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The Janeway Institute, Cambridge @janewayinstitute.bsky.social · 8d

Can we optimise team allocation by taking into account social values and sources of unequal productivity?
Ana Lleó-Bono @econcam.bsky.social explores this question in a NEW JI WP.
➡️ www.janeway.econ.cam.ac.uk/publication/...
#KeynesFund #EconTwitter
@meredith-crowley.bsky.social

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The Janeway Institute, Cambridge @janewayinstitute.bsky.social · 9d

JUST PUBLISHED by Jagjit Chadha et al:
'The Role of Macroprudential Policy in Times of Trouble' which looks at whether macroprudential policies support broader economic stablility, esp the welfare of households.
Read the paper here: bit.ly/48KnG5k

The Janeway Institute, Cambridge @janewayinstitute.bsky.social · 27d

Congrats to JI & Productivity Institute Postdoc Ali Sen who has moved to the Brunel Centre at the University of West England, Bristol as a Research Fellow.

Ali's interests are productivity, structural change, production networks and intangible capital.

sites.google.com/view/aliysen...

The Janeway Institute, Cambridge @janewayinstitute.bsky.social · 28d

🔔Event reminder: Don't forget to register your interest to attend by 15th September!

The Janeway Institute, Cambridge @janewayinstitute.bsky.social · Aug 28

📢'The New Global Economy: Trade Wars & De-dollarisation' is a JI conference taking place on 27-28 Sept in Cambridge with keynotes by:
🎙️Silvana Tenreyro (LSE)
🎙️Oleg Itskhoki (Harvard)
See the full 2 day programme & register interest by 15th Sept here bit.ly/41przs6

The Janeway Institute, Cambridge @janewayinstitute.bsky.social · Sep 5

Congratulations to JI Postdoc Megan Haasbroek who has moved to Oslo this Sept as a postdoctoral researcher at the
BI Norwegian Business School.

Megan is an applied economist w/ interests in international trade, economic geography & development economics.

Find out more:
www.meganhaasbroek.com

The Janeway Institute, Cambridge @janewayinstitute.bsky.social · Sep 4

🎉Congratulations to Léonard Bocquet, a JI Research Fellow, who is joining the Univ of Amsterdam as an Assistant Prof this Sept.

His interests are macroeconomics, labour economics, trade economics & network economics.

Find out more about his work: sites.google.com/view/leonard...

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The Janeway Institute, Cambridge @janewayinstitute.bsky.social · Sep 1

Congratulations to JI & #KeynesFund (Camb) Postdoctoral Researcher Fellow, Caroline Liqui Lung, who joins City St Georges, Univ of London this Sept as a Lecturer (Ass't Prof).

Caroline mainly works on the intersection of Behavioural Economics & Microeconomic Theory.

Find out more: cwliquilung.com

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Kristoffer Berg @kristoberg.bsky.social · Aug 19

I write in @theguardian.com on why a VAT rise in the UK may be quite progressive and may hurt growth less than other taxes would www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Raising VAT rates would let Rachel Reeves fill budget black hole and enable growth | Letters

Letters: Kristoffer Berg says VAT can be progressive, while Anthony Seaton suggests making use of MOT data to tax cars

www.theguardian.com

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The Janeway Institute, Cambridge @janewayinstitute.bsky.social · Sep 1

Final Reminder: Deadline for this Call is tonight - Sept 1 - at 23:59!

The Janeway Institute, Cambridge @janewayinstitute.bsky.social · Aug 21

JI Call for Papers deadline fast approaching: 1 Sept 2025! Apply to join the JI-sponsored Long Run Productivity Conference at Clare College, Cambridge on 20 Nov 2025. Follow this link to apply:
cepr.org/events/long-...

The Janeway Institute, Cambridge @janewayinstitute.bsky.social · Aug 28

Attention Cambridge PhD students: apply by 5th Sept 2025 for the Keynes Fund PhD Small Awards Scheme (or later in the year by 15th March 2026).
Discover all the details on how to apply here: www.keynesfund.econ.cam.ac.uk/phd-awards-s...

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The Janeway Institute, Cambridge @janewayinstitute.bsky.social · Aug 28

📢'The New Global Economy: Trade Wars & De-dollarisation' is a JI conference taking place on 27-28 Sept in Cambridge with keynotes by:
🎙️Silvana Tenreyro (LSE)
🎙️Oleg Itskhoki (Harvard)
See the full 2 day programme & register interest by 15th Sept here bit.ly/41przs6

The Janeway Institute, Cambridge @janewayinstitute.bsky.social · Aug 21

JI Call for Papers deadline fast approaching: 1 Sept 2025! Apply to join the JI-sponsored Long Run Productivity Conference at Clare College, Cambridge on 20 Nov 2025. Follow this link to apply:
cepr.org/events/long-...

The Janeway Institute, Cambridge @janewayinstitute.bsky.social · Aug 13

Register your interest by 1 Sept to join this JI conf organised by JI Deputy Director C. Yannelis @econcam.bsky.social , Isil Erel (Ohio State) & Zhiguo He (Stanford).
Find out more: www.janeway.econ.cam.ac.uk/event/2025-r...

The Janeway Institute, Cambridge @janewayinstitute.bsky.social · Aug 12

Why does the standard measure of Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) drop during armed conflicts & how can this be adjusted?

Find out more in a NEW JI WP by C. Rauh (Cambridge)@econcam.bsky.social , S. Brochet & H. Mueller.

janeway.econ.cam.ac.uk/publication/...
#econtwitter #keynesfund

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The Janeway Institute, Cambridge @janewayinstitute.bsky.social · Aug 4

In a new JI WP, Edoardo Gallo
@econcam.bsky.social w/ M. Bigoni (Bologna) & G. Camera (Chapman) observes that 'monetary systems outperform social exclusion mechanisms in promoting cooperation in globalized social and economic networks'. Read the paper here: janeway.econ.cam.ac.uk/publication/...

The Janeway Institute, Cambridge @janewayinstitute.bsky.social · Jul 18

Listen to JI Coordinator @meredith-crowley.bsky.social talking to Chris Horseman @chrishorseman.bsky.social about the 'main principles of Trump's trade policy in his 2nd term' including imposing high tariffs on countries with large trade deficits in relation to the US.

(Starts at 3.00)

Chris Horseman @chrishorseman.bsky.social · Jul 17

Is there method in Trump's tariff madness?

The verdict from my excellent guests on the latest @thecitp.bsky.social Trade Bites podcast? "Sort of..." :-)

Thanks to Meredith Crowley, @sjrickard.bsky.social and @chadpbown.com for their insights.

You can listen here:
soundcloud.com/uktpo-tradeb...

US trade policy in the first 6 months of Trump's second term

July 20, 2025, is six months since Trump’s inauguration for a second term in the White House. Since then, all previous norms of trade engagement have gone out of the window with the imposition (or thr

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The Janeway Institute, Cambridge @janewayinstitute.bsky.social · Jul 10

Today @meredith-crowley.bsky.social was back on Radio 4's The Briefing Room w/ @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social discussing Trump's #tariffs & the legal status of a Trump trade deal.

Does anything stop Trump or a successor from changing it?

➡️ Starts at 8.55
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The Briefing Room - The Trump hokey cokey is back - what happens to world trade now? - BBC Sounds

As President Trump raises tariffs again, what does this mean for world trade?

www.bbc.co.uk

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econcam.bsky.social @econcam.bsky.social · Jul 10

It's the Faculty's open day today & tomorrow, and a lovely sunny one too: if you are interested in any of the courses in Economics at Cambridge, or just want to find out what we do, please come along to the foyer of the Marshall Library to find out more.

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econcam.bsky.social @econcam.bsky.social · Jul 1

Are you an Alumni of the Faculty?
If so you should already have our latest newsletter on email:
* The pay gap: new research links gender, personality and wages
* Remembering James Trevithick
* Academics honoured by Royal Economic Society
* Jordi Galí's Keynes Lecture
news.cam.ac.uk/t/cr/AQiQkhI...

Your Cambridge Economics newsletter – summer 2025

news.cam.ac.uk

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The Janeway Institute, Cambridge @janewayinstitute.bsky.social · Jul 8

NEW JI WP published: 'ETF (Mis)pricing' by Andrei Kirilenko, Wladimir Kraus, Oliver Linton @econcam.bsky.social and Mingmei Xiao @econcam.bsky.social

Read the paper here: www.janeway.econ.cam.ac.uk/publication/...

The Janeway Institute, Cambridge @janewayinstitute.bsky.social · Jun 27

Many congratulations to V.M. Carvalho, A. Burstein and B. Grassi basileg.bsky.social whose work has been accepted for publication by the Quarterly Journal of Economics #QJE
doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

➡️Download a pdf here: www.nber.org/papers/w27958

The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · Jun 26

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Bottom-Up Markup Fluctuations,” by Burstein, Carvalho, and Grassi (@basileg.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

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Pending Publication

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The Janeway Institute, Cambridge @janewayinstitute.bsky.social · Jun 26

JI Call for Papers: Long-Run Productivity Conference, 14 Nov 2025
📅Deadline to submit: 1 Sept 2025
www.janeway.econ.cam.ac.uk/event/call-p...

This conference will explore the determinants, measurement, and long-run trends in productivity growth.

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econcam.bsky.social @econcam.bsky.social · Jun 23

Professor Aytek Erdil has been quoted in the Economist.
Britain's newly qualified doctors often get their first choice of location in a new lottery but he says the algorithm encourages “a complicated game” of guesswork among applicants.
www.econ.cam.ac.uk/media-mentio...

Economist: Prof Erdil - doctors' lottery | Faculty of Economics

www.econ.cam.ac.uk

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econcam.bsky.social @econcam.bsky.social · Jun 17

The Faculty's Professor Flavio Toxvaerd in the Economics Observatory writes about the consequences of market power in supply chains. which could harm consumers as much as when they sell goods.
www.econ.cam.ac.uk/media-mentio...

EO: Market power in supply chains | Faculty of Economics

www.econ.cam.ac.uk

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econcam.bsky.social @econcam.bsky.social · Jun 16

The Faculty's Tiago Cavalcanti writes in CEPR's VoxEU that the US-China trade war has created jobs - elsewhere.
He says that while the trade war with China has failed to create jobs at home, it did boost employment in Brazil.
www.econ.cam.ac.uk/media-mentio...

VoxEU: Prof Cavalcanti on US-China trade war | Faculty of Economics

www.econ.cam.ac.uk

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