Pierre-Louis Vézina

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Ever eating BBQ (Taino)? With "Heinz" ketchup? How about peanut butter (Aztec,Inca)?

Air Canada sees surging overseas corporate travel following U.S. trade tensions Air Canada sees a near 30% surge in corporate traffic flowing overseas as the country seeks to diversify trade away from the United States, fueling demand for international travel, a company executive...

To establish new trade links, movement of people is essential first step: Air Canada sees surging overseas corporate travel following U.S. trade tensions | Reuters share.google/DqFviwEaXvcy...

Join us in London in May for our 6th Early Career Workshop!

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📢 Call for papers!

We are organizing the 6th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 14-15 May 2026 at King’s College London!

Keynote: Shanker Satyanath (NYU)

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This looks like a collage, with a background from 1930s Europe, and people with cellphones pasted on it... but it's real, the US today...

Let's see how good your football team would be without these immigrants.

@voxeu.org now offers a newsletter with a list of all columns published last week. You can subscribe by going to the link below and selecting VoxEU - weekly digest. Best source for research insights about pressing economic policy questions.

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Africa’s offshore ties to Asia are growing, but their consequences… The Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford brings together the best minds from different fields to tackle the most pressing issues of the 21st…

🌟New paper by Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (@oxmartinschool.bsky.social African Governance Programme) finds that African offshore finance is increasingly routed through Asian financial centres.
www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/news/africas...

The figure shows the ratio of cross-border (across EU countries or US states) to domestic sales for the different datasets in the year 2017 in manufacturing. The level of cross-border relative to domestic trade is higher in the US than in the EU. European firms tend to be smaller and less productive than US firms. Qualitative and survey-based evidence suggests that one key reason is the remaining barriers fragmenting the EU’s single market. This column argues that gravity-based trade estimates can help quantify the problem but are sensitive to the data used. Intra-EU trade barriers are estimated to be between two to three times as large as between US states, with simulations suggesting that fully closing the gap with intra-US trade costs could raise EU productivity by nearly 6%.

Diego A. Cerdeiro & Lorenzo Rotunno estimate that intra-EU trade barriers are between two to three times as large as between US states, with simulations suggesting that closing the gap could raise EU productivity by nearly 6%.
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Figure shows the import-weighted average of product-level tariff reductions for countries involved in the economic integration scenario. While recent analysis has focused on direct impacts of US tariffs and potential retaliation, major US trading partners have intensified trade negotiations with each other, including the recently completed EU–Mercosur and EU–India deals. Using a quantitative trade model, this column shows that deep integration – involving non-tariff barrier reductions – can offset welfare losses from US tariffs and generate net gains. Paradoxically, US tariffs may ease political economy constraints by strengthening incentives for export-oriented industries to lobby for deeper integration elsewhere.

Lorenzo Rotunno & Michele Ruta find that, paradoxically, US tariffs may ease political economy constraints by strengthening incentives for export-oriented industries to lobby for deeper integration elsewhere.
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"Many academic leaders follow managerial paths rather than scholarly ones, and the prevailing governance model encourages vice-chancellors and senior managers to act like corporate executives rather than academic stewards"

Why are UK universities failing? - LSE Impact The HE sector in the UK faces the prospect of a university going into administration. How have universities fallen so low and is change possible?

This is good on what's it like in a UK uni these days: Why are UK universities failing? - LSE Impact share.google/NYPBoQNH1DLH...

This is not a distraction.

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📣 REMINDER - Call for Papers: The Economics of Migration Junior Workshop

💡 The event aims to provide an opportunity to junior researchers on #migration #economics to present and meet in-person.

📅 May 26-27, 2026 at @uc3meconomics.bsky.social

⏳ Submit by Feb 1st.

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Everything is so transparent with trump haha... take over Venezuela government, steal oil revenues, put them in an offshore account in Qatar for your own personal benefit. 💯

Cool stuff in there 🤓

10 days left to apply to our migration workshop!

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🌟📣NEW CSAE Working Paper

The Rise of Viet Nam’s Solar Panel Industry: Inputs, FDI, & Spillovers

✒️@meng35.bsky.social, @plvezina.bsky.social, Trang Thu Tran & Gaurav Nayyar

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Our paper on the rise of Vietnam's solar panel industry now out as a CSAE wp 🤓👇

Spoke with @olhazadorozhna.bsky.social about our paper on Ukrainian refugee entrepreneurs in Poland. Some fact and figures, and some policy discussions at the end 👇👇👇

What happened to Tyler Cowen? He used to be fun to read on econ and stuff, but now he seems completely unaware that the US is ruled by warmongering racist fascists...

A new paper by George Borjas—who served this past year in the Trump White House designing some of its anti-immigration policies—claims to display evidence of ideological bias among researchers who study immigration.

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Want to know more about the history and political game of Venezuelan oil?
A thread with some research papers and short-form political forces at play.

wow congrats! that took a while 😯

Has no one mentioned the redskins gloves yet??? :)