On Thursday March 26th (15:00 GMT), @marcosanfilip.bsky.social, Matthew Schwartzman & @verenaw.bsky.social will summarise what we've learned about service-led growth models.
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Professor of Economics University of Turin; Affiliate Collegio Carlo Alberto; Visiting Fellow European University Institute; 3 Kids (incl. twins). From Siracusa. Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/marcosanfilippo
On Thursday March 26th (15:00 GMT), @marcosanfilip.bsky.social, Matthew Schwartzman & @verenaw.bsky.social will summarise what we've learned about service-led growth models.
The 2026 edition of the the "Firms, Labor Markets, and Development" Workshop will be held in Napoli next 26-27 June.
The keynote speaker is Jonas Hjort (UCL)
Deadline to submit: Feb 28
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π’ #CallForPapers - Determinants and Effects of Sustainable Public Procurement
Special Issue of the European Journal of Political Economy
Guest editors: Bernard Hoekman, @marcosanfilip.bsky.socialβ¬, Davide Vannoni, Thomas Stratmann
Deadline: 30 Apr 2026
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We (Bernard Hoekman, Davide Vannoni and I) are Editing a special issue at the *European Journal of Political Economy*
The SI is on the causes and consequences of increasing "Sustainable Public Procurement" practices.
Deadline: April 2026
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Bene!!!
Apply to attend the 6th edition of the Economics Job Market Bootcamp in Tuscany. Open to final-year PhD students in economics who will enter the academic job market in Fall 2025.
Organised by Tommaso Sonno and supported by the UniCredit Foundation.
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Too lateβ¦
My story on Ali Kony and the LRA is now out in Italian for @internazionale.it: www.internazionale.it/magazine/tes...
πCall for applications out! ππ
Summer School on "Geo-economics, Natural Resources and Development" on Sept 2-5 in Tuscany, with the great Mathias Thoenig & Mathieu Couttenier!!
Deadline: May 9
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The call for applications for the 24th Summer School in International and Development Economics is now open
Topic: Geo-Economics, Natural Resources, and Development
Speakers: Mathieu Couttenier and Mathias Thoenig.
Venue: Castello di Gargonza (Tuscany) β¬οΈ
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The research group at the Workd Bank is doing an off-cycle hire for a trade economist worldbankgroup.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Not even the time to use the car makers as an example for tomorrowβs classβ¦
#GDRI_rep Update 1: I4R are now reproducing all published papers that use data from GDRI, or are closely related in other ways. Here is a first update on our work. π§΅
The call is now closed, we got an absolute record of 275 submissions (for 10 slots!!!). Thanks a lot!!
π£1 day left to apply to join the CSAE in Addis Ababa as the CSAE Economic Policy Network's Post-Doctoral Fellow in Economics (seconded to the Ministry of Finance, Gov't of Ethiopia).
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No words. This is absolutely horrendous news
After being alerted about possible misconduct, the I4R are reproducing published papers that use data from a specific NGO (GDRI). This thread releases the first 2 reports and provides more information about the work and responses/statements from authors journals and journals. π§΅
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10 days left to apply to the next edition of the "Firms, Labor Markets, and Development" Workshop to be held in Bari, Italy, on 20-21 June.
Keynote speaker: Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale)
Info: steg.cepr.org/events/firms...
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π¨ KITE Insta-Analysis: The US is imposing reciprocal tariffs on all trading partners and may count VAT as a tariff. Bottom line: The impact is largest for the US itself among large economies. Of course, big caveat: Very limited information at this point. 1/3
Former Italian Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of University and Research literally "barked" on TV for nearly one minute
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2. Radio Popolare, Giornale Radio del 2/2/2025 ore 19:30 e del 3/2/2025 ore 7:30
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3. Radio Popolare, Programma "Presto Presto-Interviste ed Analisi" del 3/2/2025 ore 8:10 circa.
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Alcuni brevi commenti, in italiano, sulle tariffe di Trump e le possibili conseguenze per EU e Italia:
1. Radio Televisione Svizzera, programma "Seidisera" del 1/2/2025, dal minuto 10:00 circa
www.rsi.ch/rete-uno/pro...
An illustration of the United States with nationalistic labels based on Donald Trumpβs proposals.
In Barry Blittβs latest Kvetchbook, a new nearly legal map of the United States, updated by the hour.
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A call for expression of interest to join the "Vilfredo Pareto" PhD programme at the University of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto is out. Click on the link for more info and pass the info to potentially interested candidates:
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Just got a desk rejection with an editor message looking like "I had a very quick look at the authors' list, and my statement is that it is more likely that we meet tomorrow on Mars than for this paper to have any chance in this journal"