As climate change intensifies, extreme weather events like the fires in LA pose growing threats to economies worldwide. A blog post by Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, Juanma Castro-Vincenzi, Gaurav Khanna and Nicolas Morales discusses how firms adapt supply chains to these risks: sites.utexas.edu/macro/2025/01/…

A new article by Juanma Castro-Vincenzi, Gaurav Khanna, Nicolas Morales & Nitya Pandalai-Nayar analyses how businesses adapt their sourcing strategies to mitigate climate risks, and the implications of supply chain diversification on economic stability & regional disparities ideasforindia.in/topics/trade/h…

In the context of #H1B visa programme, Gaurav Khanna & Nicolas Morales show that the possibility of moving to US encouraged Indians to acquire skills valued abroad; along with those that returned from abroad, they contributed to expanding India's tech sector ideasforindia.in/topics/macroec…

📢 We are excited to announce that on Wednesday February 12th, we will release our new #VoxDevLit on Foreign Direct Investment and Development. This living literature review will outline evidence from economic research on the impacts of FDI & MNEs in LMICs.

The call for papers for the 15th #TIGN Annual Conference is open. The event will take place in Montevideo, Uruguay, on May 26-27, 2025. You can submit your paper here: bit.ly/4htFwLr. The deadline for submissions is March 7, 2025: bit.ly/48bYgtH #Trade #FDI

Very happy to have contributed a chapter to this fantastic review! I focused on the links between FDI and high-skill migration which are quite complex and much more work on this topic is needed. This is a "living" lit review, so we'll be updating it periodically. Take a look!

1/ 📢 Call for Papers! 📢 The 6th Women in International Economics Conference will be held at Yale University on Oct 16-17, 2025. We invite submissions from junior women in international economics. 📅 Deadline: April 30, 2025 📩 Submit here: forms.gle/ucoE6ZcjqwQ1QX… Organized by

🚨New data alert! A beta version of the Global Tariff Database is now available! 🔗feodorateti.github.io 🔎If you're looking for cross-country data on bilateral tariffs, this might help you.

"The Allocation of Immigrant Talent: Implications for the US and Across Countries" (w/Serdar Birinci & Kurt See) The gains from immigration depend not just on who enters, but on how well labor mkts integrate them—our paper quantifies these effects Check out our latest version!

New Paper Alert! We hear a lot about China’s rise as an economic superpower and its impact on manufacturing in rich countries. But another global shake-up is unfolding: China’s soaring demand for commodities is transforming economies in the Global South. How?

A short thread on where the reciprocal tariffs are coming from and the some of the underlying assumptions... 👇

Wow! This project looks amazing. In it, three scientists at Columbia, Michigan, and Maryland introduce VRscores: a measure of the partisan leanings of employers in the United States. The dataset is constructed by linking U.S. voter registrations to online worker profiles.

Many distortions can be seen as implicit or explicit quotas that fix quantities independent of prices—think local content rules, zoning laws, H-1B caps, capital controls, or missing markets. In a new paper, David Baqaee and I analyze such quotas in general equilibrium. 1/5

El Departamento de Economía tiene el agrado de anunciarles que cinco estudiantes de la Licenciatura en Economía y de la Maestría en Economía de @FCEA @udelar fueron admitidos en programas de doctorado de primer nivel de Estados Unidos y Europa.

New paper on recent US tariffs with Matt Rognlie and Adrien Auclert Our focus: effects of temporary increases in tariffs (“tariff shocks") Three Qs: 1 Will tariffs lead to a recession? 2 Will they reduce the trade deficit? 3 Why are they not appreciating USD? (as in std theory) 🧵

Our latest Economic Brief examines how firms may source inputs from a variety of suppliers to help avoid weather disrupting their supply chains, even if it means higher costs: bit.ly/4iA5QU5.

New paper on the importance of modeling field choice to understand labor market shocks. We use Danish data to estimate a model of occupational choice on the labor market and field of study choice in college. Three big findings:

New at JIE: "How infrastructure shapes comparative advantage", by Luis Baldomero-Quintana doi.org/10.1016/j.jint…

🚨 Newly updated working paper w/ Raviv Murciano-Goroff , Robert Flynn & Jiusi “Josie” Xiao: "Building a Wall Around Science" We study how U.S.–China tensions after 2016 reshaped global science, offering lessons for today’s visa and immigration debates. 🧵

We are seeking to hire a Colombia-based Predoctoral Researcher to join our research team in studying the US-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement. Jorge Florez , Diego Jiménez Hernández, Santiago Fernández-Chacón , Isabella Caro Giraldo , Isabella Valencia . Please share! Details and application link here: