Rodimiro Rodrigo

Excited to present my paper at @nberpubs SI 2022 combined session on Macroeconomics & Productivity and CRIW (nber.org/conferences/si…). I will talk about the relevance of firms' reorganization after adopting robots for productivity gains. Thanks to the organizers and attendees!

🚨🚨 new project 🚨🚨 How much trade in #AI - related products? A lot. Trade in AI-related products is **the** dominant force in U.S. trade flows over the past two years. This is despite the changes in U.S. #trade policy and #tariffs

I coded up an open-source, not-for-profit AI paper reviewer that rivals the performance of @reviewer3com, @RefineInk, and Stanford Agentic Reviewer (according to @GeminiApp). Costs <$2! Live @ coarse.ink. Plug in paper, @OpenRouter key, and email. #econtwitter.

🚨 Excited to share a new working paper! 🚨 AI can improve individual tasks. But when does it improve firm performance? Our paper proposes one key friction firms face: the "mapping problem" -- discovering where and how AI creates value in a firm's production process. 🧵1/

Does import competition increase surviving firms' wage-setting power? In more exposed labor markets, yes — but markdowns explain only 6% of the relative wage decline. A thread on NBER WP "Trade, Labor Market Concentration, and Wages" 🧵👇

Continuing a proud Georgetown Economics tradition, the 30th Annual Razin Prize & Economic Policy Lecturehonors excellence in economic research and policy. 🎤 Keynote: Sir Timothy Besley (LSE) 🏆 Razin Prize: Luke Miller (Georgetown) 📍 Healy Hall, Riggs Library 🗓 March 19, 4-6pm

💻 Free online lecture: Present and future of industrialisation On Tuesday March 10th (15:00 GMT), Tristan Reed, @RodimiroRodrigo, @GusMicrotoMacro, and @mposchke will cover the present and future of industrialisation. Register here: cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

📢 Our new VoxDevLit on Industrial Development is out now! Senior Editors Francesco Amodio & @mposchke summarise everything you need to know about industrialisation. Read & download here voxdev.org/voxdevlit/indu…

🆕 Excited to announce our free online lecture series on Industrial Development To mark the release of our new VoxDevLit next week, with Francesco Amodio & @mposchke, we have organised a series of lectures on the key topics related to industrialisation. Link to register below⤵️

@dix_rafael Great paper! Congrats!!

🚨 Forthcoming in Econometrica! How does trade liberalization affect developing countries with large informal sectors? Informality fundamentally changes how we think about the gains from trade. (1/5)

📢 New Data & Paper 📢 We released the U.S. Monetary Policy Event Study Database, a transparent, regularly updated dataset of high-frequency financial market reactions to all official FOMC communication since 1994. Data: sffed.us/USMPD Paper: frbsf.org/research-and-i…

A non-technical summary of our paper: "Bottom-Up Markup Fluctuations" recently published in @QJEHarvard unibocconi.it/en/news/how-co…

🔷 Each year, the Economics Department awards the Razin Prize for the best dissertation or research paper by an advanced graduate student. This year’s winner is @luke_benjamin_, whose job market paper earned the prize. 🏅 Congratulations Luke!. Find More on his JMP 👇

Call for papers: DC Search and Matching Workshop. Deadline Jan 31. Send us your papers! Conf date April 17-18 in Washington, DC. @FedResearch @GCER_Georgetown organized by Axel Anderson, me, Jean Flemming, @ToshiMukoyama, @gmnavarro, and Alex Vardoulakis. federalreserve.gov/conferences/fi…

📢The Department of Economics at Georgetown University is pleased to introduce our 2025–2026 Job Market Candidates. 🔗econ.georgetown.edu/academics/phd/… We’ll be sharing highlights of their work and job market papers in this thread. #Economics #EconJobMarket #econtwitter

Atención colegas! Está abierto el llamado a propuestas de investigación de CAF. Este año la temática es informalidad laboral y digitalización.

📢📢 Call for Papers 📢📢 We're organizing a *macroeconomics workshop* in Amsterdam 15-16 December 👌 ✅ Any topic in macro broadly defined ✅ Two nights in a'dam + EU travel covered ✅ Keynote by @virgiliu79 Midrigran Submit by October 5. Call here: tinbergen.nl/event/2025/12/…

We have a 4-year and full-time PhD fellowship. Consider applying and spreading the word. linkedin.com/posts/universi…

The new version of our first year PhD Macroeconomics textbook is out. It is not polished yet but now all chapters are included. We hope it would be useful for the new semester. phdmacrobook.org/downloads/

📢 @GCER_Georgetown Alumni Conference is back. Please submit your papers by August 8 and join us on September 12!! Especially Econs in the DC area and of course GU Alumni!! We want to learn from your work and hangout!

I am really happy about this paper. Through the process of writing it, we learned something fundamental about the workhorse model of labor market frictions - not just discovering normative properties (which, of course, is important), but also finding out how to analyze them.