Reposted by Lucca HortaThe Review of Economic Studies (REStud) @reveconstudies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026New paper by De Loecker & Scott www.restud.com/markup-estim... #REStud #EconSky 041
Reposted by Lucca HortaNBER @nber.org · 02/09/2026Geopolitical risk reshapes global reserves: gold up, dollar down. A new paper with on sanctions, safe assets, and the dollar's shine fading, from Kai Arvai, Nuno Coimbra, and Marco Pinchetti www.nber.org/papers/w35669 031
Reposted by Lucca HortaNBER @nber.org · 30/08/2026Analyzing a large corpus of papers in international trade to document a shift in methodology from theoretical or empirical to quantitative modeling and assessing these developments, from David Atkin and Benjamin Faber www.nber.org/papers/w35657 051
Reposted by Lucca HortaCentre for Economic Performance @cep-lse.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Geopolitics and export miracles: firm-level evidence from US war procurement in Korea By Philipp Barteska, Oliver Kim, Nathan Lane and Seung Joo Lee Read at: ow.ly/nN3r50ZBRxH 011
Reposted by Lucca HortaInternational Security @intsecurity.bsky.social · 11/03/20262) Articles from the issue include: “Why Populists Love Dead Soldiers and Hate Live Officers,” by Ronald R. Krebs doi.org/10.1162/ISEC... This article is ungated thanks to @mitpress.bsky.socialdoi.orgWhy Populists Love Dead Soldiers and Hate Live OfficersAbstract. Right-wing populist leaders often seem to love soldiers (especially fallen ones) and the trappings of military life. But their love affair with the military rarely endures. This article expl... 174
Reposted by Lucca HortaJorge Tovar @jorgeatovar.bsky.social · 15/08/2026On my way to the European Sports Economics Association (ESEA), Zurich. Always happy to learn. Will be sharing this paper this year 022
Reposted by Lucca HortaCentre for Economic Performance @cep-lse.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Tariff confusion By Kalina Manova, Dennis Novy, Thomas Sampson and Aaron Tang Read at: ow.ly/nV2h50ZjYG6 122
Reposted by Lucca HortaNBER @nber.org · 20/04/2026Data from 1962 to 2014 and a new identification strategy show increased trade significantly reduces the probability and intensity of conflicts between nations, from Ling Feng, Qiuyue Huang, Zhiyuan Li, and Christopher M. Meissner www.nber.org/papers/w35078 0154
Reposted by Lucca HortaNBER @nber.org · 03/04/2026Studying how cash transfers affect work and health, from Michael C. Best, Felipe Lobel, and Valdemar Pinho Neto www.nber.org/papers/w35006 031
Reposted by Lucca HortaPeterson Institute for International Economics @piie.com · 10/02/2026@chadpbown.com 's trade war timeline 2.0 has been updated! New updates include the US-India deal, the US-Bangladesh deal, details on the US-Argentina deal, and more: www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economi…piie.comTrump's trade war timeline 2.0: An up-to-date guidePresident Donald Trump started his second term in office with momentous plans to change US trade policy to achieve various economic and nontrade related aims. This timeline tracks the development of t... 054
Reposted by Lucca HortaJordana Menezes @jordanamenezesc.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Thrilled to share that my first academic paper is out! We investigated the impact of privatization on sanitation outcomes in Brazilian municipalities. Grateful for my co-authors Ana Carolina Zoghbi and José Guilherme! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YI7I9...tandfonline.comPrivatization and sanitation outcomes: evidence from Brazilian municipalitiesThis paper estimates the effects of sanitation privatization in Brazilian municipalities (2006–2022) using SDID and SNIS data. Exploiting staggered adoption, we compare treated municipalities/provi... 164
Lucca Horta @luccahorta.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Check out #GoodreadsYearinBooks Goodreads to discover the 37 books I read in 2025! www.goodreads.com/user/year_in...goodreads.comGoodreads 2025 Year in BooksCheck out My 2025 Year in Books on Goodreads! 030
Reposted by Lucca HortaVoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 12/09/2025After a repeal of North Dakota's Sunday morning retail ban, morning visits to Walmart stores rose sharply, reducing cross-border travel & shifting shopping to preferred times and stores. J Donna, @marit.hinnosaar.net @toomas.hinnosaar.net @andre-trindade.bsky.social cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky 065
Lucca Horta @luccahorta.bsky.social · 06/07/2025One possibility is that there's nothing really preventing local communities' political leaders from adopting Modern-'Morality' themselves, but if there's hope, he seems to suggest it comes first from local politics. 000
Lucca Horta @luccahorta.bsky.social · 06/07/2025The Danish fishing industry example is even a very clear case of a national policy V. local politics. I didn't read Dependent Rational Animals, but maybe more context can be provided. 110
Lucca Horta @luccahorta.bsky.social · 06/07/2025I think the quotation about the "communitarian mistake" is a little odd. In "Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity", MacIntyre praises at least two communitarian -- in the sense the text seems to adopt -- policies (Danish and Brazilian), as well as a Wendell Berry's book, also a "communitarian" persp 100
Reposted by Lucca Hortamax tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 25/06/2025amazing q&a with paul krugman 1524476841
Reposted by Lucca HortaThe Review of Economic Studies (REStud) @reveconstudies.bsky.social · 17/05/2025"This study estimates the carbon-efficient forest cover in the Brazilian Amazon. A $10/ton carbon tax could preserve 95% of the efficient carbon stock, avoiding 42B tons of CO2 & yielding $1.6T in welfare gains." From @araujocrrafael.bsky.social , @franciscocosta.bsky.social & Sant'Anna #EconSky 👇 13010
Reposted by Lucca HortaJAERE @jaereaere.bsky.social · 21/04/2025🌬️ Just accepted 🇧🇷 in JAERE: "The Effects of Renewable Energy Projects on Employment: Evidence from Brazil" by Danae Hernandez-Cortes (@hernandezcortes.bsky.social) and Sophie Mathes (@s-mathes.bsky.social) Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #EconSky 📈 📉 0218
