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Alejandro Riaño

@alejandroriano

International trade economist; Associate Professor City, University of London. GEP & CESIfo Fellow. Export subsidies; Volatility; SEZ; Structural models of international trade. Penn State and Uniandes alumnus; formerly University of Nottingham and IDB.

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Right on time for this semester's teaching prep...

19.01.2026 22:33 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

📣 We are hiring 📣 join our fast growing department, located in one the best areas of the best city in the world!

22.12.2025 16:17 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Some days bliss is simply not having to take the Northern Line 🙂

23.10.2025 08:30 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Excellent post. In to the teaching folder it goes

24.07.2025 14:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The view from my office today... 😎🎾

30.06.2025 11:19 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I woundn't reject the null that EU and UK statements are different, plus they are, most likely, inconsequential at this stage

22.06.2025 13:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A small economy? Slightly disappointed 😉

14.06.2025 22:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Excellent delivery! 😆

12.06.2025 13:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I am Loki, destroyer of worlds!

07.06.2025 19:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Hahaha! Spot on

26.05.2025 12:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Available while sunshine's around in London 😉

16.05.2025 19:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

🙄 chill. academics across most disciplines don't know anything beyond their niche fields fo study (I sincerely don't think economists are worse in this respect than ppl in other disciplines). Take what journalists write with a big grain of salt... again, nothing new under the sun

10.05.2025 18:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That amount of Starmix is ludicrous! It will only last you half a presentation at best

08.05.2025 09:38 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The view from my office today 😎

29.04.2025 11:39 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Minimising my loss function 😉

16.04.2025 09:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What are your thoughts about CHN's export ban on rare earths? Am I right in thinking this one has the greatest potential to disrupt supply chains in the US?

11.04.2025 14:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I suppose that now that the EU is back to 10%, there goes the Brexit dividend 🙃

09.04.2025 21:13 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

* ugh... people will stop, sorry

09.04.2025 21:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hysteresis FTW!

09.04.2025 21:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We should tell everyone and normalise the fact that globalisation has been going on for thousands of yrs and its inherent to humanity. Perhaps that way people start blaming foreigners (ppl & goods) for their problems when the true cause lies somewhere else

09.04.2025 21:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Excellent thread John!

04.04.2025 05:25 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Happy to announce that I have been awarded Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy!

03.04.2025 20:27 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Felicitaciones tocayo! Muy merecido!

01.04.2025 11:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Its a 🌞🌞🌞 weekend in the UK!!!

09.03.2025 09:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

📣📣Worth shouting it from the rooftops! 📣📣

06.03.2025 16:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

On a side note, hope you've watched the Argentinean version... its the absolute best and you'll have 'no importa el que diran' stuck in your head for a while!

05.03.2025 20:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Plus you have a lot of interesting cross-country and time-series variation, plus an 'experiment'. Its like 4 papers rolled into one 😉

05.03.2025 20:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Spring please come nooooow 🌈🌈🌷🌷

25.02.2025 18:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The tiranny of piecemeal deals is one of the biggest and most insidious costs of Brexit. The opportunity (political and economic) costs of all this pussyfooting quickly adds up!

25.02.2025 11:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I have several papers that explore tariff wars using economic models. Here’s what they tell us about likely outcomes (🧵)

TLDR: All countries ultimately lose. While the overall impact isn’t catastrophic for larger economies like the US, it’ll be devastating for small countries.

02.02.2025 19:49 👍 48 🔁 22 💬 4 📌 3