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some very nice photography here nytimes.com/2024/09/10/t-m… via @NYTimes

Come work with us at Haas School of Business! Laura Weiwu, Antoine Levy 🇺🇦 and I are hiring full-time RAs to start in July 2025. Topics at the intersection of urban economics, spatial economics, and political economy. More info here: docs.google.com/document/d/1ng… Econ RA Listings

super interesting! nytimes.com/2024/10/30/bus… via @NYTimes

sasha petrov Tanya Rajan .Jordan Rosenthal-Kay studies spatial & trade economics. His JMP shows how barriers to urban expansion and high commuting costs inhibit development. Reducing urban costs would boost welfare by 66% in low-income nations and help nations adapt to climate change. jrosenthalkay.github.io

nytimes.com/2024/11/05/wor… via @NYTimes

thank you! it has been a terrific experience to work on this project with an incredible advisor

this is why we use extreme value distributions

rest in peace ❤️

some phenomenology for the age of vibes. great read open.substack.com/pub/samkriss/p…

I have a new piece in Foreign Affairs titled, "The Post-Neoliberal Delusion and the Tragedy of Bidenomics". They were generous about giving me a lot of words but were less generous with charts--so this long thread partially rectifies that. (And links to the piece at the end.)

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…

We've just opened a new BFI pre-doc position through the International Economics and Economic Geography Initiative: job-boards.greenhouse.io/universityofch… Come work with us! The trade and spatial group at UChicago is a top-notch place to start your academic career!

Pauses in PhD admissions at Pitt, Vanderbilt, and USC. The US will never be able to compete with authoritarian countries on a lot of dimensions. But our two biggest strengths over them were always immigration & our universities. And now we’re eroding both before our eyes.

New Paper Alert🚨 “The Winners and Losers of Climate Policies: A Sufficient Statistics Approach” with Jordan Rosenthal-Kay Jordan Rosenthal-Kay We study the spillovers of climate policies across countries through trade and energy markets #EconTwitter #ClimatePolicy #TradeLeakage #CBAM🧵1/9

partnered with the brilliant Thomas Bourany to explore how leakage effects through international goods and energy trade curb the efficacy of unilateral climate policies, create winners and losers, but can amplify the gains of policy coordination. check it out!

there's the rationale

USTR: "The elasticity of import prices with respect to tariffs, φ, is 0.25. The recent experience with U.S. tariffs on China has demonstrated that tariff passthrough to retail prices was low (Cavallo et al, 2021)." Cavallo et al: φ is 0.945. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

had a fantastic time in guangzhou presenting at the World Bank's #infra4dev conference! first pic feat. Jeanne Sorin