Felipe Vial (he/él)

I am seeing tons of people react to this and say “Look at the AER, QJE” tons of papers with data from developing countries. I did my first 13 years as an academic in Brazil, of course it’s possible to publish good work from the periphery, but it’s SO MUCH HARDER, you have no idea

"Quiebra": Aunque un país no quiebra como una empresa, por último podría usarse el concepto si cae en cesación de pagos de su deuda (default). En Chile, eso no ha pasado desde 1931. Bajisimo riesgo país indica que el mercado tampoco lo cree probable. La ignorancia es atrevida.

Just a reminder that DOGE failed at every possible level: * At the micro level, they misread, misled and straight up lied about many of the 'savings'. They'd announce '500m saved!' and it would be some contract where the money was 98% already spent and already wasn't being renewed. * At the macro level, they didn't impact spending at all. The government spent more in 2025 than 2024. * At the institutional level, they didn't even convince the GOP that deficits are a problem worth caring about. The GOP only signature bill in 2025 exploded the deficit by trillions of dollars. * At a personal level, Elon got run out of town with his tail between his legs. The most notable public facts about the Cracked Coders are that one of them was a mini-Hitler, one was called 'big balls', and none of them bothered to learn how the government actually works before they set it on fire. They gutted a bunch of important institutions, fired whole departments at random, decimated medical research funding, killed millions of people dependent on USAID, and still failed at every possible level.

Today I turn 70. It is a special day for me. I have reached the age of 70. I feel very grateful for this, since most people who have ever lived on earth did not reach that age. But there is another reason this is a special day for me.1/

On 9 March, some things might change: 1. you can message from Whatsapp to Telegram 2. in the App Store you can buy directly from the provider or competing platform 3. Amazon no longer ranks own products at the top of a search Why? The Digital Markets Act (DMA) goes live… 1/

La Biblioteca del #BancodeMéxico te invita a leer el documento de investigación: "Infraestructura en transporte urbano: "mismatch" espacial y poder de mercado laboral". Consúltalo en: tinyurl.com/47mtcwkd

New working paper studying complementarities in the residential demand for rooftop solar and battery storage. We use nationwide household-level data and a dynamic demand model to evaluate the effects of battery availability, power outages, and incentives on solar adoption.

If you see me doing a jaw exercise advertisement that was never approved, and several companies are now using AI and dub over to replace my words to make it seem I use their product/s. I have no financial relationship to any of those companies/products and do not endorse.

WE INVENTED VACCINES FOR CANCER, by the way

40 years ago, a typical single-family home in Greater Boston sold for $79.4k—about 4.5X a Boston Public School teacher’s salary. Today, that home would go for nearly 11X what that teacher makes now. We must bring down costs, which means we need more supply—plain-old Econ 101.

Kissinger urged Nixon to overthrow the democratically elected Salvador Allende, installing dictator Pinochet in a decades-long reign of terror. because a functioning socialist government would be a PR problem: "the 'model' effect can be insidious.” 6/7 nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB4…

Una versión actualizada de este trabajo con @romandzarate y @pipevial sobre infraestructura de transporte y poder de mercado en mercados laborales está disponible como documento de trabajo de @Banxico : banxico.org.mx/DIBM/web/docum…

An updated version of our work with @pipevial and @romandzarate on transportation infrastructure and labor market power is now available as a @Banxico working paper! banxico.org.mx/DIBM/web/docum…

Excited to be on the job market! ➡️My website: shorturl.at/fmqsv Here is my #JMP: "How Big Is the Big Push? The Macroeconomic Effects of a Large-Scale Regional Development Program" ➡️Full draft: shorturl.at/jEHIT A thread for #Econtwitter⬇️ 1/10

*Call for Papers* With @EmilioBorghesan and Garima Sharma, we are organizing a conference for early career labor economists at the IR Section @PrincetonEcon on Apr 4-5. More details on the submission at shorturl.at/avPU4. Feel free to circulate and reach out with q's :)

Porque me parece que Milei es un personaje al que me pondría nervioso dejarlo manejar mi auto, mucho menos el país, me dicen que soy K. Por si les interesa, no soy K… Soy Q. De Quino.

Soy Monserrat Bustamante 🧐🤔

the last OpenAI intern being promoted to CEO after every other employee joins Microsoft