Verena Wiedemann
@verenaw.bsky.social
Economist at IFC | Uni Oxford Econ PhD | working on firm networks, trade, structural transformation |
https://verena-wiedemann.github.io/
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Verena Wiedemann
@verenaw.bsky.social
· Feb 21
Bridging the gap: How does Kenya’s domestic firm network link to international supply chains? | Industrial Analytics Platform
Novel data provides insights into how Kenya’s domestic firm network links with international markets.
iap.unido.org
Bridging the gap: How does Kenya’s domestic firm network link to international supply chains? @bkirui.bsky.social, Peter Chacha and myself wrote up a blog post for UNIDO: iap.unido.org/articles/bri...
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NEW | Ember launched a new open dataset tracking monthly installments of wind and solar power.
Why? Analysts need immediate information on the deployment of the two fastest growing energy sources in history.
View and bookmark the page here: ember-energy.org/lat...
Why? Analysts need immediate information on the deployment of the two fastest growing energy sources in history.
View and bookmark the page here: ember-energy.org/lat...
May 15, 2025 at 8:20 AM
NEW | Ember launched a new open dataset tracking monthly installments of wind and solar power.
Why? Analysts need immediate information on the deployment of the two fastest growing energy sources in history.
View and bookmark the page here: ember-energy.org/lat...
Why? Analysts need immediate information on the deployment of the two fastest growing energy sources in history.
View and bookmark the page here: ember-energy.org/lat...
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📣🎉Applications are open for the CSAE Visiting Fellowships Scheme 2026.
The scheme supports African scholars pursuing a career in economics (with a doctorate). Candidates must apply online by 31 May 2025 to be considered.
💻 www.csae.ox.ac.uk/visiting-fel...
📃 www.csae.ox.ac.uk/csae-visitin...
The scheme supports African scholars pursuing a career in economics (with a doctorate). Candidates must apply online by 31 May 2025 to be considered.
💻 www.csae.ox.ac.uk/visiting-fel...
📃 www.csae.ox.ac.uk/csae-visitin...
March 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
📣🎉Applications are open for the CSAE Visiting Fellowships Scheme 2026.
The scheme supports African scholars pursuing a career in economics (with a doctorate). Candidates must apply online by 31 May 2025 to be considered.
💻 www.csae.ox.ac.uk/visiting-fel...
📃 www.csae.ox.ac.uk/csae-visitin...
The scheme supports African scholars pursuing a career in economics (with a doctorate). Candidates must apply online by 31 May 2025 to be considered.
💻 www.csae.ox.ac.uk/visiting-fel...
📃 www.csae.ox.ac.uk/csae-visitin...
Thanks a lot @priyamanwaring.bsky.social for the summary!
Next in the #OxCSAE2025 @oxfordcsae.bsky.social Trade, Investment & Services session, @verenaw.bsky.social looks at: which firms benefit from expanded internet infrastructure?
March 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Thanks a lot @priyamanwaring.bsky.social for the summary!
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In 2004, it took the world a year to add one gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day.
March 18, 2025 at 10:41 AM
In 2004, it took the world a year to add one gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day.
Fantastic conference! Had very inspirational conversations and discussions at last year's iteration. Paper submissions until April, 30 👇
📢 Call for Papers! 📢
The 6th Women in International Economics Conference will be held at Yale University on Oct 16-17, 2025. Keynote speaker: Penny Goldberg. We invite submissions from junior women in international economics.
📅 Deadline: April 30, 2025
📩 Submit here: forms.gle/ucoE6ZcjqwQ1...
The 6th Women in International Economics Conference will be held at Yale University on Oct 16-17, 2025. Keynote speaker: Penny Goldberg. We invite submissions from junior women in international economics.
📅 Deadline: April 30, 2025
📩 Submit here: forms.gle/ucoE6ZcjqwQ1...
forms.gle
March 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Fantastic conference! Had very inspirational conversations and discussions at last year's iteration. Paper submissions until April, 30 👇
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📢 Call for Papers! 📢
The 6th Women in International Economics Conference will be held at Yale University on Oct 16-17, 2025. Keynote speaker: Penny Goldberg. We invite submissions from junior women in international economics.
📅 Deadline: April 30, 2025
📩 Submit here: forms.gle/ucoE6ZcjqwQ1...
The 6th Women in International Economics Conference will be held at Yale University on Oct 16-17, 2025. Keynote speaker: Penny Goldberg. We invite submissions from junior women in international economics.
📅 Deadline: April 30, 2025
📩 Submit here: forms.gle/ucoE6ZcjqwQ1...
forms.gle
March 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
📢 Call for Papers! 📢
The 6th Women in International Economics Conference will be held at Yale University on Oct 16-17, 2025. Keynote speaker: Penny Goldberg. We invite submissions from junior women in international economics.
📅 Deadline: April 30, 2025
📩 Submit here: forms.gle/ucoE6ZcjqwQ1...
The 6th Women in International Economics Conference will be held at Yale University on Oct 16-17, 2025. Keynote speaker: Penny Goldberg. We invite submissions from junior women in international economics.
📅 Deadline: April 30, 2025
📩 Submit here: forms.gle/ucoE6ZcjqwQ1...
Can't recommend The Continent's accessible, high quality reporting enough. Weekly issues available through WhatsApp and Signal. @thecontinent.org
All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 189 of The Continent.
M23 fighters are marching on to take a second city in the DRC. The Tanzanian president is hosting a leader’s conference to address the crisis. But Tanzania is not a disinterested party.
Read it here: bit.ly/TheContinent...
Welcome to Issue 189 of The Continent.
M23 fighters are marching on to take a second city in the DRC. The Tanzanian president is hosting a leader’s conference to address the crisis. But Tanzania is not a disinterested party.
Read it here: bit.ly/TheContinent...
February 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Can't recommend The Continent's accessible, high quality reporting enough. Weekly issues available through WhatsApp and Signal. @thecontinent.org
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Events beyond the eastern DRC war frontline could reshape the region.
The eastern DRC war could reshape the region
Even as the conflict escalates, regional powers look to seize an economic opportunity.
continent.substack.com
February 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Events beyond the eastern DRC war frontline could reshape the region.
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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
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PLEASE RT :)
Submit to the annual Network Science and Economics Conference, the largest US event for network theory and empirical research in and adjacent to economics
Deadline Jan 30 (soon!)
Conference Apr 11-13 at Stanford
Submit to the annual Network Science and Economics Conference, the largest US event for network theory and empirical research in and adjacent to economics
Deadline Jan 30 (soon!)
Conference Apr 11-13 at Stanford
January 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
PLEASE RT :)
Submit to the annual Network Science and Economics Conference, the largest US event for network theory and empirical research in and adjacent to economics
Deadline Jan 30 (soon!)
Conference Apr 11-13 at Stanford
Submit to the annual Network Science and Economics Conference, the largest US event for network theory and empirical research in and adjacent to economics
Deadline Jan 30 (soon!)
Conference Apr 11-13 at Stanford
Working on private sector development? Trade? Net zero transition? Food security? Come join us! Our IFC Economic and Market Research Department is hiring - we are looking for job market candidates in any of the (sub-)fields listed in the advert.
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2024 - January 31, 2025
www.aeaweb.org
November 26, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Working on private sector development? Trade? Net zero transition? Food security? Come join us! Our IFC Economic and Market Research Department is hiring - we are looking for job market candidates in any of the (sub-)fields listed in the advert.
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
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Interested in how we can use consumer card spending data to estimate local retail markets for the UK?
A short blog on the website of the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence about this joint CMA-ONS project:
www.escoe.ac.uk/estimating-l...
Data freely available to all on the CMA website!
A short blog on the website of the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence about this joint CMA-ONS project:
www.escoe.ac.uk/estimating-l...
Data freely available to all on the CMA website!
Estimating local markets from card spending data - ESCoE
A new ESCoE discussion paper offers an alternative approach to estimating local markets, using consumer card spending data.
www.escoe.ac.uk
November 19, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Interested in how we can use consumer card spending data to estimate local retail markets for the UK?
A short blog on the website of the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence about this joint CMA-ONS project:
www.escoe.ac.uk/estimating-l...
Data freely available to all on the CMA website!
A short blog on the website of the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence about this joint CMA-ONS project:
www.escoe.ac.uk/estimating-l...
Data freely available to all on the CMA website!
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🌇🌇🌇
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I am hiring a predoctoral fellow to work on projects in urban transportation, spatial and development, using a mix of quantitative and experimental tools.
Please share and/or apply!
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/13401
🌇🌇🌇
🚌🚌🚌
I am hiring a predoctoral fellow to work on projects in urban transportation, spatial and development, using a mix of quantitative and experimental tools.
Please share and/or apply!
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/13401
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (Prof Kreindler)
Professor Gabriel Kreindler is seeking a predoctoral fellow. The fellow will work on projects in the areas of urban, spatial and development economics, which involve structural modeling and estimation...
academicpositions.harvard.edu
November 19, 2024 at 10:27 PM
📢📢📢
🌇🌇🌇
🚌🚌🚌
I am hiring a predoctoral fellow to work on projects in urban transportation, spatial and development, using a mix of quantitative and experimental tools.
Please share and/or apply!
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/13401
🌇🌇🌇
🚌🚌🚌
I am hiring a predoctoral fellow to work on projects in urban transportation, spatial and development, using a mix of quantitative and experimental tools.
Please share and/or apply!
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/13401
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I've made a starter pack for the Economics of Networks! 🕸️ This includes economic and social networks and wide range of methods: applied/econometrics and theory. I'm sure I have missed a lot. Please DM/reply with others, including self-nominations.
go.bsky.app/4yrQJsw
go.bsky.app/4yrQJsw
November 18, 2024 at 6:25 PM
I've made a starter pack for the Economics of Networks! 🕸️ This includes economic and social networks and wide range of methods: applied/econometrics and theory. I'm sure I have missed a lot. Please DM/reply with others, including self-nominations.
go.bsky.app/4yrQJsw
go.bsky.app/4yrQJsw
Our IFC econ research unit is hiring a postdoc working on topics like firms, climate, trade, finance, innovation, networks etc. (more areas listed in job post) to join our fantastic team in Paris for a year: worldbankgroup.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Post-doctoral Fellow
IFC — a member of the World Bank Group — is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. We work in m...
worldbankgroup.csod.com
November 11, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Our IFC econ research unit is hiring a postdoc working on topics like firms, climate, trade, finance, innovation, networks etc. (more areas listed in job post) to join our fantastic team in Paris for a year: worldbankgroup.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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Interested in a position as development economist, outside the US?
Consider applying to Oxford:
https://econjobmarket.org/positions/11116
Position without tutorial teaching.
Both fresh graduates and lateral applications encouraged!
Application deadline: Nov 29
@OxfordEconDept
Consider applying to Oxford:
https://econjobmarket.org/positions/11116
Position without tutorial teaching.
Both fresh graduates and lateral applications encouraged!
Application deadline: Nov 29
@OxfordEconDept
EJM - Econ Job Market
The automated language-translation service on econjobmarlet.org is provided free by Google Translate, a third party service. Google is wholly responsible for the translation service. Econ Job…
econjobmarket.org
November 8, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Interested in a position as development economist, outside the US?
Consider applying to Oxford:
https://econjobmarket.org/positions/11116
Position without tutorial teaching.
Both fresh graduates and lateral applications encouraged!
Application deadline: Nov 29
@OxfordEconDept
Consider applying to Oxford:
https://econjobmarket.org/positions/11116
Position without tutorial teaching.
Both fresh graduates and lateral applications encouraged!
Application deadline: Nov 29
@OxfordEconDept
Bridging the gap: How does Kenya’s domestic firm network link to international supply chains? @bkirui.bsky.social, Peter Chacha and myself wrote up a blog post for UNIDO: iap.unido.org/articles/bri...
Bridging the gap: How does Kenya’s domestic firm network link to international supply chains? | Industrial Analytics Platform
Novel data provides insights into how Kenya’s domestic firm network links with international markets.
iap.unido.org
February 21, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Bridging the gap: How does Kenya’s domestic firm network link to international supply chains? @bkirui.bsky.social, Peter Chacha and myself wrote up a blog post for UNIDO: iap.unido.org/articles/bri...
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We have a revamped page on Life Expectancy on
Our World In Data!
• Life expectancy has increased at all ages
• Wide differences in life expectancy remain globally
• Women live longer than men, but this gap isn't constant
+ many new charts! Check it out:
ourworldindata.org/life-expecta...
Our World In Data!
• Life expectancy has increased at all ages
• Wide differences in life expectancy remain globally
• Women live longer than men, but this gap isn't constant
+ many new charts! Check it out:
ourworldindata.org/life-expecta...
November 29, 2023 at 11:37 AM
We have a revamped page on Life Expectancy on
Our World In Data!
• Life expectancy has increased at all ages
• Wide differences in life expectancy remain globally
• Women live longer than men, but this gap isn't constant
+ many new charts! Check it out:
ourworldindata.org/life-expecta...
Our World In Data!
• Life expectancy has increased at all ages
• Wide differences in life expectancy remain globally
• Women live longer than men, but this gap isn't constant
+ many new charts! Check it out:
ourworldindata.org/life-expecta...
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Sometimes those cables break. When they do, there is no quick fix. A decades-old ship, packed with high-tech equipment, must chug along around the continent to make physical repairs. This week, The Continent travels aboard that ship.
Down to the wire: The ship fixing our internet
Africa’s connection to the World Wide Web depends on cords of hair-thin fibres that rope along the ocean floor. Sometimes they break.
open.substack.com
November 25, 2023 at 9:23 AM
Sometimes those cables break. When they do, there is no quick fix. A decades-old ship, packed with high-tech equipment, must chug along around the continent to make physical repairs. This week, The Continent travels aboard that ship.
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A🧵on Ihsaan Bassier's #JMP. Ihsaan is a post-doc at LSE working on labor & development, and on the market this year. He's doing amazing research on labor market institutions, monopsony, inequality.
His JMP is very timely: collective bargaining's spillover on non-union sector.
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His JMP is very timely: collective bargaining's spillover on non-union sector.
1/
Ihsaan Bassier
Ihsaan Bassier
sites.google.com
November 13, 2023 at 4:47 PM
A🧵on Ihsaan Bassier's #JMP. Ihsaan is a post-doc at LSE working on labor & development, and on the market this year. He's doing amazing research on labor market institutions, monopsony, inequality.
His JMP is very timely: collective bargaining's spillover on non-union sector.
1/
His JMP is very timely: collective bargaining's spillover on non-union sector.
1/
Our econ research unit @ IFC is hiring on the job market. We conduct policy relevant research on anything firms and private sector development related - ranging from finance, climate, and technology adoption to trade and spatial econ. Happy to answer any questions.
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2023 - January 31, 2024
www.aeaweb.org
November 10, 2023 at 1:21 AM
Our econ research unit @ IFC is hiring on the job market. We conduct policy relevant research on anything firms and private sector development related - ranging from finance, climate, and technology adoption to trade and spatial econ. Happy to answer any questions.
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
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Last weekend, more than 130 development economists presented new research about more than 40 countries on myriad topics. Here’s a micro-summary of every study presented at the North East Universities Development Consortium annual conference. www.cgdev.org/blog/whats-l... by Almedina Music and me
November 9, 2023 at 1:44 PM
Last weekend, more than 130 development economists presented new research about more than 40 countries on myriad topics. Here’s a micro-summary of every study presented at the North East Universities Development Consortium annual conference. www.cgdev.org/blog/whats-l... by Almedina Music and me
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Please spread the word: Dartmouth's Globalization Cluster is looking to hire 3 Pre-Doctoral Fellows for 1-2 years to work on research related to international economics (while taking classes & going to seminars). globalization.dartmouth.edu/programs/glo...
Globalization Pre-Doctoral Fellows
globalization.dartmouth.edu
October 27, 2023 at 3:15 PM
Please spread the word: Dartmouth's Globalization Cluster is looking to hire 3 Pre-Doctoral Fellows for 1-2 years to work on research related to international economics (while taking classes & going to seminars). globalization.dartmouth.edu/programs/glo...