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📢 Join our next Active Bystander Training for economists!

🗓️ 18 Nov 2025 | 09:30–11:00 | Online
Learn tools for safe, effective intervention & fostering an inclusive profession.

👉 Register: ProgrammesOfficer@res.org.uk
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📢 RES VACANCY - We're seeking an Editor-in-Chief for The Econometrics Journal, starting May 2026.

Play a key role in shaping the journal & advancing the RES Strategy 2024–2028.

🗓 Apply by 22 Sept 2025
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The £41.2bn Deficit Explained - NIESR Much of the recent economic debate has focused on the forecast £41.2bn deficit in 2029-30. How was this figure arrived at, and what must the Chancellor do to address it?

⚡️OUT NOW⚡️ The £41.2bn deficit explained: what it means for the UK's #AutumnBudget 💼

In our latest #MondayInterview, just published, our Ben Caswell unpacks the much spoken figure and outlines its implications👇📈

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niesr.ac.uk/blog/41-2bn-...

Forthcoming in EJ: ‘Learning About Opportunity: Spillovers of Elite School Admissions in Peru’ by Ricardo Estrada, Jérémie Gignoux, Agustina Hatrick doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaf034 @ricardoestradam.bsky.social @resmedia.bsky.social

📢DEADLINE TODAY - RES is hiring!
✨Senior Communications Manager
✨Partnerships Manager
Both roles are vital to shaping our strategy, visibility & partnerships.

🗓️Apply by 8 Sept (TODAY)
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🚨 New mentoring programme for mid-career #WomeninEcon!

RES Women’s Committee & @isweconomics.bsky.social launch a pilot to support women aiming for Professor roles.

📅 Apply by 15 Sept 2025
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RES RESOURCES - Want to help make #Economics more inclusive?
Hosting diverse, accessible events is a powerful step.

✅ Inclusive planning tips
✅ Diverse speakers
✅ Welcoming spaces

📚 Learn more: shorturl.at/bLGT8

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🚨 Volunteer Opportunity: Be the next RES Conference Programme Chair!

Shape the UK’s flagship economics conference, collaborate with top minds, and lead on content curation.

2-year role. Expenses covered.

Apply by 8 Sept: bit.ly/4lAIwat

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📢 Save the date! RES Summit 2025 - 2 Dec

Theme: The Economics of the Justice System ⚖️
Sponsored by the @nuffieldfoundation.org

Speakers: Imran Rasul, @drstevenproud.bsky.social, Rocco d’Este, @profhjalmarsson.bsky.social, Arpita Ghosh, Emily Owens

👉 Register here: shorturl.at/Dclkz

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Why Bond Markets Are Now In Charge - NIESR Government bond markets used to command little attention, with volatility squeezedout by over a decade of quantitative easing and zero interest rates.

⚡️Why #BondMarkets are now in charge⚡️

This 'Box analysis' by @blondemoney.bsky.social published in our latest UK economic outlook is well worth a read 📈
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Forthcoming in EJ: ‘The Dynamics of Inattention in the (Baseball) Field’ by James Archsmith, Anthony Heyes, Matthew Neidell, Bhaven Sampat doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaf030 @econjim.bsky.social @resmedia.bsky.social ‬

📢 27 Oct | 1:45–4pm

Join the RES #DiversityInclusion Network for a virtual event: How do we move forward from the hidden barriers of structural inequalities?

Keynote w/ Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman + Dr Jummy Okoya.

🔗 shorturl.at/CISUO

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Fancy listening to some economics? Check out our new podcast. #EconSky @discoverecon.bsky.social @resmedia.bsky.social @rethinkecon.bsky.social @ineteconomics.bsky.social @relearningecon.bsky.social

Economics A-level entries surge 5.5% in 2025, climbing into UK’s top ten subjects - Royal Economic Society Economics is now the eighth most popular A-level in England and the tenth in the UK, with entries up 36% since 2020.

📈 In case you missed it - #Economics is now the 8th most popular A-level in England & 10th in the UK, with entries up 36% since 2020.

In 2025, entries rose 5.5%, bucking the trend of declines across most subjects.

🔗 Read more: shorturl.at/h1V40

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Beyond Tariffs: What Next for The Global Economy? - NIESR The global economy is facing significant challenges. What are some of the issues it faces and will the trade deals help reduce uncertainty?

⚡️Beyond #Tariffs: What Next for The #Global Economy? ⚡️🌍🚢

Our take on the key challenges facing the global economy as the year unfolds, in this #blog by Monica George Michail ⬇️

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niesr.ac.uk/blog/beyond-...

Call for Nominations: RES Council 2026–2031 and President-Elect 2027–2028 - Royal Economic Society RES members are invited to propose names for both the RES Council (for the period Spring 2026-2031) and President-Elect.

📢#RESMembers are invited to propose names for both the #RESCouncil (for the period Spring 2026-2031) and President-Elect for Spring 2026-2027, then President 2027-2028.

More info👉 bit.ly/46MUvxI

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Brexit and Non-Tariff Barriers: Effects on UK Business Investment and Productivity - NIESR This paper investigates the macroeconomic impacts of increased non-tariff trade costs resulting from Brexit on UK business investment and productivity growth.

Results suggest that the increased #trade costs resulting from #Brexit led to a sharp decline in trade between the UK 🇬🇧and the EU 🇪🇺, with imports decreasing by 23.7% and exports by 18.6%📉

Read here our latest publication👇

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🚨 New mentoring programme for mid-career #WomeninEcon!

RES Women’s Committee & @isweconomics.bsky.social launch a pilot to support women aiming for Professor roles.
📅 Apply by 15 Sept 2025

🔗 bit.ly/40w08fV

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Recently published in EJ: ‘Service Offshoring and Export Experience’ by Giuseppe Berlingieri, Luca Marcolin, Emanuel Ornelas doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaf020 @gberlingieri.bsky.social

📢 Save the date! RES Summit 2025 - 2 Dec

Theme: The Economics of the Justice System ⚖️
Sponsored by the @nuffieldfoundation.org

Speakers: Imran Rasul, @drstevenproud.bsky.social, Rocco d’Este, @profhjalmarsson.bsky.social, Arpita Ghosh, Emily Owens
👉 Register here: shorturl.at/Dclkz

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Consciously Inclusive Mentoring - Royal Economic Society Are you a mentor in the economics discipline, and would like to understand more about an inclusive mentoring approach? As part of our Continuous Professional Development programme, the Royal Economic…

📢 #RESMembers: Join our Consciously Inclusive Mentoring training to build inclusive practices & tackle bias in mentoring.

👉 Register: shorturl.at/h4EJa

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Hot off the press! The August 2025 issue is out now.
Featuring the Editor’s Choice article ‘The Rise of the Engineer: Inventing the Professional Inventor During the Industrial Revolution’ by W Walker Hanlon
👉 bit.ly/4ftxD8D

🚨 Press Release 🚨
The Royal Economic Society warns of a crisis in UK economic statistics - poor data quality is undermining evidence-based policymaking.

📖 Read more: shorturl.at/GpJmK

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📢 RES VACANCY - We're seeking an Editor-in-Chief for The Econometrics Journal, starting May 2026.
Play a key role in shaping the journal & advancing the RES Strategy 2024–2028.

🗓 Apply by 22 Sept 2025
🔗 bit.ly/4eFVD87

#RESVacancy #EconSky #EctJ

🚨 Volunteer Opportunity: Be the next RES Conference Programme Chair!
Shape the UK’s flagship economics conference, collaborate with top minds, and lead on content curation.

2-year role. Expenses covered.

Apply by 8 Sept: bit.ly/4lAIwat

#Economics #RESVacancy #EconSky

⭐Only a few more days to submit your paper for the 10th Monash-Paris-Warwick-Zurich-CEPR Text-As-Data Workshop!
@elliottash.bsky.social @essobecker.bsky.social & Philine Widmer
cepr.org/events/10th-...
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Microsoft Forms Call for Abstracts: Using Genetic Data to Address Economic and Social Issues with Birth Cohort Data. A One Day Workshop at the Social Research Institute, UCL.  Date: 12th Dec 2025, 10:00-16:30 (coffee...

📢 Call for abstracts!
Join the Centre for Longitudinal Studies workshop on Using Genetic Data to Address Economic & Social Issues with Cohort Data📊

🗓️ 12 Dec | 📍 UCL, London | Free + lunch included
Details & submission 👉 shorturl.at/xlvx0

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Are you leading an econ team or department?
Inclusive leadership matters. 🌍

Explore practical tools on:
✅ Inclusive hiring
✅ Gender & racial equity
✅ Neurodiversity
✅ Mental wellbeing

📚 RES D&I Resource Bank: bit.ly/43Iqk7T

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📢📢THIRD ROUND OPEN - Applications to become a RES Fellow are now open! We encourage anyone who has made a significant contribution to #economics to apply.

⏰ Deadline 8 Oct
More info👉 bit.ly/4eV1tAZ

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RES Culture Survey: Executive Summary - Royal Economic Society The Royal Economic Society Culture Survey Executive Summary is now live. The report presents the findings of the 2025 RES Culture Survey.

🚨 In case you missed it - Executive Summary of the RES Culture Survey on UK academic #economics.

Themes: inclusivity, fairness, discrimination & integrity.
📖 Read: shorturl.at/4mZ6T
📺 #RES2025 session: shorturl.at/4vUdV

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