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Looking forward to presenting my work "Elsewhere in North America" at the NBER ITI Spring meeting this week in Cambridge. nber.org/conferences/in…

Years of political repression and creeping urban decay have hollowed out Istanbul's soul, designing dissent out of its once-vibrant streets and erasing its rich cosmopolitan past from popular memory. My (sad) farewell to the city: engelsbergideas.com/essays/istanbu…

UNLV in March — the sun hits different. I enjoyed my seminar visit and the great conversations with faculty throughout. Many thanks to my host @yuting_gao16 for the warm hospitality. @unlv

@f_montag This is a really cool paper! Huge congrats!🎉 It will be a great paper to discuss in my seminar class. The AER website links to the wrong paper though.

Glad to see this coming out soon! Will a thread about the final version of the paper in a little bit

@f_montag Congrats, Felix!

Our paper "When Does Mandatory Price Disclosure Lower Prices?" is out in the Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics! When does price transparency lower prices -- and when doesn't it? Paper: doi.org/10.1086/734145 Summary: promarket.org/2024/07/23/whe…

Thank you to my host @hyunju_econ and the faculty at the University of Houston for the invitation and warm welcome. It was a pleasure to present my recent work and to engage in great conversations with colleagues.

@m_clem Congratulations!

I'm honored and excited to join the faculty of America's oldest research university, Johns Hopkins. I'll start this summer as a full professor, one of the founding faculty at the brand-new School of Government and Policy. We're building something unique & historic.

Happy to see it at @restatjournal ! Many thanks to the editor @DanielYiXu and the four referees for the excellent comments that helped improve the paper. A thread🧵 will follow when I get a chance.

Asked this last April. The Supreme Court just answered: it's not. Happy to hear!

@firooz_hamid Congratulations, Hamid!🎉 Very interesting findings.

Glad to see "Markups, Production Relocation, and the Gains from Trade" in print!

Boğaziçi ve Boğaziçi’nde olan bitenler hakkında Murat Sabuncu ile söyleşim T24’te: t24.com.tr/yazarlar/murat…

Another very weird statement from the USA government regarding Greenland. A lot of places can be important to neighbouring countries. Finland is important to the security of Sweden. Poland is important to the security of Germany. That does not give Sweden a right to get anything from Finland or Germany a right to get something from Poland. The USA has zero rights to Greenland. None whatsoever. Denmark allows the USA to have a base there. (They can have more if they want). That base does nothing for Denmark or Greenland. Literally nothing. It only protects the USA from potential missiles flying from Russia over the North Pole towards the USA. It does not protect Greenland and it does not protect Denmark in any way at all. The USA does not protect Greenland in any other way than the protection in the NATO treaty that applies to all NATO countries. They do nothing special in Greenland on a daily basis. Denmark and Greenland, therefore, does not owe the USA anything in Greenland. It is the other way around. The USA owes Denmark and Greenland because we allow the USA to have the base. Getting this twisted around to sound like USA ought to get something from Greenland and Denmark because they are allowed to have a base in Greenland makes absolutely no sense, and these embarrassing and hostile statements from the USA government have to stop.

@dix_rafael Congratulations! 🎉

🚨 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)

Deeply saddened to learn of the loss of Şemsa Özar, my dear professor during my undergraduate years. An inspiring academic and the kindest mentor I ever had. Her intellectual generosity and encouragement left a lasting mark on my academic journey. bianet.org/haber/prof-dr-…

🚨 New Paper Alert🚨 #TradePolicy #GlobalValueChains Elsewhere in North America: How U.S. Tariffs on China Boosted Mexico's Manufacturing Employment and Output ifo.de/cesifo/Agz @CESifoNetwork

Bottom line 📌: The 2018–19 U.S. tariffs on China reallocated production within multinational supply chains, boosting precisely the middle-skill factory jobs they were meant to protect—but elsewhere in North America, not at home.

What kinds of jobs grew? 👷‍♂️ Factory-floor jobs: production workers and technicians