‼️Call for Papers: III Spanish Workshop on Development Economics

🌆 October 21-22nd at @fundacionareces.bsky.social dacionareces.bsky.social in Madrid!

⭐Wonderful keynote speakers: Sylvie Lambert and Raul Sanchez de la Sierra

📝Full papers/extended abstracts by June 15: spande.workshops@gmail.com.

Excited to host the next edition of the Spanish Macro Network
@cunef.bsky.social , 23rd-24th October '25. Link to submit (docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...). Deadline: 15th June '25. Send your best papers!

Resource misallocation is a key driver of aggregate productivity losses. Yet, what ultimately drives misallocation remains an open question. @tristany.bsky.social, D. Pietrobon and I argue that capital misallocation arises endogenously when insurance markets are incomplete. (1/n)

Did the EU Miracle (shorturl.at/Suv99) of the 2004 enlargement affect inequality?

It did!

According to @ruggieriale.bsky.social and Garcia-Louzao wage inequality went down in Lithuanian.

Once more, the EU makes lives better!

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How does labor market monopsony affect firm dynamics and aggregate productivity? We answer this question in a new working paper, “Firm Dynamics, Monopsony, and Aggregate Productivity Differences”, written with Tancredi Rapone and
@tristany.bsky.social (alessandroruggieri.com/_files/ugd/1...)