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Ivan Werning

@ivanwerning.bsky.social
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MIT Robert M. Solow Professor of Economics | Macro, International, Public, Monetary, Taxes, Finance | v = u + β v | Beatles | Boston | Argentina | Patagonia

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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Arnaud Costinot and I wrote this paper on Tariffs for JEP. The goal was to provide an intuitive and accessible primer, while brining readers to the research frontier touching on policy issues. If you want to get up to date or teach this subject, take a look. economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul...
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I have been missing from here. Is this growing or shrinking? Opinions?
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Here is a video of this presentation on Tariffs and the best monetary policy response: www.youtube.com/live/DoFrOjJ...
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Virtual Seminar on Monetary Economics - Ivan Werning (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
YouTube video by CEPR & VideoVox Economics
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Workshop in International Macro 📣 Call for Papers 📣 Montevideo, Uruguay, Dec 10-11 Keynote: Ricardo Caballero Submit your paper: digitatics.typeform.com/to/rUqHU5hOh...
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
🚨New paper with Veronica Guerrieri and Guido Lorenzoni Was the recent inflation surge due to a lack of coordination? Can lack of coordination lead to too much inflation? Yes, we show. Especially in response to global supply shocks. link to paper: economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul... 1/n🧵
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
MIT Economics obituary for the legendary Stan Fischer: t.co/8fgZbnaRCB
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https://news.mit.edu/2025/stanley-fischer-towering-figure-economics-dies-0603
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
What should the Fed do with Trump Tariffs? New paper on 'Monetary Policy in Times of Tariffs' with Guido Lorenzoni & Veronica Guerrieri (link at end) We show simplest most intuitive way to approach tariffs is actually correct: Tariffs = textbook cost-push shock www.nber.org/papers/w33772 🧵1/N
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
How Tariffs Affect Trade Deficits... ... a new paper with amazing trade economist Arnaud Costinot. Many politicians and the general public expect tariffs to reduce imports lower imports and thus work to close a trade deficit. Economists typically say "not so fast"... 🧵1/n
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Analyzing theoretical formula used to determine tariffs… What’s wrong with it? Used in isolation on a single small trading partner the formula makes some sense. But if applied widely to many non trivial ones it does not. ustr.gov/issue-areas/...
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
This was clearly for the better. I have enjoyed his Substack since then.
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Economics is hard. Even the basics. Exhibit #52783
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Trump at it again talking about the virtues of tariffs. Two key papers: Diamond-Mirrlees Atkinson-Stiglitz, establish conditions under which tariffs should not be employed and show the income tax is a great tax. Or read @pkrugman.bsky.social Pop internationalism!
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
2025 a year of mass deportations and trade wars? I’m not that excited for that.
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Has anyone guesstimated Musk’s effect on the election? Sure he went all in. My own guess is near zero. If so we can stop with the “Musk helped Trump get elected but now…”
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Argentina, one year into its libertarian presidency Milei is starting to post some good numbers. Fiscal cut of ~5% of GDP. Inflation continues to fall. Structural reforms and deregulations Recession ending. Latest: poverty falls after spike earlier this year.
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Ambition.
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
New Keynesian economics for you.
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Tom Sargent honoris causa at di Tella University in Buenos Aires.
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Fake Barbara… check the handle
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Krugman nails it. I'll add, what does Bessent mean by "money" being fixed, we don't hold money supply fixed as a policy. Maybe he means wages? But why would some home produced goods fall in price if wages do not fall? It's possibly not even consistent.
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Just back from giving a talk to 2nd year students on how to approach research, how to write a paper. Abhijit was coming after me (good thing he didn't go first, tough act to follow!) Here are my slides... www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0pm2m...
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Simon Johnson said his daughter asked why he was getting up at 4am and he'd explain he was writing another paper with Daron. Simon was very gracious and told the story of how Daron invited him to join him and Jim on "a paper"...
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A great party at MIT to not forget… Celebrating Daron Acemoglu and his Nobel award! Happy new in the room was brimming.
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Starter pack creators as the new journal editors... 🤣
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Men are more competitive and overconfident but this can be to their long term detriment, says great MBA data. Fits my experience! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Overconfidence and Preferences for Competition
We study when preferences for competition are a positive economic trait among high earners and the extent to which this trait can explain the gender gap in income among a master's degree in business ....
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
#EconSky 📉📈
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
On Fiscal Dominance, a classic is Sargent-Wallace "Unpleasant Monetarist Arithmetic" in the QR. 💵 In this QR note I celebrate and revisit it. I show their spectacular example relies on being on the wrong side of a Laffer curve. I offer a variant that strengthens their conclusions. t.co/gGRDafQ01V
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Even if you really hate Trump you have to be ready to like some of the things he might do. You may still hate other things and this doesn't have to change your bottom line, but it can help reduce cognitive dissonance. Controversial?
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
This finally might produce enough outrage from macroeconomists to try out bsky... www.cnbc.com/2024/11/09/e...
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'#EndtheFed': Elon Musk endorses plan to let presidents meddle with Federal Reserve after Trump election win
During his first term as president, Donald Trump was not shy about publicly disparaging Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and his policy decisions.
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Micro to Macro. Argentina has been a macro mess. Fixing it is a big challenge for any government: stop inflation, deficits, etc. But one of the most impressive things about the new administration in Argentina are the microeconomic reforms: www.ft.com/content/2e65...
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The minister taking a chainsaw to Argentina’s statute book
Deregulation tsar Federico Sturzenegger targets country’s entire body of law in bid to create world’s freest economy
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Whether you're pro- or anti-trump you'd expect a bump up in activity on bsky from those network effects. #EconSky 📉📈
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
Everything is Awesome!
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 21/01/2024
Maestro movie, huge excitement the first 20m, love the cinematography and actors. But then rest of the time disappointed by the absence of a plot other than "genius gets to trample and use loved ones because, well, he's a genius".
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StataTex Blog @statatexblog.com · 09/01/2024
Re-upping this great trick for Mac users by @ivanwerning.bsky.social
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Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 18/01/2024
New piece, on the 3 arguments against recent inflation being a cost-push supply shock: - why wasn't there deflation? - why was inflation broad? - what about job openings? and giving a sense of what we know. Using @ivanwerning.bsky.social's work throughout. mikekonczal.substack.com/p/the-three-...
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The Three Open Questions When it Comes to Our Cost-Push Supply Shock Inflation
In which we seek to lock down better answers for everything that just happened in light of the historic disinflation of the past year.
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
On Markus TV, talking about dollarization in argentina, historical and recent argentina background + 2 papers www.youtube.com/live/Cc2t2NJ...
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
In relation to yesterday's Argentine elections... Best of luck to the next president Javier Milei. Argentina needs a break. I hope he moderates his message and policies. Some of them are in the right direction (lowering spending), others are not (dollarization, taxation is theft, etc.).
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
Ran this on the other site (we still can't do it here):
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Just back from teaching Public Finance, always love it. Simple, yet general (General Equilibrium is quite hackable/adaptable). Intuitive results once you get them, but easy to trip people up ex-ante that answers are the reverse.
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
Halloween lecturing.
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
Argentine elections, Econ summary... - runoff for president between libertarian who says "redistribution is theft" and sitting peronist minister who redistributes away from poor via inflation and makes up for it with favors via discretionary transfers, printing money... 1/3
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
This paper provides a simple formula that automates going from... Empirical estimates of wage distribution impacts ---> Desired tax on new technology Sorry, but now that that has been automated, we no longer need economists for this anymore! :) economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul...
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Inflation dares not enter here at the ECB Frankfurt's café. Great prices!
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
Announcing dollarization—hoping to lower inflation—may lead to more inflation! Yep, title+abstract upside down! Context: Argentina is actually seriously debating adopting the dollar, giving up the peso and monetary policy. But it has very few dollars now so... nber.org/papers/w31763
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Hack: add #EconSky 📉📈 very quickly Easy! Use automatic text replacement/substitution! On a Mac, go to Settings > Keyboard > Text Replacement > add your substitution (see screenshot)
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
#EconSky 📉📈
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
Nobel tree... (is this longest chain?) Kuznets ├── Friedman (→ Becker*) └── Fogel │ └── Goldin Goldin: 3rd or 4th (*) generation Nobel (*Friedman mentor and influence on Becker, but not formally advisor)
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
A good day to celebrate Guillermo Calvo who was honored as a Distinguished Fellow by AEA. I'd promised to write something explaining why he is one of my econ idols.... ... here is something I wrote (translated by AI) dev-focoeconomico-org.translate.goog/2023/05/03/g...
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Jón Steinsson 🗽 @jonsteinsson.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
The idea of wage-price spirals resonates with regular people that experience high inflation. I have always felt uneasy that I don't know how to think about this idea formally. Guido and Ivan reinterpret a relatively standard model to help us think about what a wage-price spiral is. Very insightful:
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
I talked about perils of Dollarization to Peter Coy of the NYT. He has a good line about a dog named Milton in there, and views by Milton about money and inflation. In Argentina, the U.S. Dollar Could Soon Become King www.nytimes.com/2023/10/06/o...
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