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Stefano Pietrosanti
@stefanopietrosanti.bsky.social
Economist at Banca d’Italia • Banking, empirical corporate finance, economic history, macro • Curious about literature and translation • Opinions my own

https://sites.google.com/sas.upenn.edu/stefanopietrosanti/home
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📊🅻🅴 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞-🆃🅷🅴 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐭 "Tariff Protection by Industry Group: A Transatlantic Comparison" On average, the United States and the European Union (EU) apply relatively low tariffs. How do the levels vary by industry group ? urlr.me/mh3kXv
Houssein Guimbard #trade #import #econsky
March 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Good news for researchers - don't miss out!

We just launched a pilot project @ecb.europa.eu to share anonymised data on bank balance sheets and interest rates for loans and deposits in the euro area. 1/2

www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/dat...
ECB launches pilot project for research access to confidential statistical data
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purch...
www.ecb.europa.eu
March 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it

understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
February 23, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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I Philadelphia Eagles hanno battuto in maniera piuttosto netta la squadra che aveva vinto le due precedenti edizioni: i Kansas City Chiefs
I Philadelphia Eagles hanno vinto il Super Bowl - Il Post
Battendo in maniera piuttosto netta la squadra che aveva vinto le due precedenti edizioni: i Kansas City Chiefs
ilpost.link
February 10, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Week 3: This week's theory paper in focus is Political Correctness (2001) by Stephen Morris. It is a masterpiece in what economists called applied theory--crafty story telling about interesting facts around us that uses elegant mathematical modeling.
www.jstor.org/stable/10.10...
January 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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This video stirred a surprising amount of controversy on Twitter. So I want to talk about how to think about the fit of men's pants. 🧵

www.tiktok.com/@wisdm8/vide...
Honestly just wear a northface puffer
TikTok video by Wisdom Kaye
www.tiktok.com
December 6, 2024 at 6:29 AM
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What a magnificent celebration of European cultural heritage the reopening of Notre-Dame was. Only now able to slowly catch up. 🫶 youtu.be/FE3kfbXlDxI?...
Julie Fuchs: LAUDATE DOMINUM at the Reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris
YouTube video by Julie Fuchs
youtu.be
December 14, 2024 at 10:58 AM
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Price theory is essential for causal inference when the subjects participate in markets, from Robert Minton and Casey B. Mulligan https://www.nber.org/papers/w33228
December 12, 2024 at 10:00 PM
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Economists love using linear regression to estimate treatment effects — it turns out that there are perils to this method, but also amazing perks

Come with me in this 🧵 if you want to learn about our now-published paper "Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions!"

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The December 2024 issue of the American Economic Review (114, 12) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/785.
American Economic Review
Vol. 114 No. 12 December 2024
aeaweb.org
November 30, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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These two papers, taken together, really cause a rethinking of behavioral economies.

Rather than having anomalous risk preferences; it looks like people have complexity aversion to "hard" decisions, especially on valuation, which drives behavioral anomalies. Herbert Simon ftw.
November 27, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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Why is Tokyo so fashionable? Some theories. 🧵
November 27, 2024 at 6:43 AM
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You all MOCKED George Lucas and said this was boring or dumb but who’s laughing now???
November 26, 2024 at 1:00 AM
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#Finsky - #Finance, #markets and #trading starter pack for new X-immigrants and others!
November 19, 2024 at 8:50 AM
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Here’s a centre right starter pack, for those who want to ensure this isn’t entirely an echo chamber go.bsky.app/DNLEPTu
November 15, 2024 at 8:03 AM
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Do you or your students ever have to clean data in
Stata? If so, I wrote a tutorial for @asjadnaqvi.bsky.social 's amazing "Stata Gallery". I cover the most essential techniques: generating, replacing, recoding, rescaling, encoding, destringing & lots more! polisky medium.com/the-stata-ga...
Cleaning Data in Stata
An introduction to essential Stata commands for generating, recoding, and rescaling variables.
medium.com
December 24, 2023 at 4:46 AM
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As Western governments slow and fumble, we must continue support 🇺🇦.
Check out the treasure trove sites.google.com/view/dariia-...
by @dariia.bsky.social -- with vids on #rstats #Python and so much more.
Get them for your students. Or as a Christmas gift.
Or even do one. ( I did)
December 4, 2023 at 10:19 PM