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Only 5 days left for submitting your trade papers to one of the oldest, most inclusive, and high-quality conferences in international trade. Submit today!! James Lake Raymond Riezman

Check out our new publication with Cecilia Peluffo and Mariana Viollaz on the effects of extending the school day on divorce! The availability of full time schools ⬆️ divorce, especially in areas with non traditional social norms. authors.elsevier.com/c/1kUHS_14odP6…

Metal tariffs may help US metal producers & their workers. But steel is a *key* input in US manufacturing sector. Based on my work on 2002 Bush steel tariffs, should expect net job losses in US manufacturing. volweb.utk.edu/~jlake7/pdfs/b…

I’ve created a dashboard that projects potential GDP losses for countries if ongoing tariff escalations trigger a global trade war. I’ll be updating it soon with the latest data. alashkar.pages.iu.edu/GlobalTariffWa…

📢Call for papers! 📢 Melbourne Empirical Trade Conference (METC 2025) with Paola Conconi as a Keynote Speaker---apply now and come join us in amazing Melbourne (trust me, it's truly amazing!) freit.org/METC/2025/ Photo from METC2024 wine retreat for an additional nudge!

Great to be on You Might Be Right Podcast with TN governors Bill Haslam and Phil Bredesen as well as Heather Long to discuss current state of trade policy!

1st edition of the conference last year was excellent and a lot of fun, I’m sure this one will be too!

Is this the end of free trade? Do tariffs ever work well? Really good podcast discussion with former Tennessee Govs. Phil Bredesen (Dem) and Bill Haslam (Repub) + UT Knoxville's James Lake Listen here: baker.utk.edu/podcast-season…

It is a privilege for the world to have as the @WTO director-general someone who is genuinely interested in using insights from academic research to help tackle difficult, pressing issues endangering the world trading system.

📢Final call for papers: Agricultural and Environmental Issues in International Economics. May 8/9 ncsu. 8 papers + 2 discussants, dinner + baseball game. Costs covered for presenters and discussants. Deadline 3/15: tinyurl.com/yc864hsa Last Year: tinyurl.com/yc33h53y

Submissions for DevSouth are due tomorrow. If you're a development economist in the South, this is a great workshop and a way to get to know others in the region doing similar work. Please spread the word and hope to see you there!

Great to be on "Tennessee This Week" with Bo Williams on our local ABC affiliate recently to discuss tariffs youtube.com/watch?v=GUhefR…

Looking forward to Midwest Theory & Trade Conference tomorrow at Virginia Tech w/ local host Sudipta Sarangi! Trade side includes Tibor Besedes Mario Crucini Paul Ilhak Ko Wisarut Suwanprasert Tom Zylkin Lawrence D. LaPlue David Torun Mandy Vaught Raymond Riezman Yoto V. Yotov & others!

📢 Call for Papers! 📢 Submit your work to METC 📄✨ 📍 Melbourne 🗓️ July 21-23 Keynote Speaker: Paola Conconi 🛑 Deadline: April 18, 2025 🔗 freit.org/METC/2025/ Reshad Ahsan, Phil McCalman, Maria Ptashkina and I can’t wait to learn about your research! Thank you Tibor Besedes

Thanks Maria!

Thanks for sharing Michael Kofoed, was very happy to get the final acceptance in the last couple of days! Fortunately, it’s also very timely with the current policy actions not only on steel tariffs but tariffs on inputs and parts more generally

Lots of good stuff in here from Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈, but these two charts are IMO the biggest story. American companies - including manufacturers! - simply do not like Trump's tariff policies and their erratic, slapdash rollout. "The Cost of Tariff Chaos" apricitas.io/p/the-cost-of-…

Really bleak outlook in the NY Manufacturing Survey for April: The 6 month business outlook fell to -7.4 (down 44 points over the past three months). It's the weakest since 2001 and the 2nd lowest in the survey's history. "Firms expect conditions to worsen in the months ahead,

🚨 GRAVITY for UNDERGRADS🚨 Very happy to share “Gravity for Undergrads” - a Chapter, designed to introduce the gravity model to undergraduate students and novices in trade. It comes with data and code in Stata & R. I hope it is useful. Gravity rules 💪 yotoyotov.com/Gravity_Underg…

Local US labor markets more exposed to Chinese import competition in the 2000s experienced larger manufacturing job losses. But these losses were offset by stronger services job growth, which mostly came from job reallocation within firms. 📝: cato.org/research-brief… #CatoTrade