Simplistic industrial policy narratives threaten the big opportunity to rebalance economies. I explained this here in June linking back to my comments from 2022 and 2023. x.com/fetzert/status…

Hi #EconTwitter! 📈 Looking for a book on #econometrics through the lens of optimization techniques? Check out this comprehensive textbook by guillaume pouliot (The University of Chicago)! 📚 It covers a wide range of topics, including MCMC methods, optimal transport, nonconvex econometric

Why do some reforms fail despite high popular support, and why do some politicians benefit when voters focus on particular issues? In two words, it is all about issue importance. In my new piece with James Dennison, we discuss why voters make decisions based on not just what

📢New #paper available Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Correcting #misperceptions about #trends and #norms to address weak #collective #action — Experimental evidence from a #recycling program With Ben D'Exelle Kristian Sebastian Tonke & Arjan Verschoor 🔗#OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem…

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP19424 The #Economics of Nation-Building: Methodological Toolkit and #Policy Lessons Dominic Rohner Geneva Graduate Institute HEC Lausanne Université de Lausanne, Zhuravskaya Paris School of Economics EHESS ow.ly/CtFu50TcYrV #CEPR_DE #CEPR_OE #CEPR_PoE #CEPR_PE

basically a political economy dual casting light on the role of heterogeneity in the conduct of fiscal policy & it throws IMO important question on the implicit welfare weights of policy makers. I was glad to have Ben Moll participate in an event where... warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econom…

Dynamic Structural Econometrics. This is a treasure-trove of resources, from the 2019-2024 Econometric Society Summer Schools. dseconf.org/# YouTube videos: youtube.com/@dynamicstruct… Slides, Notes, Readings, Code: github.com/dseconf Go!

Survivorship bias?

The US-China rivalry goes from supply chains to satellite networks to undersea cables. So each builds its own, which can mean…other countries have more choice? How market forces & non-aligned countries are trying to resist global economic fracture. Me: on.ft.com/3MyEuzZ

Koal-O-Mat für die #Landtagswahlen in #Brandenburg Viel Handlungsspielraum bei flexiblen Mehrheiten (auch ohne AfD). Sehr wenig Schnittmengen innerhalb rechnerisch und politisch möglicher Koalitionen. (Zur Methode: shorturl.at/9aJGd)

Jacob Edenhofer 🇺🇦 Rudi Bachmann Since i have the data on my computer, i thought i would add some empirics: binned data, lowess line.

📉 "Brexit may...have contributed to the levelling up of the UK by levelling down more relatively economically prosperous regions" 🚨 NEW: Eleonora Alabrese, Jacob Edenhofer 🇺🇦, Thiemo Fetzer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 - same handle elsewhere, & Shizhuo Wang outline their research on the local economic impacts of Brexit. ukandeu.ac.uk/levelling-up-b…

"Levelling up by levelling down": the regional economic impacts of Brexit New research from Eleonora Alabrese, Jacob Edenhofer 🇺🇦, Thiemo Fetzer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 - same handle elsewhere, & Shizhuo Wang ukandeu.ac.uk/levelling-up-b…

Rather than ‘rising tide lifts all boats’, it was Rising Brexit sunk all boats—but since the biggest boats sunk deeper in the mud, Brexit was equalising🤷‍♂️ 👉“The vast majority of regions in the UK have lost as a result of Brexit. Since losses tend to be concentrated in relatively

Proud to co-author this piece with Jacob Edenhofer 🇺🇦 Thiemo Fetzer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 - same handle elsewhere and Shizhuo Wang on the economic and political impacts of #Brexit, showing how it's disproportionately affecting different UK regions

Wir haben gerade neue Vorhersagen für die Brandenburg-Wahl in zwei Wochen veröffentlicht 🗳️ zweitstimme.org Lukas Stoetzer Simon Munzert Elias Koch Hannah Rajski

“People are reasonable to think that there is competition with immigrants," I told Mitchell Hartman of NPR Marketplace. But “jobs ultimately come from economic growth, and new people joining the American economy are a cornerstone of economic growth.” marketplace.org/2024/09/05/is-…

Read it now: "Legislative capacity limits interest group influence: Evidence from California's Proposition 140" by Alex Garlick (University of Vermont), Mary Kroeger (uncpolisci), and Dr. Paige Pellaton 🟣🔦 (UC Center Sacramento)! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Causal econometrics in R: donskerclass.github.io/CausalEconomet…

Starting Monday: Department of Economics, Oxford summer school, incl foundations of #ML for #economics: maxkasy.github.io/home/ML_Oxford… New this year: 1) Intro to supervised learning using #python: maxkasy.github.io/home/files/tea… 2) Transformers for language processing maxkasy.github.io/home/files/tea…