Aurélien Eyquem

New at JIE: "Interest rate uncertainty as a policy tool?" by Fabio Ghironi, Galip Kemal Ozhan (@galipkemal.bsky.social)

doi.org/10.1016/j.ji...

New @cepr.org Discussion Paper:
*The Output Cost of Inheritance*
👉 ow.ly/av0650XrIHz
with @eyquem2.bsky.social @izmartinez86.bsky.social and Enrico Rubolino
#econsky

Great Opportunity for those who want to work on the economics of inheritance

🚨Postdoc position in public economics🚨

Four-year postdoc at @heclausanne.bsky.social, funded through @snsf.ch project "The Economics of Inheritance and Inter-Vivos Gifts".
Application deadline: 30 December.

#econsky @unil.bsky.social @eyquem2.bsky.social @izmartinez86.bsky.social

bit.ly/4qWyG6G

YouTube video by Reagan Library President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.

Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).

*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”

youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

Voilà, le premier épisode de notre podcast est bouclé.
Du coup, on l'a publié dès ce soir.
C'est en deux parties. 2h30 d'écoute au total.
Dont un entretien passionnant avec @alavigne.bsky.social, où il est longuement question de retraites.

C'est par ici :
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

Le bon lien est ici...

open.spotify.com/show/1hL1OME...

Road test today for new paper "The Output Cost of Inheritance" (with @eyquem2.bsky.social, @izmartinez86.bsky.social & Enrico Rubolino).

More to come soon...

Thanks to @usiidep.bsky.social for being excellent hosts!

Opinion | Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis.

Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

Just out (finally 😊): On Automation, Labor Reallocation and Welfare, with Stephane Auray doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

Quantifying the effects of tariff hikes and decomposing the contributions of various channels.

Tariffs and Retaliation: A Brief Macroeconomic Analysis Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Short paper quantifying the effects of tariff hikes without or with retaliation. www.nber.org/papers/w33739

WTO Blog | In a world of trade tensions, what do tariffs really do? Trade policy tensions are escalating fast. In recent months, several large economies have announced or implemented sweeping new tariffs, reviving a policy tool that many thought to have been largely r...

A great short overview on tariffs and trade, highly recommended!

"In a world of trade tensions, what do tariffs really do?" by Ralph Ossa

www.wto.org/english/blog...

A photo of a bunch of Nike shoes.

How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?

Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

Trump's trade war timeline 2.0: An up-to-date guide President Donald Trump has started his second term in office with momentous plans to change US trade policy to achieve various economic and nontrade related aims. Below is a timeline that tracks the d...

I do not think @chadpbown.com realized when he launched it how much work would it be to keep this page updated (amazing resource, by the way).

Opinion | Paul Krugman on the ‘Biggest Trade Shock in History’ The trade economist Paul Krugman parses the ‘layers of wrongness’ in Trump’s tariff policy.

“Ordinarily I would say that while tariffs are bad, they don’t cause recessions,” Paul Krugman says on this episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” “What’s unique about this situation is that the protectionism is unpredictable and unstable. And it’s that uncertainty that is the recessionary force.”

I'm seeing a huge spike in interest in tariffs from people who normally don't work in the economics of international trade. Here are a few useful things to know about them. (1/14)

You can perhaps say “tariffs can do some good” but you just can’t say “tariffs are tax cuts.” And I’ve never been dogmatic about tariffs. I wish universities could revoke PhDs when one of their graduates utter statements that violate basic principles of their academic discipline.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

These people are absolute idiots

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

Morgan Stanley econ research: "We take on board greater-than-expected intensity in trade policies and revise growth lower in 2025 and 2026. We now see higher inflation in 2025 with a more pronounced and sooner reacceleration in goods prices"

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

271 Republican Senators and Congressmen. Who'll be the first to step up and denounce this?

The only adult (and state man) in the room.
Stay strong.

The illustration depicts a person wearing a graduation cap throwing the "X" logo into a trash bin. Nearby, a blue bird lies on the ground with X-shaped eyes, symbolizing its demise. The scene is set in a simple, grassy landscape under a cloudy sky, metaphorically representing the abandonment of X (formerly Twitter).

We have a massive academic base on Bluesky, we can lobby unis to quit X. The French are leading on this, others can do it too.
3 more French unis quit Twitter:

Université Paris-Saclay
@univparissaclay.bsky.social

Université PSL
@psl-univ.bsky.social

Sorbonne Université
@sorbonne-universite.fr

Wow, that's exciting and a great public good!

"The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset" by Karsten Müller, Chenzi Xu, Mohamed Lehbib, and Ziliang Chen.

www.globalmacrodata.com/index.html

Le philosophe Mathias Roux décrypte un narcissisme encouragé par la société capitaliste, où la mise en scène de soi devient une injonction permanente.
➡️ l.franceculture.fr/PYA

This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.

YouTube video by CBC News Trudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goods

Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.