Camilo Umana-Dajud

"What Do We Know About Chinese Industrial #Subsidies?" @ChimitsF reviews the existing data and methodologies aiming at to clarify the state of knowledge, including grey zones, regarding #China’s industrial distortions. cepii.fr/CEPII/fr/publi… #EconTwitter #industry @merics_eu

@colombia_hist @mujerdelvino He buscado durante varios años la fuente histórica primaria de esta afirmación. @colombia_hist tendrá alguna idea de dónde la puedo encontrar?

El rey Felipe II no tenía los mecanismos para poner impuestos a los vinos hechos en América, por tal razón prefirió prohibir el cultivo de la uva y la producción de vino. Así, desde los tiempos de la colonia, no se cultivaba en Colombia uvas para producción de vino @mujerdelvino

Here's a wild stat: 43% of white students admitted to Harvard are legacy, athletes, or related to donors or staff. 86% admit rate for athletes is insane.

N'Golo Kante is the most humble man in football. He drives a banged up old Mini, does his shopping at Asda, and meets up with fans to play FIFA. As the midfield maestro departs the Premier League, here's the story of football's nicest bloke...

New: "Export side effects of wars on organized crime: The case of Mexico" by Jesús Gorrín (@jesusgorrin), José Morales-Arilla (@josemoralesa) and Bernardo Ricca (@bernardo_ricca). doi.org/10.1016/j.jint… 1/2

Reminder: The IEA is funding research projects that advance women in Economics in developing countries. More info here iea-world.org/research-on-in…

🚨 Final version of "Globalization and Inequality in Latin America" with Brian Kovak. We think this paper can serve as good background material in a graduate trade / development class. Please retweet! dropbox.com/s/gja3d4s20po4…

TIL: William J. Reilly (1931) posited a gravity relationship for retail transactions en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reilly%27… via footnote 3 in awi.uni-heidelberg.de/md/awi/profess…

Alan Kurdî would have turned 11 years old this year, excited to start sixth grade, growing up Canadian, chatting with his classmates about summer plans in fluent English, bringing nothing but benefits to his Vancouver community and to the world.

Seems like a fruit company has developed a rather successful import-export business out of Ireland ... bbc.com/news/articles/…

Nous rendons un dernier hommage à Jacques Melitz. Pour nous, ses collègues, c’est un ami qui s’en est allé et qui va terriblement nous manquer. cepii.fr/BLOG/bi/post.a… #EconTwitter

We have a new string matching package – supporting Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. HomoglyphsCJK available here: pypi.org/project/Homogl…. Paper here: dell-research-harvard.github.io/wp/389homoglyp…. With Xinmei Yang, Abhishek Arora, and Shao-Yu Jheng (1/8)

🚩Per the original conversation below from last month, @USTradeRep has announced it has asked Mexico to review the petition about Goodyear #RRM #USMCA #TMEC 👇👇👇 Updating our tracker... @ChadBown

En el segundo día de agenda en Francia tuvimos un grato encuentro con empresarios de @Medef para hablar de nuestras políticas y de las nuevas oportunidades de inversión, en línea con nuestra meta de transitar hacia una economía productiva y sostenible. #JusticiaEconómica

Me complace inaugurar el primer Centro de Reindustrialización Zasca de Bogotá con el presidente @petrogustavo, un espacio que ayudará a unidades productivas, soporte económico de muchos colombianos. Es hora de que la #EconomíaPopular sea protagonista en las políticas públicas.

Ben Deaner from UCL pointed me to this directed acyclical graph (one of many) in Griliches and Mason, Journal of Political Economy, 1972. It reminded me of the graph in Tinbergen, Review of Economic Studies, 1940. Two mostly forgotten early examples of DAGs in the econ lit.

Language matters! When the Associated Press stopped using the term "illegal immigrant", this lead to a significant reduction in support for restricting immigration. New paper in the American Economic Review by Milena Djourelova @MNDjourel:

Il est urgent de mener la #TransitionEcologique, aussi pour préserver l'#emploi. De gros investissements sont nécessaires : il faut une *politique* permettant l'émergence d'industries vertes : notre étude @TGrjebine reprise par @MarianneleMag marianne.net/economie/econo… @CEPII_Paris

Zoom on #TradeFacilitation in Sub-Saharan Africa 🌍⤵️ Find out which economies have made the most progress when it comes to the implementation of trade facilitation reforms! 📊 + more data from the #OECDTFIs 👉 oe.cd/TFIs