Marcelo Bielsa, the Argentinian manager of Leeds United, gave us an insightful and deep phrase this week when referring to the European Super League.
#EconTwitter
#SuperLeague
Esta semana el gobierno argentino eliminó el Sistema de Importaciones de la República Argentina (SIRA).
En este hilo hago un análisis muy superficial sugiriendo que las SIRAs pueden haber actuado como cuotas de importación de facto, generando rentas de manual de texto. (1/12)
Thrilled I will be a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley in Spring 2024!
I would be happy to present on the West Coast (or the US in general). Please refer to my website for my work:
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@berkeleyecon
🚨Attention, PhD students working on international trade!🚨
The Call for Papers for our Annual GEP/CEPR Postgraduate Conference is open!
Send us your papers by Feb 19th.
Keynote speaker: the fantastic Emanuel Ornelas
@EmanuelOrnelas_
Full Call here:
🚨🚨🚨 We are hiring trade economists! 🚨🚨🚨
Come join one of the best places to do trade in Europe!
We have two openings linked to the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy (
@centre4ITP
)
(1) A tenure-track position.
(2) A post-doc position.
See links and details below --->
We are hiring!
Multiple positions available.
Two in international trade:
* Nottingham Research Fellow / Assistant Professor
* Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Two open fields:
* Assistant Professor
* Associate Professor
Come join us!
Links below.
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#EconJobMarket
Our paper about the impact of transit systems on international trade is finally on the ReStat website as forthcoming!
Our conclusion? Streamlining border processing increases exports. A brief summary below. (1/7)
@CarballoEcon
, Georg Schaur,
@christianvolpem
#EconTwitter
Welcome Alejandro Graziano to our network - we are looking forward to future cooperations with
@UniofNottingham
@UoNEconomics
- check out Alejandro's Twitter profile
@AGGraziano
and the CESifo Research Network website:
I am presenting my work “International Trade, Market Concentration and Welfare” in 20m at the EEA-ESEM in Milano.
Come to this excellent session if you are interested and around!
#EEAESEM22
Very happy that my paper on the impact of Brexit uncertainty on UK-EU trade with
@KyleLHandley
and Nuno Limão was accepted in the Economic Journal and is now live: (1/8)
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Brexit uncertainty increased UK prices on EU imports by 9 to 11 percent and lowered consumer real incomes, from
@AGGraziano
,
@KyleLHandley
, and Nuno Limão
Brexit uncertainty increased UK prices on EU imports by 9 to 11 percent and lowered consumer real incomes, from
@AGGraziano
,
@KyleLHandley
, and Nuno Limão
Working on revising my jmp, I realized I did not see any thread summarizing the 2017 US Economic Census concentration results, released some months ago. I do so here.
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1/n
It was an enormous pleasure to present in person at the NOITS annual conference to the amazing community of nordic trade economists.
#NOITS
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#Iceland
RIP Jonathan Eaton. Big loss for trade economists and economists in general.
I think this thread by Ahmad excelently summarizes his (and Kortum’s) contributions.
Today I will be presenting virtually my work about international trade, industrial concentration and welfare at the Southern Economic Association 91st Annual Meeting.
If you are around and interested in these topics, don't miss this fantastic session!
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I am very happy to be visiting
@cesifonetwork
for two weeks! Thanks,
@FeodoraTeti
!
Looking forward to meeting colleagues in Munich and contributing to the network.
We are hiring a teaching-focused permanent lectureship at Nottingham!
This is an excellent opportunity for economists still in the market.
I cannot stress enough how good of a working environment our School is.
Please spread the word!
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'Northern Ireland is in the unbelievably special position - unique position in the entire world - in having privileged access not just to the UK market… but also the EU single market'
'Nobody else has that. No one. Only you guys, only here’
Rishi Sunak hails his Brexit deal
Market concentration has been on the rise in many countries, and we saw the rise of "superstar" firms in the last years.
In this post, we show smaller firms have a role to play in long-run export growth and product diversification, and targeted policy can help.
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Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) can substantially contribute to a country’s long-term export growth and diversification. And
#trade
promotion organizations can play an important role in the process:
Check out our new working paper! We translate import processing time at the border into costs and, using data from Peru, find that it is comparable to a 20% ad-valorem tariff at the median time.
Especially relevant to think about the Brexit impact last January!
#EconTwitter
Costs associated with import processing are high. Trade facilitation policies can substantially reduce these costs. Thus, eliminating delays due to document inspection could be comparable to removing the average worldwide applied tariff of about 6%:
We have new work on Brexit uncertainty!
▶️ UK import prices from the EU-27 increased as a result of uncertain future trade conditions with the EU
▶️ We calculated a 0.6% increase in UK consumer prices due to the 2016 referendum
▶️ These effects are likely to be persistent
Thrilled
@ESRC
decided to fund CITP!
@centre4ITP
We aim to produce innovative trade policy research, with the precept of being inclusive in four dimensions: geography, political domains, society and generations.
Thank you Giovanni and all the colleagues involved!
All football lovers know the World Cup champion ranking. However, a question that often comes up is: are world cups in the past worth the same as more recent ones from today's perspective?
I propose a new ranking that takes a stance on how past world cup wins "depreciate". 1/8
@Gus_Noriega
Esto me emociona: “Somehow, the most dangerous player in history has managed to slip, completely unmarked, into yards of open space with a clear sight of goal.”
I answered a question about trade welfare effects from a student, and I got back from him, "your answer had a positive effect on my welfare"... which had a positive welfare effect on me too!
I love these feedback loops.
The online 20th Annual GEP/CEPR Postgraduate Conference starts today! Keynote speakers: Teresa Fort (Dartmouth) and Dávid Krisztián Nagy (CREI). Information about the programme and registration here:
#EconTwitter
@Tfpiasecki
Conference alert!🚨
Call for papers for the first academic conference of the
@centre4ITP
at
@SussexUni
, the first ESRC centre funded to study TRADE POLICY.
Keynotes: Paola Conconi, Petros Mavroidis.
Deadline: January 16th, 2023.
Link:
#EconTwitter
I am pretty sure the GEP seminar at
@UoNEconomics
ranks very high in quality worldwide within the field of international trade and its cousins.
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Nottingham GEP - Globalisation and Economic Policy
Bielsa’s comments about the Super League were an impressive commonsensical exhibition of economic intuition.
I expand below.
#EconTwitter
#SuperLeague
(1/7)
🗣 Marcelo Bielsa: “What makes the competition great is the possibility that one of the weak teams develops... not the big teams playing each other”.
Bielsa’s career has been marked by this. He developed Newell’s to become the best team in Argentina.
@AnnaJerzewska
In the paper below, we estimated that an increase of 10% in customs delays could cause a 3.8% decline in exports, on average.
Not trivial!
Trade conference for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers by
@UoN_GEP
and
@cepr_org
on 28-30 April: . Submission deadline is January 30.
Keynotes by
@Tfpiasecki
and Dávid Nagy.
I had a very good and productive time at SETC presenting “Policy Meets Digital Technologies: How Digitalization of Trade
Procedures Affects Firms’ Exports”, a joint work with
@CarballoEcon
, Georg Schaur and
@christianvolpem
#FREIT
#SETC
Check out our new working paper! We translate import processing time at the border into costs and, using data from Peru, find that it is comparable to a 20% ad-valorem tariff at the median time.
Especially relevant to think about the Brexit impact last January!
#EconTwitter
Don't miss this incredible workshop organised by GEP -
@UoNEconomics
with amazing trade economists! (+ myself)
It is about to start!
GEP-CEPR Summer International Trade Workshop
#EconTwitter
An insightful World Economy Annual Lecture by Prof Alan Winters at Nottingham.
The post-Brexit UK needs earlier Parliament involvement in PTA negotiations, and an Independent Board of Trade with statutory rights and rights to be heard by the Parliament.
@centre4ITP
@UoN_GEP
¿Qué vemos si comparamos el crecimiento de precios de productos internacionales vs nacionales en la misma moneda para eliminar dichos factores?
El crecimiento de precios importados aumentó notablemente en relación al crecimiento de precios domésticos tras las SIRAs. (11/12)
I had a great time presenting at the Nordic International Trade Seminars Annual conference in Stavanger, Norway!
I enjoyed meeting people, learning about very high-quality research in person and seeing a fantastic keynote lecture by
@BaldwinRE
I reached out to Juan at LACEA in Puebla, and he made time to listen to me and give me very helpful comments.
I strongly recommend JM candidates making use of his kindness!
Every year (pre-COVID) I ask job market candidates attending LACEA-LAMES to contact me if they want to tell me about their JMP. To provide my full attention (I'm the conference chairman), this year available during the week after
@LaceaLames2021
.
Feel free to reach out!
It was great to participate in this conference organised by Tilburg! I met terrific researchers and got excellent feedback on my work, “Trade Disruptions along the Global Supply Chain”, with Yuan Tian.
This is an excellent example of the “targeting principle”.
If you want to correct an externality, be sure to aim at the margin where it is produced. Anything else will distort other margins of the economy.
Quality research about trade, integration and competitiveness from a research centre at my alma mater, the University of Buenos Aires (in Spanish).
A very welcome addition. We have too much to learn about these topics, especially in developing countries.
#EconTwitter
Hola! Somos el área de estudios de Inserción, Comercio y Competitividad Internacional (ICCI) del
@iiep_oficial
.
En esta cuenta compartimos materiales producidos por los miembros del grupo.
Los invitamos también a visitar nuestra página web:
Good news for Argentinian consumers and producers requiring foreign inputs: Argentina eliminates all types of import quotas, some of them in place for almost 20 years.
No solo eso, también eliminamos las Licencias No Automáticas, vigentes mayormente desde el gobierno de Nestor.
Es decir, por primera vez en casi 20 años no va a cupos arbitrarios a las importaciones
We are keen to recruit talented students to our MRes + PhD programme 🎓
To find out more and apply head to 👉
And to learn more about our funded studentships visit 👉
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Las SIRA se implementaron a fines de octubre de 2022. Si construimos una tendencia lineal en base al periodo de la pandemia y la comparamos contra el crecimiento en precios post-SIRA vemos una clara desviación. Si esta fuese el mark-up por rentas, en el último mes sería del 15%.
“We are protecting your money.”
Interesting decision by supermarkets in Argentina during an inflationary shock.
Instead of selling more variety at higher prices, some prefer not to sell products with large price hikes and blame suppliers for high markups.
Si un número limitado de importadores tiene acceso a permisos para importar, estos pueden poner precios por arriba de los precios internacionales de referencia.
El gobierno también puede hacerse de estas rentas mediante “impuestos” a dichos importadores. (3/12)
Don't miss this incredible workshop organised by GEP -
@UoNEconomics
with amazing trade economists! (+ myself)
It is about to start!
GEP-CEPR Summer International Trade Workshop
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Rushing from interview to interview in San Diego, I fell and got a strong blow to my elbow (don't wear new shoes!). I was more than 15 minutes late for the next interview and in a lot of pain.
The people from
@PittEcon
was very nice and could accommodate me the next day.
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of J. Peter Neary, Emeritus Professor of Economics.
Peter was an important figure in Oxford & made a huge contribution to
@OxfordEconDept
.
He will be greatly missed.
In Argentina, they just put a 16% tariff on laptops—a key input for *all* other industries. Juan Carlos worked out the numbers: this is an effective protection of about an order of magnitude higher (160%).
We have to do more studies about effective protection in these times.
Como titular de cátedra de Economía Internacional en la carrera de Lic. en Economía de la UBA, me voy a tomar el atrevimiento de transmitirles (o recordarles) el concepto de “protección efectiva”. Busco contribuir a que se entienda este despropósito.👇🏾
Esta desviación no es necesariamente evidencia de rentas por SIRAs. Es posible que todos los precios, incluyendo los nacionales, puedan estar siendo afectados de la misma manera por otros factores al mismo tiempo. (10/12)
@wwwojtekk
Wojtek, we use smartphone and port information to estimate the direct covid impact on import price, quantities and freight costs, arguing exogeneity.
Prices rose and quantities declined following disruptions to foreign suppliers.
Check paper below:
Argentinians cannot get the three-star Adidas shirt in part because the Argentinian firm producing it internally for Adidas cannot import inputs.
Is there a world cup in protectionism we could compete in?
La nota de Jairo nos está dando el mejor argumento popular contra las restricciones a las importaciones.
Después de 36 años salimos campeones del mundo y no tenemos camiseta de 3 estrellas por falta de insumos