And that's a wrap for the second Melbourne Empirical Trade Conference! Thanks to Paola Conconi for a wonderful keynote! Please keep an eye out for future editions of the conference. @lpuzzell.bsky.social Maria Ptashkina @mcphilman.bsky.social @besedes.bsky.social

You can probably do it using the concordance Justin Pierce and Peter Schott created. #3 at sompks4.github.io/sub_data.html

Another great RMET conference in the books! Looking forward to the next one. Thanks to all who came. And Eugene Beaulieu for all the work on local logistics and more.

What kind of conference do you want to go to? One with great papers, a fantastic keynote (@emilyjblanchard.bsky.social‬), and lunch at the top of a mountain! Many thanks to the organizers (@besedes.bsky.social‬) and participants for a fantastic time www.freit.org/RMET/2025/Pr...

Deadline to submit a paper to the Melbourne Empirical Trade Conference is this Friday, April 18: www.freit.org/METC/2025/

The first METC at UniMelbourne was a great success. Thanks to @lpuzzell.bsky.social and @rnahsan.bsky.social for hosting and organizing. Join us for the 2025 edition. @abbernard.bsky.social

Submit a paper to RMET and join us in Banff, Canada, May 23-25. Submissions due January 17,2025. Emily Blanchard will give a keynote talk.

www.freit.org/RMET/2025/

Congrats!

Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger, Kalina Manova and I are organizing the 8th Workshop on International Economic Networks (WIEN) to take place in beautiful Vienna on June 26-7, 2024. Send us a paper for consideration! We're particularly keen on receiving submissions from young scholars.

Here is my attempt to systematically think through possible consequences of new Trump tariffs

Suppose US imposes 20% tariff on all goods imports

Effect 1: higher prices for goods imported into US. This hurts US consumers by raising living costs 1/

I am very honored and grateful to be giving the Peter Neary Plenary talk at ETSG this Saturday.

A few days left to submit a paper to FREIT’s newest conference, METC 2024, and spend a part of December in Melbourne, www.freit.org/METC/2024

We use info on air highways to calculate the distance actually flown by planes and then take advantage of restricted airspace to obtain a time-varying measure of distance. This allows us to estimate the distance coefficient in panel gravity estimation.

We use a natural experiment from conflicted airspaces over Ukraine and other countries to identify the role of transport costs in gravity models. Distance has a negative effect on airborne trade, mostly through the extensive margin.

Great to see "Fly the unfriendly skies: The role of transport costs in gravity models of trade" with Jing Chu and Antu Panini Murshid published by JIE: doi.org/10.1016/j.ji....

I made a Starter Pack of academic economists who work on International Trade go.bsky.app/G3dqAYg

Happy to announce FREIT’s nee conference, the Melbourne Empirical Trade Conference to be held at the University of Melbourne Dec 12-14, 2024. CFP is out, www.freit.org/METC/2024. Thanks to Laura Puzzello and Reshad Ahsan for making it possible.

Last day to submit to the Sardinia Empirical Trade Conference, 9/26-28, 2024, www.freit.org/SETC/2024/