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I am delighted to announce that my student Aslihan Asil will join Duke Law School this summer. Asli has several terrific papers at the intersection of law and economics and her job market paper is a timely analysis of the pro-competitive effects of the Robinson-Patman Act.

I just finished meeting with one of our amazing international students who is graduating and was reflecting on their experience here. And then open this. What a horrible, horrendous thing to do—I hope it can be stopped quickly.

The Donald J. Trump Administration's vendetta action against Harvard is now over the top. It is crazy to make enemies of thousands of the most talented young people from around the world. This violates the norms of decency and fairness and will make us a poorer country and, in

This is unlawful, un-American, and ultimately -- like so much we've seen recently -- will serve to make this country less great And from a President who just last year thought college grads should get green cards so we retain the brightest foreign talent nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/…

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20362 FCI-Star Ricardo Caballero & Tomás Caravello MIT Economics, Alp Simsek Alp Simsek Yale School of Management ow.ly/AFEb50WcHnG #CEPR_MEF #CEPR_AP #EconTwitter

Glad you found it interesting! Here's a thread breaking down the key findings: x.com/alpsimsek_econ…

Thanks NBER! Here's a thread breaking down our methodology and key findings - including why FCI* stayed stable after 2008 while r* crashed, and how FCI gaps captured the 2022 policy shift before rate gaps: x.com/alpsimsek_econ…

Alp Simsek Thomas Caravello A relevant paper, presenting a possible improvement over the useless r-star. To be scrutinsed and to be used with care in case it proves to be robust, as monetary policy is too complex to be decided on basis of rules or stylised indicators.

We're glad that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has spent time on our website, and we'd be thrilled to talk to him and his team about our work All of our models are transparent because we want policymakers to engage with our analysis, and if they disagree with us -- we'd be keen to hear it