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Yohei Yoshi @yoandhey.bsky.social · 9d

Today is the deadline for submission!

📢Call for Abstracts:

PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference at King’s College London

📅 Date: 26th Nov 2025
✍️ CfA: 400 words (by 29th Sep)
➡️ Details & Application Form:
tinyurl.com/5n7xv5cr

KCL PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference 2025

We are pleased to announce the PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference, taking place on November 26th, 2025, at the Department of Political Economy (DPE), King’s College London (KCL). The conf...

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King's QPE @kingsqpe.bsky.social · 9d

Kicking off this year's seminar series with Lucy Barnes (@lucy-barnes.bsky.social) on "Economic Orientations and Preferences Over Redistributive Taxation."

Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

King's QPE @kingsqpe.bsky.social · Aug 21

🔥 Excited to share our 2025/26 QPE Seminar lineup!

Externals welcome. Please get in touch at [email protected] or [email protected].

📅 Full schedule 👇

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Anne Rasmussen @annerasmussen.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social

Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are?

@simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions

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Pierre-Louis Vézina @plvezina.bsky.social · 28d

New WP thread! 🤓 Vietnam's solar panel exports boomed between 2018 and 2022. With my PhD student Meng Yu Ngov, Trang Thu Tran, and Gaurav Nayyar we look at how this industry success can be attributed to attracting FDI and importing parts and components, as well to Chinese subsidy spillovers.👇

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Marie Beigelman @mariebgl.bsky.social · Aug 26

Apply to our (virtual) seminar series to discuss your research in French Economic History ! Deadline 29th August

Cédric Chambru @cedricchambru.bsky.social · Aug 26

📢 New initiative: we are launching a monthly virtual seminar in French Economic History to share and discuss the latest research in the field!

🌍 Open to all interested in #econhist.

👉 Info & updates: sites.google.com/view/vwfhe/h...

VWFHE

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King's QPE @kingsqpe.bsky.social · Sep 1

📣Conference announcement:
Our PhD students are organizing a graduate conference. See call below.

Call for abstracts: PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference at King's College London

Conference date: 26 Nov 2025
Abstract submission deadline: 29 Sep
Apply here (+ details): tinyurl.com/5n7xv5cr

KCL PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference 2025

We are pleased to announce the PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference, taking place on November 26th, 2025, at the Department of Political Economy (DPE), King’s College London (KCL). The conf...

tinyurl.com

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Bouke Klein Teeselink @bkleinteeselink.bsky.social · Aug 21

Join us at King's College London for a great seminar series in Quantitative Political Economy!

If you're in London and would like to join, let me know

King's QPE @kingsqpe.bsky.social · Aug 21

🔥 Excited to share our 2025/26 QPE Seminar lineup!

Externals welcome. Please get in touch at [email protected] or [email protected].

📅 Full schedule 👇

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King's QPE @kingsqpe.bsky.social · Aug 21

🔥 Excited to share our 2025/26 QPE Seminar lineup!

Externals welcome. Please get in touch at [email protected] or [email protected].

📅 Full schedule 👇

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King's QPE @kingsqpe.bsky.social · Aug 4

🚨Publication alert!🚨

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Anne Rasmussen @annerasmussen.bsky.social · Jul 28

🚨 New paper in Science Advances @science.org

Can changing how we argue about politics online improve the quality of replies we get?

T HeideJorgensen, @gregoryeady.bsky.social & I use an LLM to manipulate counter-arguments to see how people respond to different approaches to arguments

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Anne Rasmussen @annerasmussen.bsky.social · Jul 28

🚨 New paper in Science Advances @science.org

Can changing how we argue about politics online improve the quality of replies we get?

T HeideJorgensen, @gregoryeady.bsky.social & I use an LLM to manipulate counter-arguments to see how people respond to different approaches to arguments

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King's QPE @kingsqpe.bsky.social · Jul 21

🚨Publication alert!🚨

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Daniele Girardi @dgirardi.bsky.social · Jul 20

Our Local Projections Difference-in-Differences (LP-DiD) paper is out in the Journal of Applied Econometrics.

LP-DiD is a convenient, flexible and computationally fast framework for estimating DiD using simple well-specified regressions....

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · Jul 20

Very pleased that our local projections dif-in-dif paper is now out in the Journal of Applied Econometrics. Joint with @dgirardi.bsky.social, Jorda, and Taylor.

It's a tool that we think many applied economists will find useful (indeed many already have).

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Daniele Girardi @dgirardi.bsky.social · Jul 20

Link to the paper:
doi.org/10.1002/jae....

Slides deck:
danielegirardi.github.io/posts/docume...

lpdid STATA command:
github.com/danielegirar...

[or just type "ssc install lpdid, replace" in STATA]

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A Local Projections Approach to Difference‐in‐Differences

We propose a local projections (LPs)-based difference-in-differences (DiD) approach that subsumes many of the recent solutions proposed in the literature to address possible biases arising from negat...

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Daniele Girardi @dgirardi.bsky.social · Jul 20

Our Local Projections Difference-in-Differences (LP-DiD) paper is out in the Journal of Applied Econometrics.

LP-DiD is a convenient, flexible and computationally fast framework for estimating DiD using simple well-specified regressions....

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · Jul 4

Arti Grover & Pierre-Louis Vezina find an increasing role for political alignment or differences in shaping companies' location decisions. Geopolitical differences have a larger negative impact on #FDI today than they did 10 years ago.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky

Graph of the effect of geopolitical distance on FDI.

As geopolitical uncertainty rises – due to events ranging from Brexit and the increasing rivalry between major economies to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – firms are increasingly factoring political alignment into their investment decisions. This column uses detailed global data on greenfield projects, mergers and acquisitions, and affiliate stocks, and four measures of political alignment, to explore how foreign direct investment has become more sensitive to geopolitical distance. It reveals how friendshoring trends have accelerated since 2011, and how today’s investment flows reflect deepening geoeconomic fragmentation.

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · Jun 30

@guglielmobarone.bsky.social‬, David Chilosi, @carciccar.bsky.social, & Guido de Blasio challenge the idea that unification increased Italy's North-South divide and find that neither region experienced widespread benefits from the united state.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky #Italy

A map of the states on the Italian peninsula prior to Italian unification.

Few economic debates have lasted as long as the 160-year debate concerning the effects of Italian unification on the economies of Italy’s South and North. This column proposes a way to move the argument forward. The authors estimate the causal effects of unification on the agricultural share, literacy rates, and railway density in the South and the Centre-North using a rigorous counterfactual framework. Their findings challenge the idea that unification increased Italy’s North-South divide. In fact, neither region experienced widespread benefits from the unified state.

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Yonatan Berman @yonatanberman.com · Jun 25

Only a few days left to apply!
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Yonatan Berman @yonatanberman.com · Jun 10

🚨 We're hiring!

King's College London Department of Political Economy (@kcl-spe.bsky.social, @kingsqpe.bsky.social), is hiring a permanent lecturer in economics on the education pathway.

Details: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117209-...

Please share!

Happy to answer questions about the role/department!

AEP Lecturer in Economics

www.kcl.ac.uk

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School of Politics and Economics @kcl-spe.bsky.social · Jun 18

🆕 The number of people in the #UK living below the Happiness Poverty Line is rising, according to a new report authored by our academic Dr Maria Cotofan with the World Wellbeing Movement 📝

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Standard Error Research Editors @standarderror.bsky.social · Jun 17

📢 Just out: Our new policy brief for @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social!

🧠 We distill cutting-edge findings from the 6th Workshop on the Economics & Politics of Migration that policy audiences can't afford to miss

📄 Read it here: stderr-editors.com/blog/how-mig...

#EconSky #Immigration

New Policy Brief: How Migration Moves Economies, Societies, and Democracies

Standard Error is pleased to announce the publication of a new policy brief prepared in collaboration with King’s College London, based on the 6th Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration, ...

stderr-editors.com

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School of Politics and Economics @kcl-spe.bsky.social · Jun 17

Our academic, @mehmetmars7.bsky.social brought insights from his #gametheory research to a global audience at the prestigious Norway Chess tournament ♟️📺

Read more ⬇️

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/academi...

Academic brings research insights to global audience

A King’s academic brought insights from his research to a global audience at the prestigious Norway Chess tournament.

www.kcl.ac.uk

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Rod Dacombe @rod-dacombe.bsky.social · Jun 12

🚨🚨Job alert!!🚨🚨

The Department of Political Economy at KCL is hiring 3(!) permanent education track lecturers. We are looking for outstanding scholars interested in research-led education in the following areas... 1/

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King's QPE @kingsqpe.bsky.social · Jun 12

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School of Politics and Economics @kcl-spe.bsky.social · Jun 12

Research by Dr Cevat Giray Aksoy on hybrid working and changing labour markets features in a new @financialtimes.com article on the return of office mandates 💼

Read it here 👇
www.ft.com/content/f583...

City firms order workers back to the office as WFH perks end

Office space is increasingly in demand in London as financial companies reverse pandemic working policies

www.ft.com

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School of Politics and Economics @kcl-spe.bsky.social · Jun 12

Research by Dr Cevat Giray Aksoy on hybrid working and changing labour markets features in a new @financialtimes.com article on the return of office mandates 💼

Read it here 👇
www.ft.com/content/f583...

City firms order workers back to the office as WFH perks end

Office space is increasingly in demand in London as financial companies reverse pandemic working policies

www.ft.com

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Raphael Cunha @raphaelcunha.bsky.social · Jun 10

And also 1 permanent lecturer in economics: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117209-...

AEP Lecturer in Economics

www.kcl.ac.uk

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Raphael Cunha @raphaelcunha.bsky.social · Jun 10

Department of Political Economy at King’s College London is hiring 2 permanent lecturers (teaching-focused) in political science:

- Research methods: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117268-...

- Comparative politics: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117245-...

Application deadline: June 29, 2025

AEP Lecturer in Politics and Research Methods

www.kcl.ac.uk

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