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CALL FOR PAPERS! What: NEW Workshop on Macro-Development Where: BSE Summer Forum, Barcelona When: June 18, 2025 Submission Deadline: February 28, 2025 Keynote: Joe Kaboski events.bse.eu/live/files/536… Hope to see many of you there!!!

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Jason Furman Ronald Reagan’s Radio Address to the Nation on the Canadian Elections and Free Trade, November 26, 1988 “Yet today protectionism is being used by some American politicians as a cheap form of nationalism! Our peaceful trading partners are not our enemies; they are our allies.”

Let’s hope for the Liz Truss lettuce solution: The tariffs are so bad for the economy that the markets take care of it. The only issue is that an orange pumpkin 🎃 takes longer to decay than a lettuce 🥬

Forthcoming article by Jan Eeckhout "The Value and Profits of Firms" EEA Oxford Academic doi.org/10.1093/jeea/j…

Competition policy that sets market power to 1980s levels would lower the stock market by 45%. The remainder, due to accumulated retained earnings (35%) and a lower risk-free rate (20%), is unaffected.

2) The Rise of Market Power and The Macroeconomic Implications - De Loecker + Jan Eeckhout; & The Declining Worker Power Hypothesis - Anna Stansbury+ Summers Two contending theories for the rise in the capital share. One focuses on competition, the other workers power. Read both

Killer Acquisitions suggested as teaching material in the Financial Times

I am hiring a Junior Economics Researcher at UPF Barcelona. Please apply if you are interested macro, market power, labor euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/332002 Econ Job News #econjobs #econtwitter

Not adjusted for inflation. The real return fell late 1960s to 1980. Real growth 1945-1980 was close to 0%. Real growth 1980-2024 was 6% p.a.

Important competition news in EU. Interoperability to get more competitive digital markets: “Apple should allow third party app stores on iOS and apps to be downloaded to the iPhone directly from the web. […] Apple failed to comply with this obligation” ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…

Today's fine vs Apple "services" revenue - largely comprised of money Apple heists from by overcharging developers with 30% payment processing fees (versus Visa's 2.5%) -

I am hiring 3 RAs to help build out a data set on state DOT infrastructure costs. Description attached. If you are interested in infrastructure and getting into the weeds with data please apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04891.

Another killer acquisition… No more car sharing. Isn’t it poetic how they spin it?

I recently read De Loecker et al (2020), and came away extremely impressed. I will not cover the whole paper now — that will come later — but I wanted to cover how they estimate markups. But first, let’s show why all the other ways to estimate markups fail. 1/

Tune in now to listen to top economist Jan Eeckhout at #EUBEF25. His European Research Council grant helped him move from the US to Europe - and he stayed thanks to sustained funding. #ChooseEurope EU Economy & Finance 🇪🇺

.Jan Eeckhout's response: Start-ups are like playful puppies: creative, innovative. But when they become champions they are more like wolves that come to the farm & steal our sheep. What we really want is transform these playful puppies into border collies that tend the sheep”

58% of #EUBEF25 participants believe that Europe should foster industrial champions. The vote came after ➡️Cristina Caffarra was speaking for & ⬅️Jan Eeckhout was speaking against it at the #EUBEF25. What do you think?

Exciting lineup for the #bsesummerforum workshop "Macro Fluctuations with Micro Frictions" on June 19-20 Co-organized with the best team: Jan Eeckhout Simon Mongey andres blanco Barcelona School of Economics More info on our and other workshops here: bse.eu/summer-forum/

Join us online for a high-level #debate with top economists on merger control in #Europe. Speakers: emanuele tarantino Susan Athey Jan Eeckhout Paul Heidhues Florian Ederer Tomaso Duso. Moderated by: Cristina Caffarra 14 July @ 17:00 CEST Register: ow.ly/M0jf50W9ZlA Tommaso Valletti