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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In Uganda, winning government contracts raises firms' total sales, but largely by reallocating supply away from private customers rather than generating net new business, with no gains in productivity or wages.

Effect of selling to the government on total sales and sales to non-government partners

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

On Thursday March 26th (15:00 GMT), @marcosanfilip.bsky.social, Matthew Schwartzman & @verenaw.bsky.social will summarise what we've learned about service-led growth models.

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Marco Sanfilippo @marcosanfilip.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

The 2026 edition of the the "Firms, Labor Markets, and Development" Workshop will be held in Napoli next 26-27 June. The keynote speaker is Jonas Hjort (UCL) Deadline to submit: Feb 28 Link to submit: forms.gle/cCPTQrPBH3gc...

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IOB - Institute of Development Policy @iobua.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

💙 Our alumni & global community are standing with IOB! ✍️ Sign their petition to oppose cuts to IOB’s core funding & protect students’ futures, global collaboration & academic excellence. 👉 chng.it/8DhtrFSBpm #saveIOB #StandWithIOB

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IOB - Institute of Development Policy @iobua.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

The Flemish government’s unexpected decision not to renew IOB’s agreement puts €2.64M funding, 32 jobs, key programmes and global partnerships at risk. Support us! bit.ly/saveIOB #saveIOB #developmentpolicy #developmentpolicy #iobcommunity

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Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · 18/08/2025

📢 #CallForPapers - Determinants and Effects of Sustainable Public Procurement Special Issue of the European Journal of Political Economy Guest editors: Bernard Hoekman, @marcosanfilip.bsky.social‬, Davide Vannoni, Thomas Stratmann Deadline: 30 Apr 2026 www.sciencedirect.com/journal/euro... #EconSky

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Marco Sanfilippo @marcosanfilip.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

We (Bernard Hoekman, Davide Vannoni and I) are Editing a special issue at the *European Journal of Political Economy* The SI is on the causes and consequences of increasing "Sustainable Public Procurement" practices. Deadline: April 2026 Info: sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

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Read the latest articles of European Journal of Political Economy at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

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Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · 27/05/2025

Apply to attend the 6th edition of the Economics Job Market Bootcamp in Tuscany. Open to final-year PhD students in economics who will enter the academic job market in Fall 2025. Organised by Tommaso Sonno and supported by the UniCredit Foundation. cepr.org/events/econo... #EconSky #Research #PhD

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Mariapia Mendola @marimendola.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

📌Call for applications out! 👀👀 Summer School on "Geo-economics, Natural Resources and Development" on Sept 2-5 in Tuscany, with the great Mathias Thoenig & Mathieu Couttenier!! Deadline: May 9 cepr.org/events/twent... #EconConf #cepr #centrodagliano

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Marco Sanfilippo @marcosanfilip.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The call for applications for the 24th Summer School in International and Development Economics is now open Topic: Geo-Economics, Natural Resources, and Development Speakers: Mathieu Couttenier and Mathias Thoenig. Venue: Castello di Gargonza (Tuscany) ⬇️ Further info: t.ly/cCMSP

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Marco Sanfilippo @marcosanfilip.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Not even the time to use the car makers as an example for tomorrow’s class…

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

#GDRI_rep Update 1: I4R are now reproducing all published papers that use data from GDRI, or are closely related in other ways. Here is a first update on our work. 🧵

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Marco Sanfilippo @marcosanfilip.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The call is now closed, we got an absolute record of 275 submissions (for 10 slots!!!). Thanks a lot!!

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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

📣1 day left to apply to join the CSAE in Addis Ababa as the CSAE Economic Policy Network's Post-Doctoral Fellow in Economics (seconded to the Ministry of Finance, Gov't of Ethiopia). ⏰28 Feb, 12 PM GMT ℹ️https://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/vacancies #postdoc #EconSky #hiring @blavatnikschool.bsky.social

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VACANCIES

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

No words. This is absolutely horrendous news

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

After being alerted about possible misconduct, the I4R are reproducing published papers that use data from a specific NGO (GDRI). This thread releases the first 2 reports and provides more information about the work and responses/statements from authors journals and journals. 🧵

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The Robert Schuman Centre @eui-schuman.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

🔎 Should we fear AI? Join the 2025 Annual EMU Lab Lecture featuring renowned economist Philippe Aghion as he explores the impact of AI on jobs, productivity, and economic policy. 📅 6 March 2025 📍 Florence and Online 🔗 Register now: loom.ly/cMGEieQ #EMUlab

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Marco Sanfilippo @marcosanfilip.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

10 days left to apply to the next edition of the "Firms, Labor Markets, and Development" Workshop to be held in Bari, Italy, on 20-21 June. Keynote speaker: Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale) Info: steg.cepr.org/events/firms... @micheledimaio.bsky.social @marimendola.bsky.social @fscoamodio.bsky.social

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Julian Hinz @julianhi.nz · 13/02/2025

🚨 KITE Insta-Analysis: The US is imposing reciprocal tariffs on all trading partners and may count VAT as a tariff. Bottom line: The impact is largest for the US itself among large economies. Of course, big caveat: Very limited information at this point. 1/3

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Marco Sanfilippo @marcosanfilip.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Alcuni brevi commenti, in italiano, sulle tariffe di Trump e le possibili conseguenze per EU e Italia: 1. Radio Televisione Svizzera, programma "Seidisera" del 1/2/2025, dal minuto 10:00 circa www.rsi.ch/rete-uno/pro...

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Giornale Radio - Radio Popolare

Le notizie. I protagonisti. Le opinioni. Le analisi. Le tre edizioni principali del notiziario di Radio Popolare.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 31/01/2025

In Barry Blitt’s latest Kvetchbook, a new nearly legal map of the United States, updated by the hour. nyer.cm/nvYnpxx

An illustration of the United States with nationalistic labels based on Donald Trump’s proposals.

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Marco Sanfilippo @marcosanfilip.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

A call for expression of interest to join the "Vilfredo Pareto" PhD programme at the University of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto is out. Click on the link for more info and pass the info to potentially interested candidates: inomics.com/program/phd-...

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PhD in Economics - University of Torino | INOMICS

The Vilfredo Pareto PhD in Economics is a 4-year PhD program of the University of Torino, organized in close collaboration with the Collegio Carlo Alberto. The program allows students to structure the...

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Marco Sanfilippo @marcosanfilip.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Just got a desk rejection with an editor message looking like "I had a very quick look at the authors' list, and my statement is that it is more likely that we meet tomorrow on Mars than for this paper to have any chance in this journal"

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Andre Groeger @andregroeger.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

🚨The call for the 2025 #edition of the #BSE #SummerForum workshop on #DevelopmentEconomics is out (co-organised with P. Bustos, G. DeGiorgi, G. Leon and D. Yang). Send us your best papers (deadline: FEB 28) and join us in beautiful Barcelona on June 18-19. events.bse.eu/live/files/5...

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robertarabellotti.bsky.social @robertarabellotti.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

‼️‼️Submit your paper‼️‼️Special issue of the Journal of Economic Geography on Rethinking the Economic Geography of Global Value Chains edited with Riccardo Crescenzi academic.oup.com/joeg/pages/g...

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Call for Papers - Special Issue

Rethinking the Economic Geography of Global Value Chains: theory, methods, data and policy Guest Editors: Riccardo Crescenzi (LSE), UK Roberta Rabellott

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NBER @nber.org · 02/01/2025

Outlining several unexplored areas in international trade, from Pol Antràs www.nber.org/papers/w33312

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Christian Zimmermann @czimm-economist.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

New RePEc feature for Bluesky! Get new paper announcements from NEP in 100 different fields. Find them all on this starter pack bsky.app/starter-pack... and soon the links to the accounts will be at nep.repec.org #RePEc #EconSky

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NEP feeds for new economics papers, by field.

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Marco Sanfilippo @marcosanfilip.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Now that I am reading a lot of exams and theses, a thing about chatGPT et similia is that you know exactly who is doing it completely on their own. However, I am unsure if this is good or bad, as there is a trade-off between doing it without support and bad writing.

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Marco Sanfilippo @marcosanfilip.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Meanwhile in China.."While the pace of Chinese EV sales growth has eased from a post-pandemic frenzy, the forecasts suggest Beijing’s official target, set in 2020, for EVs to account for 50 per cent of car sales by 2035, will be achieved 10 years ahead of schedule..." www.ft.com/content/0ebd...

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China’s EV sales set to overtake traditional cars years ahead of west

Volumes forecast to rise 20% next year, smashing international projections and Beijing’s official targets

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Alberto Bisin @albertobisin.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The UniCredit Foundation (unicreditgroup.eu) has just launched new contests for research grants:

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Asha Sundaram @ashasundaram9.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Excited to launch Global Perspectives on Development Economics open.spotify.com/show/3evFrtc... Conversations with brilliant development economists from LMICs on their journeys & creative solutions to global challenges. Special thanks to CEGA, UC Berkeley! #DevelopmentEconomics #Podcast

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Global Perspectives on Development Economics

Podcast · Asha Sundaram, Senior Lecturer Economics, U Auckland (Audio edits: Maeve Joyce) · Conversations with development economists, researchers/policy practitioners from low and middle income count...

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Tobias Heidland @heidland.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Call for Papers! We are inviting submissions for the GDE conference. If your research is on developing countries, send us your papers. The GDE is international and anyone is welcome, it is simply called "German" development conference because it is organized by DEU, AUT, and SUI universities.

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Bruno Martorano @bmartorano.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

🚨 Do different types of inequality shape preferences for redistribution? Can understanding that inequality is avoidable (i.e., no trade-off between equity & efficiency) boost support for redistribution? I. Günther and I (@unumerit.bsky.social) explore this in our JEBO paper A 🧵: bit.ly/49tmpOz

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

It goes without saying that this is stupid, and I wonder what set it off. Was there a segment on Fox News? But I thought it might be worth a thread explaining what Trump (and, to be fair, some other international leaders) don't get about international money 1/

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