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Carlo Galli @cgalli6.bsky.social · Apr 14

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨

1st Madrid Mountain Macro Conference

September 18-19 in the Cercedilla Residence of the Bank of Spain, in the Sierra of Madrid

with Poster Session for PhD students

Application deadline: May 30th

Please share and send your papers!

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Carlo Galli @cgalli6.bsky.social · Apr 9

To all macro PhD students:

We're organising a PhD workshop in beautiful Konstanz in October!

Submission deadline on June 1st.

Please circulate and apply!

Call for papers attached 👇

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Yuriy Gorodnichenko @ygorodnichenko.bsky.social · Mar 5

To those in the US who want to donate $ to #Ukraine, consider these options

National Bank of UKR: bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/...

Humanitarian aid (tax deductible):

Kyiv-Mohyla Foundation of America: www.kmfoundation.org

Kyiv School of Economics: kse.ua/support/dona...

Nova Ukraine: novaukraine.org

NBU Opens Special Account to Raise Funds for Ukraine’s Armed Forces (updated)

  The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The central bank’s decision comes after the Ukrainian gove...

bank.gov.ua

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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · Jan 15

The discussion ending at this tweet is very smart on both sides ( @lugaricano.bsky.social and @shengwuli.bsky.social ), reasonably spicy, and fun to read.

Luis Garicano @lugaricano.bsky.social · Jan 14

I don't think the argument for the price system rests on full information. I think it rests on Hayek 1945, hence precisely on dispersed local knowledge --i said that before. But let's leave it here. I think we clarified quite a bit, and I hope some of our readers (if there are any!) learned a bit.

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Ed Salmon @fogmount.bsky.social · Jan 9

Since the Australian Open won’t do it, I made legible, printable, annotable, space-efficient drawsheets for the main singles draws, with qualifiers placed.

You can download them here: fogmountaintennis.wordpress.com/draws-oops/

Draws & OOPs

Links to printable draws and orders of play for imminent, current, and recent tournaments: Weeks of January 12 and 19: Australian Open (Draw sheets homemade due to useless tournament website) Women…

fogmountaintennis.wordpress.com

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Anna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · Jan 3

Superb paper by Dobbin&Zohar @ #ASSA2025

22% of intergenerational earnings persistence is accounted for by ACCESS to high paying firms (AKM firm effects). A lot of this probably due to networks/connections/discrimination

Data from Israel. Lots more in the paper.

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · Dec 22

Economist when family member ask for stock tip during holiday dinner:

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Carlo Galli @cgalli6.bsky.social · Dec 12

Wow! This is the equivalent of organising a tennis conference on the Wimbledon grounds. How about someone with the right connections do that, pretty please?

David A. Jaeger (econ) @davidajaeger.bsky.social · Nov 27

Are you an applied microeconomist and golfer? Come to Fife & do both! The 1st annual Fife Applied Microeconomics and Golf conference will be held 2-4 June. Golf on Balcomie (Old Tom Morris) and Craighead Links (Gil Hanse). Deadline 15 Jan. Info: applied-microecon.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/fifeamgolf/

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · Dec 4

Just a reminder that @gmcd.bsky.social and @kylefbutts.bsky.social have made an incredible public good describing how to use data.table and fixest to encourage moving from Stata to R!

stata2r.github.io

Translating Stata to R

Learning R coming from Stata

stata2r.github.io

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Carlo Galli @cgalli6.bsky.social · Dec 4

@robinwigglesworth.bsky.social it seems that "electronic" in the article and in the ESM post means a human order sent via an electronic platform rather than the phone, which is quite different from an automatic/algorithmic trade. Could you clarify?

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · Nov 18

Visa stopped posting on X.
Etsy stopped posting on X.
Adobe stopped posting on X.
Android stopped posting on X.
Mastercard stopped posting on X.
McDonald's stopped posting on X.
CVS Pharmacy stopped posting on X.
Walmart stopped posting on X.
Did You?
#cdnpoli #peipoli

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Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social · Oct 18

“The most important question is what is to be achieved. Assuming that Israel can fight its way to Gaza City, which would be the most likely objective of a major incursion, what then?” Another superb essay from Lawrence Freedman.

samf.substack.com/p/israels-st...

Israel's Strategic Crisis

President Biden heads to the Middle East After the crisis caused by being caught by surprise on 7 October, Israel now faces a second crisis as its government struggles to find a strategy to meet its s...

samf.substack.com

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Fenarinarsa @fenarinarsa.com · Oct 3

L'extension Sky Follower Bridge vous permet de retrouver vos follows X sur Bluesky (il y a des faux positifs donc il vous laisse le soin de valider)

Chrome:
chrome.google.com/webstore/det...
Firefox:
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...

Utilisez un mot de passe d'application pour le login BlueSky !

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Carlo Galli @cgalli6.bsky.social · Oct 9

Thanks. Could have definitely come from someone inside the ECB...

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Carlo Galli @cgalli6.bsky.social · Oct 9

Whose words are these?

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · Oct 9

"ECB policymakers consider a spike in Italy's bond yields to be justified by the government's projection of higher deficits, but see it as a warning sign that should cool talk of ending a bond-buying scheme early, six sources said."

Is that already fiscal dominance? www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

Exclusive: ECB sees Italy's spread jump as justified but may cool PEPP talk: sources | Reuters

European Central Bank policymakers consider a spike in Italy's bond yields to be justified by the government's projection of higher deficits, but see it as a warning sign that should cool talk of endi...

www.reuters.com

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