🆕 Why taxing mobile money can backfire
Today on VoxDev, @michaelbarczay (@IMFNews), Shafik Hebous, @faycal_saw & @mandarinate discuss how mobile money taxes create sizeable efficiency losses, which fall disproportionately on unbanked and rural users: https://t.co/YcgEjFRJP1
And it’s a wrap! My Gerzensee mini course on “fiscal and monetary policy in heterogeneous-agent models” has ended. Thanks to all the students who attended and made it so much fun to teach, I had a blast. And thanks to @YuchengYang1993 for his final guest lecture! Bonus picture: the champions of the doubles Gerzensee Open :-)
We are #hiring for a #Macroeconomics full-professor chair at @EUI_ECO in Florence! Don’t miss the opportunity to come and work in such a great and international research environment!
⏰ Deadline: 5 December 2024
🔗Apply here!
https://t.co/8NxyycfzWf
📣 👋 Welcome to Professors Barbara Rossi and Alexander Ludwig who joined @EUI_ECO this September.
Discover more on their backgrounds and research 🔗 https://t.co/TImvLY3dmo
Excited to share our new working paper 'Dust to Dust: Tracing Air Pollution’s Impact on Work Accidents', joint with Benjamin Hattemer. A timely read on the week of Labour Day and #SafeDay2024.
You can find it here: https://t.co/YJOFlmdlRU
Short piece and thread coming soon!
@Montfort1Simon@EUI_ECO Thanks! Actually, in our model, both workers and investors work, and the decision to become an investor is endogenous and responds to incentives. Happy to explain more over a cup of coffee ;)
Why do people vote against environmental policies with large welfare benefits? How can the financing of these policies affect their political viability? This is what Russell Cooper and I study in our work in progress and summarized for the LaFonte Blog 👇
🎉We are honoured to announce the arrival of a new Professor at the Economics Department of the @EUI_EU.
Welcome to Alexander Ludwig, chair in Macroeconomics, who will join us in September. We are very looking forward to having you here, Alex!
https://t.co/RXNoKnoSBc
Check out this job for a Chair in #Macroeconomics
The @EUI_ECO is looking for candidates with outstanding experience in graduate-level formal instruction and doctoral supervision and a strong academic publication record
❗Apply here 👉https://t.co/WOWZhs9nkm by 3 April
Chair in Applied Economics @EUI_ECO !
We are looking for an outstanding applied micro-economist or micro-econometrician!
Apply by April 29 2024
https://t.co/xUMhiuC0Je
Had a really great time visiting the Research Department of the Banco Central de Chile (@bcentralchile). Cool team, very nice research, and helpful feedback on my work. Thank you everyone!
The First @EUI_ECO#PhDworkshop in #economics has ended.
We couldn't be more proud of the outcome.
Two very interesting and inspiring days and a great opportunity to create connections. 🥳
We hope this was the first of a long series.
Thank you all!