@soroushs.bsky.social
Economics phd candidate @ LSE | on the 2025-2026 job market | macroeconomics, finance and development
🆕 Free online course on private enterprise, productivity & economic growth by STEG & PEDL (@cepr.org)
Through 14 lectures, you can learn from leading researchers on one of the central questions of economic development, how to increase productivity.
Register here: cepr-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Population aging creates room for the government to increase debt without increasing interest rates. But a large eventual fiscal adjustment is still needed to pay for entitlements, from Adrien Auclert, Hannes Malmberg, Matthew Rognlie, and Ludwig Straub www.nber.org/papers/w34470
17.11.2025 18:01 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Boot camp in Behavioral Macro is back!
where: Cambridge, Massachusetts
when: May 14–15, 2026
who is eligible: full-time PhD students at a US or Canadian university
#EconSky
In a new working paper, my co-authors Knut Are Aastveit,
@jesper-bojeryd.bsky.social, Magnus Andreas Haare Gulbrandsen, @ragnarjuelsrud.bsky.social and I investigate "What do 12 billion card transactions say about house prices and consumption".
www.norges-bank.no/en/news-even...
🚀 I'm on the #EconSky Job Market!
My JMP asks a classic question:
Do large, dominant firms foster or hinder innovation?
To study this, I turn to the Great Merger Wave (1895–1904), when >2,600 U.S. firms combined into corporate giants like U.S. Steel and DuPont.
A JMP 🧵👇 (1/13)
Macro outcomes depend on the distribution of markups across firms/time, making firm-level markup estimates key for macro analysis. Firm data with wide coverage primarily comes from financial statements. Can markups be accurately estimated with such data? buff.ly/tgD0OID
03.11.2025 14:04 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball!
This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.
paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...
Many of the 'facts' that travel the furthest from economic research are based on a flawed method of scaling cross-sectional estimates to the aggregate.
@benmoll.bsky.social and I have written about this 'missing intercept' problem, and what economists can do about it, here ⤵️
Log-linear relative asset demand (the basis of Demand System Asset Pricing) is shown to represent a radical deviation from traditional investment and asset pricing models, from Narayana R. Kocherlakota www.nber.org/papers/w34395
26.10.2025 17:02 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
CFM congratulates Philippe Aghion who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Professor Aghion was awarded the prize jointly with Joel Mokyr from Northwestern University and Peter Howitt from Brown University “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth.”
24.10.2025 15:15 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Macro PhD students in London:
Register to attend our PhD workshop at LSE on 14 November! We have a great programme of PhD presentations and lots of time to get to know your London-based colleagues.
See the provisional programme and register here: sites.google.com/view/london-...
Scientific Modeling Cheatsheet: #MATLAB vs #Python vs #Julialang
Side-by-side comparison for:
• Differential equations
• Optimization
• Automatic differentiation
• Symbolic computing
• More!
Highlights ecosystem differences & best practices.
sciml.github.io/Scientific_M...
Our paper provides a method to estimate demand elasticities and infer quality change in settings beyond the CES preferences. Applying method to US imports, we show official measures of inflation in import prices are upward biased bc they don’t account for quality improvements.
12.09.2025 00:26 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🚨We're delighted to announce our next seminar!
Rebecca Diamond will be presenting "Where is Standard of Living the Highest? Local Prices and the Geography of Consumption" with a discussion by Cristian Badarinza
When? 🗓️ Friday 3rd October 15:30-17:00 BST
Register here tinyurl.com/mrnbu48w
NEW EPISODE:
We speak to the legend Emi Nakamura about her paper at Jackson Hole about why and when central banks can deviate from Taylor Rule orthodoxy and still achieve good inflation outcomes.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
If you're interested in learning #JuliaLang and are currently an #RStats user (or even if you're not!), then here's a little introduction to getting started! 📊
Blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu...
#QuartoPub #Julia @tidierjl.bsky.social
A flashcard for a tutorial at JuliaCon Local Paris 2025. The speakers are Fons Van Der Plas (educational technology officer at TU Eindhoven) and Boshra Ariguib (master's student in CS at the University of Stuttgart). The title is "How to tell an interactive story with Pluto: lectures and dashboards". The conference takes place on October 2nd and 3rd, see the website at https://juliacon.org/local/paris2025/
A flashcard for a tutorial at JuliaCon Local Paris 2025. The speaker is Benoît Legat (assistant professor at UCLouvain). The title is "Optimization with JuMP". The conference takes place on October 2nd and 3rd, see the website at https://juliacon.org/local/paris2025/
🚨 Breaking news 🚨
Two epic tutorials announced for #JuliaCon Local Paris 2025: one about Pluto notebooks and one about using JuMP for optimization. Be sure to get your tickets this week, otherwise the early bird pricing will be gone 🦜
@juliacon.bsky.social @julialang.org @pydataparis.bsky.social
📢 #CallForPapers STEG Annual Conference & Theme Workshops - Jan 2026
Deadline: 31 August 2025 | Location & Date TBC
The 6th Annual STEG Conference will showcase keynote talks, academic & policy panels, projects, & recent papers related to structural transformation
mailchi.mp/cepr.org/ste...
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02.08.2025 21:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on.
Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts.
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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
01.08.2025 20:26 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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...
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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...
29.07.2025 14:03 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1great, looking forward to seeing the draft!
07.06.2025 19:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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07.06.2025 14:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thrilled 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?
07.06.2025 13:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
