
Hamid Firooz
@firooz_hamid
Visiting Fellow @sffed. Assistant Professor of Economics @NCState. International economics, market power, macro-labor, firm dynamics.
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Using a dynamic trade and reallocation model with downward nominal wage rigidities to quantitatively assess the economic consequences of recent US tariff increases on imports from various countries, from @Montrose1000, Mauricio Ulate, and Jose P. Vasquez nber.org/papers/w33792


What is the optimal macroeconomic tariff when trade is imbalanced? Can a tariff be used to permanently close an aggregate trade imbalance? We (w/Dmitry Mukhin) answer these questions in a new paper: (1/n) itskhoki.com/papers/Optimal…

GCAP and BGS will hold a JIE-GCAP-BGS Conference on Geoeconomics at Stanford Graduate School of Business on February 27-28, 2026. Call for papers: shorturl.at/r26Do Organized by Jesse Schreger, Jeff Frieden, Reka Juhasz, Carolin Pflueger, and Christoph Trebesch




Please submit! I am very excited about this conference with Matteo Maggiori Jesse Schreger Jeff Frieden Reka Juhasz Christoph Trebesch

Thanks to Institute for Fiscal Studies for hosting me this week for their Annual Lecture. Check out: Trade Wars and the Future of Globalisation, featuring new work with Chuan-han Cheng CamEcon, Giancarlo Corsetti European University Institute, and Lu Han Bank of Canada youtu.be/EPIATYktrRM

Startups co-founded by immigrants and natives outperform native-only and immigrant-only firms in size, funding, and innovation due to broader access to talent and capital, from Zhao Jin, Amir Kermani, and Timothy McQuade nber.org/papers/w33804


Any Econ PhD students at Harvard (or elsewhere in the U.S.) worried about visa status, the Institute for International Economic Studies has openings for PhD students who have completed their coursework and are at the dissertation stage, starting in the fall. Apply here: su.se/institute-for-…



📢 Workshop on 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼 at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco 🌁 San Francisco, October 27, 2025 🚨 Keynote speaker: Yuriy Gorodnichenko 📆 Submission deadline: July 31, 2025 ➡️ Full CfP: treinelt.github.io/files/CfP_Expe… Yeji Sung Sanjay R Singh






The Centre for Economic Performance -LSE Department of Economics -Warwick Economics Junior trade Workshop is back on Sept 22! It considers papers from PhD students and postdocs on the academic job market in Jan 2026. Submit by July 27 at [email protected]. It's an excellent opportunity to get early feedback


This paper was quite a journey with my excellent coauthor, Ahmad Lashkaripour I’m proud that it found the best home I could imagine. Here is a summary 🧵