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...little moments of academic bliss...

"..Thank you for submitting your manuscript to Explorations in Economic History. I am pleased to inform you that your manuscript has been accepted for publication"

"Smithian growth in the little divergence: a general equilibrium analysis" (with D. Chilosi)

I am happy to share that this is now published!

I am thinking of making my DiD materials that I used for teaching in the last 5 years available.

I am hoping these would find begineers in need of a step-by-step opinionated walkthrough of several developments

Let’s see if I find the energy to do this!

The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 led to a 72 percent relative increase in bilateral exports for affected country pairs and a likely permanent increase in world trade, from David S. Jacks, Christopher M. Meissner, and Nikolaus Wolf https://www.nber.org/papers/w33250

🎙️We released four Densely Speaking interviews in 2024 👇

1. Sara Bronin and Scott Markley, The National Zoning Atlas

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/23UL...

On February 28, 2025, Utrecht University will host a
#FRESH meeting on Empire and Economic Development

Keynote lecture by Tirthanker Roy (LSE)

Local organizers: Maanik Nath and John Tang

More details in the below 👇

Thrilled to share that 'Pawned States' received the triennial Best Book Award from the International Political Economy Society (IPES) this November. Deep gratitude to the award committee, Leo Baccini, David Bearce, and Rachel Wellhausen (@rwellhausen.bsky.social).
cc @princetonupress.bsky.social

Some thoughts on history-econ relations in the causal identification era. I'm critical of economists' obsession w/identification because it tends toward invidious methodological comparisons and a narrow selection of research questions based on chance situations and data. But...

New paper with @jvoth.bsky.social
"From the Death of God to the Rise of Hitler"
Click (pdf) 👉 lnkd.in/g2wtSvUm

We wrote a @voxeu.org column about our JEL piece
@jaredcrubin.com @woessmann.bsky.social 🙏

cepr.org/voxeu/column...

I just attended the annual meeting of the editorial board of
the Review of Economic Studies. One message from the editors:
REStud is interested in publishing the best work, no matter how short the articles are! If you have very good short papers, you might want to try REStud first.

I never imagined that I would be sharing this story...

That this would have happened to me in real life...

But my coauthored art paper has been accepted at the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization!

You can check it out here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.....

If anyone is at #winir2024, I’ll be on a panel there! I’m going to try and go to as many sessions as I can so feel free to let me know any of yours

One of my favourite @visiblehandpod.bsky.social episodes — required listening for anyone interested in the evolution of US state capacity. Nicola Mastrorocco summarises the key insights from his working paper with Edoardo Teso.
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🚨New Working Paper Alert 🚨
Geloso, Hall, and I took a look at the "great leveling" in America during the 20th century. We found that while national tax data was showing income convergence, regional price differences were converging across America at the same time! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

📈📉 🔔 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/

Starter pack for #econhist:

go.bsky.app/U6KyhNv

I'm sure I missed some people, so let me know if that's you—or get in touch if I wrongly accused you of being one of us!