Thanks to everyone for making the 4th @centrefiw.bsky.social workshop @jku-economics.bsky.social a great success again! @ho2604.bsky.social @ineshelmecon.bsky.social @karinmayrdorn.bsky.social

📢 @centrefiw.bsky.social announces its 18. Research Conference ‘International Economics’!

📅 February 19-20, 2026
📍 @wuvienna.bsky.social
🎙️ Keynote: @lionel-fontagne.bsky.social ((University Paris 1, PSE)

📝 Submission deadline: Oct. 31, 2025
CfP ➡️ www.fiw.ac.at/event/18-fiw...

#CallForPapers

Another successful FIW Research Retreat 🏔🥾📚 Many thanks to @centrefiw.bsky.social!

El resultado es mixto

Sin duda, el modelo económico anterior era insostenible, lo que explica la victoria de Milei. Sin embargo, si bien su gobierno logró una estabilización a corto plazo y credibilidad internacional, la aceptación social de este programa sigue muy incierta.

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#Argentinien: Ökonom @pseud0safari.bsky.social über die Wirtschaftspolitik von Präsident Milei, der in Buenos Aires eine Wahlniederlage kassierte: „Während die Inflations- und Armutszahlen verbessert erscheinen, bleibt die gesamte wirtschaftliche Aktivität stagnierend.“
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Looking forward to it! 📚🏔✨️🙌

Nice piece on the possibility of a coalition of the willing around heavy-industry carbon pricing, with quotes from my coauthor @cwolfram.bsky.social, a leader in this conversation.

Talk of a global carbon pricing scheme grows louder ahead of COP30 www.ft.com/content/21b8... via @financialtimes.com

📙 Read the paper here: rethink-gsc.eu/knowledge-jo...

🗞️ Read the press release: rethink-gsc.eu/innovation-c...

No! 🥺

We study how trade policy can reduce global emissions. Unilateral carbon border taxes have limited efficacy at cutting foreign emissions. By contrast, coordinated trade penalties under a climate club prove highly effective. buff.ly/NEE3Uy8

How can FDI support green growth in the EU? Economists @mghodsi.bsky.social, Francesca Guadagno, Chiara Castelli with new insights: Companies invest where they can develop technologies of interest. So host countries should offer strong opportunities for green tech development.
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Honored to present at the Asia Pacific Trade Seminars #APTS2025 at the University of Tokyo 🇯🇵(@utokyoofficial.bsky.social). Huge thanks to the organizers for a fantastic conference, inspiring papers, engaging discussions and brilliant people all around.

-Many thanks to @wiiw.ac.at for the support!

Gravity Rules! ⏬️🍏✨️

Now, at the HS6 🔎 still does!

🚨 GRAVITY for UNDERGRADS🚨

Very happy to share “Gravity for Undergrads” - a Chapter, designed to introduce the gravity model to undergrads and novices in trade. It comes with data and code in Stata & R. I hope it is useful. Gravity rules 💪

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🌞 Good morning from sunny Milan! 🌞

This morning at the #TWINSEEDS WP6-7 Meeting at POLIMI, we’re diving into WP6 scenarios on EU regions, strategic autonomy and COVID-19's impact on #GlobalValueChains.

Exciting talks ahead on recovery funding, strategic tariffs and geopolitical shifts in #EUTrade!

FIW spotlight with Robert Stehrer on the Effects of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) on income and emissions in the EU and globally.

🔗 shorturl.at/Fp2DV

#CBAM #EU @wiiw.ac.at

Hot off the press: New paper by Javier Flórez Mendoza, Oliver Reiter & Robert Stehrer, on the #EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and its effects on #trade, #welfare, #wages, and #CO2 emissions within and outside the EU. 1/2
Download the paper here: ➡️ shorturl.at/ei7bh