I got an unsolicited e-mail from a stranger complimenting something I'd written.

When I thanked him for taking the time to reach out, he replied that he'd been motivated by something he'd recently heard:

"Keeping a good thing to yourself is as bad as saying a bad thing."

Amen.

Deadline approaching

Submit your best papers in international trade to the NOITS conference. The conference is held at the @rockwoolfonden.dk in downtown Copenhagen and aranged in cooperation with the University of Copenhagen. @linnealorentzen.bsky.social @jrmunch.bsky.social

See noits.org for details

📝Just published a piece in Vísbending, Iceland’s weekly economics journal (in Icelandic)

Forthcoming in the AER: "Changing Tracks: Human Capital Investment after Loss of Ability" by Anders Humlum, Jakob R. Munch, and Pernille Plato. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

🚨 We're looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher in international economics at the Department of Economics, SLU.

🌍 Focus: agrifood trade modelling
🔬 Core: Analyze disruptions in agrifood trade due to adverse shocks
📅 Apply by: 28 February 2025

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After years in the making, I am happy to share a new guide for gravity estimations. Our recommendations are motivated by trade theory, but most of them apply broadly, e.g., to migration, FDI, etc. Mario Larch, Serge Shikher, & I hope this is useful. Gravity rules 💪

ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...

Hi! I am a professor in Economics at @lunduniversity.bsky.social My main research interests are mechanism and market design, and I have designed and redesigned many markets (mainly in the Scandinavian countries). I Please follow me 🙂

Sombre reading...
Finding remedies for Canada's decades-long labour productivity stagnation is more urgent than ever.

Here are the first five sets of slides:

01 Introduction: psantanna.com/DiD/01_Intro...

02 Classical 2x2 setup: psantanna.com/DiD/02_two_b...

03 Clustering issues: psantanna.com/DiD/03_Clust...

04 Functional form: psantanna.com/DiD/04_Funct...

05 Covariates: psantanna.com/DiD/05_Covar...

Dep of Economics at Stockholm University is hiring on the junior market. Please spread the word! #EconSky econjobmarket.org/statuses?oid...