Sign in

Alfredo Paloyo

@alfredopaloyo.com
1.4K followers 854 following 358 posts

Professor and Economics Department Chair | University of Wollongong, Australia

PostsRepliesMedia
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 25/09/2026
I stopped wanting to live forever after this.
Screenshot from “Death Becomes Her”
181
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 24/09/2026
Do I use the GAICD post-nominal? I don’t even use Dr before my name. 😅
130
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 24/09/2026
Anyway, I did a thing. 💅🏽
Certificate: Completion of Company Directors Course (CDC) from the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD). Order of Merit.
030
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 23/09/2026
The Last Ditch lesbian bar in Massachusetts is currently the most famous bar on the planet. If they don’t start selling merch soon and shipping internationally, they deserve to go bankrupt.
070
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 18/09/2026
Not a tilcayo, but she’ll do
Domestic short hair cat
020
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 18/09/2026
I love it already
000
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 14/09/2026
I thought it was hilarious to describe someone as “down to earth” while the person is wearing an Hermès tie. 👔
110
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 03/09/2026
I fear I may have fallen into a Japanese stationery rabbit hole on YouTube. I need to buy every pen, notebook, highlighter, pencil, pencil sharpener, mechanical pencil, sticker, pencil case, sticky note, …
020
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 26/08/2026
Oh, hey, who’s that guy? youtu.be/4qitnl8WM7Q
youtu.be
resistAInce podcast: Episode 2 - Economics
YouTube video by University of Wollongong, Australia
010
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 25/08/2026
Anti-globalists spent decades smashing windows and fighting the WTO with practically zero results. Trump rolled in with arbitrary tariffs and dismantled multilateral trade in an afternoon, dragging the global economy backward into protectionism.
020
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 25/08/2026
“Everything was in Downloads”. I swear, I died a little.
000
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 24/08/2026
I’m teaching this semester, and this is truly the GOAT in saving my voice and throat.
Pei Pa Koa
000
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 21/08/2026
Maybe in 20 years, hey.
SCG Waitlist
001
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 19/08/2026
Today, I learned Keanu Reeves is Canadian. Sorry to the maple syrup people. 🍁
030
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 19/08/2026
Simon & Garfunkel!
150
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 18/08/2026
The sound that these BYD cars make when reversing is annoying af.
000
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 11/08/2026
I’ve been in Sydney over the last couple of days, and it’s a sea of R.M. Williams Craftsman boots. The company somehow turned a rugged Aussie bush boot into the undisputed default uniform for men in business—absolute monopoly on corporate feet.
140
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 10/08/2026
When there’s a job to be done, no self-respecting Aussie will be distracted by a fly.
020
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 08/08/2026
It’s the freakin’ weekend imma ‘bout to have me some fuuun 🎉
Census instructions
2140
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 05/08/2026
Always be reppin’
UOW socks
020
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 04/08/2026
Crestor, here I come!
Bone marrow fried rice
040
Reposted by Alfredo Paloyo
Juan Moreno-Cruz @jmorenocruz.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Jevan Cherniwchan and I have a new working paper—one we’ve been working on for a long time—on how energy transitions shaped societies in the past, and what they may teach us about the present and future. www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...
ifo.de
21411
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 02/08/2026
“Clarice” is terrible, no?
000
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 02/08/2026
Actually, yes—more people should follow Marc. You might learn something about rucking if not economics.
000
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 01/08/2026
I concur with everything below. Didn’t we just have Claude come up with a counterexample to disprove the Jacobian conjecture recently? Good ideas are good ideas!
330
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 30/07/2026
A paper rejection is so much easier to take when the referee reports are of extremely high quality. Thanks, anonymous colleagues!
0160
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 29/07/2026
Watching someone else discover in real-time that a person I can’t stand is, in fact, completely unbearable is better than therapy.
160
Reposted by Alfredo Paloyo
Jan Kabatek 💙💛 @jankabatek.com · 28/07/2026
Call for Submissions: 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗕𝗘𝗥 𝗔𝗜 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁 Are you working on research that leverages AI tools and methods? Building new tools and agents? Or studying the impacts of AI on the society & environment? Then submit your work to our summit (Nov 24-25)! melbourneinstitute.unimelb.edu.au/conferences/...
melbourneinstitute.unimelb.edu.au
2026 AI Summit
The Melbourne Institute is proud to present The inaugural CALIBER Summit for AI-powered Research in Business & Economics.
182
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 27/07/2026
Indeed, shopping on my credit card card is a critical emergency. Successful AusAlert! 👏🏽
Critical AusAlert screenshot
010
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 26/07/2026
Teaching starts this week, so a fresh bottle of Pei Pa Koa is on its way to give my voice a fighting chance. 🥴
110
Reposted by Alfredo Paloyo
Michael Harris @michaelsharris.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Hey Canberra folks, Come along on Saturday arvo, 15th August to the "Live at the Polo". Salonistas (in trio form) putting on a show. Bound to be good. (Seriously, we're pretty good.) www.polishclubcanberra.com.au
polishclubcanberra.com.au
Home | Polish Club Canberra
031
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 24/07/2026
Adulthood is booking dinner eight weeks in advance because that’s the earliest open slot in your calendar, right? Right?! 🫠
250
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 21/07/2026
How do I escape the James Hoffmann coffee videos rabbit hole on YouTube?
310
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 20/07/2026
Good morning from Wollongong! 🌅
Flagstaff Hill, Wollongong
010
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 19/07/2026
🇪🇸⭐️⭐️
020
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 19/07/2026
Joey Jay is the definition of “losing is the new winning”.
010
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 15/07/2026
I, for one, am happy I won’t have to hear Wonderwall for a while.
020
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 12/07/2026
Calm down. It’s just Wollongong in winter.
Wollongong lighthouse
110
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 08/07/2026
Yeehaw! Phenomenal showing from the Blues. 💪🏽
000
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 08/07/2026
If the Blues lose this game, man… 🤦🏽‍♂️
000
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 06/07/2026
Can Albo call FIFA and have Australia reinstated, please?
082
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 06/07/2026
I finished a marathon yesterday, but, anyway, here’s an iconic photo—one for the books—of Alex Eala in her win at Centre Court over reigning Wimbledon champion Iga Świątek.
170
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 03/07/2026
But also, Joel has been promoted to professor—the unqualified kind. Congratulations! 🎉
241
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 27/06/2026
Joey Jay being robbed not once, not twice, but three times during Pride Month is so homophobic.
010
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 24/06/2026
New paper out. The child penalty in Vietnam, in one picture: at the first kid, mothers’ earnings and employment fall off a cliff and never recover. 🔗: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Event-study plot: mothers’ earnings and employment drop sharply after first childbirth; fathers’ unaffected.
051
Reposted by Alfredo Paloyo
Adrian Adermon @adrianadermon.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
My paper "The relationship between intergenerational mobility and equality of opportunity" with Gunnar Brandén and Martin Nybom is now out in early access at the Scandinavian Journal of Economics. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
The relationship between intergenerational mobility and equality of opportunity
Among economists, the analysis of social mobility and the role of parental background is largely carried out in two separate strands of research. The intergenerational mobility literature estimates p....
131
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 22/06/2026
Charles, you’ve lost another Prime Minister?
Screenshot from The Hunt for Red October
130
Reposted by Alfredo Paloyo
Ariel Ortiz-Bobea @arielob.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
1/ We have a new paper out showing that accounting for quality more than doubles the estimated heat damages on US dairy production. Story: news.cornell.edu/stories/2026... Paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... Code: doi.org/10.6077/COSA8S
news.cornell.edu
‘Double the damage’: Warming climate reduces milk quality and quantity | Cornell Chronicle
Heat stress on dairy cows not only decreases the amount of milk produced but also the fat and protein content, doubling the economic losses.
1147
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 20/06/2026
SCHLAND! So fitting to play Tage wie diese in the stadium. 🎊
120
Alfredo Paloyo @alfredopaloyo.com · 17/06/2026
Spotify finally restored its usual app icon. Bless their hearts.
150