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A month ago, at this hour, I had to tell my two daughters - 3.5 years old and 20 months old - that they must remain completely silent. No word, no cry. It was 7AM, they had just woken up in a dark room with no electricity or food, and five people were shouting outside the window.

Anaïs Galdin’s job market paper investigates market failures causing persistent shortages in generic injectable pharmaceutical markets. Building a unique dataset that traces U.S. drugs to global factories, she ties reduced resilience to offshoring. agaldin.github.io/webfiles/GALDI…

Francisco Cabezon (@cabezonfran) is a Public Finance candidate with a background in IO and Finance whose job market paper combines theory and empirics to study how high informality in the labor market influences the optimal design of pension systems. dropbox.com/scl/fi/5d722eh…

Trade JMPs (2023-2024) tradediversion.net/2023/11/08/tra…

Spatial economics JMPs (2023-2024) tradediversion.net/2023/11/08/spa…

Excellence Awards 2023 - Ernest Liu is recognized for his research in networks, trade, and industrial policy. He receives the Kiel Institute Fellowship. The award ceremony will take place on December 1 in Berlin at our conference on #Geoeconomics (with CEPR).

Hugo Lhuillier’s (Hugo Lhuillier) job market paper studies how the sorting of individuals into cities shapes human capital accumulation. hugolhuillier.com/files/papers/l…

How does the concentration of skilled workers in a handful of cities affect human capital accumulation? You can find out the answer in in my job market paper!

Hillary Clinton on the Israelis and the Palestinians today on The View. Covers everything from Hamas to humanitarian pauses to Yasser Arafat to Anwar Sadat.

Developing a quantitative generalization of the neoclassical growth model that incorporates goods trade and capital allocations across countries and intertemporal savings decisions, from Benny Kleinman, Ernest Liu, @ReddingEcon, and Motohiro Yogo nber.org/papers/w31951

Always thrilled to learn something new from an EconTalk convo. This week's episode with Haviv Rettig Gur is special because I learned many things. I gave it an unusual title because I don't want you to miss it. Please RT: econtalk.org/an-extraordina…

📷 📢Call for papers📷 Submit your paper to our workshop on "Geography, Trade, and Growth" which will take place in Barcelona from June 19-20, 2024. Keynote speaker: Lorenzo Caliendo (Yale, SOM) bse.eu/summer-forum/w…

A new growth model from Benny Kleinman, Ernest Liu, @ReddingEcon, & Motohiro Yogo offers insights into how countries respond to changes in trade and investment frictions, & can be applied to the economic “decoupling” between China and the United States.

I'm hiring a pre-doc to work with me on empirical IO/applied micro projects starting in Fall '25! Details below and instructions here: shoshanavasserman.com/call_for_predo… International students (who need J1) are welcome & non-econ bgs are fine given interest + curiosity. Please apply :)

Benny Kleinman and I are hiring two predoctoral researchers to work on a range of projects at the intersection of macro, trade, spatial and climate change, starting summer 2025. International students are welcome. Come join us! More info & instructions: siepr.stanford.edu/programs/siepr…

There is a week left to apply for our predoc positions at GCAP Lab. If you are interested in international economics and finance and doing a PhD take a look at the flyer below. Here is who we are, including current and former predocs: globalcapitalallocation.com/about-us

Data on firm relocations reveal that nearly all wage differences between cities stem from the spatial sorting of workers and firms; Location-specific factors explain only 2–5 percent, from Pauline Carry, Benny Kleinman, and Elio Nimier-David nber.org/papers/w33779

Why are wages in Paris or NYC higher than in other cities? In a new WP with Pauline Carry & Benny Kleinman , we decompose spatial disparities btw “location effects” and the local composition of workers and establishments. New data on firm mobility + double-mover design. 🧵⬇️

New paper with Benny Kleinman & Elio Nimier-David! - 4% of establishments relocate each year (FRA & US). - Using those relocations, we find that “location effects” explain only 2-5% of spatial wage disparities. Summary below!

When knowledge spillovers are local, firms may under-invest in geographic expansion. This is studied using a spatial growth model, and detailed data on US firms, from Craig A. Chikis, Benny Kleinman, and Marta Prato nber.org/papers/w34010