Soroush Sabet

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Call for papers

Calling all Macro PhD students based in and around London!
Join us for a workshop at LSE on 14 Nov to get to know each other and discuss your research.
Submit your papers by August 15!
sites.google.com/view/london-...
#EconSky

Revisions to economic statistics are not manipulation. Initial numbers should be very current, so they go to bed before all the data are in. Final numbers should be very accurate. /1

We are collaborating with the @eeanews.bsky.social for a third year in a row. EEA Replication Games in Bordeaux, France on August 24. Virtual participation is possible and the focus is on economics papers for this event!

Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...

Recently accepted to #REStud, "Estimating Welfare Effects in a Nonparametric Choice Model: The Case of School Vouchers," from Kamat and Norris:

www.restud.com/estimating-w...

#econsky

Announcing the #ASSA2026 AEA/AFA Joint Luncheon speaker, Tarun Ramadorai of Imperial College London. He will be speaking about his work on household finance and personal finance markets. bsky.app/profile/tram...

great, looking forward to seeing the draft!

SI 2025 Macro Public Finance

We just finalized the program for this year's @nber.org Summer Institute session on Macro Public Finance:

www.nber.org/conferences/...

Join us on July 17!

@s-stantcheva.bsky.social @dirkkruegerier.bsky.social

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Thrilled to have my research feature at @unu-wider.bsky.social’s amazing WIDERAngle blog!

Brazil's Bolsa Familia - the world's largest cash transfer programme - does not discourage work. Instead, it increases women's employment by helping them overcome barriers to enter the labour force 👇

what paper does it come from?

New open-access data for econ nerds: Causal Claims in Economics 🔓
250k+ claims made in 45k papers and 69 variable over 1980-2024. Now free to download. 🥳 Details below

New blackbox global optimization benchmarks shows that the #julialang BlackBoxOptim.jl (BBO) outperforms the classic C-based NLopt on a wide array of difficult optimization problems.

See the benchmarks for more details: docs.sciml.ai/SciMLBenchma...

#optimization #machinelearning #C #python

"Firm exits can trigger cascades of shutdown. New work studies how these cascades propagate and their impact on aggregate fluctuations."

Recently accepted to #REStud, from Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel @mathtd.bsky.social:

www.restud.com/cascades-and...

#EconSky

"We are thrilled to share that our latest research is now published in #REStud! 🎉Check it out here:

www.restud.com/a-q-theory-o...

We look forward to hearing your thoughts! "

From Begenau, Bigio, Majerovitz, and Vieyra

The next @inet-complexity.bsky.social Seminar Series event is with Benjamin Moll (LSE) on Wednesday 4 June 2025 @ 2:30pm BST (Hybrid)
🔗https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/the-trouble-with-rational-expectations-in-heterogeneous-agent-models
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Today I experienced the most horribly racist and hateful treatment in my life. With my two boys and their mother. Treated like vermins. We are still in shock.

And it happened in #Toronto. By the school staff of North Toronto High school!

Who knew Canada had more racism than the US?

@tdsb.on.ca

Hello Friends!

I'm on the job market now!

I have a oodles of knowledge for all the software performance engineering tricks in Rust, Julia and other systems languages and would love to work with teams that are looking to skill up in those respects, from back ends to big data crunching!

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Conference on "Families in Macroeconomics" on September 11 and 12, 2025 in Edesheim Castle (in the wine region close to Mannheim).

We welcome theoretical, empirical, and quantitative work related to family economics.

Submit by April 30!

Details here: bit.ly/44nFyko

#EconSky

"National Elections Database," including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946!
From @vinpons.bsky.social, Marx and Rollet.

The companion paper: www.restud.com/electoral-tu...

#EconSky #Elections

In "Some Pleasant Sequence-Space Arithmetic in Continuous Time" with Shlok Goyal we derive new formulas and algorithms to solve continuous time heterogeneous agent models with sequence-space methods. It is 3 times faster than discrete time!

Code/github: shorturl.at/tcL7A
Paper: shorturl.at/K2jIq

I couldn't agree more!

The excessive focus on linearized solutions to HA models is a bit like the old joke about the drunk who is looking for a key under a lamppost because that's where the light is.

More discussion of why we need non-linear models and ways forward here benjaminmoll.com/challenge/

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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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Recently accepted to @reveconstudies.bsky.social, "Industrial Policy Implementation: Empirical Evidence from China’s Shipbuilding Industry" from Barwick, Kalouptsidi and Bin Zahur:

www.restud.com/industrial-p...

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PLEASE RT :)

Submit to the annual Network Science and Economics Conference, the largest US event for network theory and empirical research in and adjacent to economics

Deadline Jan 30 (soon!)

Conference Apr 11-13 at Stanford

13 big stories we'll be covering on Odd Lots in 2025.

In the newsletter today, @tracyalloway.bsky.social and I took a stab at anticipating this year's big topics.

That said, I think something about this story should worry you (and it worries me). Most of these errors were found because the theorem being proved was wrong. In all cases, the proofs as written were very plausible. 14/n