Neoclassical economics emphasizes that international trade acts like an improvement in technology that is mutually beneficial. Tariffs are a tax on this trading technology, from Ralph Ossa and @reddingecon.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34915
Open call for papers, The Rate of Return to R&D Investments. Conference to be held in Washington, DC on October 2, 2026. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on June 17, 2026. More information: www.nber.org/calls-papers...
Call for papers for JPE Macro-Chicago-Minneapolis Fed-Stanford Conference on the Long-Run Implications of Deglobalization: sites.google.com/view/mppconf.... @jpolecon.bsky.social @siepr.bsky.social @minneapolisfed.bsky.social @beckerfriedman.bsky.social
Call for papers for NBER-Sloan Transportation conference with Myrto Kalouptsidi. Open to all! Looking forward to the conference! @nber.org @treballen.bsky.social
New research from Huang, Benny Kleinman Liu & Stephen Redding (CEP) for VoxEU shows that China’s and Japan’s productivity booms reduced the US share of global GDP — but raised US welfare.
Read more: https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/accommodating-emerging-giants-global-economy
Submission link for the NBER International Trade and Investment Spring meeting (submission deadline January 23): conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b... @nber.org @treballen.bsky.social
Look back at lists of articles published in 2024 (bsky.app/profile/dieg...) 2023 (bsky.app/profile/dieg...), 2022 (bsky.app/profile/dieg...), 2021 (bsky.app/profile/dieg...), 2020 (bsky.app/profile/dieg...), 2019 (x.com/ProfDiegoPug...) & 2018 (x.com/ProfDiegoPug...)
i) Miyauchi, Nakajima & @reddingecon.bsky.social, @qjeharvard.bsky.social. Tokyo smartphone data reveal trip chaining as central to urban mobility. Consumption externalities link locations, shaping agglomeration, work-from-home impacts, and returns to transport investment doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Reductions in worldwide trade frictions over the period from 1960 to 2020 reduced the share of the United States in global GDP but raised its aggregate welfare, from Zhuokai Huang, Benny Kleinman, Ernest Liu, and @reddingecon.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34530
Check out Eugenia’s brilliant paper on superstar firms and specialized skills! An important contribution to our understanding of growth and innovation in the technology sector.
Check out Yuyang’s terrific job market paper on evaluating the U.S. Interstate Highway Network in spatial equilibrium with decentralized strategic investments by state planners. A major advance in the knowledge frontier.
Excited to share my JMP “Strategic Transportation Investment and Coordinative Policies: Evidence from the U.S. Highway Network.” I show that limited cooperation across states leaves the U.S. highway network underbuilt and misallocated. I explain factors that drive these distortions. Link below.
💡 Why would a firm spend millions teaching workers it doesn’t even employ?
From open-sourcing to free certifications, superstar firms often train the workforce of their customers.
My JMP explains why. 🧵👇 1/n
Excited about Friday’s upcoming NBER Conference on the economics of transportation in the 21st century: www.nber.org/conferences/.... Many important issues surrounding automation in transport sector. Tune in on NBER YouTube open to all: youtube.com/@nbervideos?... @nber.org @treballen.bsky.social
Join us online today for the NBER - Sloan Transportation and the Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity Conference: www.nber.org/conferences/.... On the NBER YouTube Channel: youtube.com/@nbervideos?...
#QJE Nov 2025, #1, “The Economics of Spatial Mobility: Theory and Evidence Using Smartphone Data,” by Miyauchi, Nakajima, and Redding (@reddingecon.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Excited to see the new Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics (Volume 6), edited jointly with Dave Donaldson come out: www.sciencedirect.com/handbook/han.... Fantastic set of chapters on recent advances and pointing the way to exciting further research @treballen.bsky.social @siepr.bsky.social
Call for proposals:
CA labor economists are invited to submit papers for this year's All-California Labor Economics Conference, to be held Sept 11-12 at @siepr.bsky.social, and organized by @maya-rossin-slater.bsky.social and Isaac Sorkin. #EconSky
Apply by May 31: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Insurance Versus Moral Hazard in Income-Contingent Student Loan Repayment,” by Tim de Silva (@timdesilva.me): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Economics of Spatial Mobility: Theory and Evidence Using Smartphone Data,” by Miyauchi, Nakajima, and Redding (@reddingecon.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Excited to see this paper coming out. We develop a tractable framework for modeling the rich patterns of spatial mobility observed in smartphone data, including travel itineraries and the resulting consumption externalities between locations
Economists are combining modern tools and old ideas to make sense of today’s trade war. It is a good time to revive Albert Hirschman’s work
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Call for submissions for the NBER International Trade and Investment Program Meeting on November 21-22, 2025, at Stanford: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b.... Submission deadline 11.59pm ET on Monday September 15, 2025.
Call for Papers for NBER Economics of Transportation in the 21st Century Virtual Conference, October 24, 2024, organized with Ed Glaeser and Jim Poterba: stephenredding.github.io/Call_for_Pap.... Submission Deadline Weds Sept 3, 11.59 ET. @nber.org @siepr.bsky.social @treballen.bsky.social
Open call for papers, Gender in the Economy: Structural Transformation and Women's Time-Use. Conference to be held in Cambridge, MA on March 27, 2026. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on Decem... https://www.nber.org/calls-papers-and-proposals/gender-economy-structural-transformation-and-womens-time-use
#CallforPapers for the conference 'The New Global Economy: Trade Wars & De-dollarisation?'
Deadline: 1 July
Organisers: @meredith-crowley.bsky.social @uniofcam.bsky.social , Lu Han @bankofcanada.ca, Dmitry Mukhin , Ben Tomlin @bankofcanada.ca
More and submit your paper
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Don’t forget to submit your papers for this NBER-Sloan conference on Transport Networks and the Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity! Submission deadline June 30, 2025. Organized with Myrto Kalouptsidi: stephenredding.github.io/Call_for_Pap... @nber.org @harvard.edu @sloanfoundation.bsky.social
Many congratulations!
