Alessio Moro

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

Are these guys really running the most powerful economy of the world?

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Just finished Zero Day on Netflix. Scary, scary, scary.

Why so many fellow economists are still using X? The network is really so important it does not matter who the platform belongs to?

I invite you to join @simonhrjohnson.bsky.social, David Autor and me for our upcoming symposium at MIT, which will explore work, opportunity, and innovation in the age of AI. See the agenda and panelists below. Register to join in-person or watch the livestream: shapingwork.mit.edu/events/align...

Hafling

Want to solve heterogeneous-agent models with multiple endogenous state variables, say a multi-asset HANK model?

@soroushs.bsky.social and @patricksecon.bsky.social developed a much-improved finite-difference scheme for such problems: github.com/SSabet/Neste...

Also here benjaminmoll.com/codes/

Very excited for our great keynote speakers at the SED Annual Meeting 2025 in Copenhagen:

Francisco (Paco!) Buera
Ariel Burstein
Aysegul Sahin

More details and link to submit here: economicdynamics.org#anual-meeting

Merry Christmas to all academics!

Headed to Rome to participate in this fantastic conference.

Good example

Good to know. Although I think many people objective is to reach the largest audience possible, rather than interacting with them. Let's see how it goes.

I don't see economists leaving X "en masse". Many Bluesky accounts opened, true. Many people (especially the most followed) still regularly posting on X, also true. I guess network effects (aka followers) are a powerful device against leaving. X will thrive as Whatsapp despite being the "bad" app?

Some food for thought for macroeconomists

Just back from giving a talk to 2nd year students on how to approach research, how to write a paper. Abhijit was coming after me (good thing he didn't go first, tough act to follow!)

Here are my slides...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0pm2m...