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Dr Amrita Kulka @amritakulka.bsky.social draws on some of her US research to comment on today's announcement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer that rules will be changed to "unlock untapped land" around railway stations to deliver more housing. Read in full: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

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📰 @jontybloom.bsky.social interviewed @dennisnovy.bsky.social for an article in @theneweuropean.bsky.social. Dennis commented on issues facing the German economy in 2025 including the forthcoming election, the debt break rule, and weak public investment. www.theneweuropean.co.uk/europes-way-...

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🚨 Deadline approaching! 🚨 Apply for the 13th Warwick Economics PhD conference, taking place from 3-5 June 2025. Applications are welcome from every field in economics. Accommodation and travel costs will be covered. Keynotes by Prof Stefano Caria and Dr Amrita Kulka 👉 deadline: 31st January!

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EXPERT COMMENT: Mark Zuckerberg has announced changes to moderation on Meta platforms, including an end to independent fact-checking. Dr Mateusz Stalinski, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, comments. warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

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📰 #ICYMI: Professor Andrew Oswald, a member of the @financialtimes.com 's panel of 96 leading economists, shares his predictions on the UK’s outlook for 2025: ft.com/content/aea6... (paywall)

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Congratulations to Dr Marta Santamaria on winning the inaugural Department for Business and Trade analysis prize with her paper, Disunited Kingdom? Frictions in the Domestic Market for Goods. Read more: www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article...

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💻Professor Helios Herrera writes for VoxEU on the dynamic between traditional policymaking – characterised by complex compromise – and the rise, persistence, and recurrence of populism. The column is co-authored by Dr Federico Trombetta. cepr.org/voxeu/column...

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📰 @nikdatta.bsky.social and Jan David Bakker write for @uk.theconversation.com on findings from their five-year study into the impact of caps on the fees letting agencies can charge: theconversation.com/successful-c...

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📰 @ludogazze.bsky.social comments on the possible impact of childhood lead exposure on mental health in this piece for @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/leaded-petro...

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🆕 Helping jobseekers signal their skills As part of our collaboration w/ JPAL on their policy insights, Tim Phillips speaks to Marianne Bertrand @ChicagoBooth & Stefano Caria @warwickecon.bsky.social about the positive impacts of signalling interventions: voxdev.org/topic/labour...

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📰A project by Professor Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com Dr Jakob Schneebacher, and Dr Christina Palmou has won one of this year's Office for National Statistics Research Excellence Awards. Read more: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

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📺 Dr Arun Advani appears on BBC Countryfile discussing the findings of @centaxuk.bsky.social research into inheritance tax. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 The 13th Warwick Economics PhD conference will take place 3-5 June 2025. Applications are welcome from every field in economics. Accommodation and travel costs will be covered. Keynotes by Prof Stefano Caria and Dr Amrita Kulka The deadline is 31st January! Link in🧵

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📰Dr Ludovica Gazze @ludogazze.bsky.social has been awarded a significant grant by @nuffieldfoundation.org for her "Clear Skies, Clear Minds" research project. Read more: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

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Carmen Villa @carmenvillaecon.bsky.social specialises in Public Economics and Law and Economics. Her JMP shows that the closure of youth clubs, due to austerity cuts, led to decreases in educational performance and rises in youth offending. buff.ly/3OriDeT #EconJobMarket

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Sarthak Joshi's job market paper shows how the changing spatial distribution of work can exacerbate gender employment gaps when women face higher barriers to commuting than men. Visit: buff.ly/49bSoCW #EconJobMarket

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Angelica's job market paper explores how preferences for shorter working hours drive women into informal employment due to the limited availability of part-time jobs in the formal sector. buff.ly/3ZgJEIi #EconJobMarket

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Xueying Zhao's JMP shows that a monopolist data seller can design and price information via a mechanism, which fully extracts the first-best surplus by strategically leveraging data correlations. Visit: buff.ly/3YZ65QY #EconJobMarket

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Edoardo Tolva's job market paper uses the Russian airspace closure as a quasi-experiment to estimate the elasticity between transport modes and develops a model to measure its impact on welfare. Find out more: buff.ly/4hTFEEZ #EconJobMarket

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Bruno Souza is an applied and labour economist. What happens to you when one of your co-workers is absent from the workplace? His JMP finds it can boost your wages and career trajectories in the medium run. Website: buff.ly/3CCmwLx #EconJobMarket

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Samuel Marshall’s job market paper quantifies the roles of labor market power, job search costs, and migration costs on the distribution of labor in sub-Saharan Africa. buff.ly/4eD7baM

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📰 @carmenvillaecon.bsky.social 's job market paper is cited by @torstenbell.bsky.social MP in The Observer. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Gavin Hassall's job market paper studies how information gaps in central bank communications explain variation in financial markets and the macroeconomy. buff.ly/3V05mh9 #EconJobMarket

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Meet Puru Gupta! His JMP derives a liquidity adjusted Black-Scholes equation for derivative pricing when underlying market is dominated by institutional investors, and implements a numerical algorithm for pricing European options in illiquid markets. buff.ly/3Zh8Puk

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See-Yu Chan’s job market paper examines how the endogenous response of recruitment activities reconciles the puzzle of rising U.S. college wage premiums alongside declining job skill requirements for graduates since 1980. Visit: buff.ly/4eFFL3V #EconJobMarket

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Amedeo Andriollo's @amedandr.bsky.social Job Market Paper proposes a test for exogeneity of macroeconomic structural shocks, robust to omitted variable dynamics. Do shocks to uncertainty about economic policy leads to higher/lower future inflation? To find out: buff.ly/3V1IE8o #EconJobMarket

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📰 PhD researcher @carmenvillaecon.bsky.social is quoted in the Independent discussing her research on the consequences of closing youth clubs: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/gcse...

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“Rigorous research is critical to this government’s decision-making process...I want to make sure that collaboration between CenTax, Treasury and HMRC continues for many years.” 💼Remarks by Exchequer Secretary James Murray MP at last night's @centaxuk.bsky.social Parliamentary launch.

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Professor Sonia Bhalotra recently organized a 2-day workshop bringing together economists from the UK, Europe, America & India to share their ongoing research and discuss its implications for policy designed to address violence against women. Read more: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

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Emeritus Professor Mark Harrison speaks with UAinFocus: "Russia threatens us all. We should be doing much more to measure up to the challenge. Today, it is not clear if we will." www.uainfocus.org/post/russia-...

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🚨 We're Hiring! 🚨 The Department is seeking two dynamic Assistant Professors to join our team! If you're passionate about research & teaching in economics, apply now! 🌍📚 📝 More details: buff.ly/3NS1o6a #EconJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd #Economics #JobAlert

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📰News of a £7.1 million funding award for @cagewarwick.bsky.social from UKRI and ESRC is warmly welcomed by Warwick V-C Stuart Croft and Head of the Department of Economics Ben Lockwood. Ben says: “We have been proud to support CAGE since its foundation in 2010." warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

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📢Applications for this year’s Applicant Mentoring Programme (AMP) are now open: sites.google.com/view/econphd... The AMP aims to help applicants who are from underrepresented backgrounds or who lack support from other sources to prepare their applications to Economics PhD programmes.➡️

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📰 CityAM covers today's new report from the @centaxuk.bsky.social research centre, co-directed by Dr Arun Advani and Dr Andy Summers, arguing the case for inheritance tax reform. www.cityam.com/broken-inher...

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Gave an EconBites Lecture today on our uprootedness paper in the AER @aeajournals.bsky.social for @warwickecon.bsky.social undergraduates, in the same session with the great Omer Moav. I ❤️ Omer's "cereals paper" in the @jpolecon.bsky.social 🙏 warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

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Congratulations to our alumnus and Warwick Honorary Graduate Professor James A Robinson, who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics 2024 together with Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson. warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

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