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Daniele Girardi
@dgirardi.bsky.social
· Jul 20
Our Local Projections Difference-in-Differences (LP-DiD) paper is out in the Journal of Applied Econometrics.
LP-DiD is a convenient, flexible and computationally fast framework for estimating DiD using simple well-specified regressions....
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LP-DiD is a convenient, flexible and computationally fast framework for estimating DiD using simple well-specified regressions....
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The inaugural article of Reviews of Economic Literature is fittingly titled
"It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community"
It argues that open access crucially needs to be coupled with a new non-profit publishing model
rel.journals.sup.org/index.php/re...
"It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community"
It argues that open access crucially needs to be coupled with a new non-profit publishing model
rel.journals.sup.org/index.php/re...
November 25, 2025 at 10:29 AM
The inaugural article of Reviews of Economic Literature is fittingly titled
"It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community"
It argues that open access crucially needs to be coupled with a new non-profit publishing model
rel.journals.sup.org/index.php/re...
"It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community"
It argues that open access crucially needs to be coupled with a new non-profit publishing model
rel.journals.sup.org/index.php/re...
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Come work with us in London!
📢 We’re hiring!
King's College London Political Economy is recruiting an Assistant Professor (Lecturer in the UK system) in Economics.
Apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130885-...
Feel free to contact me for information about the role and our department.
@kcl-spe.bsky.social @kingsqpe.bsky.social
King's College London Political Economy is recruiting an Assistant Professor (Lecturer in the UK system) in Economics.
Apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130885-...
Feel free to contact me for information about the role and our department.
@kcl-spe.bsky.social @kingsqpe.bsky.social
Lecturer in Economics | King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Come work with us in London!
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From @philipjcowley.bsky.social - thanks to a happy coincidence we have a much more rigorous than usual understanding of the impact of Keir Starmer's "Island of Strangers" speech. As Cowley puts it "It is not obvious this was the intended outcome"
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
From @philipjcowley.bsky.social - thanks to a happy coincidence we have a much more rigorous than usual understanding of the impact of Keir Starmer's "Island of Strangers" speech. As Cowley puts it "It is not obvious this was the intended outcome"
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📢 We’re hiring!
King's College London Political Economy is recruiting an Assistant Professor (Lecturer in the UK system) in Economics.
Apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130885-...
Feel free to contact me for information about the role and our department.
@kcl-spe.bsky.social @kingsqpe.bsky.social
King's College London Political Economy is recruiting an Assistant Professor (Lecturer in the UK system) in Economics.
Apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130885-...
Feel free to contact me for information about the role and our department.
@kcl-spe.bsky.social @kingsqpe.bsky.social
Lecturer in Economics | King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 9:50 AM
📢 We’re hiring!
King's College London Political Economy is recruiting an Assistant Professor (Lecturer in the UK system) in Economics.
Apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130885-...
Feel free to contact me for information about the role and our department.
@kcl-spe.bsky.social @kingsqpe.bsky.social
King's College London Political Economy is recruiting an Assistant Professor (Lecturer in the UK system) in Economics.
Apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130885-...
Feel free to contact me for information about the role and our department.
@kcl-spe.bsky.social @kingsqpe.bsky.social
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Since Trump’s ‘ceasefire’, Israel killed 900 Palestinians in Gaza. In the West Bank, 691 Palestinians were kidnapped during 1,503 invasions. If the victims had been Israelis, the Western media would have been (rightly) protesting these pogroms. Now? A guilty silence prevails...
Yanis Varoufakis on X: "Since Trump’s ‘ceasefire’, Israel killed 900 Palestinians in Gaza. In the West Bank, 691 Palestinians were kidnapped during 1,503 invasions. If the victims had been Israelis, the Western media would have been (rightly) protesting these pogroms. Now? A guilty silence prevails..." / X
Since Trump’s ‘ceasefire’, Israel killed 900 Palestinians in Gaza. In the West Bank, 691 Palestinians were kidnapped during 1,503 invasions. If the victims had been Israelis, the Western media would have been (rightly) protesting these pogroms. Now? A guilty silence prevails...
x.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Since Trump’s ‘ceasefire’, Israel killed 900 Palestinians in Gaza. In the West Bank, 691 Palestinians were kidnapped during 1,503 invasions. If the victims had been Israelis, the Western media would have been (rightly) protesting these pogroms. Now? A guilty silence prevails...
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
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Commercial academic publishing is bad, and getting worse quickly.
That's why I support the new journal Reviews of Economic Literature - 100% managed by academics and issued by @stanfordpress.bsky.social
First article: "It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community"
That's why I support the new journal Reviews of Economic Literature - 100% managed by academics and issued by @stanfordpress.bsky.social
First article: "It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community"
The journal Reviews of Economic Literature has published its first article! You can read “It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community” now
@pkp.sfu.ca #ReadUP
@pkp.sfu.ca #ReadUP
It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community.
| Reviews of Economic Literature
rel.journals.sup.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Commercial academic publishing is bad, and getting worse quickly.
That's why I support the new journal Reviews of Economic Literature - 100% managed by academics and issued by @stanfordpress.bsky.social
First article: "It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community"
That's why I support the new journal Reviews of Economic Literature - 100% managed by academics and issued by @stanfordpress.bsky.social
First article: "It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community"
Reposted by Daniele Girardi
The genocide continues, in slower pace
Genocide: "Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part"
"[E]ntire neighbourhoods controlled by the IDF have been levelled in less than a month"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Genocide: "Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part"
"[E]ntire neighbourhoods controlled by the IDF have been levelled in less than a month"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in Gaza since ceasefire
Entire neighbourhoods controlled by Israel have been levelled in less than a month, the images show.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The genocide continues, in slower pace
Genocide: "Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part"
"[E]ntire neighbourhoods controlled by the IDF have been levelled in less than a month"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Genocide: "Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part"
"[E]ntire neighbourhoods controlled by the IDF have been levelled in less than a month"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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CfP🗣️: 7th edition of the Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration. 28-29 May 2026, in Rome!
Organised by CEPR/King's College/EBRD/Sapienza
Keynotes are Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi) and Vicky Fouka (Stanford).
Submit your papers: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Deadline 23 Jan.
🤓🔥🍕🍝🍷
Organised by CEPR/King's College/EBRD/Sapienza
Keynotes are Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi) and Vicky Fouka (Stanford).
Submit your papers: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Deadline 23 Jan.
🤓🔥🍕🍝🍷
November 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
CfP🗣️: 7th edition of the Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration. 28-29 May 2026, in Rome!
Organised by CEPR/King's College/EBRD/Sapienza
Keynotes are Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi) and Vicky Fouka (Stanford).
Submit your papers: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Deadline 23 Jan.
🤓🔥🍕🍝🍷
Organised by CEPR/King's College/EBRD/Sapienza
Keynotes are Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi) and Vicky Fouka (Stanford).
Submit your papers: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Deadline 23 Jan.
🤓🔥🍕🍝🍷
Even worse, open access + for profit publishing is a true disaster. Especially in interaction with AI & fake "paper mills" manuscripts.
Maximising open access fees is the new model. It means trying to publish every submission, either at the original journal or another journal of the same publisher.
Maximising open access fees is the new model. It means trying to publish every submission, either at the original journal or another journal of the same publisher.
Pushing for open access is not enough. We need a push to end profit.
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:
a 🧵 1/n
Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
a 🧵 1/n
Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
November 12, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Even worse, open access + for profit publishing is a true disaster. Especially in interaction with AI & fake "paper mills" manuscripts.
Maximising open access fees is the new model. It means trying to publish every submission, either at the original journal or another journal of the same publisher.
Maximising open access fees is the new model. It means trying to publish every submission, either at the original journal or another journal of the same publisher.
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More fundamentally, every active scientist has been brought up in a system where The Drain was already normalized.
This system hasn't always existed. For-profit publishers are a recent invention. Their value proposition has always been awful, and now they are actively eroding trust in science.
5/n
This system hasn't always existed. For-profit publishers are a recent invention. Their value proposition has always been awful, and now they are actively eroding trust in science.
5/n
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
More fundamentally, every active scientist has been brought up in a system where The Drain was already normalized.
This system hasn't always existed. For-profit publishers are a recent invention. Their value proposition has always been awful, and now they are actively eroding trust in science.
5/n
This system hasn't always existed. For-profit publishers are a recent invention. Their value proposition has always been awful, and now they are actively eroding trust in science.
5/n
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For-profit journals are supposed to improve research quality, yet they're perversely incentivized to churn out whatever they can monetize. This was happening before AI (see Strain: bit.ly/43gJPUM), and AI will make it worse.
It's insane that we volunteer our time to help them do so.
4/n
It's insane that we volunteer our time to help them do so.
4/n
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
For-profit journals are supposed to improve research quality, yet they're perversely incentivized to churn out whatever they can monetize. This was happening before AI (see Strain: bit.ly/43gJPUM), and AI will make it worse.
It's insane that we volunteer our time to help them do so.
4/n
It's insane that we volunteer our time to help them do so.
4/n
Commercial academic publishing is bad, and getting worse quickly.
That's why I support the new journal Reviews of Economic Literature - 100% managed by academics and issued by @stanfordpress.bsky.social
First article: "It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community"
That's why I support the new journal Reviews of Economic Literature - 100% managed by academics and issued by @stanfordpress.bsky.social
First article: "It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community"
The journal Reviews of Economic Literature has published its first article! You can read “It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community” now
@pkp.sfu.ca #ReadUP
@pkp.sfu.ca #ReadUP
It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community.
| Reviews of Economic Literature
rel.journals.sup.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Commercial academic publishing is bad, and getting worse quickly.
That's why I support the new journal Reviews of Economic Literature - 100% managed by academics and issued by @stanfordpress.bsky.social
First article: "It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community"
That's why I support the new journal Reviews of Economic Literature - 100% managed by academics and issued by @stanfordpress.bsky.social
First article: "It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community"
Reposted by Daniele Girardi
The journal Reviews of Economic Literature has published its first article! You can read “It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community” now
@pkp.sfu.ca #ReadUP
@pkp.sfu.ca #ReadUP
It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community.
| Reviews of Economic Literature
rel.journals.sup.org
October 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The journal Reviews of Economic Literature has published its first article! You can read “It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community” now
@pkp.sfu.ca #ReadUP
@pkp.sfu.ca #ReadUP
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After a video seemed to show Israeli soldiers abusing a Palestinian prisoner, Israel has... arrested the lawyer who authorised the release of the video www.ft.com/content/0456...
Israeli military’s former top lawyer arrested over leaked prisoner video
Surveillance footage showed alleged abuse of Palestinian inmate at notorious Israeli prison
www.ft.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
After a video seemed to show Israeli soldiers abusing a Palestinian prisoner, Israel has... arrested the lawyer who authorised the release of the video www.ft.com/content/0456...
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This weeks post: How the reaction to a football ban showed how our politicians and media have become trapped in right wing Islamophobic narratives and detached from the majority of voters mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/10/how-...
Within 5 hours leaders of the 4 main parties had condemned the ban.
Within 5 hours leaders of the 4 main parties had condemned the ban.
How the reaction to a football ban showed how our politicians and media have become trapped in right wing Islamophobic narratives and detached from the majority of voters
In the weeks before the Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters ban was announced, Conservative party leader-in-waiting Robert Jenrick declared that ...
mainlymacro.blogspot.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:08 AM
This weeks post: How the reaction to a football ban showed how our politicians and media have become trapped in right wing Islamophobic narratives and detached from the majority of voters mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/10/how-...
Within 5 hours leaders of the 4 main parties had condemned the ban.
Within 5 hours leaders of the 4 main parties had condemned the ban.
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Exclusive: In an open letter, Israeli ex-officials, Jewish artists and intellectuals say ‘unconscionable’ actions in Gaza amount to genocide and call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel via @jgedeon.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel
Exclusive: In an open letter, Israeli ex-officials, artists and intellectuals say ‘unconscionable’ actions in Gaza amount to genocide
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Exclusive: In an open letter, Israeli ex-officials, Jewish artists and intellectuals say ‘unconscionable’ actions in Gaza amount to genocide and call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel via @jgedeon.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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"That’s the quiet corruption corroding modern philanthropy: the ability to give as a license to impose one’s will. It’s a kind of moral laundering." -- Laurene Powell Jobs www.wsj.com/us-news/laur...
Essay | Laurene Powell Jobs: Beware of Philanthropists Who Want Control in Exchange for Their Giving
True generosity flows quietly to communities that already know what they need, building capacity not dependency.
www.wsj.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"That’s the quiet corruption corroding modern philanthropy: the ability to give as a license to impose one’s will. It’s a kind of moral laundering." -- Laurene Powell Jobs www.wsj.com/us-news/laur...
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Reject the ongoing censorship of student media on our campuses!
“Administrative efforts to subordinate campus journalism to public relations are inconsistent with the mission of higher education to provide a space of intellectual exploration and debate”
—Hank Reichman, in a new Academe Blog post
“Administrative efforts to subordinate campus journalism to public relations are inconsistent with the mission of higher education to provide a space of intellectual exploration and debate”
—Hank Reichman, in a new Academe Blog post
October 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Reject the ongoing censorship of student media on our campuses!
“Administrative efforts to subordinate campus journalism to public relations are inconsistent with the mission of higher education to provide a space of intellectual exploration and debate”
—Hank Reichman, in a new Academe Blog post
“Administrative efforts to subordinate campus journalism to public relations are inconsistent with the mission of higher education to provide a space of intellectual exploration and debate”
—Hank Reichman, in a new Academe Blog post
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Another way of looking at this same picture: The euro zone is a system that use the leverage of a central bank outside the control of national governments to force deep austerity on countries like Spain, which sent them into deep depressions that created fiscal deficits that didn't previously exist.
The Euro zone is a system where fiscally responsible countries subsidize chronically irresponsible ones like Italy & Spain. This happens via open-ended, no-strings-attached transfers by way of joint EU debt issuance and periodic ECB yield caps. A system that will fail because incentives are broken.
October 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Another way of looking at this same picture: The euro zone is a system that use the leverage of a central bank outside the control of national governments to force deep austerity on countries like Spain, which sent them into deep depressions that created fiscal deficits that didn't previously exist.
Reposted by Daniele Girardi
UK privatises water, lets financiers turn it into an asset class, extract billions, pollute our rivers and now Labour government
may let them pollute for another 15 (!!!) years instead of nationalising Thames Water?
incredible.
may let them pollute for another 15 (!!!) years instead of nationalising Thames Water?
incredible.
October 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
UK privatises water, lets financiers turn it into an asset class, extract billions, pollute our rivers and now Labour government
may let them pollute for another 15 (!!!) years instead of nationalising Thames Water?
incredible.
may let them pollute for another 15 (!!!) years instead of nationalising Thames Water?
incredible.
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Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.
Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.
Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.
October 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.
Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.
Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.
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For anyone who's published a book. (Source: www.alcs.co.uk/news/the-lat...)
September 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
For anyone who's published a book. (Source: www.alcs.co.uk/news/the-lat...)
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New argument against AI regulation just dropped. Checkmate, atheists.
www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...
www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...
September 24, 2025 at 6:57 AM
New argument against AI regulation just dropped. Checkmate, atheists.
www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...
www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...
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📕My new book 'Debt and the Future of Workers' (@brisunipress.bsky.social) is now up for pre-order!
If you are interested to learn why organizing around #debt is as crucial as organizing at #work, see more details below:
📰 25% off via BUP newsletter
#Debt #Work #Financialization #Booksky
If you are interested to learn why organizing around #debt is as crucial as organizing at #work, see more details below:
📰 25% off via BUP newsletter
#Debt #Work #Financialization #Booksky
September 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
📕My new book 'Debt and the Future of Workers' (@brisunipress.bsky.social) is now up for pre-order!
If you are interested to learn why organizing around #debt is as crucial as organizing at #work, see more details below:
📰 25% off via BUP newsletter
#Debt #Work #Financialization #Booksky
If you are interested to learn why organizing around #debt is as crucial as organizing at #work, see more details below:
📰 25% off via BUP newsletter
#Debt #Work #Financialization #Booksky