Rodrigo Sekkel

Always a great conference!

Disappointed I won’t be at #ESWC in Seoul next week thanks to the #AirCanada strike. Was hoping to see lots of friends there. Have a great conference, everyone!

In memory of my grandparents, who had the courage and the luck to scape.

"Canada’s publicly provided health care system actually requires rationing in order to contain costs. Because services are offered at no monetary price, demand exceeds the available supply of doctors, equipment, and facilities. If the different provinces (which operate most health care services) wanted to meet the full demand, each would have to raise taxes significantly to fund services. To keep expenditures down (managing the imbalance from public provision) and thus taxes as well, the system relies on rationing through wait times rather than prices (…) To illustrate the magnitude of rationing (and the trend), one can examine the evolution of the median number of weeks between referral by a general practitioner and receipt of treatment from 1993 to 2024. In most provinces (except one), the median wait time in 1993 was less than 12 weeks. Today, all provinces are close or exceed 30 weeks. In two provinces, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, the median wait times exceed 69 weeks. For some procedures, such as neurosurgery, the wait time (for all provinces) exceeds 46 weeks.  "

Great paper using macro news to answer an interesting question in macro/finance.

Big thanks to Economics Letters for the great refereeing and incredibly smooth publication process!

Short paper with my colleagues Xu Zhang, Henry Stern and former RA Blake Martos on the impact of domestic and US macro surprises on Canadian financial markets.

This in-depth investigation of #antisemitism in Canada took a lot of time and effort. Of special interest to Americans: It's about the neighbour you thought you knew. Think again: thefp.com/p/explosion-of…

Hey y'all! This is the official X/Twitter account of the Empirical Macroeconomics Policy Center of Texas (EMPCT), at the University of Texas at Austin @UTAustin @UTAustinEcon Here's a quick overview of who we are and what we do ⬇️

Always a great conference!

I just lit a virtual candle to honor the memory of a victim of October 7h, 2023. remembertenseven.org//candle/713f3d… #RememberTenSeven via @WeRememberThem7

Very interesting podcast interview with Jesus Fernandez Villaverde. open.spotify.com/episode/58Xdyn…

@cmatthes_econ @bankofcanada Thanks for coming!

@cmatthes_econ @bankofcanada It was great to have you here, Christian!

I had a great time visiting the @bankofcanada today. Really impressed by the top notch work people are doing here!

Shameful!

New staff discussion paper about the output-inflation trade-off in Canada. We discuss (i) the determinants of this trade-off, (ii) how they are captured by our policy models, and (iii) provide some new empirical evidence for Canada.

@cconces @UTAustin @haverfordedu Congratulations, Carola!

Deadline approaching!