reply to other post]

Spatial JMCs: Each year, I compile a list of spatial-economics job-market papers. To make sure you're on my list (& save me some work), please reply with your info in the following format: Firstname Surname (School) - JMP title - homepageURL [Trade JMCs: reply to other tweet]

I enjoy this week's class in my PhD course because it's important and I'm still figuring things out. github.com/jdingel/econ...

Some authors have contacted AEA editors about an unexpected loss of data access that affects their ability to respond to an R&R. If this affects you, please explain the circumstances in your cover letter. Or reach out to the coeditor if you need guidance before resubmitting. @aeajournals.bsky.social

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."

will there be any followup to this fascinating story by the president of the united states that a friend of his sent him a check for $130 million dollars and the president is going to give the money to the military because i for one am fascinated about the details tbh

I so appreciate the colleges that report the median grade for the course on transcripts. I wish that practice was universal.

Uh oh; "A fire at Novelis’s Oswego, N.Y., plant, which supplies about 40% of U.S. auto industry aluminum, will disrupt automakers for months" www.wsj.com/business/aut... Fortunately, imported aluminum can fill the void and mitigate this massive domestic supply chain disrupti- Oh.

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

PhD students underestimate the value (and difficulty) of writing well. Hiring faculty skim dozens of JMPs in a short time. If your contribution is unclear, you will get fewer interviews. Editing improves economics papers (RCT): doi.org/10.1016/j.je... I am happy to recommend www.amyedits.net

Join this @budgetlab.bsky.social webinar on Tuesday at noon on “Tariffs in an Uncertain Legal Environment,” ft. @scottlincicome.bsky.social @anaswanson.bsky.social @natasharsarin.bsky.social

NYT simply failing to ask if kitchen cabinets are a national security emergency here, well done www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

New to me: Chipman (1965): "it would seem fair to say that both Torrens and Ricardo contributed in essential ways to the development of the law of comparative advantage; and that credit for the principal discovery should go to Torrens." doi.org/10.2307/1911...

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

Professor Robert Staiger, the Roth Family Distinguished Professor in the Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, has been appointed as the new Chief Economist of the World Trade Organization. @wto.org

Unsurprising because it’s Noto: this episode is fantastic. Students and junior faculty should listen about how to negotiate with chairs and deans.

The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,

Predoc opportunity in health/labor/public economics at @beckerfriedman.bsky.social: job-boards.greenhouse.io/universityof... Please share widely! #EconSky

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said during press conference that 316 Korean nationals (310 men, 6 women) are set to be released from the Georgia detention facility at 3pm. He also says that this incident would make Korean companies hesitant about investing in the U.S.

New in RSUE: How local is local development? Evidence from casinos, by Ari Anisfeld, Jordan Rosenthal-Kay. #econsky #urbanecon

New York City’s expansive train system currently has two-person crews on nearly all of its lines, unlike the one-person or fully automated trains in major cities like London, Paris and Washington, D.C.: https://bit.ly/4nnEhQF

The Crimson, scooping every news outlet not run by undergraduates working in between classes, gets into how court orders mandating return of research funding have been flaunted, and makes a clear case for contempt proceedings against DOGE officials. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Trying to explain why international trade is good to an American: okay so imagine a burger (yes this is a real ad on the Canadian embassy in DC)

"Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services company led by the sons of US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, is creating a way for investors to bet that President Donald Trump’s signature tariffs will be struck down in court."

By a 7-4 vote, the full Federal Circuit has *affirmed* a lower-court ruling holding that many of President Trump’s tariffs exceed his statutory authority. The ruling won’t go into effect until October 14, though—which gives the Trump administration plenty of time to seek intervention from #SCOTUS:

That… is the entire point of the Federal Reserve.

Over 125 economists signed the open letter calling on the President, Congress, and the American public to uphold the principles of Federal Reserve independence and not remove Lisa Cook without due process. There's still time to sign! And please share. #EconSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Multiple postal services around Europe say they are suspending the shipment of many packages to the United States amid a lack of clarity over new import duties.

If you'll be on the #EconJobMarket this coming year, you may want to join this webinar by @aereorg.bsky.social, titled, "Navigating Uncertain Waters: Advice for the Current Job Market," with Min Gong & @adrienneohler.bsky.social. 29 Sept 2025 @ 11am ET.

Your occasional reminder -- as arrivals on student visas decrease 28% -- that tuition from foreign students counts as an export, which means that every rejected student visa is going to contribute to the US trade deficit. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

President Donald Trump has cited a $40 billion trade deficit with Switzerland to justify a new, high tariff on imported Swiss goods. But his figure ignores trade in services. The overall goods-and-services deficit is less than $9 billion.  www.factcheck.org/2025/08/trum...

The personal travel exemption has separate legislative authority, afaik. Congress directly sets a zero-tariff line item in the HTS (9804.00.65), and it most recently did so in the Trade Act of 2002§381 to $800.

When the de minimis exemption ends next week, what will passengers entering the United States experience? Is everyone filling out customs forms for the $40 of gifts they bought overseas? Are the Global Entry kiosks being reprogrammed?

Today's youth cannot know what they missed. The economics blogosphere circa 2010, for example. You can read "Quantifying Some of the Impacts of Economics Blogs" (doi.org/10.1086/675383), I suppose.

I'm teaching graduate trade again this fall. Just posted the latest syllabus: github.com/jdingel/econ... Inside the sausage factory:

Econ PhDs who will be on the #EconJobMarket: Next Tues Aug 19 at 1pm ET is a NABE (‪@nabe-econ.bsky.social)‬ Career Week panel on "Industry, Government, or Academia? Choosing Your Path in Applied Economics" Register here 👉 www.nabe.com/NABE/Events/...

Q: "The China tariff deadline is tonight. Do you plan to extend that?" Trump: "We'll see what happens."

I just realized one of the CPI indexes I loved most was cancelled, probably because of DOGE or Trump. I no longer have a convenient way to compare the price of electricity in different cities.

Normally, import duties depend on the good (& country). Now? “as of 4 April, beer cans were added to the list of aluminium derivative products subject to specific tariffs. This means that the aluminium content of the beer is subject to an additional tariff, typically 50%” www.ft.com/content/3b6b...

International student visa issuances fell by nearly 20 percent year-over-year in May...and that was even before the effects of the pause in interviews. International enrollment is going to be way down in the fall (which is almost here). www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

For the math folks on here: NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant. www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements This is a big deal

Vibe code is legacy code https://blog.val.town/vibe-code (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44739556)

Trump's 50% tariffs on Brazil are horrible policy. What makes them truly ridiculous is the arbitrary way in which ~half of Brazilian goods are exempted Why tariffs on sugar but none on juice? Why on woodpulp but not wood? Fully 10% of all affected imports are just coffee!!!

This was fun to read (for the writing, not the state of trade policy):

My Trade Secrets today. The supposed tariff deals governments have made with Trump, including the EU’s rather humiliating climbdown, will if anything only embolden him to demand more. Isn’t that a cheering prospect? on.ft.com/4mjwB1u

Brian Albrecht on Michael Pettis: www.economicforces.xyz/p/curing-int...

#rstats #econsky PSA: The next release of `fixest` will include some important changes (plus cool new features). E.g. Fixed-effects regs will now default to 'iid' SEs rather than clustered. github.com/lrberge/fixe... You can install and test drive the dev version from R-universe; see the README.