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Ron Davies
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Husband, dad, metal head, economist.
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It's that time of year again...
#EconSky
Econ job market candidate intros.

Candidates, communicate:
1) your name, program, & fields,
2) image of JMP title & abstract + Alt Text,
3) #EconJMP, &
4) a link to your website.

Employers, browse & interact respectfully.

Everyone else, shhhh.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
A bit of promo for my upcoming talk on Space Economics (which I REALLY hope people start calling Astronomics)! @ucddublin.bsky.social @skatteforsk.bsky.social @rethink-gsc.bsky.social

www.kaakaa.no/artikler/bef...
Before we go to “infinity and beyond”  — KÅKÅ.no
Av Ron Davies
www.kaakaa.no
October 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Looking forward to participating in this one: www.kaakaa.no/program/spac...
Spaceonomics: Grunnrenteskatt i verdensrommet? / Resource Rent Tax in Outer Space? — KÅKÅ.no
Ron Davies, Henrik Jorem, Vincent Seffinga Ordstyrer: Annette Alstadsæter
www.kaakaa.no
October 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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The day after Budget Day 2026 started with an interview with BBC NI’s Good Morning Ulster and will end with a UCD Econ alumni & staff reunion at @isweconomics.bsky.social’s post-budget analysis tonight @mueconomics.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie. #economicsfun

@ucddublin.bsky.social
We are delighted to host the fifth annual ISWE Post Budget Analysis Event which will take place in 2.31 MUSSI Seminar Room, Iontas Building on Wednesday 8th of October @ 5:30pm. The event is free to attend but registration is required and places are limited. Register here: buff.ly/98fLmkc
October 8, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Are you interested in research on corruption/illicit finance/kleptocracy? We are hiring a Research Fellow at @acdatacollective.bsky.social: acdatacollective.org/wp-content/u...
Please share in your networks, this could be a great gig.
acdatacollective.org
October 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I was very pleased to be part of this project!
💡 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗸𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀!

Stronger research investment, better knowledge transfer, + policies linking trade, tax + innovation are key to resilience.

📽️More: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6P7...

#SupplyChains #Innovation #EUResearch @horizoneu.bsky.social
Rethinking Global Supply Chains | Complexity matters
YouTube video by Kiel Institute for the World Economy
www.youtube.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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💡 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗸𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀!

Stronger research investment, better knowledge transfer, + policies linking trade, tax + innovation are key to resilience.

📽️More: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6P7...

#SupplyChains #Innovation #EUResearch @horizoneu.bsky.social
Rethinking Global Supply Chains | Complexity matters
YouTube video by Kiel Institute for the World Economy
www.youtube.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Missed last week’s RETHINK-GSC conference on the future of global supply chains? 🌍

🎥 The full recording is now online — watch insights from our researchers & policy leaders.

🔗 Watch here: www.bruegel.org/event/rethin...
September 22, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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We're hiring a Full Professor of Economics - below you can now see the ad on our website!
@univdauphine.bsky.social

leda.dauphine.fr/fr/recruteme...
Full Professor position in Economics | Laboratoire d’Économie de Dauphine (LEDa)
leda.dauphine.fr
September 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Our fearless leader Holger Görg explains why policies that ignore global supply chains don’t have a leg to stand on. @rethink-gsc.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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If you teach an undergrad international trade course and want some hands-on experience with real data & Stata or R, consider my “Gravity for Undergrads” Chapter. It may be useful in econometrics, undergrad seminars, and undergrad theses. Gravity Rules 💪

yotoyotov.com/Gravity_Unde...
September 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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📢 RETHINK-GSC Final Policy Conference
📅 18 Sept 2025 | @bruegel.org, Brussels & online

Knowledge flows, service inputs & economic shocks are reshaping #GlobalSupplyChains.
Join us as we present our key research findings for policy + resilience.

🔗 Registration: www.bruegel.org/event/rethin... #GSC
September 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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📙 Read the paper here: rethink-gsc.eu/knowledge-jo...

🗞️ Read the press release: rethink-gsc.eu/innovation-c...
June 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Even short-term shocks can reshape supply chains. 🚢

New research by @saskiameuchelboeck.bsky.social shows German firms hit by the 2018 low water crisis on the Rhine permanently shifted away from inland shipping — a warning for climate resilience.

Learn more: rethink-gsc.eu/germanys-low...
August 27, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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🚢 Klimaschocks hinterlassen Spuren!

Unsere Forschung zeigt, dass das Niedrigwasser 2018 Unternehmen in Deutschland dauerhaft von der Binnenschifffahrt auf Schiene & Straße umsteigen ließ.

📰 Der Spiegel berichtet über @saskiameuchelboeck.bsky.socials Studie👇

#Lieferketten #Resilienz #Klimawandel
Bei Extremwetterereignissen werden auch Frachtrouten wie der Rhein stark beeinträchtigt. Alternative Transportmittel werden dann nachgefragt und genutzt. Eine neue Studie zeigt: Die Umstellung ist dauerhaft.
IfW-Studie: Klimaschocks wie Niedrigwasser verändern Lieferketten dauerhaft
Bei Extremwetterereignissen werden auch Frachtrouten wie der Rhein stark beeinträchtigt. Alternative Transportmittel werden dann nachgefragt und genutzt. Eine neue Studie zeigt: Die Umstellung ist dauerhaft.
www.spiegel.de
September 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Johannes Scheuerer presenting work with Annette Alstadsaeter and @jakobbrounstein.bsky.social on tax evasion penalty rates. @skatteforsk.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Thou shalt not use tariffs to tax working class Americans and then pretend the money is being paid by foreign countries.
August 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Spot on discussion by @ricardohausmann.bsky.social. Econ teaches us that the answer is typically "somewhere in the middle". But what we choose to publish in top journals sacrifices innovation for identification and that's a mistake that will cost the field.
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/w...
Are Economists Architects or Auditors?
Ricardo Hausmann laments how the field’s appetite for imaginative problem-solving has given way to narrow, testable hypotheses.
www.project-syndicate.org
August 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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On the @taxjustice.net podcast the #Taxcast, I spoke to @4taxfairness.bsky.social on how undocumented immigrants in the US are paying a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega-corporations & several billionaires. And how unwise the US is to be persecuting them the way they are
#156 Immigrants, tax and bullying in the USA - Tax Justice Network podcasts
Μonthly podcast show sizzling with the latest developments in the corrupt world of tax havens, financial secrecy and tax dodging.
podcasts.taxjustice.net
July 30, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Open position⚠️
Come join us in Zurich as a pre-doc/research assistant in a diverse team working on a number of research projects on public finance, political economy and social wellbeing in Tanzania, DRC, Ecuador and Chile.

Applications here: www.povertyactionlab.org/careers/pre-...
July 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
For the moment...
July 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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White House confirms 15% tariff rate will include pharma and semiconductors
White House confirms 15% tariff rate will include pharma and semiconductors
Both sides working on a joint statement, but EU cautions it amounts only to a ‘political agreement’ and will not be legally binding
www.irishtimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 11:44 AM