Cristina Lafuente

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We have a live website with all of our forthcoming seminars @econuniofbath.bsky.social check out our line-up! #econsky

Habéis convertido Nada es Gratis en una basura No es sorprendente que el clima político de creciente crispación que estamos viviendo se haya filtrado hasta un espacio como Nada es Gratis. En los últimos años, diversas personas han expresado su des...

Habéis convertido Nada es Gratis en una basura nadaesgratis.es/santiago-san... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

After a fantastic @eui-eco.bsky.social alumni conference, I played fancy dress with my students one last time. These people are bound to do great things, and it has been an immense privilege to teach them these past years. Thank you for the opportunity (particularly Russel) and best of luck!

Econ derby
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#coppapavone My co-author did an espectacular assist, but the best part as always was the curva. The passion and creativity of these guys makes me low key so proud 🥲

Servicio de farmacia a domicilio: el Juan Martínez lleva 30 años viajando a diario desde Logroño, donde reside, al valle del Jubera, donde ejerce como farmacéutico. Un 1 de enero de 1995, dos años después de acabar la Licenciatura, se es...

This is not economics related but my uncle features on the frontpage of our regional newspaper in recognition of the job he's been doing since 1995, delivering medicines to 7 villages door to door. So proud of him! nuevecuatrouno.com/2025/04/21/s...

Ha! I also always use 42 for the jokes, but it turns out there is a sound reasoning behind it, according to Claude:

Excited to co-host this year’s Political Economy and Public Economics Workshop with Jaideep Roy @econuniofbath.bsky.social

We’ve a fantastic lineup of talks on voting, governance, activism, media, scientists’ incentives, political discourse, and more

📍 April 25, 4W 1.01, scan the QR code to join!

Forthcoming in JOLE: "Consumption and Income Inequality across Generations" by Giovanni Gallipoli, Hamish Low, and Aruni Mitra www.journals.uchicag... #EconSky

Back in Bath! 😍

It's been great to be back @eui-eu.bsky.social to watch coauthor
@astridruland.bsky.social defend her thesis feat. our paper and become a doctor 🥳 brava!!!

Macro & labor market seminar | Hysteresis for the Young: Search Capital and Unemployment

🗣️Cristina Lafuente, University of Bath & European University Institute
📆March 21, 12:30pm to 1:30pm
📍 MEGA, Aix-en-Provence
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📷 @clafuentemar.bsky.social

If you are curious and want to learn more, check on my website the slides on the presentation I gave in EduFest this year and reach out if you think it would be useful to you! [5/5]

Results? Less than 5h of work total: picking a questions from their tutorials, prepping, cleaning and adapting my marking scheme, running he seminar and setting up Moodle. Participation was very high (2/3 completed all the tasks) and by their own account, they learned a few things! [4/5]

How? Essentially, teach them to grade essays - build a marking guide, teach them to use it in an interactive (thanks Mentimeter!) online seminar, where we mark 3 example answers, and then ask them to mark each other's work using @moodlehq.bsky.social workshop module.

Why? Writing economics essays is different from other subjects + they come from high school with different expectations and levels. With large numbers, it becomes unfeasible to run seminars or give them all feedback before the final exam. [2/5]

I'm very happy to be nominated for the Innovation in Learning & Teaching Award 2025 @uniofbath.bsky.social
How? The Write Club - an interactive online workshop to teach 1st year undergrad students how to write an essay in economics, for large classes and limited teaching time [1/5]

Comic displays the Diamond Mortensen Pissarides model two key equations: the job creation curve and the wage determination curve

#econsky may I introduce you to the basic DMP model graphic explainer for undergrads. Explains the intuition so we can talk about equilibrium wage and tightness without going into value functions. Matching function is a bar, unemployed get free drinks (b) firms pay for entry.

Fun times presenting at the Southwest Macro Workshop! Thanks to Arpad and Nikos for putting together another great edition.

📈📉 On the first lecture of the year, I like to ask my undergraduate students, first-year economics majors, what they think economists do. These are the results for this year's cohort:

PS sigo escribiendo de economía

Cuando te añaden a un starter pack de economistas en español pero llevas sin escribir de economía en español desde cuarto de carrera... Hello amig@s! 😉

And that's another year of Probability lectures at EUI done! My legacy this year: a 1st year cohort that knows
how markov chains work ✅ I'll miss them all, they are a great cohort, and not just because they put memes in the problem sets...

Durham castle and cathedral in the sunshine from the river

I was awesome to attend the @coreecon.bsky.social workshop and meet some fellow instructors! Loads of new ideas and inspiration for the semester ahead. I forgot to take a picture of the workshop itself on the hurry to catch the plane, so please accept this sunny Durham instead