I've been at the Inter-American Development Bank for exactly one year, and I'm marking it with a new working paper! "Ten Findings about Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean" publications.iadb.org/en/ten-finding… (co-authored with Chang & Carolina Rivas).

Impressive work. Many people in the field have long been looking for fine grained input output data. This effort satisfies an important need.

Econometrica, Volume 92, Issue 6 (November 2024) is now online econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

Join us NOW via zoom ! For a meeting with Vitalia Yaremko on "Spillovers in Macroeconomic Expectations and Labor Supply: Implications for Wage-Price Spirals" ZOOM: aea.am/aea-monthly-se…

"...there is an urgent need to contextualize dominant currency dynamics within the emerging markets macroeconomic structural foundations as the primary topics for specialized analysis and media commentary." proseontherocks.substack.com/p/emerging-mar…

I'm 30. When I was 20 I worshipped the gold standard & believed in the fantasy that recessions would be self correcting. Then I discovered John Maynard Keynes, and he changed my life forever. 11 lessons from Britain's most controversial & unknown economist:

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The Call for Papers for the ArmEA's Annual Meetings 2025 has just been released! Please follow the link to submit your abstract and join us in Yerevan! aea.am/annual-meeting…

Dear friends, Happy New Year! Our warmest wishes of health, peace, happiness, and many more interesting papers in economics with friendly reviewers! :) We look forward to welcoming you in Armenia on June 30, 2025 for our XV Annual Meetings! Happy New Year!

Is debt relief to 1/6 of voters enough to win a presidential election? In the Republic of Georgia, it is. Just Accepted new paper by Toke Aidt, Zareh Asatryan (Zareh Asatryan), and Lusine Badalyan zurl.co/ETM78

Grant peer review penalizes scientific risk taking, from Pierre Azoulay and Wesley H. Greenblatt nber.org/papers/w33495

Visit the FRED Blog to graph the ratio of quits to layoffs over time. The recent data reveal employees enjoyed historic levels of market power during the pandemic, but that has recently eroded to more typical levels ow.ly/Jq9750V4GUc

The 15th Annual Meetings of the Armenian Economic Association are coming up in late June in Yerevan - submit your paper by March 2 to book your spot in the program and come to beautiful Armenia! Guest speakers are Gerard Roland. Steven N. Durlauf & Evi Pappa! Register aea.am/annual-meeting…

Within academia, the job market is particularly difficult this year. A dearth of interviews and jobs. The exact same thing happened when I went on the job market years ago: 150 applications, 1 interview! Back then I wondered about the implications. So, what did I do? I wrote

The program for the 15th annual conference of the Armenian Economic Association is out and it's bigger than before! Please register and we will see you in Armenia! aea.am/annual-meeting…

Here's where our conference speakers are coming from! Join us for the upcoming annual meetings June 30 - July 2, 2025! Registration: aea.am