Happy New Year!! 🥳🎉🥳
We're pleased to release the latest version of the Global VAR (
#GVAR
) dataset, which includes quarterly macroeconomic variables for 33 economies over the 1979Q2 to 2023Q3 period, available from:
GVAR is a global modelling
Delighted to have been elected a Fellow in economics
@Kings_College
. I'm very much looking forward to working with my wonderful economics colleagues Aytek Erdil, Chryssi Giannitsarou, Elisa Faraglia & Hamid Sabourian as well as teaching both economics &
@CambridgeJBS
students.
Wonderful to see the Spring 2022 issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives featuring my brilliant
@CamEcon
&
@GirtonCollege
colleague
@cacrisalves
' latest piece on "Joan Robinson on Karl Marx: "His Sense of Reality Is Far Stronger":
@janewayinst
My brilliant
@Kings_College
colleague Zoe Adams has published a new book on "
#Labour
and the
#Wage
". You can check it out here: also available on Oxford Scholarship Online:
#KingsFellows
You've been told that Oxford is the oldest uni? Think again. A North African woman founded Al-Karaouine in 859
That Adam Smith is the 'father' of economics? Ibn Khaldun developed a labour theory of value, gov stimulus, law of supply/demand 500yrs earlier
#decoloniseeconomics
Just another day at the office
@Kings_College
, looking at Jane Austen’s copy of Orlando furioso, signed by her on the fly-leaf, bought later by Virgina Wolf and inscribed by Wolf to John Maynard Keynes in the Christmas of 1936!!
Good morning from
#Cambridge
! Who would have known getting dressed up for Roman day would make so many people passing by (on foot, bike and car) smile and say hello!!
Pleased to have been appointed as Departmental Special Advisor at the Bank of Canada.
I am looking forward to working on several projects with colleagues at the Bank, including on global
#oil
and gas markets as well as the long-run macroeconomic effects of
#ClimateChange
.
Vigil & Prayer for
#Iran
@Kings_College
Chapel tomorrow (19 Oct 2022)
12.30-13.30 Silent vigil. Come for a few minutes & share in a brief time of silence
17.30-18.15 Evensong with King’s Voices, we'll remember the situation & offer prayers for the situation in Iran.
#MahsaAmini
This was a complete surprise, huge thanks, 🙏🏽❤️and glad I wore that specific t-shirt on that day saying
"زن، زندگی، آزادی"
meaning "Woman, Life, Freedom"!
#ایران
#مهسا_امینی
Delighted to have been appointed a Fellow of Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF) for 2020-2022. Looking forward to working with finance colleagues
@CambridgeJBS
and contributing to the
#finance
-
#ClimateChange
literature.
Good morning from
@Kings_College
where our friends from
@BBCRadio3
have arrived to broadcast live magical performances over the next few days including of The Dream of Gerontius by Elgar, with the
@ChoirOfKingsCam
joined by
@TheBachChoir
and the BBC Concert Orchestra (
@BBCCO
).
Delighted to see our paper "Rising Temperatures, Falling Ratings: The Effect of
#ClimateChange
on Sovereign Creditworthiness" in print in Management Science today!
@INFORMS
Here is a short 🧵on our paper, 1/n
Lots of books signed by
@JosephEStiglitz
and will be given out to participants at our
@KingsELab
event this afternoon
@CambridgeJBS
asking good questions! You can join us online here:
In 2010
@GirtonCollege
& the Cambridge Political Economy Society set-up the Joan Robinson Research Fellowship in Heterodox Economics.
The 1st Joan Robinson Fellow was
@monkeco
now
@UWEBristol
, the 2nd one was
@cacrisalves
now
@IIPP_UCL
. It was amazing working with them both. 1/2
We show that an increase in average global
#temperature
of 0.04°C per year-corresponding to the RCP 8.5 scenario, which assumes higher
#greenhouse
gas emissions in the absence of
#mitigation
policies-reduces world's real
#GDP
per capita by 7.22 percent by 2100.
One of the nice things about
#homeschooling
is that you get invited to lots of parties. Today’s invitation was delivered in the middle of interviewing
@Cambridge_Uni
#MBA
candidates 😃
Want to join us
@Kings_College
&
@CamEcon
? We're looking for a Research Fellow in the Economics of
#Inequality
, a four-year fellowship to pursue a project on some aspect of the study of issues related to Egalitarian Capitalism.
Deadline: 12th of Feb 2021.
Data from
@TankerTrackers
“shows that in March
#Iran
exported 1.9m barrels a day” which is not far from what she exported before Trump reimposed US
#sanctions
in November.
Fantastic to be back at
@USC
at a conference to celebrate
@HPesaran
's achievements, where we have 31 papers being presented over two days!! The programme is available from here:
It really feels like a reunion, seeing old friends and meeting up with
Just finished my last interview for this academic year. I have spoken to 162
@Cambridge_Uni
candidates for the
#EMBA
and
#MBA
programs and very much enjoyed our conversations. Time to celebrate with homemade strawberry swirl ice cream!
We are delighted to announce our inaugural
@KingsELab
Entrepreneurship Essay Competition!
A winner (£1,000 prize), and two runners up (£500 prize each), will be selected by our expert panel of judges:
@DeborahMeaden
(Business Leader & TV Dragon), Lord Mervyn King (former
Happy
#Nowruz
(
#Persian
New Year, #نوروز) to you all!
May this year (1403) be full of happiness and bring peace.
Want to find out more about Nowruz? Check out this article:
Great to read this piece in the
@guardian
which includes our
@KingsELab
member Joseph Vambe (pictured here with Stormzy and Drew Chateau) who was one of the first two
@Cambridge_Uni
students to be awarded a Stormzy Scholarship.
Had a great time discussing
#economics
at Cambridge with prospective economics students
@Cambridge_Uni
open day today.
If you are coming up for tomorrow's
#OpenDay
(June 5th), I'll be giving another talk followed by a Q&A session at 14.30 in the Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick site
Good morning from beautiful (although colder than usual) Naples and the University of Naples 'L'Orientale', where we have just kick-started
#IIEA
's 2019 Conference on
#Iran
’s Economy.
The view from the conference venue is simply amazing (not to mention the ceiling)!
#IIEA2019