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🧵 New paper drop! 1/ Free access to our new article: "Welfare in the Volunteer's Dilemma" Joint with T. Palfrey. 📖 Free access: authors.elsevier.com/c/1ktgWAlw9~p65

🎉 Thrilled that our paper "Captured participatory institutions: Theory and evidence from Venezuela's Consejos Comunales" has been accepted at AJPS. With Jared Abbott, we examine when government-sponsored participatory institutions can (and can't) deliver development. 🧵

Complete lie if I am being honest, but I did happen to come across this the other day. Suggests that land value taxes are not actually capitalized into land prices, so renters / future landowners (not incumbent ones) pay the tax. They reconcile w past Denmark results.

in the last 26 years, the foreign-born share in barcelona's prime working-age population has increased from 6% to 50% continent breakdowns of immigrant stocks from 1998-2024 for all spanish municipalities with population above 20k now live in my app → pablogguz.shinyapps.io/dataviz_migrat…

How substitutable are humans & compute in AI research -- "will we get bottlenecked by compute" -- is a key question for AI-2027-type scenarios Parker Whitfill and Cheryl Wu have interesting new work estimating that elasticity of substitution: x.com/cherylwoooo/st…

New at JIE: "Monetary Unions with Heterogeneous Fiscal Space", by Marco Bellifemine (Marco Bellifemine), Adrien Couturier (Adrien Couturier), Rustam Jamilov (Rustam Jamilov) doi.org/10.1016/j.jint…

Should cash transfers go to the poorest, or to those who are likely to benefit the most? Recently published evidence from Kenya ⤵️

cambridge.org/core/journals/… 🚨 Super excited to see my paper, "Unconditional Loyalty: The Survival of Minority Autocracies", finally out in the American Political Science Review American Political Science Review Quick thread below🧵

Now available for preorder from Oxford University Press. Pleasure to work with Ora John Reuter and David Szakonyi on this project. Oxford Academic amazon.com/Workplace-Poli…

Takeaways from our new paper (with Jha, Kala, and David Neumark): When estimating minimum wage effects on restaurant employment: 🔹 City size matters 🔹 Monopsony is better proxied by labor market fluidity than by employer concentration nber.org/papers/w33862 1/5

Today at sydneyscope.org (organised by David Ubilava and Ashani Amarasinghe). With Jacob Edenhofer 🇪🇺 🇺🇦.

Summary 👇 x.com/ProMarket_org/…

Question: What are the best papers and books on the political economy of sovereign default?

Tough to follow the Netherlands' splintered party system, so these are my (rough) blocs: Centre-right 31% (nc since 2023 election) Far-right 25% (-1) Centre-left 19% (+3) Liberal/centrist 11% (+1) Special interest 6% (+1) Socialist 5% (+2) Right-wing 4% (-3)

Happy to have this out (open access)! I examine the conditions under which alliances can promote a division of defense labor, offering a new theory about how strategic compatibility and hierarchy mitigate opportunism and coordination costs that often plague collective action. 1/

After 10 years of doing research in Historical Political Economy, this fall I’ll finally get a chance to teach a survey course on the field. I thought this would be an opportunity to create a syllabus with an overview of many essential contributions to this growing field. (1/4)

This highly interesting book is certainly worth reading (even if you disagree with it)! "Crisis Cycle: Challenges, Evolution, and Future of the Euro" by John H. Cochrane, Luis Garicano, and Klaus Masuch "The authors argue that Europe needs a joint fiscal institution that can

There seems to be some truth here. This paper looks at the history of Brazil corporate bond market, and argues that the evidence is consistent with public debt facilitating the market in early stages -- by providing useful benchmarks.

Food for thought! "Trade and Industrial Policy in Supply Chains: Directed Technological Change in Rare Earths" by Laura Alfaro, Harald Fadinger, Jan S. Schymik & Gede Virananda nber.org/papers/w33877

Joe Biden to Donald Trump?