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📢 Announcement: ASWEDE’s annual conference on Development Economics is on Nov 21-22 at Steningevik Conference Hotel, located between Stockholm and Uppsala! Deadline for submissions: Sept 30. Check out the details below.

Shoutout: Sampreet Goraya, who was a visitor at the King Center in May 2024, examined the caste system in #India to document how it may hinder #economic development. #globaldevelopment #research #voxdev

Very happy to see this paper with Pinelopi Goldberg in print! Two key lessons: (a) barriers are more about business expansion than entry; (b) promoting entrepreneurship has multiplier effects on FLFP b/c women hire women.

Two postdoc opportunities on industrial policy Columbia University: 1. Center for Political Economy's Firms & Industrial Policy Idea Lab: cwp.submittable.com/submit/303472/… Deadine: Dec 2. 2. Columbia's Initiative for Policy Dialogue: aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph… Official deadline today (11/25)! Please spread word.

Martin Wolf: An economically dynamic India is Manmohan Singh’s greatest legacy on.ft.com/41YmKHn

Dutch public television on Trump, Vance, Zelensky and "Have you even said 'thank you'?" Excellent summary of the current geopolitical situation.

Our two pieces on India's trade policy The first discusses growing protectionism via a new, arbitrary & non-transparent instrument-quality control orders, taking India back to licence-quota Raj They undermine export competitiveness, especially of labor-intensive exports 1/

How has infrastructure expansion into forests affected biodiversity in India? Read this week's article w/ Raahil Madhok (Applied Economics UM) to learn more: voxdev.org/topic/energy-e…

📢Call for papers! 📢 Melbourne Empirical Trade Conference (METC 2025) with Paola Conconi as a Keynote Speaker---apply now and come join us in amazing Melbourne (trust me, it's truly amazing!) freit.org/METC/2025/ Photo from METC2024 wine retreat for an additional nudge!

I am looking for a pre-doc to work with me on a ERC/UKRI funded project on skills and economic development. Based Warwick Economics, flexible start date, competitive pay! UK Visa sponsorship possible. Deadline: March 31st. For more info and to apply: econjobmarket.org/positions/11504.

🚩Call for papers 🚩 2nd Midlands Trade & Investment Network ECR Conference Birmingham, United Kingdom 25 June 2025 medium.com/@AstonCBP/the-…

Apply to NorMac 2025 in wonderful Smogen! Deadline for applying is April 7th, conference is August 11-14.

🆕 How will climate change impact migration in Africa? Today on VoxDev, Bruno Conte (Barcelona School of Economics UPF Barcelona) discusses how market integration can mitigate the population displacing effects of climate change: voxdev.org/topic/migratio…

Join us this Wednesday for new insights from a paper by Sampreet Goraya & Akhil Ilango exploring how social identity affects market access & firm growth using Indian microdata. Discussant: Manaswini Rao This is our last session this academic year. We will be back this fall!

The programme of the "Firms, Labour Market, and Development" 2025 Workshop is now ready. Looking forward to it!

Today in Financial Times : OpEd on how it is tempting to let gas outcompete coal, but why the long-term consequence is less renewables and more emissions + policy implications for Europe based on: The Gas Trap, with Katinka Holtsmark, forthcoming in JPE. ft.com/content/e969af…

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#econtwitter We are inviting self nominations from early career scholars working on the Indian economy to present seminar-style at UC San Diego 21CIC 21st Century India Center virtual seminar series for slots starting Fall 2025. See details and then form 👇Please retweet and circulate wide

How does capital irreversibility (and other investment frictions) shape economic booms and recoveries? I explore these ideas in this Faculti video (20mins) Based on my research with andres blanco forthcoming at the The Review of Economic Studies