Pierre-Louis Vézina
@plvezina.bsky.social
Economist at King's College London. Trade, development, migration, political madness, grand corruption. [email protected]
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Vietnam's solar boom was built on three key pillars:
1⃣ Foreign direct investment (FDI) (mostly from China)
2⃣ Access to subsidised Chinese inputs
3⃣ Productivity spillovers from multinationals to domestic suppliers.
Learn more ⤵️
1⃣ Foreign direct investment (FDI) (mostly from China)
2⃣ Access to subsidised Chinese inputs
3⃣ Productivity spillovers from multinationals to domestic suppliers.
Learn more ⤵️
December 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Vietnam's solar boom was built on three key pillars:
1⃣ Foreign direct investment (FDI) (mostly from China)
2⃣ Access to subsidised Chinese inputs
3⃣ Productivity spillovers from multinationals to domestic suppliers.
Learn more ⤵️
1⃣ Foreign direct investment (FDI) (mostly from China)
2⃣ Access to subsidised Chinese inputs
3⃣ Productivity spillovers from multinationals to domestic suppliers.
Learn more ⤵️
Yeah tough tradeoffs: swallow your pride, solve the country's problems with a silver bullet.
👏🏽"We must all now confront the reality that the Brexit deal significantly hurt our economy. We have to keep reducing frictions. We have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU. And we have to be grown up about it. To accept that it will require trade-offs."👏🏽
Music to my ears. ~AA
Music to my ears. ~AA
December 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Yeah tough tradeoffs: swallow your pride, solve the country's problems with a silver bullet.
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A global boom in solar panels is powering the world's clean energy transition, and Vietnam has emerged as a solar panel manufacturing success story.
But how exactly did Vietnam achieve this export success? Today's article has the full story ⤵️
But how exactly did Vietnam achieve this export success? Today's article has the full story ⤵️
December 1, 2025 at 10:25 AM
A global boom in solar panels is powering the world's clean energy transition, and Vietnam has emerged as a solar panel manufacturing success story.
But how exactly did Vietnam achieve this export success? Today's article has the full story ⤵️
But how exactly did Vietnam achieve this export success? Today's article has the full story ⤵️
And presenting this work on solar panel manufacturing at the Vietnam Firms and Labour Markets Online Seminar TODAY! See thread 👇 Registration link: share.google/Spbr1BnURaeB...
December 1, 2025 at 10:15 AM
And presenting this work on solar panel manufacturing at the Vietnam Firms and Labour Markets Online Seminar TODAY! See thread 👇 Registration link: share.google/Spbr1BnURaeB...
We got a VoxDev column out! ==> Meng Yu Ngov, Pierre-Louis Vézina, Trang Thu Tran & Gaurav Nayyar show that Vietnam's solar boom was built on three key pillars: voxdev.org/topic/energy...
December 1, 2025 at 10:14 AM
We got a VoxDev column out! ==> Meng Yu Ngov, Pierre-Louis Vézina, Trang Thu Tran & Gaurav Nayyar show that Vietnam's solar boom was built on three key pillars: voxdev.org/topic/energy...
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We have a new tenure-track job in @lsegovernment.bsky.social at AP level (empirical political science, open subfield): jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Please apply and share with colleagues who might be interested!
Assistant Professor in Political Science
Assistant Professor in Political Science,
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November 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
We have a new tenure-track job in @lsegovernment.bsky.social at AP level (empirical political science, open subfield): jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Please apply and share with colleagues who might be interested!
Call for papers: Junior workshop on the Economics of Migration 👇👇👇
With @jeromevalette.bsky.social & Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, we are happy to announce the CfPapers for the
4th edition of the Junior Workshop on the Economics of Migration
on May 26-27, 2026 @uc3meconomics.bsky.social, Spain.
Submit until February 1, 2026 on economig2026.sciencesconf.org
With @jeromevalette.bsky.social & Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, we are happy to announce the CfPapers for the
4th edition of the Junior Workshop on the Economics of Migration
on May 26-27, 2026 @uc3meconomics.bsky.social, Spain.
Submit until February 1, 2026 on economig2026.sciencesconf.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Call for papers: Junior workshop on the Economics of Migration 👇👇👇
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📢 #CallForPapers 7th Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration
CEPR @ebrd.bsky.social King's College London & Sapienza University are co-organising a workshop on 28-29 May 2026 in Rome
Submit by 23 January
cepr.org/events/7th-w...
@micheledimaio.bsky.social @plvezina.bsky.social #EconSky
CEPR @ebrd.bsky.social King's College London & Sapienza University are co-organising a workshop on 28-29 May 2026 in Rome
Submit by 23 January
cepr.org/events/7th-w...
@micheledimaio.bsky.social @plvezina.bsky.social #EconSky
November 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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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
Looking forward to presenting our work on solar panel manufacturing at the Vietnam Firms and Labour Markets Online Seminar on 1 Dec. See thread 👇 Registration link: share.google/Spbr1BnURaeB...
November 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Looking forward to presenting our work on solar panel manufacturing at the Vietnam Firms and Labour Markets Online Seminar on 1 Dec. See thread 👇 Registration link: share.google/Spbr1BnURaeB...
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🚨New working paper: Compositional Effects, Internal Migration and Electoral Outcomes
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#polisciresearch
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#polisciresearch
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
🚨New working paper: Compositional Effects, Internal Migration and Electoral Outcomes
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#polisciresearch
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#polisciresearch
OK that's a good title.
Over the past 3 decades, high-skill migrants from Asia—especially India and China—have transformed the US economy, fueling innovation, tech, higher ed, and healthcare growth, from Gaurav Khanna www.nber.org/papers/w34449
November 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
OK that's a good title.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Econ prof job at King's 🔥🔥🔥
We're hiring a Full Prof in Economics (open-field) at the Econ dept in King's Business School. Come join us in central London - apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/12... #Econsky 1/2
EJM - Econ Job Market
econjobmarket.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Econ prof job at King's 🔥🔥🔥
Nice!!!
New from me:
An interactive data visualization showing billionaire migration: paths from birthplace to most recent residence for > 3,100 of the world’s richest individuals.
Most importantly, fun to play around with; also, useful for thinking about q's re: elites and comparative wealth ineq. 1/5
An interactive data visualization showing billionaire migration: paths from birthplace to most recent residence for > 3,100 of the world’s richest individuals.
Most importantly, fun to play around with; also, useful for thinking about q's re: elites and comparative wealth ineq. 1/5
Billionaire Migration: An Interactive Map
An interactive map of city-level migration flows for 3,106 billionaires from birth to most recent residence.
wesleystubenbord.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Nice!!!
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🆕 From brain drain to brain bridges: How mobile PhD scientists connect home countries to global science
Today on VoxDev w/ Rodrigo Ito @unumerit.bsky.social, Diego Chavarro, Tommaso Ciarli, Robin Cowan (University of Strasbourg) & Fabiana Visentin (Masstricht University): voxdev.org/topic/migrat...
Today on VoxDev w/ Rodrigo Ito @unumerit.bsky.social, Diego Chavarro, Tommaso Ciarli, Robin Cowan (University of Strasbourg) & Fabiana Visentin (Masstricht University): voxdev.org/topic/migrat...
From brain drain to brain bridges: How mobile PhD scientists connect home countries to global science
Internationally trained PhDs are often seen as a ‘brain drain’, but evidence from Colombia suggests that they act as crucial bridges – connecting local researchers to the global scientific community.
voxdev.org
October 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
🆕 From brain drain to brain bridges: How mobile PhD scientists connect home countries to global science
Today on VoxDev w/ Rodrigo Ito @unumerit.bsky.social, Diego Chavarro, Tommaso Ciarli, Robin Cowan (University of Strasbourg) & Fabiana Visentin (Masstricht University): voxdev.org/topic/migrat...
Today on VoxDev w/ Rodrigo Ito @unumerit.bsky.social, Diego Chavarro, Tommaso Ciarli, Robin Cowan (University of Strasbourg) & Fabiana Visentin (Masstricht University): voxdev.org/topic/migrat...
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Stalin’s forced deportation of educated ‘enemies of the people’ inadvertently concentrated human capital in Gulag towns, fostering inter-generational prosperity and long-term development despite the destructive intent of the repression.
Read today's article to learn more:
Read today's article to learn more:
October 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Stalin’s forced deportation of educated ‘enemies of the people’ inadvertently concentrated human capital in Gulag towns, fostering inter-generational prosperity and long-term development despite the destructive intent of the repression.
Read today's article to learn more:
Read today's article to learn more:
A new VoxDev piece on our work on enemies of the people. While we ended up writing about how human capital can foster growth, we've learned a lot while working on this about the atrocities authoritarians are capable of... and this makes the current groundwork of the US regime scary as hell...
🆕 Enemies of the people: How Stalin’s Gulags shaped Russia
Gerhard Toews (New Economic School) & Pierre-Louis Vézina (King's College London) discuss how Stalin’s forced deportation of educated ‘enemies of the people’ inadvertently concentrated human capital in Gulag towns: https://ow.ly/Eceb50Xch32
Gerhard Toews (New Economic School) & Pierre-Louis Vézina (King's College London) discuss how Stalin’s forced deportation of educated ‘enemies of the people’ inadvertently concentrated human capital in Gulag towns: https://ow.ly/Eceb50Xch32
Enemies of the people: How Stalin’s Gulags shaped Russia
Stalin’s forced deportation of educated ‘enemies of the people’ inadvertently concentrated human capital in Gulag towns, fostering inter-generational prosperity and long-term development despite the destructive intent of the repression.
ow.ly
October 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
A new VoxDev piece on our work on enemies of the people. While we ended up writing about how human capital can foster growth, we've learned a lot while working on this about the atrocities authoritarians are capable of... and this makes the current groundwork of the US regime scary as hell...
This. Stop focusing on how to appeal to voters and focus on how to use the justice system and the media to root out racism/populism/authoritarianism.
“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism
October 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
This. Stop focusing on how to appeal to voters and focus on how to use the justice system and the media to root out racism/populism/authoritarianism.
A remarkable story: Omar Yaghi, born a refugee in Jordan, came to America as a teen to attend community college and later earned a Ph.D. and the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Immigrants have won 40% of the U.S. Nobel Prizes in science since 2000. @mclem.org
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
Half Of The 2025 U.S. Nobel Prize Winners In Science Are Immigrants
Three of the six U.S. winners in the 2025 Nobel Prize science categories immigrated to the United States, one of them as a teenager.
www.forbes.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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New Paper 📢📝
"Asylum Seekers, New Businesses, and Job Creation"
by @zohalhessami.bsky.social @sebastianschirner.bsky.social
& Clara Wobbe
Have a look at how asylum seekers affect host-country economies from a supply and demand perspective.
🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...
"Asylum Seekers, New Businesses, and Job Creation"
by @zohalhessami.bsky.social @sebastianschirner.bsky.social
& Clara Wobbe
Have a look at how asylum seekers affect host-country economies from a supply and demand perspective.
🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...
October 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
New Paper 📢📝
"Asylum Seekers, New Businesses, and Job Creation"
by @zohalhessami.bsky.social @sebastianschirner.bsky.social
& Clara Wobbe
Have a look at how asylum seekers affect host-country economies from a supply and demand perspective.
🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...
"Asylum Seekers, New Businesses, and Job Creation"
by @zohalhessami.bsky.social @sebastianschirner.bsky.social
& Clara Wobbe
Have a look at how asylum seekers affect host-country economies from a supply and demand perspective.
🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...
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Russia has become the largest single-country buyer of Ecuadorian bananas, purchasing 1.5 million metric tons during 2024 and the first half of 2025.
How is it related to global diversification of cocaine trafficking routes? 🤔
How is it related to global diversification of cocaine trafficking routes? 🤔
September 29, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Russia has become the largest single-country buyer of Ecuadorian bananas, purchasing 1.5 million metric tons during 2024 and the first half of 2025.
How is it related to global diversification of cocaine trafficking routes? 🤔
How is it related to global diversification of cocaine trafficking routes? 🤔
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Kicking off this year's seminar series with Lucy Barnes (@lucy-barnes.bsky.social) on "Economic Orientations and Preferences Over Redistributive Taxation."
Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.
Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.
🔥 Excited to share our 2025/26 QPE Seminar lineup!
Externals welcome. Please get in touch at [email protected] or [email protected].
📅 Full schedule 👇
Externals welcome. Please get in touch at [email protected] or [email protected].
📅 Full schedule 👇
September 29, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Kicking off this year's seminar series with Lucy Barnes (@lucy-barnes.bsky.social) on "Economic Orientations and Preferences Over Redistributive Taxation."
Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.
Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.
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An algorithm. Benevolent algorithms are underrated.
My experience on Twitter pre-2022 was fantastic because the algorithm enabled me to see useful content and placed my posts in the feeds of people I hoped would see it.
My experience on Twitter pre-2022 was fantastic because the algorithm enabled me to see useful content and placed my posts in the feeds of people I hoped would see it.
If you could change one thing about Bluesky, what would it be?
September 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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For those interested, here's a thread explaining the paper's core ideas 👇 @aeajournals.bsky.social 1/14
Forthcoming in the AER: "Strategic Voting in Two-Party Legislative Elections" by Niall Hughes. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Strategic Voting in Two-Party Legislative Elections
(Forthcoming Article) - I study multi-district legislative elections with two parties and two binary dimensions
of policy. Strategic voters focus on the dimension where their district is most
likely t...
www.aeaweb.org
September 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
For those interested, here's a thread explaining the paper's core ideas 👇 @aeajournals.bsky.social 1/14