Zero-sum thinking is a key mindset that shapes how we view the world. Excited to share a new paper on the roots and consequences of Zero-sum thinking with Sahil Chinoy, Nathan Nunn Sandra.Sequeira. A summary thread🧵1/23 scholar.harvard.edu/files/stantche…

🎖️Congrats to Robin Burgess LSE Department of Economics International Growth Centre on being awarded the EAERE Award for European Research Council (ERC) Grants laureates. His project tackles the climate-growth challenge through innovation & explores resilience, smart conservation, and clean energy diffusion. eaere.org/erc-grants-lau…

Ken Rogoff Kenneth S Rogoff with Brian Kilmeade Brian Kilmeade talking about OUR DOLLAR, YOUR PROBLEM - new book out now!! Fox News @yalebooks #econbooks #trump #tariffs #foxnews #OurDollarYourProblem

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20220 The Military Multiplier Anastasiia Antonova @univamu, Ralph Luetticke Universität Tübingen, Gernot Müller Universität Tübingen ow.ly/SpL650VPYkq #CEPR_MEF #EconTwitter

What should the Fed do with Trump Tariffs? New paper on 'Monetary Policy in Times of Tariffs' with Guido Lorenzoni & Veronica Guerrieri (link at end) We show the simplest most intuitive way to approach tariffs is actually correct: Tariffs = textbook cost-push shock 🧵1/N

Human capital formation as a key component in Europe’s defence build-up Manuel Trajtenberg Tel Aviv University ow.ly/4bft50VQYPK

my economics book of the summer ⁦Kenneth S Rogoff⁩

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-…

🚀 PhD students pushing #HANK frontiers with BASEforHANK? Showcase your research at the Graduate Workshop on Heterogeneous Agent Macroeconomics, Universität Tübingen 🏰 25-26 Sept 2025! with Christian Bayer Benjamin Born Alexander Kriwoluzky ✍️ Submit by 15 June 2025. ralphluetticke.com/files/tuebinge…

"Our Dollar, Your Problem" by Ken Rogoff Kenneth S Rogoff is on the list of 10 Books Soon To Be Classics! forbes.com/sites/robertda… Forbes #OurDollarYourProblem #EconomicReads #FinancialClassics #NonfictionReads #GlobalEconomy #bookrecommendations #classicbooks #summerbooks #mustread

Leestip: Wat is de relatie tussen defensie-uitgaven en economische groei? En hoe zou Europa BBP met defensie uitgaven kunnen aanjagen? Ethan Ilzetzki bespreekt dit zeer uitgebreid! ifw-kiel.de/publications/g…

📚The in-person launch of 'The Economic Consequences of The Second Trump Administration: A Preliminary Assessment' was a success! Thanks to Simon Johnson B. Weder di Mauro Ethan Ilzetzki and moderator, Sir Charles Bean, for their valuable insights. Free #ebook: ow.ly/vJLS50WeGZm

Recently accepted to #REStud, "Demand Shocks as Technology Shocks," from Bai, Ríos-Rull and Storesletten: restud.com/demand-shocks-… #econtwitter

Honoured to take part in today's CEPR even on "The Economic Consequences of the Second Donald J. Trump's administration", with Nobel Laureate Simon Johnson (Simon Johnson), Charlie Bean, Beatrice Weder Di Mauro and Ethan Ilzetzki. Details here: cepr.org/publications/b…

Forthcoming in the AER: "Moonshot: Public R&D and Growth" by Shawn Kantor and Alexander Whalley. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

[traduction... partielle] Economie de la défense (Ethan @Ilzetzki) annotationsbis.blogspot.com/2025/07/econom…

Large shifts in defence spending are macroeconomic events, with implications for growth, productivity & innovation. Ethan Ilzetzki examines those effects and argues that economies are generally resilient to buildups and they may have positive long-run effects. ow.ly/U9SM50WkYhr

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Dollar's global role update. Also: "Ilzetzki, Reinhart, and Rogoff (2021) estimate that over half of countries in 2019 had their currency anchored to the dollar... unlikely that this fraction has meaningfully changed..." Ethan Ilzetzki Kenneth S Rogoff Carmen Reinhart federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/…

Very promising news on the next seven-year EU budget, with a proposed substantial increase for Horizon Europe including the ERC. We are analysing the other parts of this proposal in more detail. @Vonderleyen Ekaterina Zaharieva research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/news/all-resea…