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Sergio Ocampo

@socampdi.bsky.social
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Econ Assistant Professor working on wealth inequality and macroeconomics University of Western Ontario Colombian 🇨🇴 + UMN PHD sites.google.com/site/sergiocampod

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CESifo @cesifo.org · 23/07/2026
New Paper Alert📢 "Taxing Wealth Unlocks Capital Gains: An Efficiency Rationale for Wealth Taxes " by @socampdi.bsky.social, Guttorm Schjelderup & Floris Zoutman Find out how wealth taxation can unlock capital, eliminating the distortion on investors’ portfolio choice!💰 🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...
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Sergio Ocampo @socampdi.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Can wealth taxes make capital markets more efficient❓ Realization-based capital-gains taxes can lock investors into low-return assets We show a properly designed wealth tax unlocks capital New paper w/Guttorm Schjelderup & Floris Zoutman @nhhecon.bsky.social @cesifo.org: ssrn.com/abstract=712...
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Sergio Ocampo @socampdi.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
How can we account for inequality when measuring economic mobility❓ Many mobility measures focus on rank changes across generations or time. But ranks only capture relative positions regardless of income/wealth differences. New paper w/ @mcgeeconomics.bsky.social: ifs.org.uk/publications...
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Rory McGee @mcgeeconomics.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Nice thread by my coauthor @socampdi.bsky.social on a short paper connecting mobility and inequality measurement
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Sergio Ocampo @socampdi.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
How can we account for inequality when measuring economic mobility❓ Many mobility measures focus on rank changes across generations or time. But ranks only capture relative positions regardless of income/wealth differences. New paper w/ @mcgeeconomics.bsky.social: ifs.org.uk/publications...
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Sergio Ocampo @socampdi.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
🚨We are Hiring at the University of Western Ontario🚨 We have 3️⃣ tenure-track positions: •2 Open-Field •1 linked to our Masters in Financial Economics (open to various fields) Come work with us in 🇨🇦! Share with your students! 📄 Open-Field uwo.ca/facultyrelat... 📄 MFE Position uwo.ca/facultyrelat...
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Sergio Ocampo @socampdi.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
We are hosting the Canadian Macroeconomics Study Group at @westernu.ca! This year's keynote is Kjetil Storesletten @hellerhurwicz.bsky.social Program 👉 baxter-robinson.github.io/CMSG2025_Pro... Registration is 100 CAD (70 for students!) 🔗https://economics.uwo.ca/about-us/workshops/index.html
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Tim Kehoe 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦 @tkehoe.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
New study compares economic experiences of China and Mexico after they opened to international trade and foreign investment by Xing Xu, PhD student at UMN Econ ‪ @umn-econ.bsky.social‬ and research analyst at Minneapolis Fed @minneapolisfed.bsky.social and me: www.minneapolisfed.org/research/sta...
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Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) @restatjournal.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Monetary policy shocks affect more cities with low income per capita, both in prices and income. Just Accepted new paper by Juan Herreño @juanherreno.bsky.social‬ and Mathieu Pedemonte @mathpedemonte.bsky.social‬ zurl.co/njzAc
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Barbara Biasi @barbarabiasi.com · 26/06/2025
Hello #econtwitter community: if any of you has been teaching any of my papers, would you mind shooting me a DM? I would hugely appreciate that 🙏 and thanks in advance!
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Dominic Smith @dominicsmith.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Tomorrow I will be finishing a 321 mile bike ride from Cleveland to Cincinnati to raise money for Gigi's Playhouse Cleveland in memory of my Aunt, Amy Jo Smith. Amy died in March and Gigi’s Playhouse was her second home since they moved in nearby. support.gigisplayhouse.org/gigifit-acce...
Me holding a bike and screaming with strava text showing a completed 124 mile ride for day 2 of my bike ride.
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Dominic Smith @dominicsmith.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Next week I will be biking 321 miles from Cleveland to Cincinnati in memory of my Aunt Amy Jo. I am raising money for a nonprofit that supports people with Down Syndrome that was incredibly helpful to my Aunt. support.gigisplayhouse.org/gigifit-acce...
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GiGiFIT Acceptance Challenge 2025 - 321, Go for Amy Jo: Ride Across Ohio for Acceptance
This July I am riding 321 miles from Cleveland to Cincinnati with 2 other people to raise money for Gigi's Playhouse Cleveland in memory of my Aunt, Amy Jo Smith. Biking and Amy: Two of Amy's great...
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Ben Waber @bwaber.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Next was a pair of talks by Hugo Lhuillier (local root of wage inequality) and @socampdi.bsky.social (modeling wealth inequality) at @nber.org www.youtube.com/live/AUIIyL-... (3/6)
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Inequality and Macroeconomics
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Notre Dame Economics @ndecon.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Former graduate student Carlos Rondon Moreno and our colleague Christiane Baumeister catching up at a Central Bank of Chile conference:
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Tim Kehoe 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦 @tkehoe.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
“Artificial Intelligence and Learning the Macroeconomy: Workshop in Honor of Albert Marcet,” BSE Summer Forum, 19-20 June 2025.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 13/06/2025
Welcome, @umn-econ.bsky.social! Great to have you posting on here. #EconSky
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NPR @npr.org · 13/06/2025
Copenhagen is expected to receive 30% more rainfall by the end of the century. The city is responding with a massive long-term adaptation plan. n.pr/4dYZOvs
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Copenhagen is adapting to a warmer world with rain tunnels and 'sponge parks'
Copenhagen is expected to receive 30% more rainfall by the end of the century. The city is responding with a massive long-term adaptation plan.
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UMN Economics @umn-econ.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Professor VV Chari in the @startribune.com on the legislation that recently passed the U.S. House: “We’re now out of the pandemic. This is a time for us to pursue perhaps a more responsible fiscal policy, but we seem to be going in exactly the wrong direction.” www.startribune.com/the-fiscal-i...
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The fiscal impact of the bill will be big, but it won’t be beautiful
Trillions estimated to be added to a federal debt that’s already unsustainable.
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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 11/06/2025
Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called: "How to Write a Title and Abstract" Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles. #EconSky #AcademicSky
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
Corey Wiley on Twitter writes: "You don’t get it. 
Foundational immigration law is morally just and has been established over millennia. Disrespecting these rules and ideals is very offensive to folks who highly value civilized society"
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
This is incredible
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Roxana Hadadi @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
from me!
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Rising Concentration of Household Shopping, Superstar Firms, and Implications for Retail Markups" by Justin H. Leung and Zhonglin Li. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Rising Concentration of Household Shopping, Superstar Firms, and Implications for Retail Markups
(Forthcoming Article) - This paper documents an increase in concentration of household shopping in the US retail sector from 2004-2019. Despite a growing number of stores, households visit fewer store...
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Paul Raschky @raschky.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
We are hiring! We are seeking expressions of interest for appointment as Full Professor in the Department of Economics at Monash University. DM me if you have questions. econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
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EJM - Econ Job Market
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Johannes Buggle @jcbuggle.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
We are opening three full professor positions in beautiful Innsbruck!
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Sergio Ocampo @socampdi.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Checkout @1954swilliamson.bsky.social analysis of *stablecoins* and the implications of the GENIUS act. Steve provides a straightforward understanding of the main issues👇
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Stephen Williamson @1954swilliamson.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
1/Krugman's piece is a useful summary of the implications of the GENIUS Act, which sets up a legal framework for stablecoins. To add to this, a stablecoin is basically a bank. Like all banks, it holds assets, and issues liabilities intended to ... paulkrugman.substack.com/p/digital-co...
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Digital Corruption Takes Over DC
Time to call crypto what it is: A criminal enterprise
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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The tragic landslide in Blatten gives me the excuse to tell you the story of how we found out Ice Ages existed. It's a cool story and the most important bit is rather similar to what's happening now.
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
An emerging narrative on the right is that international students take seats away from deserving domestic students - a zero sum thinking about what universities do and their function 1/
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Mauricio Romero @marome1.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
In the most recent issue of @restatjournal.bsky.social (direct.mit.edu/rest/article...), we (Kaspar Wuthrich and @karthik-econ.bsky.social) provide guidance on how to analyze and design experiments with factorial designs (or cross-cuts). A 🧵 below:
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Carlos Rondón-Moreno @charlieecon.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
What did we find? This combination – not quite knowing if good/bad times are permanent AND having borrowing limits – can significantly increase economic instability. It can lead to "overborrowing" and make financial crises more frequent.
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Carlos Rondón-Moreno @charlieecon.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
🚨 Excited to share insights from a paper I co-authored with @juanherreno.bsky.social on why emerging economies often face financial crises or "Sudden Stops"! Just published in Journal of International Economics (@jintlecon.bsky.social ) 📝 Link: shorturl.at/JdJhr #Econsky #Macroeconomics
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Marina von Neumann Whitman has passed A remarkable woman I was fortunate to be her colleague First woman on the Council of Economic Advisers (‘72-‘73) in a life of many firsts en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_...
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Marina von Neumann Whitman - Wikipedia
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Stephen Williamson @1954swilliamson.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Next year's recruiting season in economics is going to be dismal.
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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
😂 We recently published a paper which we could have started with: "this paper saw 2 wars, a pandemics, a trade war, 2 economic crises, the return of inflation, 6 troubled elections, 2 divorces, a wedding, 3 births, 6 moves in 5 countries"
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Sergio Ocampo @socampdi.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
It is an #AWSOME day for us at Western! We are hosting the Annual Workshop of Southwestern Ontario Macro Economists! Program👇
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Raniero Mancinelli, 86, has been a tailor for about 70 years. He made the robes that welcomed the Pope today. You can read about him in the National Catholic Reporter (check the links in the IG handles below). IG sistersreport and ncronline
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Forthcoming in AEJ: Macroeconomics: "Optimism about Graduation and College Financial Aid" by Emily G. Moschini, Gajendran Raveendranathan, and Ming Xu. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Optimism about Graduation and College Financial Aid
(Forthcoming Article) - In the United States, college dropout risk is sizable. We provide new empirical evidence that beliefs about the likelihood of earning a bachelor’s degree predict college enroll...
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Shengwu Li @shengwuli.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Gale and Shapley (1962)
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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
There already exists a published paper!
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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
From the archives: how much was history of economics still taught in US economics graduate programs in 1989. Are your students more creative and reflexive now that close to 0% of them are offered a class in history of economics? #econsky
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Tim Kehoe 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦 @tkehoe.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Trump's tariffs from viewpoint of Spanish Canadian economist Pau Pujolas @paupujolas.bsky.social: "I saw a message from Timothy Kehoe, my mentor and an economist at the University of Minnesota. He wrote, 'You’re famous—and I don’t think you’re going to like it.'" torontolife.com/city/it-felt...
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"It felt like vertigo": The White House used this economist's research to justify tariffs. They couldn't have got it more wrong - Toronto Life
McMaster professor Pau Pujolas shares the story behind a Trump administration reading-comprehension fail
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Heller-Hurwicz Economics Institute @hellerhurwicz.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The 2025 Spring Roundtable was a success! Many undergraduate students presented their impactful research. A special thank you to Dr. Adriana Kugler from the Federal Reserve and Dr. Juan Pablo Nicolini from the Minneapolis Fed for their engaging presentation. cla.umn.edu/heller-hurwi...
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2025 HHEI Spring Roundtable Featured Federal Reserve’s Dr. Adriana D. Kugler and Showcased Student Research
2025 HHEI Spring Roundtable
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AEA Information @aeainformation.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Congratulations to Stefanie Stantcheva (@s-stantcheva.bsky.social) of @harvard.edu, winner of the 2025 John Bates Clark Medal! #econsky www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/ho...
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Stefanie Stantcheva, Clark Medalist 2025
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Thomas Drechsel @tdecon.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Come and see Amy Handlan present her research on 'text shocks and monetary surprises' this Friday I am looking forward to moderating the event
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Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Very sad to hear that Pat Bajari has died. cla.umn.edu/economics/ne...
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Remembering Patrick L. Bajari (1969-2025)
Patrick L. Bajari was a pioneer spanning the academic and business worlds.
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Paolo G. Piacquadio @pgpiacquadio.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
WP alert (with @frikknesje.bsky.social): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... How to evaluate policies affecting future generations? Time and inequality attitudes are essential. By disentangling these attitudes, we better understand tradeoffs and unveil plenty of tractable criteria. #econsky
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Roberto Iacono @robertoiacono.org · 11/04/2025
Have you successfully defended your doctoral thesis and are looking for a postdoc opportunity? Then apply with us at NTNU in Trondheim for a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship! DM if you are interested & want more information. Pls help me to spread the word by reposting. www.ntnu.edu/horizon-euro...
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 10/04/2025
The Chinese government just advised the 250,000 Chinese students attending US colleges to reconsider their decision. That's a big deal for many selective public and private universities that rely on them as a revenue and talent source.
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Chinese Students on U.S. Campuses Are Ensnared in Political Standoff
Some say their visas were revoked this week; Beijing warns other nationals to reconsider study plans in America.
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Sergio Ocampo @socampdi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Help! I want to suggest good (terminal) Masters programs to my undergrads at the University of Western Ontario Any suggestions? I am thinking programs in economics, public policy, finance, and the like.
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