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After years in the making, I am happy to share a new guide for gravity estimations. Our recommendations are motivated by trade, but most of them apply broadly, e.g., to migration, FDI, etc. Mario, Serge Shikher, and I hope this is useful. Gravity rules 💪 ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper/2…

📢NEW DATA! Gabriel Felbermayr,Erdal Yalcin 🌐,Heider Kariem, Sasha, Ohyun, Costas, & I are happy to share the new Global Sanctions Database (GSDB), including 1,547 sanctions, 1950-2023. We also estimate the effects of the sanctions on Russia. For details see ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper/2…

In this blog for the Centre for Business Prosperity I use patent and firm data and started looking into the political economy of #Generative #AI 🌍its isn’t just about tech—it’s about who’s working together to build it. #innovation a 🧵 medium.com/@AstonCBP/gene…

I am proud to share that we just launched a revamped WTO tariff and trade platform, which enhances access to official tariff and trade figures from over 150 economies. See here for more info: wto.org/english/news_e…

🚨New data alert! A beta version of the Global Tariff Database is now available! 🔗feodorateti.github.io 🔎If you're looking for cross-country data on bilateral tariffs, this might help you.

📢NEW CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT Centre for Business Prosperity for the 2nd year co-organises with Bham Business School and Loughborough Business School the annual Midlands Trade & Investment Network ECR Conference on the 25th of June. Deadline for submission 25th of May. See you in Birmingham

🚨 🚨 PhD studentship alert! With Prof. Chris Jones, we have a fully funded PhD studentship to come and work at Aston University and Centre for Business Prosperity (CBP) on the political economy of trade! Please share with those interested. aston.ac.uk/graduate-schoo…

📣📣📣PhD Scholarship 📣📣📣 Great opportunity to conduct a fully funded PhD at Aston Business School Centre for Business Prosperity with me and Tasos Kitsos (@tasoskitsos.bsky.social) on Trade Policy, Foreign Direct Investment, and the Green Economy. More details here findaphd.com/phds/project/t…

Great opportunity for young scholars present and get feedback in a friendly environment! Apply!

Formula instruments are increasingly common: e.g. I notice most papers constructing climate shocks use them. Our new WP shows theoretically & practically how to build valid & powerful formula IVs. Big power gains in the simulated Medicaid eligibility setting. Comments welcome!

88% of the variance in bilateral trade imbalances is not due to asymmetric trade costs (e.g., tariffs, NTBs, etc.). Thus, it is perhaps not correct/fair to use bilateral trade imbalance to calculate asymmetric trade costs. cepr.org/voxeu/columns/… VoxEU

🚨 GRAVITY for UNDERGRADS🚨 Very happy to share “Gravity for Undergrads” - a Chapter, designed to introduce the gravity model to undergraduate students and novices in trade. It comes with data and code in Stata & R. I hope it is useful. Gravity rules 💪 yotoyotov.com/Gravity_Underg…

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📢 NEW DATA! Javier Flórez, Mario Larch, Sebastien Bradley, and I are very happy share the update of the most disaggregated dataset of consistently constructed international and domestic trade flows -- GRANTPA. So, let’s estimate GRAVITY with GRANTPA. ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper/2…

Holding my new book in my hands for 1st time! 🔗Vox column on it. cepr.org/voxeu/columns/… 👉free PDF!

How does market power in supply chains affect consumer outcomes under a range of bargaining protocols? A new Competition & Markets Authority discussion paper by our outgoing UK Research and Innovation Policy Fellow Flavio Toxværd ⭐️⭐️⭐️ explores how. gov.uk/government/pub… 1/2