Warwick Economics

Thank you for organising such an important event bringing together women economists from across the sectors. 👏

Our theme lead Sonia Bhalotra chaired an inspiring panel which provided insight, reflections and careers advice for women in the profession. #womenineconomics

The Visual Politics of Decline: How Empty High Streets Fuel Populism May’s local elections saw a surge in support for the right-wing populist party Reform. What might be driving this swing away from mainstream parties? Do the results reflect what voters are seeing in t...

Additional coverage by University of Warwick @warwickecon.bsky.social : warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

Climate, capital, and conscience: Who will pay for the global energy transition? While wealthier countries have historically contributed the most to climate change, the Global South is now under pressure to take costly action. How will balancing between emissions reductions and ec...

Dr Anant Sudarshan joins "Development Dialogues" host Catherine Cheney to discuss how low and middle income countries can transition to clean energy quickly and equitably, finding the right balance between emissions reductions and economic growth:
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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...

Can Europe find its way through the woods in 2025? The outlook for Europe appears dangerous. Expanding the single market would change things. But can it be done?

📰 @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-...

AI-generated production networks: Measurement and applications to… This descriptive and causal evidence demonstrates some of the many research possibilities opened up by our granular measurement of product linkages,…

We'll be starting on 22 January with @warwickecon.bsky.social's @trfetzer.com presenting #AI generated production networks: Measurement and applications to global trade
www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/ai-ge...

🚨 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!

Expert comment: Meta announces end to fact-checking and will recommend more political content Mark Zuckerberg has announced changes to moderation on Meta platforms, including an end to independent fact-checking on its platforms, increases in the amount of political content recommended to users...

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...

UK heading for tax rises despite return to growth, economists say The FT’s annual poll forecasts better performance than France and Germany

📰 #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)

Inaugural DBT analysis prize winner announced Perm sec says officials will use research 'to help unblock barriers through policy as part of wider plan to drive economic growth'

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...

💻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...

Successful caps on English letting agents’ fees disprove the idea that it’s unwise to meddle with free markets Many feared that the Tenant Fees Act 2019 would drive up rental fees, but it has saved renters an average of £400 per tenancy.

📰 @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...

Leaded petrol probably affected the mental health of millions of Americans – new study The impact on people in the UK is probably similar. Unfortunately, no national data was collected, so we can’t be sure.

📰 @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...

🆕 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...

📰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.
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Countryfile - Woodoaks Farm John Craven and Margherita Taylor explore Woodoaks Farm in Hertfordshire, where efforts are under way to restore nature’s balance and reconnect people with farming.

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

Warwick Economics PhD Conference We invite PhD students in Economics to join us for a 3 day conference!

Find more information and the application form here:
sites.google.com/view/warwick...

🚨 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🧵

📰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...

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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

From Sure Start to youth centres, cutting children’s services is a false economy | Torsten Bell Research reveals that Tessa Jowell’s programme not only helped early years children but went on to reduce youth crime

📰 @carmenvillaecon.bsky.social 's job market paper is cited by @torstenbell.bsky.social MP in The Observer.

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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

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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

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.
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