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We too are very excited about Karolina Bassa's new paper with Rama Cont on Dynamics of sovereign debt: credit risk and sustainability analysis
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November 7, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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In our next #ComplexityEconomics seminar on 12 Nov, Rafael Prieto-Curiel @csh.ac.at will explore the challenges of making cities work for everyone while facing dual challenges of managing both expansion and contraction at a time of rapid future population expansion
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Cities for everyone
In this talk, Rafael Prieto-Curiel will explore the challenges of making cities work for everyone. Previously, Rafael worked on urban dynamics as part of…
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November 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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⚠️ Debt and deficits are exploding
📉 Financial market trust has been shaken
🏦 Federal Reserve independence has been eroded
🌍 Geopolitical trust has collapsed

@inetoxford.bsky.social's Dennis Snower explains how the dollar became the world’s pillar - and why it’s now cracking ⬇️
Expert Comment: Is the dollar’s dominance crumbling? | University of
Dennis Snower, International Research fellow at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School and Professorial Research Fellow at The Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin
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November 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Post Doctoral Research Associate in the Economics of Technological Change (2yr) ➵ https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
Join the @oxmartinschool.bsky.social Prog. on Forecasting Technological Change, led by @francoislafond.bsky.social , @doynefarmer.bsky.social & @maxroser.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
FOUR new positions available at INET Oxford!

@zparolin.bsky.social is hiring:

🠺 1x FT Post-Doctoral Researcher in Inequality, Social Policy, and Social Mobility
🠺 3x PT Rsearchers in Inequality, Social Policy, and Social Mobility

Find out more and apply HERE ➵ https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
October 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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When @doynefarmer.bsky.social was a student, he walked into a Vegas casino, sat down at a roulette table and beat the house!

LISTEN to BBC interview to hear how he's using his powers of prediction @inetoxford.bsky.social to resolve how best to prevent climate change.
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Discovery - The Life Scientific: Doyne Farmer - BBC Sounds
Doyne Farmer on how predict the future to help prevent climate change and win at roulette.
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September 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
September 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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#WIFO Research Seminar with Karolina Bassa (@inetoxford.bsky.social; @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social) – A Quantitative Model of Sovereign Credit Risk and Debt Sustainability

Date & Time: 01 October 2025, 12:30 pm

Register now: veranstaltungen@wifo.ac.at

▶️ Join us: buff.ly/auvhpnG
September 17, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Additional role for for @ericbeinhocker.bsky.social  announced

Eric has been appointed to the Science Board of @sfiscience.bsky.social as its Chair

The role advises on scientific strategy for the Institute.

https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/eric-beinhocker-to-chair-santa-fe-institute-science-board
September 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Want to keep up-to-date on new policy-relevant research from @ox.ac.uk ?

Want to know about the latest opportunities to engage with Oxford researchers on #policy-academic collaborations?

The Oxford Briefing offers all this and more!

Subscribe here: lnkd.in/eWy88agr
August 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
John Muellbauer's w/e opinion for @financialtimes.com has generated 1K comments

🡂 Replace top 2 council tax bands with annual wealth tax of 0.5%

🡂 1% tax on agricultural &unoccupied land valued above £40K p/ha

@oxpolicyengaged.bsky.social @econchange.bsky.social @neonuk.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
▶New guide to modelling the net zero transition is published;
▶Gives clarity to a plethora of available modelling options becoming increasingly relevant

Led by @cameronhepburn.bsky.social

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Most Effective Models To Guide The Net-Zero Transition
A new guide for climate and finance ministries on the most effective ways to model the Net-Zero Transition has been published in the Oxford Review of…
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August 29, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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💷 'Council Tax is probably the most regressive property tax in the world.'

@inetoxford.bsky.social and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social's Prof John Muellbauer proposes a two-part solution to the fairer taxation of property in the UK ⬇️
Expert Comment: A property wealth tax is now politically feasible |
John Muellbauer, Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, and Senior Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, University of
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August 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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This fall, I'll join the University of Oxford as Professor of Social Policy, Inequality & Opportunity. I'll also become the Director of the Economics, Inequality and Opportunity Program at INET Oxford, and will join @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a Professorial Fellow.
Zach Parolin Appointed Oxford Professor of Social Policy, Inequality…
Zach Parolin will direct the Economics, Inequality and Opportunity Programme at INET Oxford, which seeks to understand the drivers and implications of…
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July 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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This fall, I'll join the University of Oxford as Professor of Social Policy, Inequality & Opportunity. I'll also become the Director of the Economics, Inequality and Opportunity Program at INET Oxford, and will join @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a Professorial Fellow.
Zach Parolin Appointed Oxford Professor of Social Policy, Inequality…
Zach Parolin will direct the Economics, Inequality and Opportunity Programme at INET Oxford, which seeks to understand the drivers and implications of…
www.inet.ox.ac.uk
July 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Lessons from chaos theory on Trump tariff bottlenecks - feat. @doynefarmer.bsky.social @inet-complexity.bsky.social

"Farmer looks at economies as complex networks, drawing on the ideas of chaos theory to model interactions between the players."

#EconSky @risk.net

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Lessons from chaos theory on Trump tariff bottlenecks - Risk.net
Forecasting the ripple effects of trade policies presents a special challenge
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July 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
New Op-ed:
"Welfare for the 21st century"
ox.ac.uk/news/2025-07...

@maxkasy.bsky.social discusses British welfare reform, what we have learned from #basicincome and #jobguarantee experiments, and argues that we should create a truly comprehensive safety net for all.
#EconSky
Expert Comment: Welfare for the 21st century | University of Oxford
Should the UK cut welfare benefits for the people with disabilities and for those out of work, thereby increasing poverty, to finance more prisons and ammunitions? Opinions differ - and a heated
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July 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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New Op-ed:
"Welfare for the 21st century"
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-07...

I discuss British welfare reform, what we have learned from #basicincome and #jobguarantee experiments, and argue that we should create a truly comprehensive safety net for all.

cc @oxfordecondept.bsky.social @INETOxford
July 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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We’ve got a new paper out on “Learning Likelihood-free Reference Priors”, forthcoming at #ICML2025.

In this paper, we consider how reference priors (RPs) can be constructed for arbitrary simulation models. 🧵
June 26, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Was great to have @friesenbichler.bsky.social @ascii-at.bsky.social visiting @inet-complexity.bsky.social this term!

Great collaboration on supply chains and ABMs with @doynefarmer.bsky.social @francoislafond.bsky.social & Christian Diem
It was great to visit @inetoxford.bsky.social for the term. Our interdisciplinary supply chain research paves the way for better economic models. In particular, I was working on firm-level surveys and how they can augment large network models and ABMs with reaction functions. Thanks for having me!
July 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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It was great to visit @inetoxford.bsky.social for the term. Our interdisciplinary supply chain research paves the way for better economic models. In particular, I was working on firm-level surveys and how they can augment large network models and ABMs with reaction functions. Thanks for having me!
July 4, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Incredible work from Cephas Svose, who makes a great contribution @inet-complexity.bsky.social @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social

His current research focuses on the interaction between different trading strategies of traders on the stock market using Agent-Based-Modelling to understand complex systems
Meet #RhodesScholar Cephas Svosve, founder of EcoWealth—accelerating green energy adoption in Zimbabwe through solar accessibility ☀️

EcoWealth's work in democratising energy access and promoting green solutions earned them an Audience Choice Award from our partners, The Mandela Rhodes Foundation.
July 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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We're hiring! Michael Wooldridge, Ani Calinescu and I are looking for a Senior Research Associate in Robust, Large-Scale Agent-Based Modelling. Applications by 7 July. www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/2454-fu...

#ABM
Senior Research Associate in Robust, Large-Scale Agent-Based Modelling
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June 24, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Don't miss out!
June 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM