An amazing chapter of my PhD, visiting
@PrincetonEcon
, ends here! Grateful to
@glviolante
for the warm hospitality and to the faculty and students I had the pleasure of meeting. It's been a fantastic experience!
Our Macroeconomics PhD textbook has been updated!
We added two methodology chapters:
- Ch 8: empirical tools
- Ch 9: computational tools + cont time
Download it:
Tell us below if you use it for class (or dm me)!
🚨 New working paper 🚨
Many governments have used VAT cuts to alleviate the rising costs of living. In this paper, we look at the pass-through of VAT cuts to consumer prices using the recent zero VAT policy in Portugal in a set of food items in 2023. A 🧵 (1/6)
💥On panel local projections with macro shocks💥
Our new WP w/
@martinalmuzara
:
▫️ micro data and macro questions (e.g., firms and monetary policy)
▫️ heterogeneity and impulse responses
▪️ how to compute standard errors?
▪️ what is the role of cross-sectional variation?
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Tenere chiuse scuole e università per riaprire club e bar fino alle 3 di mattina, dimostra ancora una volta come in Italia la cultura non abbia alcuna considerazione. E purtroppo penso sia l'unico ingrediente necessario per poter risollevare le sorti del paese.
#COVID19
#cultura
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Claudia Goldin “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.”
#NobelPrize