Jingyuan Zeng
jingyuanzeng.bsky.social
Jingyuan Zeng
@jingyuanzeng.bsky.social
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Call for Papers for the 2nd Workshop for Early Career Women in
Economic Geography and Spatial Economics: www.lse.ac.uk/asset-librar... [Organised by two of my early career colleagues; the first version was great]
www.lse.ac.uk
December 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Imagine you lived in the 18th century.

Smallpox kills 1 in 3 cases. Yet you can’t culture pathogens, don’t know germ theory, and have no idea what a virus is. How would you invent a vaccine?

In a new episode of HARD DRUGS, we trace the history of vaccines!
The history of vaccines
open.spotify.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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📢 Conference announcement!

Paolo Surico and I are excited to be organizing this @cepr.org conference on Public Policies for Innovation.

If you work in the #Economics of #Innovation and #InnovationPolicy, please submit + spread the word. Non-presenting attendees also invited.
#CallForPapers - Conference on Public Policies for Innovation
ESRC, London Business School, @fuqua.duke.edu & CEPR invite submissions for a #conference on Public Policies for Innovation at LBS on 19-20 March 2026.
cepr.org/events/confe...
Organisers: Paolo Surico & @danielpgross.bsky.social
#EconSky
September 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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#QJE Nov 2025, #14, “From Public Labs to Private Firms: Magnitude and Channels of Local R&D Spillovers,” by Bergeaud (@abergeaud.bsky.social), Guillouzouic (@arthurgzouic.bsky.social), Henry, and Malgouyres: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
From Public Labs to Private Firms: Magnitude And Channels of Local R&D Spillovers*
Abstract. Introducing a new measure of scientific proximity between private firms and public research groups and exploiting a multibillion-euro financing p
doi.org
October 12, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Nearly two-thirds of antibiotics were introduced during the “golden age of antibiotics”! (short thread)
February 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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These are 10 of my favourite #UrbanEconomics articles published in academic journals in 2024 (continues a tradition started in 2018, order is alphabetical by first author, no ranking implied):
December 27, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Delighted to share I've got a 4.9/5 in my teaching evaluation for Firms and economic geography: Location, innovation and technology. Many thanks to my dear undergrad students!
December 18, 2024 at 9:07 AM
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VCs
were 36% more likely to invest in a Black-founded startup in the year after the murder of George Floyd, and
the share of dollars to Black entrepreneurs grew by 43%.

But investment in Black-founded startups reverted to prior levels within two years.
www.nber.org/papers/w33227
December 12, 2024 at 2:13 PM