How costly are port disruptions? In this volatile environment, what are the returns to investment in infrastructure? How frequent do macroeconomic shocks need to be to warrant investment? It's all in our new working paper 1/5 #ports : nber.org/papers/w32503?…

We are looking forward to receiving your best papers on macro-finance and financial stability by ⏱️July 1st!

The Kansas City Fed is looking to hire a seasoned macroeconomist! We are looking at applications now through July 31st, please apply or send this link to someone who should!
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📢 New paper in Feminist Economics w/ Ambrish & Upasak Das on the presence of women in economics academia in India. Please give it a read!

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Introducing: The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes ift.tt/ztQnLpV

Somik Lall Anusha Chari gives a lucid explanation (and application to roads) of the Dual Hurdle Framework in her recent NBER Economics of Transportation talk (26’mark). ICYMI: m.youtube.com/watch?v=6GAnW5… Shout out to UNC-Chapel Hill Tarheel Pablo Ariel Picardo for his contribution to the talk!

It was an honor to deliver opening keynote ⁦World Bank⁩ ⁦Infrastructure Finance, PPPs & Guarantees⁩ #Infra4Dev , hosted by ⁦UM6P - Mohammed VI Polytechnic University⁩ ICYMI: m.youtube.com/live/ZMHbmMRXM…

Very nice coverage by Alex Irwin-Hunt fDi Intelligence about our IMF later World Economic Outlook chapter on growing spillovers from G20 emerging markets, flashing out their growing importance of source of #FDI (especially to other EMs) Andres Fernandez Martin

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🚨New paper: Private Debt versus Bank Debt in Corporate Borrowing, joint with Irina Stefanescu and Simon Mayer. We study how firms choose between bank debt and private debt, and how the rise of private debt affects bank lending. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Thanks Infrastructure Finance, PPPs & Guarantees . I am even more excited to participate!

This looks great!

Starting now!

measuring citations in policy work, not just journals is great.

If the CEA (White House), CB, IMF, IDB, or the Fed System is using your research to conduct policy everyone wins. Academia and Policy must interact more often

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Women say it’s about workplace culture and lack of opportunities and not about work life balance: Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Libertad González Alessandra Casarico Paola Profeta Johanna Rickne Matthias Doepke UK Women in Economics Network (UK WEN)

Kudos to Anna Paulson (she/her) & Ina Ganguli 🇺🇦 🌻, at-large members of the @aeacswep board for curating the articles in this issue’s Focus section. They also present data from a survey they completed of women who have either left academia post tenure or are seriously contemplating doing so.

Excited about this terrific upcoming NBER-DOT conference on the Economics of Transportation in the 21st Century on this Friday May 3: nber.org/conferences/ec…. Featuring the new FLOW data. Live-streamed on NBER YouTube: youtube.com/@NBERvideos?si… NBER U.S. Department of Transportation

My latest for the Financial Times is about how economists could be more useful...

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The 2024 CSWEP News Issue II: Tenured Women Faculty Leaving Academia by Ina Ganguli and Anna Paulson is now available at aeaweb.org/about-aea/comm…

ICYMI: long before the 2nd Powell Pivot, Stacey Vanek Smith highlighted that higher for longer was much more likely than immaculate disinflation.

Just a couple more days to apply for the REStat fellowship. #EconTwitter