@stefanopietrosanti
Economist at Banca d’Italia • Banking, empirical corporate finance, economic history, macro • Curious about literature and translation • Opinions my own https://sites.google.com/sas.upenn.edu/stefanopietrosanti/home
📊🅻🅴 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞-🆃🅷🅴 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐭 "Tariff Protection by Industry Group: A Transatlantic Comparison" On average, the United States and the European Union (EU) apply relatively low tariffs. How do the levels vary by industry group ? urlr.me/mh3kXv
Houssein Guimbard #trade #import #econsky
Good news for researchers - don't miss out!
We just launched a pilot project @ecb.europa.eu to share anonymised data on bank balance sheets and interest rates for loans and deposits in the euro area. 1/2
www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/dat...
Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
Ah ok, it’s the Rachman’s article. Ok thank you!
I have been looking for the FT source for a while and can’t find it. could you help me?
I Philadelphia Eagles hanno battuto in maniera piuttosto netta la squadra che aveva vinto le due precedenti edizioni: i Kansas City Chiefs
Week 3: This week's theory paper in focus is Political Correctness (2001) by Stephen Morris. It is a masterpiece in what economists called applied theory--crafty story telling about interesting facts around us that uses elegant mathematical modeling.
www.jstor.org/stable/10.10...
This video stirred a surprising amount of controversy on Twitter. So I want to talk about how to think about the fit of men's pants. 🧵
www.tiktok.com/@wisdm8/vide...
What a magnificent celebration of European cultural heritage the reopening of Notre-Dame was. Only now able to slowly catch up. 🫶 youtu.be/FE3kfbXlDxI?...
Price theory is essential for causal inference when the subjects participate in markets, from Robert Minton and Casey B. Mulligan https://www.nber.org/papers/w33228
See also this review
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20240021
Economists love using linear regression to estimate treatment effects — it turns out that there are perils to this method, but also amazing perks
Come with me in this 🧵 if you want to learn about our now-published paper "Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions!"
1/ (Twitter rerun!)
These two papers, taken together, really cause a rethinking of behavioral economies.
Rather than having anomalous risk preferences; it looks like people have complexity aversion to "hard" decisions, especially on valuation, which drives behavioral anomalies. Herbert Simon ftw.
Saagar Enjeti tweets: "Probably a cold take but IMO Tokyo is the male fashion capital of the world: whether it’s western wear, suits, street wear the aesthetic is refined to the highest possible level From the salaryman to the rebel teen they are impeccably dressed It also helps no one is fat"
Why is Tokyo so fashionable? Some theories. 🧵
You all MOCKED George Lucas and said this was boring or dumb but who’s laughing now???
#Finsky - #Finance, #markets and #trading starter pack for new X-immigrants and others!
Here’s a centre right starter pack, for those who want to ensure this isn’t entirely an echo chamber go.bsky.app/DNLEPTu
Do you or your students ever have to clean data in
Stata? If so, I wrote a tutorial for @asjadnaqvi.bsky.social 's amazing "Stata Gallery". I cover the most essential techniques: generating, replacing, recoding, rescaling, encoding, destringing & lots more! polisky medium.com/the-stata-ga...
As Western governments slow and fumble, we must continue support 🇺🇦.
Check out the treasure trove sites.google.com/view/dariia-...
by @dariia.bsky.social -- with vids on #rstats #Python and so much more.
Get them for your students. Or as a Christmas gift.
Or even do one. ( I did)