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Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · 7d

Stephen Cecchetti and Kermit L. Schoenholtz argued in a recent CEPR #PolicyInsight that tokenisation is the truly transformative innovation in finance today.
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Julien Pinter @julien-pinter.bsky.social · 26d

Philosophers, psychiatrist consider what we lose when we outsource struggle to AI - "I worry that 50 years from now we’ll only have people who learned with these devices present, and it will be harder and harder to motivate people to get an education"

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What is creativity without sweat and tears? — Harvard Gazette

Harvard philosophers and a psychiatrist consider what we lose when we outsource struggle to artificial intelligence.

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Julien Pinter @julien-pinter.bsky.social · Sep 4

This seems great "AI Agents for Economic Research". I found the first paper and its update from Korinek (Generative AI for economists) very useful, nice to see a new update on AI agents www.aeaweb.org/content/file...

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John A. List @johnlist.bsky.social · Aug 31

We find large excellence gaps emerge by 3rd grade across all demographics and persist through high school.

Paper is here: ideas.repec.org/p/feb/artefa...

Five Facts About the First-Generation Excellence Gap

Parents are crucial to children's educational success, but the role of parental education in fostering academic excellence remains underexplored. Using longitudinal administrative data covering all No

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Julien Pinter @julien-pinter.bsky.social · Aug 14

Took BlaBlaCar again yesterday after years (great company). As often, when I mention I work on central banks, the first question is about money creation—essentially, why it’s not a magic fix for government budget constraints. Small sample, but I got the same question on my last BlaBlaCar 4 years ago

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Julien Pinter @julien-pinter.bsky.social · Jul 30

Was happy to attend, grateful for the prize and the enriching interactions during the 2025 Afrimed Finance Conference (worth attending)

Departamento Fundamentos del Análisis Económico UA @departamentofae.bsky.social · Jul 28

🏆 Our colleague Julien Pinter (@julien-pinter.bsky.social) (Universidad de Alicante - @ua.es) has received the Best Banking Paper Award for his article ‘Market Disappointment with Central Bank Announcements’.

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Matt Graham @mattgraham.bsky.social · Jul 15

Survey invitations often describe the topic of the survey. A simple, classic example of how this biases results: survey recruitment materials about bird watching led to higher estimates of the % of people who engage in bird-watching. doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

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Julien Pinter @julien-pinter.bsky.social · Jul 10

Hey @blueskystarterpack.com please add: bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Julien Pinter @julien-pinter.bsky.social · Jun 5

Next week, Workshop on Macroeconomics and Productivity at UA, open to the public 👇

Departamento Fundamentos del Análisis Económico UA @departamentofae.bsky.social · Jun 5

☝️ The countdown is on! The ‘Workshop on Macroeconomics and Productivity’ is just around the corner, and the full program is now available. 📄📊

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Julien Pinter @julien-pinter.bsky.social · Apr 25

Congrats Davide - wishing you efficient referee report turnarounds, like the 10-min one you produced in Alicante :)

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Julien Pinter @julien-pinter.bsky.social · Apr 16

Consistent with what some sociologists have been telling - effects on school choice especially present for 1st generation students and underrepresented minorities

NBER @nber.org · Apr 16

High-performing students who received an encouragement email were more likely to take intermediate microeconomics but not to major in economics, from Olivia Edwards and Jonathan Meer https://www.nber.org/papers/w33676

Julien Pinter @julien-pinter.bsky.social · Apr 9

Reading a speech from Isabel Schnabel, I discovered the #ECB has a youtube channel, Expresso Economics. Goal is to reach a broader public. Videos-high quality-published 2 months ago total... 500 views. Says a lot.

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Pepper Culpepper @pculpepper.bsky.social · Mar 22

Social scientists take note: asking the right question is crucial to getting the important answer. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com has a banger of an analysis in today’s FT, and the right question is about media fragmentation and how we go about getting shared information. It’s not about misinformation.

The misinformation discourse is a distraction

Media fragmentation and the erosion of shared sources of truth are bigger threats

www.ft.com

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Stefanie Stantcheva @s-stantcheva.bsky.social · Mar 21

Understanding causality vs. correlation is genuinely hard especially on complex topics like inflation. Our research finds that 60% of Americans think high interest rates cause high inflation & support rate cuts to fight it. But high rates usually respond to inflation,not cause it

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Julien Pinter @julien-pinter.bsky.social · Mar 19

Weird, but this is what Le Monde is reporting

FX Coudert @nanoporous.net · Mar 19

French researcher, going to a conference in Houston, was forbidden entry to US; his work and personal electronics were both confiscated.

Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »

Le ministre de la recherche a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant que son or...

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Julien Pinter @julien-pinter.bsky.social · Mar 13

If you could also make available the "day of the survey" for the Consumer Expectations Survey, like the Fed does for its Expectation Survey (enabling papers like this: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...), that would be super great too ☺️ (the CES team told me it is not accessible to ECB-external)

Consumer inflation expectations: Daily dynamics

We use high frequency identification methods to study the response of consumer inflation expectations to many different types of events using data fro…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Julien Pinter @julien-pinter.bsky.social · Mar 11

Today we (are lucky to) have Matteo Ciccarelli from the ECB in our Macro seminar in Alicante ! ☀️ (adding to this year’s great lineup of speakers)

Departamento Fundamentos del Análisis Económico UA @departamentofae.bsky.social · Mar 11

👉 A new macro seminar is scheduled for today.

📅🕒 Tuesday, 11th March 2025 at 14:30 h
📍 Sala Vicens Vives
🎙 Matteo Ciccarelli, European Central Bank ( @ecb.europa.eu )
📲 Title: Forecasting and Policy Modelling at the ECB

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Julien Pinter @julien-pinter.bsky.social · Mar 9

Here is the (French) economic youtuber who gets most views in France (more than Bank of France..), I think the communication tools he uses (light, background, animations..) matter a lot for his videos to reach a broad audience, perhaps that’s useful if that’s the goal! youtu.be/zRPiNFhkb0w?...

Les marchés financiers sont-ils efficients ? - Heu?reka

YouTube video by Heu?reka

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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...

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Julien Pinter @julien-pinter.bsky.social · Mar 5

This Friday I will be at the ECB presenting my work at this internal workshop, happy to meet researchers around

Julien Pinter @julien-pinter.bsky.social · Dec 27

Staggering stats -and great to see research flourishing in this area. > than 50% of academics said to come from the 20% richest families, 5% from the poorest 20%. Father’s occupation predicts professors’ discipline choice. Difference in research agenda identified too papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Climbing the Ivory Tower: How Socio-Economic Background Shapes Academia

We explore how socioeconomic background shapes academia, collecting the largest dataset of U.S. academics' backgrounds and research output. Individuals from poo

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NBER @nber.org · Nov 22

Despite a large increase in the share of lower-income students in the college-going population, their representation at elite private or public colleges has remained at similarly low levels throughout the last century, from Abramitzky, Kowalski, Pérez, and Price https://www.nber.org/papers/w33164

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Julien Pinter @julien-pinter.bsky.social · Nov 21

Hola Santiago. Podrias por favor anadir @ivanpaya-econ.bsky.social (y yo si está abierto a economistas que trabajan en España :) )

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Cathleen Crudden @cathleencrudden.bsky.social · Nov 15

Want to give a good scientific talk? TELL A GOOD STORY. don’t show the audience every result, don’t give us one slide on every paper you’ve ever published. If I want to read your resume, I will. Teach me something, tell me a story.

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Julien Pinter @julien-pinter.bsky.social · Nov 12

Did Trump election signal start of new political era? news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Did Trump election signal start of new political era? — Harvard Gazette

Analysts weigh issues, strategies, media decisions at work in contest, suggest class may become dominant factor.

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