🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 1st Madrid Mountain Macro Conference September 18-19 in the Cercedilla Residence of the Bank of Spain, in the Sierra of Madrid with Poster Session for PhD students Application deadline: May 30th Please share and send your papers!

To all macro PhD students: We're organising a PhD workshop in beautiful Konstanz in October! Submission deadline on June 1st. Please circulate and apply! Call for papers attached 👇

To those in the US who want to donate $ to #Ukraine, consider these options National Bank of UKR: bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/... Humanitarian aid (tax deductible): Kyiv-Mohyla Foundation of America: www.kmfoundation.org Kyiv School of Economics: kse.ua/support/dona... Nova Ukraine: novaukraine.org

The discussion ending at this tweet is very smart on both sides ( @lugaricano.bsky.social and @shengwuli.bsky.social ), reasonably spicy, and fun to read.

Since the Australian Open won’t do it, I made legible, printable, annotable, space-efficient drawsheets for the main singles draws, with qualifiers placed. You can download them here: fogmountaintennis.wordpress.com/draws-oops/

Superb paper by Dobbin&Zohar @ #ASSA2025 22% of intergenerational earnings persistence is accounted for by ACCESS to high paying firms (AKM firm effects). A lot of this probably due to networks/connections/discrimination Data from Israel. Lots more in the paper.

Economist when family member ask for stock tip during holiday dinner:

Wow! This is the equivalent of organising a tennis conference on the Wimbledon grounds. How about someone with the right connections do that, pretty please?

Just a reminder that @gmcd.bsky.social and @kylefbutts.bsky.social have made an incredible public good describing how to use data.table and fixest to encourage moving from Stata to R! stata2r.github.io

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“The most important question is what is to be achieved. Assuming that Israel can fight its way to Gaza City, which would be the most likely objective of a major incursion, what then?” Another superb essay from Lawrence Freedman. samf.substack.com/p/israels-st...

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"ECB policymakers consider a spike in Italy's bond yields to be justified by the government's projection of higher deficits, but see it as a warning sign that should cool talk of ending a bond-buying scheme early, six sources said." Is that already fiscal dominance? www.reuters.com/markets/euro...