⭐️ On the job market this year! ⭐️
🚨 My JMP: "To Cap or Not to Cap? Energy Crisis in a Currency Union"
📄 The paper explores the tradeoffs and spillovers of an energy price cap, in the context of the European energy crisis in 2022.
🔗 More about me on https://t.co/uHcoSqcTZ7!
New article! 🚨
"Prestige projects" in international development often have suspect developmental merit and a knack for controversy. What explains their persistence?
In @ISQ_Jrnl, I analyze demand for and supply of Chinese-financed prestige projects : https://t.co/tRnGcwuUMj
Excited to share a new review paper with @mmildenberger@dustintingley!
We use the IRA to explain the origin and effects of political attitudes about the energy transition 🌎🔌
We also chart research needs with the global green industrial policy turn
https://t.co/GHl1xBROfw
Philly @APSAtweets who want perspective on the ups and downs of global cooperation, come learn about IO lifecycles -- and help me realize my elusive dream of having the audience outnumber the 10 fantastic roundtable participants (below)
Back in 2010 when I was doing my master's at SOAS, this paper by Robert Wade was the paper that made me really passionate about development economics. I remember underlining almost every sentence.
Happy to share "Domestic policy consequences of international mega-events: Evidence from China", (coauthored with my doctoral student @JialeiMa_) out @WorldDevJournal. Perfect timing as the Paris Olympics just concluded. https://t.co/RVw9qjt32R
Sharing a new working paper with Anqi Zhao & Peng Ding @pengding00, titled "Factorial Difference-in-Differences." https://t.co/29bDeAlu3J 🧵
Comments and suggestions are welcome!
Org. meeting of #BBNJ#HighSeasTreaty PrepCom closed by Co-Chair Ambassador @jfelson with dates for 2 x 2 week sessions in 2025 & another in 2026 decided & strong convergance on future program of work. Great to see continued momentum for early operationalization of #BBNJ !
A 16-yr journey has come to an end with “Litigation for Sale” in @APSR. This paper was rejected after R&Rs at two journals, was used as a job talk numerous times, and finally has a home. Here’s the story of this labor of love, insecurity, and weird professional incentives.🧵
@Zhu_Keren and I had a wonderful time discussing Jessica DiCarlo's work in Keren's inaugural episode as pod co-host!
Tune in for tales of cycling through Laos, borderland SEZs turned gambling dens, and our 267th guest explaining why the debt trap narrative should be dead:
Interested in how autocratic &/or backsliding states affect cooperation through international organizations? All 6 articles in our special issue "Illiberal Regimes and International Organizations" now online first @The_PEIO! plus our introduction: https://t.co/8Pap5P8tNu Thread:
Our paper on China's Digital Silk Road is now published in the September 2024 issue of the Journal of Contemporary China. It argues that the Digital Silk Road is better understood as a vague political slogan rather than a concrete geopolitical strategy.
https://t.co/xTsSXnYT4D
Does the threat of job automation reduce political engagement? In my new paper in Economics & Politics, I show that workers facing automation risks (job insecurity & wage decline) become politically alienated, a possible first step towards radicalization.
More below 🧵
As tensions continue to mount, pundits are increasingly worried about security dilemmas emerging between the US and China.
New in @World_Pol with @ryan_brutger and Kai Quek - we show both the 🇺🇸 and 🇨🇳 publics are prone to security dilemma thinking
https://t.co/T6exNxxSFV
Insightful article in @TheEconomist on African railways and the geopolitics of critical minerals. With quotes from Zambian and Guinean officials on how they strategically + succesfully make use of great power rivalry
Africa’s surprising new age of rail
https://t.co/OUsNjFq7bF