Andres G.
afgiraldo.bsky.social
Andres G.
@afgiraldo.bsky.social
PhD en Economía, @SMUEconDept. Economista @fceunal. Profesor @JaverianaEcon @UniJaveriana
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Just arrived in Tampa for the 95th Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association! Looking forward to great discussions and new ideas.

If you’ll be here and want to meet up, feel free to send me a DM. Always happy to offer advice to early-career scholars and students.

#SEA2025
November 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Recently accepted by #QJE, “Voluntary Minimum Wages: The Local Labor Market Effects of National Retailer Policies,” by Derenoncourt and Weil: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Voluntary Minimum Wages: The Local Labor Market Effects of National Retailer Policies*
Abstract. Low unionization rates, a falling real federal minimum wage, and outsourcing have hampered wage growth in the low-wage sector in the US for sever
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March 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Featured in the latest Digest: "Transportation Productivity and the US Economy, 1947–2017"

https://www.nber.org/digest/202503/transportation-productivity-and-us-economy-1947-2017
March 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Beautiful data visualization from the @nytimes.com. I love the subtle color shift that runs through the piece.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
30 Charts That Show How Covid Changed Everything in March 2020
It can be easy to forget, or look away from, the pain and disruption of the pandemic. The numbers will be there to remind us.
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March 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Macroeconomics: "Real Exchange Rates and Endogenous Productivity" by Nils Gornemann, Pablo A. Guerrón Quintana, and Felipe Saffie. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Real Exchange Rates and Endogenous Productivity
(Forthcoming Article) - Two-thirds of the real exchange rate’s (RER) volatility occurs at low frequencies. We provide empirical evidence that links movements in the RER to changes in research and deve...
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March 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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“Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.”
― Jane Yolen
March 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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🚨FACULTY JOB 👩‍🏫

SMU is hiring a senior faculty for the Scurlock Endowed Chair of of #Ethics and #AI.

Economists are encouraged to apply!

More info and application: apply.interfolio.com/159481 #econtwitter
#Philosophy
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December 11, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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I was liking it here but @bsky.app ignoring multiple reports about an acct mpersonating me, using my photo/info/etc to scam people w/fin advice is not really making me want to stay. There seems to be 0 control for this kind of (inevitable) things. Looks like garbage will inevitably flood the place
November 28, 2024 at 12:55 AM
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Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research

Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it

www.nber.org/system/files...
November 18, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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November 13, 2024 at 12:18 PM
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In recent years, America produced more & grew faster than experts expected.

Our economy collapsed in early 2020, falling far below the pre-pandemic expected path (black line below light green line).

But since mid-2023, the economy burst past pre-pandemic predictions & pandemic-era ones.#️⃣#️⃣
November 1, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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Large Language Models can accelerate the pace at which researchers can develop, validate, and extend strategic management theory, from Matteo Tranchero, Cecil-Francis Brenninkmeijer, Arul Murugan, and Abhishek Nagaraj https://www.nber.org/papers/w33033
October 12, 2024 at 10:00 PM
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A review of key developments in the Heterogeneous Agent New Keynesian literature through the lens of a simple model, with ready-to-use code for the main model and many extensions, from Adrien Auclert, Matthew Rognlie, and Ludwig Straub https://www.nber.org/papers/w32991
September 29, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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📈📉 🔔 New paper🔔 In the era of AI and rapid Natural Language Processing (NLP) advances, how should economists choose the right NLP model? Our work provides insights focusing on a patent analysis application. With @inaganguli.bsky.social, Vitaly Meursault & Nick Reynolds. 1/
Patent Text and Long-Run Innovation Dynamics: The Critical Role of Model Selection
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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September 16, 2024 at 11:36 PM