Stephen Redding

What economics can teach foreign-policy types Hegemons should care about even puny countries

Economists are combining modern tools and old ideas to make sense of today’s trade war. It is a good time to revive Albert Hirschman’s work

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Call for submissions for the NBER International Trade and Investment Program Meeting on November 21-22, 2025, at Stanford: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b.... Submission deadline 11.59pm ET on Monday September 15, 2025.

Call for Papers for NBER Economics of Transportation in the 21st Century Virtual Conference, October 24, 2024, organized with Ed Glaeser and Jim Poterba: stephenredding.github.io/Call_for_Pap.... Submission Deadline Weds Sept 3, 11.59 ET. @nber.org @siepr.bsky.social @treballen.bsky.social

Open call for papers, Gender in the Economy: Structural Transformation and Women's Time-Use. Conference to be held in Cambridge, MA on March 27, 2026. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on Decem... https://www.nber.org/calls-papers-and-proposals/gender-economy-structural-transformation-and-womens-time-use

#CallforPapers for the conference 'The New Global Economy: Trade Wars & De-dollarisation?'
Deadline: 1 July
Organisers: @meredith-crowley.bsky.social @uniofcam.bsky.social , Lu Han @bankofcanada.ca, Dmitry Mukhin , Ben Tomlin @bankofcanada.ca

More and submit your paper
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Don’t forget to submit your papers for this NBER-Sloan conference on Transport Networks and the Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity! Submission deadline June 30, 2025. Organized with Myrto Kalouptsidi: stephenredding.github.io/Call_for_Pap... @nber.org @harvard.edu @sloanfoundation.bsky.social

Many congratulations!

Call for papers for NBER-Sloan conference on Transport Networks and the Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity: www.princeton.edu/~reddings/Ca... Deadline: June 30, 2025. Organized with Myrto Kalouptsidi. @nber.org @treballen.bsky.social @jintlecon.bsky.social @indorgsociety.bsky.social

Economics of Transportation in the 21st Century, Spring 2025

Excited about the NBER Economics of Transportation in the 21st Century Conference on Friday starting at noon Eastern time: www.nber.org/conferences/.... Live streamed on NBER YouTube: m.youtube.com/channel/UC79...

🚨 We’re hiring! The Digital Reskilling Lab at Harvard is looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join our research on workforce development, labor markets and AI.

Apply here 👉 academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14918

#EconJobs #Postdoc #FutureOfWork #AI #LaborEconomics #Harvard

Fantastic to have @cselmendorf.bsky.social and many others at the @siepr.bsky.social Economics of Wildfires event last week. Check out his 🧵 for takeaways and questions.

(ICYMI, we’ll be posting videos and summaries in the coming days.)

Trade Wars, Economic Chaos, and Law: Unpacking Trump’s Trade Tactics with Alan Sykes | Stanford Law School

What’s happening with tariffs, why is there so much upheaval, and how do we get out of this?

SIEPR Senior Fellow Alan Sykes, an expert on the law and economics of international trade, joins Stanford Law School podcast Stanford Legal to break it all down.
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New paper on "Geoeconomic Pressure" leverages LLMs to measure the effect of tariffs, export controls, and sanction on firms worldwide". We find a massive increase in 2025 Q1 in tariffs (thread follows)

Remembering Patrick L. Bajari (1969-2025) Patrick L. Bajari was a pioneer spanning the academic and business worlds.

We are sad to announce that former faculty member and Minnesota Econ Ph.D. alum Patrick Bajari passed away on Monday.

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Join us tomorrow (online or in person) for @mmaggiori.bsky.social lecture on "Geoeconomics and the US-China Great Power Competition" - register at events.stanford.edu/event/2025hs...

Democrats, Republicans, and Zero-Sum Thinking | Harvard Magazine Founder of Harvard’s Social Economics Lab on a mindset held across the bipartisan divide

Thank you @harvardmagazine.bsky.social for covering our research on zero-sum thinking and how it informs current policy developments (with a video too)! www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/04/harv...

Organizational Economics Working Group, Spring 2025

Looking forward to the next @nber.org Organizational Economics Working Group meeting on April 10/11, coorganized with @andreaprat.bsky.social. We have a great line-up of new research papers in Org Econ!

Program and livestream link:

www.nber.org/conferences/...

Innoscape | Pol Antràs | Innoscape Talk #11

I visited the University of Basel last December and sat down with Rolf Weder to discuss several aspects of my research and of global trade. A lot has changed in the last 4 months, but some of what I say may still be of relevance😅

Link to the interview: innoscape.ch/de/publikati...

207. What happened on Trump’s tariff day Soumaya Keynes joins to cohost an emergency episode explaining President Trump’s sweeping April 2 tariff announcement.

NEW EPISODE

Old friend @soumayakeynes.ft.com joins @chadpbown.com on an emergency episode explaining President Trump’s sweeping April 2 tariff announcement. They cover history, the dollar, and even the U.S. legal system to clarify what we know about the tariff actions so far.

International Trade and Investment Program Meeting, Spring 2025

Excited about tomorrow’s NBER International Trade and Investment (ITI) program meeting: www.nber.org/conferences/.... Includes topical research on tariff exclusions and supply chains. Live-streamed on NBER YouTube open to all: youtube.com/@nbervideos?...

How Should We Think About the Economics of AI? A conversation with Erik Brynjolfsson

Here's a conversation that @pkrugman.bsky.social and I just had about the economics of AI.

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The recent development of quantitative urban models provides a new set of tools for evaluating transport improvements, from @reddingecon.bsky.social https://www.nber.org/papers/w33532

Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger, Kalina Manova and I are organizing the 8th Workshop on International Economic Networks (WIEN) to take place in beautiful Vienna on June 26-7, 2024. Send us a paper for consideration! We're particularly keen on receiving submissions from young scholars.

Ed Leamer has passed away.

Ed was one of my favorite colleagues at UCLA: smart, witty, helpful.

My former colleague Pete Schott who was his student, perfectly captured Ed's quirks on his webpage.

For a recent tribute to Ed see here:
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In memory of Ed Leamer’s passing, check out his wonderful monograph

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Blanchard, Galí and Woodford in recognition of their profound influence on modern macroeconomics and the design of monetary and fiscal policy rules The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards in Economics, Finance and Management has gone in this seventeenth edition to Olivier Blanchard (Paris School of Economics and MIT), Jordi Galí (CREI a...

BBVA Foundation award to Olivier Blanchard, Jordi Gali, and Michael Woodford. Congratulations! www.frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es/noticias/fro...

📢 #CallForPapers for the 9th Monash-Paris-Warwick-Zurich-CEPR Text-As-Data #Workshop!

Papers using text, audio, images, or other unstructured data are welcome.

Organisers: @elliottash.bsky.social @essobecker.bsky.social & Philine Widmer @pse.bsky.social
📆10/03/25
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Canada Research Chair - Indigenous Health and Well-Being

Job available for Full Professor Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC) - Indigenous Health and Well-Being at the Faculty of Health Science, Simon Fraser University (RT 🙏🏼 please):

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Terrific international trade summer school at University of Nottingham from 30 June - 5 July, 2025. Lectures by the outstanding Arnaud Costinot and Andres Rodriguez-Clare. Apply here: cepr.org/events/notti...