This Wednesday we are very happy to be hosting Sandra Sequeira (LSE) on "Financial Security, Climate Shocks, and Social Cohesion". Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

It was a pleasure to host the 2nd Transatlantic Political Economy Conference (T-PEC) earlier this week, organized by our own Cevat Aksoy, @nicolasajz.bsky.social and @clpennec.bsky.social. Thanks to all speakers, discussants and attendees, and special thanks to Elias Papaioannou for his keynote.

Working from home expands the ability of people in rural areas, with family and outside commitments to work. This should increase employment for potentially millions globally, from Cevat Giray Aksoy, @nickbloom.bsky.social, Steven J. Davis, Victoria Marino, and ... https://www.nber.org/papers/w33851

NEW - Globalization, Higher Education, and Neoliberal Values: Evidence from the Bologna Process - https://cup.org/3LG3lVj - @mgiani.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Are university still a left-wing thing in Europe? Unsure: HE is a hierarchical institution with egalitarian employees I find that universities increasingly inculcate selfish career concerns for status while leaving universalist concerns for global justice unchanged

📢 Event Announcement! Join us on December 3rd afternoon at King’s College London for our upcoming London Inequality Workshop. We’ll have three excellent speakers, followed by informal drinks nearby! ✅ Planning to attend? Please register here: tinyurl.com/LINWorkshop12

🆕 Enemies of the people: How Stalin’s Gulags shaped Russia Gerhard Toews (New Economic School) & Pierre-Louis Vézina (King's College London) discuss how Stalin’s forced deportation of educated ‘enemies of the people’ inadvertently concentrated human capital in Gulag towns: https://ow.ly/Eceb50Xch32

Stalin’s forced deportation of educated ‘enemies of the people’ inadvertently concentrated human capital in Gulag towns, fostering inter-generational prosperity and long-term development despite the destructive intent of the repression. Read today's article to learn more:

Congrats to Joel Mokyr on winning the Economics Nobel Prize! Throwback to two years ago, when he visited King's College London and gave a talk on his upcoming book about Europe and China's divergent economic and political paths over the past millennium youtu.be/Ti8JkeXrDqs?... @kcl-spe.bsky.social

This Wednesday we are very happy to be hosting Massimo Morelli (Bocconi) on "The Financial Drivers of Populism in Europe" Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

This Wednesday we are very happy to be hosting Massimo Morelli (Bocconi) on "The Financial Drivers of Populism in Europe" Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

Today is the deadline for submission! 📢Call for Abstracts: PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference at King’s College London 📅 Date: 26th Nov 2025 ✍️ CfA: 400 words (by 29th Sep) ➡️ Details & Application Form: tinyurl.com/5n7xv5cr

Kicking off this year's seminar series with Lucy Barnes (@lucy-barnes.bsky.social) on "Economic Orientations and Preferences Over Redistributive Taxation." Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are? @simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions Thread 🧵1/10

New WP thread! 🤓 Vietnam's solar panel exports boomed between 2018 and 2022. With my PhD student Meng Yu Ngov, Trang Thu Tran, and Gaurav Nayyar we look at how this industry success can be attributed to attracting FDI and importing parts and components, as well to Chinese subsidy spillovers.👇

Apply to our (virtual) seminar series to discuss your research in French Economic History ! Deadline 29th August

📣Conference announcement: Our PhD students are organizing a graduate conference. See call below. Call for abstracts: PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference at King's College London Conference date: 26 Nov 2025 Abstract submission deadline: 29 Sep Apply here (+ details): tinyurl.com/5n7xv5cr

Join us at King's College London for a great seminar series in Quantitative Political Economy! If you're in London and would like to join, let me know

🔥 Excited to share our 2025/26 QPE Seminar lineup! Externals welcome. Please get in touch at [email protected] or [email protected]. 📅 Full schedule 👇

🚨Publication alert!🚨 Thread below👇

🚨 New paper in Science Advances @science.org Can changing how we argue about politics online improve the quality of replies we get? T HeideJorgensen, @gregoryeady.bsky.social & I use an LLM to manipulate counter-arguments to see how people respond to different approaches to arguments Thread 🧵1/n

🚨Publication alert!🚨 Thread below👇

Very pleased that our local projections dif-in-dif paper is now out in the Journal of Applied Econometrics. Joint with @dgirardi.bsky.social, Jorda, and Taylor. It's a tool that we think many applied economists will find useful (indeed many already have). 🧵

Link to the paper: doi.org/10.1002/jae.... Slides deck: danielegirardi.github.io/posts/docume... lpdid STATA command: github.com/danielegirar... [or just type "ssc install lpdid, replace" in STATA] [4/4]

Our Local Projections Difference-in-Differences (LP-DiD) paper is out in the Journal of Applied Econometrics. LP-DiD is a convenient, flexible and computationally fast framework for estimating DiD using simple well-specified regressions.... [1/4]

Arti Grover & Pierre-Louis Vezina find an increasing role for political alignment or differences in shaping companies' location decisions. Geopolitical differences have a larger negative impact on #FDI today than they did 10 years ago. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

@guglielmobarone.bsky.social‬, David Chilosi, @carciccar.bsky.social, & Guido de Blasio challenge the idea that unification increased Italy's North-South divide and find that neither region experienced widespread benefits from the united state. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky #Italy

Only a few days left to apply! 👇

🆕 The number of people in the #UK living below the Happiness Poverty Line is rising, according to a new report authored by our academic Dr Maria Cotofan with the World Wellbeing Movement 📝

📢 Just out: Our new policy brief for @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social! 🧠 We distill cutting-edge findings from the 6th Workshop on the Economics & Politics of Migration that policy audiences can't afford to miss 📄 Read it here: stderr-editors.com/blog/how-mig... #EconSky #Immigration

Our academic, @mehmetmars7.bsky.social brought insights from his #gametheory research to a global audience at the prestigious Norway Chess tournament ♟️📺 Read more ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/academi...

🚨🚨Job alert!!🚨🚨 The Department of Political Economy at KCL is hiring 3(!) permanent education track lecturers. We are looking for outstanding scholars interested in research-led education in the following areas... 1/

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Research by Dr Cevat Giray Aksoy on hybrid working and changing labour markets features in a new @financialtimes.com article on the return of office mandates 💼 Read it here 👇 www.ft.com/content/f583...

And also 1 permanent lecturer in economics: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117209-...

Department of Political Economy at King’s College London is hiring 2 permanent lecturers (teaching-focused) in political science: - Research methods: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117268-... - Comparative politics: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117245-... Application deadline: June 29, 2025

We're also hiring two more permanent lecturers in research methods and in comparative politics, both on the education pathway. Details here: bsky.app/profile/jlea...

🚨 We're hiring! King's College London Department of Political Economy (@kcl-spe.bsky.social, @kingsqpe.bsky.social), is hiring a permanent lecturer in economics on the education pathway. Details: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117209-... Please share! Happy to answer questions about the role/department!

We’re hiring 3 permanent (tenured) lecturers in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. These are ‘education pathway’ posts (in Economics, Research Methods, & Comparative Politics) 1/4 www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117268-... www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117209-... www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117245-...

Day 1 of the EAYE Annual Meeting 2025 wrapped up beautifully! Inspiring presentations, a thought-provoking keynote by Ran Spiegler, and stunning views of the London skyline from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social terrace We're energised and ready for an exciting Day 2! #EAYEAM25

Fascinating papers are presented at the @eayeconomists.bsky.social annual meeting at @kingsqpe.bsky.social, choosing which parallel session to attend is always quite the struggle

Great first day at the conference yesterday at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, ending with an excellent keynote by Rani Spiegler. Looking forward to the next two days!

Excited to share the program for the European Association of Young Economists Annual Meeting 2025 is OUT NOW! Looking forward to seeing you all @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social London on May 29–31!

Welfare benefit cuts and other UK austerity measures after 2010 lowered life expectancy — and the effect was nearly twice as great on women, according to the new WP by Stone Center associated researcher @yonatanberman.com and Tora Hovland. bit.ly/4jkSc7K

Great dinner party at the 6th King's-EBRD workshop on the economics and politics of #migration. Thanks to our hosts in Madrid!

Greatly enjoyed this workshop. Would highly recommend to ECRs in political economy 💫

We had a great day yesterday. On to the third and last day. Thanks to all speakers, discussants and guests!

Great second day at the @kingsqpe.bsky.social workshop! Now off to a Lebanese wine bar in Shoreditch!!!

🆕 Are competitive markets economic analogues to scientific experiments? A new paper by Sam DeCanio and Colin Jennings applies arguments from studies of causal inference to understand competition and the problems created by monopoly power. More 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Supernice workshop in Madrid this week!