Yaming Chang

PhD candidate @PennStateEcon Trade+Macro+Growth
Joining @LMU_Muenchen as an assistant professor in Fall 2026

[Ben Moll @ben_moll]

For those interested, here are my slides from yesterday's Cowles Lecture at the Econometric Society Meetings @YaleCowles @econometricsoc

https://t.co/HilQnlxMEG

Thanks so much for listening and for the great discussion and comments!

[Ben Moll @ben_moll]

Needed: better *global* solution methods for heterogeneous-agent models!

[Markus K. Brunnermeier @MarkusEconomist]

Writing & Thinking: Claude Code for Economists with Paul Goldsmith-Pinkh... https://t.co/skx1JPSf0o via @YouTube
Also see https://t.co/s1GzKJdVSl

[Markus K. Brunnermeier @MarkusEconomist]

R.I.P. Christopher Sims (21 Oct. 1942 - 14 March 2026)
- a giant in macroeconomics and one of the finest human beings I have ever met -

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

"I was not always the best student with the highest grades, but my teachers saw something in me and tried to encourage me."

This little girl would grow up to uncover one of the biggest mysteries of our brain - how we know where we are and how we navigate from one place to another. The discovery of grid cells - the brain's inner GPS - led to May-Britt Moser receiving the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Learn more: https://t.co/QQEJbd2SR9

[Yaming Chang @Yaming628]

@TradeDiversion Yaming Chang (Penn State) - Trade, Research Productivity and Growth: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Approach - https://t.co/whPL9jklYk

[Trade Diversion (Jonathan Dingel) @TradeDiversion]

I am tentatively happy with how this lecture on "Identification, calibration, and exact hat algebra" turned out.

https://t.co/wyJyW4lhF1

[OSE Lab @OSE_Lab]

@jasondebacker just finished a great 3-day OSM Lab intro course on dynamic programming: value function iteration, policy function iteration, stochastic AR(1), discrete choice. All notes and problem set are open access at https://t.co/pgpqEDzLUP. #OSMbootcamp2018

[Yaming Chang @Yaming628]

@duolingo 😂

[NBER @nberpubs]

Reviewing a decade of advances in spatial dynamic modeling, with applications to trade, climate, migration, infrastructure investment, structural change, and policy, from @klausvanieper and Fernando Parro https://t.co/K5bmIGVonQ

[Esma Özer Öztürk @e_ozerr]

I wrote about how you can streamline your workflow using VS Code—check it out here: https://t.co/GIAQFsxiKD

[International and Monetary Economics Network @int_mon_econ]

Worth reading!

"The Margins of Trade" by Fieler and Eaton

"Welfare depends on the quantity, quality, and range of goods consumed. We use trade data...to learn about how the gains from trade and growth break down into these different margins."

https://t.co/Hb8ykfuMGm

[Ahmad Lashkaripour @ALashkaripour]

I have several papers that explore tariff wars using economic models. Here’s what they tell us about likely outcomes (🧵)

TLDR: All countries ultimately lose. While the overall impact isn’t catastrophic for larger economies like the US, it’ll be devastating for small countries.

[Jordi Paniagua 喬狄 @JordiPaniagua]

🚨New dataset🚨
👉Multinational Revenue, Employment, and Investment Database (MREID)
🔗https://t.co/nra4Kq7WPW
Consistent information on international and domestic revenue, employment, and investment of multinational enterprises (MNEs) for many countries and industries.

[Yaming Chang @Yaming628]

@overleaf The website is completely shut down now...

[Amrutha Manjunath @amrutha445]

Thank you for sharing my JMP @jenniferdoleac, and for the public good!

[Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac]

Yinong Tan

JMP: "Supply Chain Disruption Risks as a Trade Barrier"

Website: https://t.co/xSBJUSaQb8

[Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac]

Christelle Zozoungbo

JMP: "How Gender and Birth Order Affect Educational Attainment Inequality within Families: Evidence from Benin"

Website: https://t.co/m9F7i5P3HL

[Irfan Tekdir @stochasticprcss]

🚀 Excited to announce version 0.1.0 of my Python package for matching algorithms on PyPI! 🎉 It's perfect for economists, data scientists, and developers. Check it out on GitHub: https://t.co/VzUK3xwywE and on PyPI: https://t.co/7jtYF1LWHZ
#Algorithms #Python #OpenSource

[Journal of International Economics @JIntlEcon]

New: "Financial crises, bailouts and monetary policy in open economies" by Yang Jiao (@YangJiao19).
https://t.co/4B30mLeWuX 1/2