The block of countries that joined the EU in 2004 have a higher GDP per capita of 33% than a synthetic control of non-EU OECD countries.

Poland 🇵🇱(grey) is doing pretty good, but the baltic countries (🇱🇹: purple 🇱🇻: brown, 🇪🇪: green) are doing ever better!

A miracle that impact 75 millions people.

This “miracle” happen to the whole group of countries that joined the EU in 2004. Not in the others OECD countries.

Is this a EU 🇪🇺 miracle?

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VoxEU column: shorturl.at/AM33Z

@cea.fr is making a breakthrough is fusion nuclear research

Europe (here France) is a top place for advance research!

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THREAD 🧵: A Concerning Trend in the Heterogenous-Agent (HA) Macro Literature

1/n A growing class of computational algorithms makes heavy use of linearization methods to solve HA models. Two key benefits are emphasized: (i) (extreme) speed & (ii) allows many state (aggregate) variables. ++

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@benmoll.bsky.social might have an opinion inspired by his work on rational expectations in HA model (benjaminmoll.com/challenge/)

For the one interested, @benmoll.bsky.social will present @igier @bocconi on Tuesday at 4.30pm

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Did the EU Miracle (shorturl.at/Suv99) of the 2004 enlargement affect inequality?

It did!

According to @ruggieriale.bsky.social and Garcia-Louzao wage inequality went down in Lithuanian.

Once more, the EU makes lives better!

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