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Chiara Lacava @chiaralac.bsky.social · Aug 31

Thanks everyone, it has been a great edition!

Lisbon Macro Workshop @lisbonmacro.bsky.social · Aug 31

A big thank you to all presenters and discussants for the insightful and productive discussions at this year’s workshop. Looking forward to seeing you all again next year!

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Chiara Lacava @chiaralac.bsky.social · Jul 30

💫Grateful for the chance to work with an amazing team of coauthors: @schoefer.bsky.social Christian Dustmann , Chiara Giannetto, Lorenzo Incoronato, Vincenzo Pezone, Raffaele Saggio,

Looking forward to feedback and discussion!

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Chiara Lacava @chiaralac.bsky.social · Jul 30

Increased wage-setting flexibility is associated with higher firm survival rates in both regions.

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Chiara Lacava @chiaralac.bsky.social · Jul 30

However, these results vary in areas where firms face less labor market competition (in our case in the South vs the Centre-North of Italy): there, opting into contracts with lower wage floors leads to BOTH lower wages and lower employment.

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Chiara Lacava @chiaralac.bsky.social · Jul 30

Collective bargaining shapes labor markets, yet we know little about its effects. In our new WP, we track workers shifted to contracts with lower wage floors: wages fall, but employment rises, suggesting adjustments along the firm's labor demand curve.

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Lisbon Macro Workshop @lisbonmacro.bsky.social · Jul 7

📢 Excited to announce the program for the Lisbon Macro Workshop 2025, taking place August 29–30 at Nova School of Business and Economics
📍 Lisbon
 📅 Aug 29–30 
🔗 nw.ax/l2U

@martacota.bsky.social @jeanne-c.bsky.social

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IEB @fundacioieb.bsky.social · Jun 3

Day 1 of the Workshop on the Economics of Taxation wraps up!
Co-organised by the IEB and @taxobservatory.bsky.social and hosted at @ubeconomics.bsky.social, this two-day event dives into key issues in #taxation.

📷 Today’s keynote: “#Tax Incidence Anomalies” by Youssef Benzarti (UC Santa Barbara)

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EU Tax Observatory @taxobservatory.bsky.social · Jun 3

A fantastic Day 1 at the Workshop on the Economics of Taxation!

From corporate tax & offshore wealth to inheritance, inequality & tax incidence, researchers & PhD students are diving deep into the big questions.

Co-organised with @fundacioieb.bsky.social!

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Chiara Lacava @chiaralac.bsky.social · Jun 3

Great to attend @taxobservatory.bsky.social - @fundacioieb.bsky.social tax workshop! Lot of interesting papers, kudos to the organizers!!

Luca Salvadori @lvsalvadori.bsky.social · Jun 3

Next up at the @taxobservatory.bsky.social - @fundacioieb.bsky.social Workshop @chiaralac.bsky.social with “Local Governors as Tax Enforcers” the Certified Warnings Program raised declared income—and boosted mayors’ re-election chances by 8.9pp. Local tax enforcement works, politically and fiscally.

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Chiara Lacava @chiaralac.bsky.social · May 26

📢 Come work with @armiano.bsky.social and me at Uni Naples Federico II on a project about expectations & labor market choices!

🕓 Sept-Dec 2025
🌐 International applicants welcome
📅 Apply by 17/06/2025

Position 1: rb.gy/9oontj
Position 2: rb.gy/ctpfxt

DM for more info

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Chiara Lacava @chiaralac.bsky.social · May 26

Great to see @haominwang.bsky.social presenting our joint paper on "Working Hours and the Child Penalty in an Equilibrium Household Search Model" with Leo Kaas and
@aledinola.bsky.social at the Bristol Macro Workshop! Thanks to the organizers for putting together such an interesting event

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Berlin School of Economics @bsoeberlin.bsky.social · May 20

🏠📈 Why did house prices in Germany rise much more in some areas than others during the 2009–2018 boom?

📑👥New paper by @leokaas.bsky.social , @georgikocharkov.bsky.social & @syrichasn.bsky.social

🔗 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/about-us/new...

#urbaneconomics #housingpolicy

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Chiara Lacava @chiaralac.bsky.social · Apr 21

Excited to be visiting Cornell University for the next few days!

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Lisbon Macro Workshop @lisbonmacro.bsky.social · Apr 10

The deadline is approaching! Send your paper by Sunday this week!

Lisbon Macro Workshop @lisbonmacro.bsky.social · Mar 21

📢 Calling all macroeconomists! 📢

The 4th Lisbon Macro Workshop is happening on August 29-30! 🇵🇹

✨ Submit your paper by April 13 & join us in Lisbon
🔗 Submit here: hq.ax/l2L

Spread the word!

Org: @jeanne-c.bsky.social @martacota.bsky.social Nic Kozeniauskas, Laszlo Tetenyi @chiaralac.bsky.social

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Lisbon Macro Workshop @lisbonmacro.bsky.social · Mar 21

📢 Calling all macroeconomists! 📢

The 4th Lisbon Macro Workshop is happening on August 29-30! 🇵🇹

✨ Submit your paper by April 13 & join us in Lisbon
🔗 Submit here: hq.ax/l2L

Spread the word!

Org: @jeanne-c.bsky.social @martacota.bsky.social Nic Kozeniauskas, Laszlo Tetenyi @chiaralac.bsky.social

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EU Tax Observatory @taxobservatory.bsky.social · Jan 21

📣 Call for Papers: submission deadline 14 Mar

Workshop on the Economics of Taxation
🗓️ 3-4 June
📍Barcelona

Topics: #CorporateTax, inequality, #OffshoreWealth & more

Keynotes: @dinapomeranz.bsky.social (University of Zurich) & Youssef Benzarti (UC Santa Barbara)

👉 taxobservatory.eu/event/worksh...

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Benjamin Schoefer @schoefer.bsky.social · Dec 23

New paper
w/ @simonjaeger.bsky.social & Suresh Naidu

An attempt at an account of how unions/collective bargaining work and shape wages, across various international settings.

In prep for Handbook of Labor => please email us any feedback!
www.nber.org/papers/w33267
eml.berkeley.edu/~schoefer/sc...

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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · Dec 27

📣 Final reminder: Please don't forget to submit to our Special Issue on Field Experiments in the EER!

Deadline: 31st of December ⏰

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Guest editors: @lergetporer.bsky.social, @michelebelot.bsky.social, @fpeter.bsky.social, @simonwiederhold.bsky.social & myself

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Internazionale (archivio) @mm-internazionale.bsky.social · Dec 27

Cecilia Sala è stata arrestata in Iran
https://www.internazionale.it/notizie/2024/12/27/cecilia-sala-arrestata-iran

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Michele Giannola @giannolamichele.bsky.social · Dec 11

There's still a few weeks left to apply.

Send us your paper and join in Napoli next May!

Michele Giannola @giannolamichele.bsky.social · Nov 23

We are organising a workshop on measurement and survey methods with keynotes by Andrew Caplin (NYU) and Basit Zafar (University of Michigan)

Apply before Jan 15 & join us in Napoli next spring

Please spread the word!

Full details: shorturl.at/YdeXK

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Michele Giannola @giannolamichele.bsky.social · Nov 25

Very happy to host #ESPE2025 @ UniNa!

Apply and join us in Naples in June

David A. Jaeger (econ) @davidajaeger.bsky.social · Nov 25

Really looking forward to the European Society of Population Economics conference in June 2025!

📢Call for Papers #ESPE2025
⏳Submission deadline: February 1, 2025
⚓️Naples, June 12-14, 2025
👉Info: www.espe2025naples.com
🙏Please share!
(H/T Sunčica Vujić)
#EconSky

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Leo Kaas @leokaas.bsky.social · Dec 12

Thank you all for contributing to a great conference!

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Chiara Lacava @chiaralac.bsky.social · Dec 12

David de la Croix's keynote closes the workshop. Jointly with Thomas Baudin, he shows how 18th-century Northern European high-human-capital families escaped the Malthusian trap, shifting from larger to smaller families, prioritizing education of children over quantity.

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Chiara Lacava @chiaralac.bsky.social · Dec 12

Using Danish tax data, Chris Busch and coauthors show that spousal similarity in earnings determines income comovement and shapes how households respond to shocks. Spousal sorting across sectors and occupations is especially relevant to explain household earnings dynamics.

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Mariacristina De Nardi @mdenardi.bsky.social · Dec 11

Looking forward to a great conference program today!

Leo Kaas @leokaas.bsky.social · Dec 11

Good morning from Frankfurt, and welcome to the conference "Macroeconomic Implications of Intra-Household Decision Making". Looking forward to a great program!
drive.google.com/file//1pouuF...

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