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These are 10 of my favourite #UrbanEconomics articles published in 2022, in alphabetical order by author, continuing with a tradition from the last few years

Thanks. Link to non-technical, executive summary (also coauthored with Richard Baldwin:) cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/…

Thanks. In a nutshell, we reason that "Governments don't pick losers. Losers pick government policy." Link to non-technical, executive summary (also coauthored with Richard Baldwin:) cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/…

Thanks. In a nutshell, we reason that "Governments don't pick losers. Losers pick government policy." Link to non-technical, executive summary (also coauthored with Richard Baldwin:) cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/…

"Heterothetic Cobb Douglas" paper out: cepr.org/publications/d… Highly tractable system of non-homothetic preferences due to unitary price elasticity. Applications to growth, trade, and geography. With Clement Bohr Northwestern Economics and Martí Mestieri Barcelona School of Economics and ChicagoFed

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I am proud to report, as one of 29 scientist-authors, that our paper "In Defense of Merit in Science" journalofcontroversialideas.org/article/3/1/236 has just appeared in philosopher Peter Singer's Journal of Controversial Ideas. Here's a NYT commentary on this important paper: nytimes.com/2023/05/04/opi…

Given some of the reactions to this thread, let me remind you of some of the doomsday predictions around the time we wrote our original paper. Our key message below is not: "everything is great in Germany". Instead it is: "those doomsday predictions were far off the mark."

We are organizing the “Public Policies, Cities and Regions” workshop in Lyon, December 18-19, 2023 Submission deadline: september 15, 2023. gate.cnrs.fr/ppcr2023/

Headed to the big ERWIT/CURE crossover, where I'll discuss Frederic Robert-Nicoud's "Sorting to Expensive Cities". cepr.org/events/event-s… Looking forward to presenting "Market Size and Trade in Medical Services" at the Barcelona School of Economics Summer Forum on June 13. bse.eu/summer-forum/w…

High skilled workers opening a file at #ERWIT - Agglomeration or congestion effects?

En 1967, Cabu publie une série de planches, terribles et puissantes sur la rafle du Vel d’Hiv. En 2020, sa femme les rend publiques en double hommage au sinistre événement et à l’homme tué par les terroristes islamistes lors de l’attentat de Charlie Hebdo En voici quelques unes🧶

Spacial economic clusters, peace and globalisation, international trade, and financial crashes: Let's take a look back at the remarkable research career of Philippe Martin 👇 brnw.ch/21wHy6W brnw.ch/21wHy6W cc. ScPoEcon AFSE CEPR Conseil d'analyse économique

PhD students: Apply to join us in Geneva for summer school June 24-26. Learn from leading scholars: Trade Diversion (Jonathan Dingel), Dave Donaldson, David Dorn, @thetahat, Marta Santamaria & Winnie van Dijk. Get feedback on your research & meet other urban economists. urbaneconomics.org/workshops/summ…

We had amazing presentations and incredibly good times in Cagliari at Università degli Studi di Cagliari for the CEPR X Workshop on Structural Transformation and Macroeconomic Dynamics! Thanks to all the participants, come back soon Frederic Robert-Nicoud Eugenia González-Aguado Georg Duernecker Daniel Sturm

The program for our 2024 Summer School in Urban Economics hosted by UNIGE_en & Geneva Graduate Institute in Geneva is now online: urbaneconomics.org/workshops/summ… Looking forward to six faculty lectures, twelve student presentations, and small-group feedback sessions during June 24 - 26.

... and thanks to Geneva School of Economics and Management (GSEM) and Swiss National Science Foundation for generous funding. Thanks also to Julia Cajal Grossi and the numerous people involved in the academic and logistic aspects of the event, as well as to UEA's former and current (vice) presidents for approaching us in the first place.