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Assistant Professor at Tilburg University. Growth, Trade, Development, Basketball, Bikes and Music (in most but not all forms) 🇺🇾🇳🇱 https://guzmanourens.com/
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🇺🇸🤜🤛🇨🇳 (🇺🇾?) What can be the effects of the new trade war on economies such as Uruguay? I wrote this 👇 (in Spanish): www.razonesypersonas.com/2025/04/urug...

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Less than a week left to apply! Send us your best papers!

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Only two more weeks to apply to the 4th edition of the Tilburg Macro Conference! Please consider applying or sharing with colleagues. Call for papers available at us10.campaign-archive.com?u=bb253d28cb...

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In light of latest of steel/aluminum tariff threats, it's a good time to review the evidence. This work finds job losses in metals-using sectors outweigh job gains in metal sectors ~75 to 1. Steel Tariffs and U.S. Jobs Revisited econofact.org/steel-tariff... via @econofact.bsky.social

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Very happy to advertise a new edition of the Tilburg-GIFT Conference. This year's keynotes: Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Simon Mongey. Send us your best papers in Growth, Trade, Firm Dynamics and macro in general!

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📢 1st Junior Workshop Economics of Latin America - Call for Papers! Aimed at PhD students & recent post-docs looking to connect with folks working on Latin American topics. 10-11 July 2025 in Berlin. Submission deadline: Feb 28. (details below) #EconConf #EconSky

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Trade economists: After you publish your first trade paper, add yourself to Alan Deadorff's Family Tree of Trade Economists. public.websites.umich.edu/~alandear/tr... The cohort sizes suggest the field is in decline, but I think participation has fallen. Sign up!

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🇺🇾 Elections held yesterday in Uruguay. 🇺🇾 Center-left party won presidency. While we expect a lot from the new gov, we don't expect drastic changes in macro policy as all parties agree on basic macro principles. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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🚨 Happy to promote this year's candidates from Tilburg Economics and Econometrics! 🧵

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I updated the starter pack of academic economists who work on international trade But I'm sure I've missed many people, so suggestions welcome #econsky go.bsky.app/G3dqAYg

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🚨 Call for Papers! The 2025 EAYE Annual Meeting is at King’s College London @KingsCollegeLon from May 27-29, 2025! Submit your extended abstracts or full papers and join top junior economists from around the world! 🗓️Deadline: December 1, 2024

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The Yale EGC/IGC Program for the October 24-25 "Firms, Trade and Development" Conference is up & 🥳! Join us in person or online. For in-person, see: lse.tfaforms.net/f/IGC-EGC-FT.... Funds are limited but worth trying For online, see: yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi... egc.yale.edu/events/firms...

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Returning to Brussels after a few years I was amazed by how much the city changed. Many measures taken to improve mobility and overall livability of the city and I had no idea, so here a small thread about that (pictures are not amazing, sorry about that):

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I imagine there is/will be a great Brazilian community joining these days. Welcome!!

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Thinking that it's impossible to bring your kids to school in a bike-friendly society? The Dutch got you covered! I've seen them transport up to 4 kids in those bakfiets! And yes, they're rain proof.

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Last week to apply to this wonderful event featuring keynotes by Stephen Redding Michael Peters at Tilburg! macro-economics-tilburg.weebly.com/conference.h...

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New call for papers for the 3rd edition of the Tilburg GIFT Conference with keynotes Stephen Redding and Michael Peters. macro-economics-tilburg.weebly.com/conference.h...

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RIP Robert Solow. Love this story by Krugman which doubles as a testimony of how important good teaching can be for research.

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Extremely sad to read about the passing of Philippe Martin. Probably other people have more personal stories to share about him. I was just a major fan of his research. He will be greatly missed!

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Call for Papers: Workshop on IP Rights, Technology and Trade University of Sussex, 25 June 2024. Submission deadline: 29 February Come talk about trade and innovation in beautiful Brighton. Thanks to Yannis Papadakis and Richard Kneller for organising #EconSky shorturl.at/uvGZ6

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Henry Kissinger passed yesterday. Can we start removing the Latin American dummy from growth regressions? www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/u...

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Tilburg’s Department of Econometrics & OR is recruiting for two junior faculty positions in econometrics and applied micro and macro. Apply no later than this Sunday, November 12! econjobmarket.org/positions/9845

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Happy to be member of the Hiring Committee at Tilburg Econ this year. Several positions open! Reach out should you need info. Deadline Nov 16. Call here: econjobmarket.org/positions/9795 Join a thriving and friendly department!

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