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i) Miyauchi, Nakajima & @reddingecon.bsky.social, @qjeharvard.bsky.social. Tokyo smartphone data reveal trip chaining as central to urban mobility. Consumption externalities link locations, shaping agglomeration, work-from-home impacts, and returns to transport investment doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Reductions in worldwide trade frictions over the period from 1960 to 2020 reduced the share of the United States in global GDP but raised its aggregate welfare, from Zhuokai Huang, Benny Kleinman, Ernest Liu, and @reddingecon.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34530

Check out Eugenia’s brilliant paper on superstar firms and specialized skills! An important contribution to our understanding of growth and innovation in the technology sector.

Check out Yuyang’s terrific job market paper on evaluating the U.S. Interstate Highway Network in spatial equilibrium with decentralized strategic investments by state planners. A major advance in the knowledge frontier.

Excited to share my JMP “Strategic Transportation Investment and Coordinative Policies: Evidence from the U.S. Highway Network.” I show that limited cooperation across states leaves the U.S. highway network underbuilt and misallocated. I explain factors that drive these distortions. Link below.

💡 Why would a firm spend millions teaching workers it doesn’t even employ? From open-sourcing to free certifications, superstar firms often train the workforce of their customers. My JMP explains why. 🧵👇 1/n

Excited about Friday’s upcoming NBER Conference on the economics of transportation in the 21st century: www.nber.org/conferences/.... Many important issues surrounding automation in transport sector. Tune in on NBER YouTube open to all: youtube.com/@nbervideos?... @nber.org @treballen.bsky.social

Join us online today for the NBER - Sloan Transportation and the Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity Conference: www.nber.org/conferences/.... On the NBER YouTube Channel: youtube.com/@nbervideos?...

#QJE Nov 2025, #1, “The Economics of Spatial Mobility: Theory and Evidence Using Smartphone Data,” by Miyauchi, Nakajima, and Redding (@reddingecon.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Excited to see the new Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics (Volume 6), edited jointly with Dave Donaldson come out: www.sciencedirect.com/handbook/han.... Fantastic set of chapters on recent advances and pointing the way to exciting further research @treballen.bsky.social @siepr.bsky.social

Call for proposals: CA labor economists are invited to submit papers for this year's All-California Labor Economics Conference, to be held Sept 11-12 at @siepr.bsky.social, and organized by @maya-rossin-slater.bsky.social and Isaac Sorkin. #EconSky Apply by May 31: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Insurance Versus Moral Hazard in Income-Contingent Student Loan Repayment,” by Tim de Silva (@timdesilva.me): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Economics of Spatial Mobility: Theory and Evidence Using Smartphone Data,” by Miyauchi, Nakajima, and Redding (@reddingecon.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Excited to see this paper coming out. We develop a tractable framework for modeling the rich patterns of spatial mobility observed in smartphone data, including travel itineraries and the resulting consumption externalities between locations

Economists are combining modern tools and old ideas to make sense of today’s trade war. It is a good time to revive Albert Hirschman’s work

Call for submissions for the NBER International Trade and Investment Program Meeting on November 21-22, 2025, at Stanford: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b.... Submission deadline 11.59pm ET on Monday September 15, 2025.

Call for Papers for NBER Economics of Transportation in the 21st Century Virtual Conference, October 24, 2024, organized with Ed Glaeser and Jim Poterba: stephenredding.github.io/Call_for_Pap.... Submission Deadline Weds Sept 3, 11.59 ET. @nber.org @siepr.bsky.social @treballen.bsky.social

Open call for papers, Gender in the Economy: Structural Transformation and Women's Time-Use. Conference to be held in Cambridge, MA on March 27, 2026. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on Decem... https://www.nber.org/calls-papers-and-proposals/gender-economy-structural-transformation-and-womens-time-use

#CallforPapers for the conference 'The New Global Economy: Trade Wars & De-dollarisation?' Deadline: 1 July Organisers: @meredith-crowley.bsky.social @uniofcam.bsky.social , Lu Han @bankofcanada.ca, Dmitry Mukhin , Ben Tomlin @bankofcanada.ca More and submit your paper cepr.org/events/new-g...

Don’t forget to submit your papers for this NBER-Sloan conference on Transport Networks and the Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity! Submission deadline June 30, 2025. Organized with Myrto Kalouptsidi: stephenredding.github.io/Call_for_Pap... @nber.org @harvard.edu @sloanfoundation.bsky.social

Call for papers for NBER-Sloan conference on Transport Networks and the Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity: www.princeton.edu/~reddings/Ca... Deadline: June 30, 2025. Organized with Myrto Kalouptsidi. @nber.org @treballen.bsky.social @jintlecon.bsky.social @indorgsociety.bsky.social

Excited about the NBER Economics of Transportation in the 21st Century Conference on Friday starting at noon Eastern time: www.nber.org/conferences/.... Live streamed on NBER YouTube: m.youtube.com/channel/UC79...

🚨 We’re hiring! The Digital Reskilling Lab at Harvard is looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join our research on workforce development, labor markets and AI. Apply here 👉 academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14918 #EconJobs #Postdoc #FutureOfWork #AI #LaborEconomics #Harvard

Fantastic to have @cselmendorf.bsky.social and many others at the @siepr.bsky.social Economics of Wildfires event last week. Check out his 🧵 for takeaways and questions. (ICYMI, we’ll be posting videos and summaries in the coming days.)

What’s happening with tariffs, why is there so much upheaval, and how do we get out of this? SIEPR Senior Fellow Alan Sykes, an expert on the law and economics of international trade, joins Stanford Law School podcast Stanford Legal to break it all down. law.stanford.edu/stanford-leg...

New paper on "Geoeconomic Pressure" leverages LLMs to measure the effect of tariffs, export controls, and sanction on firms worldwide". We find a massive increase in 2025 Q1 in tariffs (thread follows)

We are sad to announce that former faculty member and Minnesota Econ Ph.D. alum Patrick Bajari passed away on Monday. cla.umn.edu/economics/ne...

Join us tomorrow (online or in person) for @mmaggiori.bsky.social lecture on "Geoeconomics and the US-China Great Power Competition" - register at events.stanford.edu/event/2025hs...

Thank you @harvardmagazine.bsky.social for covering our research on zero-sum thinking and how it informs current policy developments (with a video too)! www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/04/harv...

Looking forward to the next @nber.org Organizational Economics Working Group meeting on April 10/11, coorganized with @andreaprat.bsky.social. We have a great line-up of new research papers in Org Econ! Program and livestream link: www.nber.org/conferences/...

I visited the University of Basel last December and sat down with Rolf Weder to discuss several aspects of my research and of global trade. A lot has changed in the last 4 months, but some of what I say may still be of relevance😅 Link to the interview: innoscape.ch/de/publikati...

NEW EPISODE Old friend @soumayakeynes.ft.com joins @chadpbown.com on an emergency episode explaining President Trump’s sweeping April 2 tariff announcement. They cover history, the dollar, and even the U.S. legal system to clarify what we know about the tariff actions so far.

Excited about tomorrow’s NBER International Trade and Investment (ITI) program meeting: www.nber.org/conferences/.... Includes topical research on tariff exclusions and supply chains. Live-streamed on NBER YouTube open to all: youtube.com/@nbervideos?...

Here's a conversation that @pkrugman.bsky.social and I just had about the economics of AI. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-should... #econsky

The recent development of quantitative urban models provides a new set of tools for evaluating transport improvements, from @reddingecon.bsky.social https://www.nber.org/papers/w33532

Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger, Kalina Manova and I are organizing the 8th Workshop on International Economic Networks (WIEN) to take place in beautiful Vienna on June 26-7, 2024. Send us a paper for consideration! We're particularly keen on receiving submissions from young scholars.

Ed Leamer has passed away. Ed was one of my favorite colleagues at UCLA: smart, witty, helpful. My former colleague Pete Schott who was his student, perfectly captured Ed's quirks on his webpage. For a recent tribute to Ed see here: youtu.be/tg3XEz9inVE?...

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...

📢 #CallForPapers for the 9th Monash-Paris-Warwick-Zurich-CEPR Text-As-Data #Workshop! Papers using text, audio, images, or other unstructured data are welcome. Organisers: @elliottash.bsky.social @essobecker.bsky.social & Philine Widmer @pse.bsky.social 📆10/03/25 cepr.org/events/9th-m... #EconSky

Job available for Full Professor Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC) - Indigenous Health and Well-Being at the Faculty of Health Science, Simon Fraser University (RT 🙏🏼 please): www.sfu.ca/vpacademic/a...

Terrific international trade summer school at University of Nottingham from 30 June - 5 July, 2025. Lectures by the outstanding Arnaud Costinot and Andres Rodriguez-Clare. Apply here: cepr.org/events/notti...

Petr Sedlacek & Pontus Rendahl are running the "Tools for Macroeconomists" Summer School Course again in 2025! The Essentials: August 4-8, 2025 Advanced Tools: August 11-15, 2025 Research workshop: August 16, 2025 Highly recommended!! For more info: sites.google.com/view/toolsfo...

NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately. The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Trade talks is back! Scientific insights on trade: tradetalkspodcast.com

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

Call for papers for Stanford SITE conference on Market Failures and Public Policy, co-organized by me. The submission deadline is April 1, 2025. Link with info on how to apply here: economics.stanford.edu/site/paper-s...

A sign of the times . . . a whole podcast devoted William McKinley, infant industries, and tinplate from the Indicator at Planet Money www.npr.org/2025/02/05/1...