@soroushs.bsky.social
Economics phd candidate @ LSE, macroeconomics (with focus on heterogeneous saving and investment)
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.
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🚨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
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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...
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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 📌 0New 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...
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"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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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
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"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
