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Interesting piece on why the US COVID death rate is 60 times higher than Japan. economist.com/asia/2020/12/1…

Hopefully, this won't backfire and generate a new reason for money laundering! ft.com/content/8afe5e… via @financialtimes

This is an important insight that is both true and not obvious. Co-authoring is not about comparative advantage tradediversion.net/2017/10/16/co-… via Trade Diversion (Jonathan Dingel)

We show how to use stock-market event studies to evaluate the welfare impacts of policies. Markets expect the US-China trade war to have a much bigger impact on US welfare than standard models suggest

Geography trivia: Japan is farther east, west, north and south than Korea. Source: buff.ly/3w1DvOL

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Here's a great opportunity for international economists (especially junior ones) to get back on the conference circuit: sites.google.com/site/alecunat/…

The NBER Japan Project Meeting is scheduled for December 16-17, 2021 in Tokyo. If you have a paper on Japan, please submit it by July 8 here: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/bac…

Normally I would not be posting personal developments on this website, but in this case I have a pressing concern. My dad, Spanish economist Andreu Mas-Colell, is dealing with an incredibly difficult and unjust situation. 1/

I was very sorry to hear about the passing of Peter Neary. He was a gentleman and a scholar. Witty and brilliant. I will remember fondly our many dinners together.

This graphical abstract is a nice way of summarizing a paper in a Twitter-friendly fashion.

This is very nice piece explaining why the Israeli data does not show declining vaccine efficacy after controlling for age and vaccination rates. covid-datascience.com/post/israeli-d…

I'm looking to hire a research assistant ("Staff Associate") for a two-year position doing lots of interesting work. People use the position as a stepping stone to econ PhD programs. If that's your dream, apply! apply.interfolio.com/94547

Good advice for grad students (and all researchers): link.medium.com/2ZE7lGNQIlb

There's a quiet functionality in Japan that people often miss. For example, Japan's COVID death rate is 6-10 percent that of Europe and the US; the long-run growth rate of GDP per work hour is comparable; and unemployment (and crime) rates are low. economist.com/special-report…

Ronald E. Findlay (1935-2021), A Memorial on Zoom with friends, family, colleagues, and co-authors. Monday January 31, 2022, 10 am – noon EST. Ragnar Nurkse Professor Emeritus of Economics, Columbia University. Specialist in intl. trade, economic history, and econ development.

Happy to see our WP w Shogo Sakabe and David Weinstein (so many years in the making!) out. We examine the role of codifying knowledge in the spread of the Industrial Revolution. A little thread. 1/N

There is a fun video in Japanese (youtube.com/watch?v=pG9mwk…) that just came out explaining the main points of a recently released paper with Reka (Reka Juhasz) and Shogo on the globalization of the Industrial Revolution (nber.org/papers/w32667)

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20264 Martyrs, Morale, and Militarism: The Political Impact of Devastation and Slaughter Shizuka Inoue & David Weinstein Columbia Economics, Atsushi Yamagishi 一橋大学 UTokyo | 東京大学 ow.ly/xbbE50VVstJ #CEPR_EH #CEPR_ITRE #CEPR_PoE #EconTwitter

"natural experiment in Japan in which military casualties and urban destruction varied exogenously, but differentially, across cities. … military deaths induce future pro-military voting, while urban destruction induces pacifist voting." nber.org/papers/w33842?…