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Oliver Parker

@Oliverparker

Economist @ GoC 🇨🇦 | PhD Student @QUBelfast | EconHis, Trade, & Macro Enthusiast | YIMBY 🏗️ | 🌐

Burlington, Ontario Katılım Ekim 2010
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Diego Känzig
Diego Känzig@drkaenzig·
Excited to share a new working paper: The Macroeconomic Effects of Tariffs: Insights from 180 Years of U.S. Trade Policy joint with my fantastic student @tamardenbesten and fabulous co-authors at the SF Fed: Régis Barnichon & Aayush Singh Thread below👇
NBER@nberpubs

Using 180 years of US data to show that tariff increases reduce imports, output, and manufacturing, with effects operating through both supply and demand channels, from Tamar den Besten, Regis Barnichon, @drkaenzig, and Aayush Singh nber.org/papers/w35102

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Kevin A. Bryan
Kevin A. Bryan@Afinetheorem·
In all of Toronto maybe 20 of these coffee shops/small restaurants/convenience stores grandfathered into residential corners. Always beloved. Of course illegal across nearly all of N America. Put small commerce in the neighborhoods, in the parks, and let families walk. Progress!
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CMHC
CMHC@CMHC_ca·
🚨 New CMHC Insight: Tighter Land-Use Regulations Linked to 14% Jump in Home Prices Our new analysis shows restrictive regulations don’t just slow housing supply — they directly push prices higher. More evidence that process matters. 🔗 Full insight: ow.ly/U4n050YKoHA
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Oliver Parker@Oliverparker·
@joefrancis505 Thanks for the recommendation. I'll throw some old census tables at it in the next day or two and see how it holds. I've been looking for something more accurate than Textract and ABBYY.
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joseph francis
joseph francis@joefrancis505·
Aside from Reviewer 2, Mathpix is an incredible tool and cheap. Strongly recommended for anyone doing any kind of quantitative work. I often use the menu bar app for digitalizing historical documents. Very useful for economic historians.
joseph francis@joefrancis505

Reviewer 2 is now open source. You'll need Gemini and potentially Mathpix API keys, and it costs from ~$1 to $5 per review, depending on length of text and options chosen. It's better than refine. github.com/isitcredible/r…

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Lindsay Loves Cities
Lindsay Loves Cities@LindsayJS·
This is a really cool idea... Imagine you live on a SFH street where the housing stock is older/past it's prime (CA has tons of 50 yr old homes built to last 25 yrs). Everyone gets together and says: lets build Savanah Rowhouses -- we can fit two in the front, two in the backyard, and the 4 are worth 3 times the value of the house. The local residents - the stakeholders - can both stay (keep one townhouse, sell the others), and they are the ones who benefit -- not some private equity fund or anonymous developer. The rowhouses can be designed to feel of a piece on the block -- because part of the value-creation is the curb appeal. There's also a shared courtyard model -- for 4 townhomes, or the entire block.
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Chris Elmendorf@CSElmendorf

I'm more optimistic about mechanisms (like @RickHills2's land assembly districts) that would allow whole neighborhoods to sell themselves to a single investor, who could then do coherent redevelopment, internalizing positive spillovers of better streets + good aesthetics. /5

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More Neighbours Toronto
More Neighbours Toronto@MoreNeighbours·
"For more than a century the profession of planning said, in essence, that the market isn’t their problem. The challenge from YIMBYs says, in essence, if planners won’t acknowledge the realities of the housing market, then we need less planning."
John Michael McGrath@jm_mcgrath

Bit of a longer one from me at TVO, on what a dispute between Toronto and Ontario on lot size rules tells us about the differences between planners (broadly defined) and YIMBYs. tvo.org/article/analys…

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Oliver Parker@Oliverparker·
@rosskay The owners of the surrounding lots paid for the lots they own. If they wanted control over surrounding lots they could have also paid for those.
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Ross Kay
Ross Kay@rosskay·
@Oliverparker Six storeys is adequate and responsible for this location and lot. The owners of the surrounding homes paid a price reflective of the risk of a six storey rental not higher. The tenants for this specific building and location will not use the Go to commute.
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John Michael McGrath
John Michael McGrath@jm_mcgrath·
Bit of a longer one from me at TVO, on what a dispute between Toronto and Ontario on lot size rules tells us about the differences between planners (broadly defined) and YIMBYs. tvo.org/article/analys…
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Luke Heeney
Luke Heeney@heeney_luke·
Tariffs are often modeled simply as a cost increase to foreign final goods. But 'domestic' alternatives often rely on imported parts. This is important for tariff incidence. 1/🧵
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Emily Oster
Emily Oster@ProfEmilyOster·
Advice for PhD students in economics about using AI, from the brilliant Isaiah Andrews. This should probably be circulated to all PhD cohorts economics.mit.edu/sites/default/…
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Maia
Maia@maiamindel·
fortunately the success of economics as a field has come and will continue coming from applying core economic concepts and thinking to important real-world problems instead of the intellectual dead end of data science freakonomics tricknology with swedish public health statistics
Pradyumna (in Bay Area)@PradyuPrasad

i think economics as a profession will change rapidly. everyone can now do data analysis at the drop of a hat. things that were award winning papers 20 years ago are five second codex prompts

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Oliver Parker@Oliverparker·
Very compelling article! As someone who works with unemployment insurance data this inspires me to try and cobble together an analysis of time spent on claim and see if there is any noticeable effect from the rise of AI tools recently.
Matt Darling 🌐🏗️@besttrousers

I have a new piece in @TheArgumentMag. We haven't (yet?) seen AI affect the labor market by increasing number of people who are unemployed - but there's reason to believe it's contributing to a stagnant labor market by making firms less willing to hire. theargumentmag.com/p/the-tinder-i…

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Jorge Pérez Pérez
Jorge Pérez Pérez@jorpppp·
🚨 New paper on the effect of minimum wages (MW) on prices with a meta-analysis 🚨 Meta-estimates of the effect of MW on prices imply that a 10% increase in the MW leads to a 0.3 - 1.1% increase in prices. Link below 👇 #EconTwitter #EconX #minimumwage #LaborEconomics
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