Julien Pinter

Stephen Cecchetti and Kermit L. Schoenholtz argued in a recent CEPR #PolicyInsight that tokenisation is the truly transformative innovation in finance today.
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What is creativity without sweat and tears? — Harvard Gazette Harvard philosophers and a psychiatrist consider what we lose when we outsource struggle to artificial intelligence.

Philosophers, psychiatrist consider what we lose when we outsource struggle to AI - "I worry that 50 years from now we’ll only have people who learned with these devices present, and it will be harder and harder to motivate people to get an education"

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This seems great "AI Agents for Economic Research". I found the first paper and its update from Korinek (Generative AI for economists) very useful, nice to see a new update on AI agents www.aeaweb.org/content/file...

Five Facts About the First-Generation Excellence Gap Parents are crucial to children's educational success, but the role of parental education in fostering academic excellence remains underexplored. Using longitudinal administrative data covering all No

We find large excellence gaps emerge by 3rd grade across all demographics and persist through high school.

Paper is here: ideas.repec.org/p/feb/artefa...

Took BlaBlaCar again yesterday after years (great company). As often, when I mention I work on central banks, the first question is about money creation—essentially, why it’s not a magic fix for government budget constraints. Small sample, but I got the same question on my last BlaBlaCar 4 years ago

Was happy to attend, grateful for the prize and the enriching interactions during the 2025 Afrimed Finance Conference (worth attending)

Survey invitations often describe the topic of the survey. A simple, classic example of how this biases results: survey recruitment materials about bird watching led to higher estimates of the % of people who engage in bird-watching. doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Hey @blueskystarterpack.com please add: bsky.app/starter-pack...

Next week, Workshop on Macroeconomics and Productivity at UA, open to the public 👇

Congrats Davide - wishing you efficient referee report turnarounds, like the 10-min one you produced in Alicante :)

Consistent with what some sociologists have been telling - effects on school choice especially present for 1st generation students and underrepresented minorities

Reading a speech from Isabel Schnabel, I discovered the #ECB has a youtube channel, Expresso Economics. Goal is to reach a broader public. Videos-high quality-published 2 months ago total... 500 views. Says a lot.

The misinformation discourse is a distraction Media fragmentation and the erosion of shared sources of truth are bigger threats

Social scientists take note: asking the right question is crucial to getting the important answer. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com has a banger of an analysis in today’s FT, and the right question is about media fragmentation and how we go about getting shared information. It’s not about misinformation.

Understanding causality vs. correlation is genuinely hard especially on complex topics like inflation. Our research finds that 60% of Americans think high interest rates cause high inflation & support rate cuts to fight it. But high rates usually respond to inflation,not cause it

Weird, but this is what Le Monde is reporting

Consumer inflation expectations: Daily dynamics We use high frequency identification methods to study the response of consumer inflation expectations to many different types of events using data fro…

If you could also make available the "day of the survey" for the Consumer Expectations Survey, like the Fed does for its Expectation Survey (enabling papers like this: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...), that would be super great too ☺️ (the CES team told me it is not accessible to ECB-external)

Today we (are lucky to) have Matteo Ciccarelli from the ECB in our Macro seminar in Alicante ! ☀️ (adding to this year’s great lineup of speakers)

YouTube video by Heu?reka Les marchés financiers sont-ils efficients ? - Heu?reka

Here is the (French) economic youtuber who gets most views in France (more than Bank of France..), I think the communication tools he uses (light, background, animations..) matter a lot for his videos to reach a broad audience, perhaps that’s useful if that’s the goal! youtu.be/zRPiNFhkb0w?...

NBU Opens Special Account to Raise Funds for Ukraine’s Armed Forces (updated)   The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The central bank’s decision comes after the Ukrainian gove...

To those in the US who want to donate $ to #Ukraine, consider these options

National Bank of UKR: bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/...

Humanitarian aid (tax deductible):

Kyiv-Mohyla Foundation of America: www.kmfoundation.org

Kyiv School of Economics: kse.ua/support/dona...

Nova Ukraine: novaukraine.org

This Friday I will be at the ECB presenting my work at this internal workshop, happy to meet researchers around

Staggering stats -and great to see research flourishing in this area. > than 50% of academics said to come from the 20% richest families, 5% from the poorest 20%. Father’s occupation predicts professors’ discipline choice. Difference in research agenda identified too papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Despite a large increase in the share of lower-income students in the college-going population, their representation at elite private or public colleges has remained at similarly low levels throughout the last century, from Abramitzky, Kowalski, Pérez, and Price https://www.nber.org/papers/w33164

Hola Santiago. Podrias por favor anadir @ivanpaya-econ.bsky.social (y yo si está abierto a economistas que trabajan en España :) )

Want to give a good scientific talk? TELL A GOOD STORY. don’t show the audience every result, don’t give us one slide on every paper you’ve ever published. If I want to read your resume, I will. Teach me something, tell me a story.

Did Trump election signal start of new political era? — Harvard Gazette Analysts weigh issues, strategies, media decisions at work in contest, suggest class may become dominant factor.

Did Trump election signal start of new political era? news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Learnings From 1,000 Rejections: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

BIS speech "Monetary policy in an era of supply headwinds – do the old principles still stand?" dives into what to expect for monetary policy in the future (more abrupt changes, key to avoid de-anchoring of expectations) www.bis.org/speeches/sp2...

A Research Program on Monetary Policy for Europe European macroeconomies remain under-researched. There are compelling reasons for this to change. European issues pose significant economic challenges…

'A Research Program on Monetary Policy for Europe' www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (JME, published this week): contain many insights for new research on monetary policy in the euro area