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Björn Thor Arnarson

@bjorci.bsky.social

Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen focusing on international trade, labour and the Öresund region. @CESifo.org affiliate 🇮🇸🇸🇪🇩🇰

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Trump og tollar: Fórn á við margfalda íslenska verðmætasköpun – ár eftir ár? Hér er árangur tolla frá fyrra valdatímabili Trumps settir í samhengi við núverandi ástand.

Thanks to Vísbending editor @asgeirbt.bsky.social
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Trump tarrifs og tollar: Fórn á við margfalda íslenska verðmætasköpun – ár eftir ár?

visbending.is/greinar/trum...

05.05.2025 08:17 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The articled looks at the research on Trump-era tariffs and puts it into an Icelandic perspective.

Back of the envelope calculations suggest that current tariffs could cost the U.S. the equivalent of Iceland’s GDP over half to a full decade annually 🫰💰

05.05.2025 08:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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📝Just published a piece in Vísbending, Iceland’s weekly economics journal (in Icelandic)

05.05.2025 08:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Changing Tracks: Human Capital Investment after Loss of Ability (Forthcoming Article) - We provide the first evidence on how workers invest in human capital after losing ability. Using quasi-random work accidents in Danish administrative data, we find that workers...

Forthcoming in the AER: "Changing Tracks: Human Capital Investment after Loss of Ability" by Anders Humlum, Jakob R. Munch, and Pernille Plato. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

27.01.2025 15:05 — 👍 17    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 3
Jobs and vacancies at SLU. | slu.se Jobs and vacancies at SLU. Read more about each job by clicking the job title. Please, follow the instructions closely when applying.

🚨 We're looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher in international economics at the Department of Economics, SLU.

🌍 Focus: agrifood trade modelling
🔬 Core: Analyze disruptions in agrifood trade due to adverse shocks
📅 Apply by: 28 February 2025

Please share!
www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

27.01.2025 14:29 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

No base in Iceland, closed in 2006

15.01.2025 16:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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After years in the making, I am happy to share a new guide for gravity estimations. Our recommendations are motivated by trade theory, but most of them apply broadly, e.g., to migration, FDI, etc. Mario Larch, Serge Shikher, & I hope this is useful. Gravity rules 💪

ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...

08.01.2025 15:38 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Hi! I am a professor in Economics at @lunduniversity.bsky.social My main research interests are mechanism and market design, and I have designed and redesigned many markets (mainly in the Scandinavian countries). I Please follow me 🙂

07.01.2025 22:49 — 👍 49    🔁 10    💬 5    📌 4

Sombre reading...
Finding remedies for Canada's decades-long labour productivity stagnation is more urgent than ever.

08.01.2025 09:06 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Here are the first five sets of slides:

01 Introduction: psantanna.com/DiD/01_Intro...

02 Classical 2x2 setup: psantanna.com/DiD/02_two_b...

03 Clustering issues: psantanna.com/DiD/03_Clust...

04 Functional form: psantanna.com/DiD/04_Funct...

05 Covariates: psantanna.com/DiD/05_Covar...

30.12.2024 05:19 — 👍 737    🔁 181    💬 56    📌 15

Stata wrapped?

21.12.2024 14:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dep of Economics at Stockholm University is hiring on the junior market. Please spread the word! #EconSky econjobmarket.org/statuses?oid...

18.10.2023 12:54 — 👍 25    🔁 31    💬 0    📌 0

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