Basile Grassi

The 🇪🇺 miracle: When 75 Millions Reach High Income Since 2004, the 10 new EU members have double their GDP per capita. How much is due to the 🇪🇺? What about the EU15? In a new WP (shorturl.at/94pLq) I found that half is due to the 🇪🇺 and that the EU-15 did not suffer

📢Spend 4 days in Ortygia, Siracusa this September studying advanced macroeconomics at the Ortygia Summer School 2026. 📅 Sept 7–10, 2026 📌 Courses in HANK, causal inference, DGE balance sheet policies, and ML for economics Apply by June 15: ortygiasummerschool.org #EconTwitter

🚨 Fatih Guvenen, Luigi Pistaferri and I are hiring a pre-doc to work as a project manager for the GRID Project which is rapidly expanding thanks to a generous NSF grant. More countries, more statistics, new website, and new visualization tool coming soon! Ideal candidate has Econ & Stats background, interest in research, and excellent coding skills. ✅Appointment for 1 year, competitive salary 🔜Start date, mid April 🎓Great fit for students considering a Ph.D. Link to apply in tweet below and in thread

In another episode of « What does the EU does for you? »

The EU wants to let you launch a company in 48 hours for under €100. 🚀 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled EU Inc — a single set of corporate rules across the bloc to cut red tape, boost innovation, and help businesses scale across borders. #EUXL

Submit your abstract for the Young Economists Conference 2026! 📆 #yec2026 in Vienna on September 17 and 18, 2026 📣 Keynotes by @CeciliaRikap and @IzaskunZuazu ✉️ Submit your work until May 10: wien.arbeiterkammer.at/yec2026

The department of economics and the school of government at di tella have open positions for economists. Any field, any rank. If interested please write me or write to economia@utdt.edu aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph… @utditella @UTDT_Gobierno @EconomiaDiTella

Instant Classic!

I am very happy that my survey paper, "Deep Learning for Solving Economic Models," is forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Literature (pending final replication checks, which should be quick). The paper benefited greatly from the editor, David Romer, five referees, and many friends who read earlier versions. I believe the result is a solid introduction to the field, though in 48 pages, there is only so much one can do. So, I created a companion webpage: sas.upenn.edu/%7Ejesusfv/dee… where you can find the paper, the code, and some slide decks with my teaching material. My plan is to expand the slides over time, adding new material and updating them as new results appear. I will probably do a thorough revision once the spring semester is over. Those who follow my feed know that I think deep learning is the most fundamental change to computational economics in the last 40 years. I am by now convinced it is more important than the development of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods in the early 1990s or the introduction of projection and perturbation methods in the 1980s. To find a comparable shift, one would probably need to go back to Richard Bellman's invention of value function iteration in 1957. More pointedly, we need to redesign the Ph.D. in economics. Not at the margin. From the ground up. Economists can either fully embrace the deep learning revolution or become irrelevant, as has already happened, I would dare say, to some fields in academia that refused to accept reality. Finally, let me apologize to everyone working in this area whom I could not cite. Space was a binding constraint. And yes, this post was written with the considerable help of AI. There is nothing I am prouder of than the fact that AI is now an integral part of every step I take in my professional life.

Replicate the miracle in Ukraine, I say.

Liberalize and even if you elect idiots don't let them do too much damage. Both are hard. The first requires wisdom, the second - a mix of luck and decent institutions, in our case following EU And say what you want about the EU, it's decent and alternatives are much worse

@SorryToBeKurt @KHarmenberg @IIES_Sthlm @RHelensdotter @caterina_vieira @ReichardtHugo @RustamJamilov Fantastic hires!

Exciting times in Stockholm and @IIES_Sthlm this fall Four new hires for IIES: @KHarmenberg @RHelensdotter @caterina_vieira @ReichardtHugo And @RustamJamilov coming to CeMoF (joint IIES/SU/SBS center) for a year

This the EU miracle! cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…

📢 Research Assistant in Econometrics – Sciences Po Paris Professor Clément de Chaisemartin (Sciences Po) is hiring Research Assistants to work on an ERC-funded project focused on econometrics and causal inference. Contract: 12 months Send CV, cover letter, and transcripts to maria.ohlund@sciencespo.fr Subject: Research Assistant Sciences Po – ERC REALLYCREDIBLE Read more here: theeconomicmisfit.com/2026/03/15/res…

I have 2 Post Doc positions I want to fill here at Frankfurt School!! Profile: PhD from US/Europe with the idea to go on the academic job market afterwards. We want to strengthen our research in the area of private capital markets with a focus on privat debt and direct lending.

What does the EU 🇪🇺 does for you? 👇

@helene_rey @klaus_adam Bravo! Chapeau bas

Looking forward to this new chapter in a great organisation. What a daunting task to follow Hyun!

Yes. #StopEUbashing ;🇨🇭now closer to the EU🇪🇺. Iceland 🇮🇸holding a referendum next August on EU accession. Norway 🇳🇴 and UK 🇬🇧 with stronger ties. Bulgaria 🇧🇬 just entered the €🇪🇺. EU attractiveness is growing, not declining.

Conference on inflation and heterogeneity, two days to submit! 👇