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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 9d

Russia has become the largest single-country buyer of Ecuadorian bananas, purchasing 1.5 million metric tons during 2024 and the first half of 2025.

How is it related to global diversification of cocaine trafficking routes? 🤔

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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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Pierre-Louis Vézina @plvezina.bsky.social · 12d

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 12d

An algorithm. Benevolent algorithms are underrated.

My experience on Twitter pre-2022 was fantastic because the algorithm enabled me to see useful content and placed my posts in the feeds of people I hoped would see it.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 13d

If you could change one thing about Bluesky, what would it be?

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Niall Hughes @niallehughes.bsky.social · 13d

For those interested, here's a thread explaining the paper's core ideas 👇 @aeajournals.bsky.social 1/14

AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 22d

Forthcoming in the AER: "Strategic Voting in Two-Party Legislative Elections" by Niall Hughes. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Strategic Voting in Two-Party Legislative Elections

(Forthcoming Article) - I study multi-district legislative elections with two parties and two binary dimensions of policy. Strategic voters focus on the dimension where their district is most likely t...

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Oriana Montti @orimontti.bsky.social · Nov 25

➡️ Are you wondering about the potential effects of the Trump tariffs on China?

➡️ Are you especially interested in the renewable energy sector?

👀 Read on #EconSky 👇

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Pierre-Louis Vézina @plvezina.bsky.social · 21d

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Immigration Policy Lab @immigrationlab.bsky.social · 22d

📣 Join us for a new monthly online (Zoom) seminar: Science of International Migration Seminar (SIMS). We have a great initial lineup of speakers including @mclem.org, Leah Boustan, Giovanni Peri, and @profzeke.bsky.social. Things kick off Ocotber 9th! Register here: stanford.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Science of International Migration Seminar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Please click one of the Add ...

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Pierre-Louis Vézina @plvezina.bsky.social · 22d

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Zeke Hernandez @profzeke.bsky.social · 23d

*** NEW RESEARCH ALERT ***

How do firms respond in the face of increased restrictions to hiring skilled immigrant workers?

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Pierre-Louis Vézina @plvezina.bsky.social · 27d

What up Athens! Excited to be here for my sabbatical year, based at the Athens University of Economics and Business. Time for research and sunshine. Come visit!

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LISER's Crossing Borders Research Programme @liser-cb.bsky.social · 27d

📣 UPDATE: Discover the 🆕 Conference Program of the 18th @afd-france.bsky.social World Bank International Conference on #Migration & #Development

📅 Event held Sept. 25-26, 2025 in Paris

🤝 W/ keynote's from: Paula Gobbi, @dmckenzie.bsky.social & @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social

#EconSky #Inequality

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

congrats!

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

Check out our paper here: drive.google.com/file/d/1aC1X..., including the List of inputs of the solar panel supply chain in Appendix A🤓

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

Chinese firms and inputs are crucial ingredients in Vietnam's export success --> By attracting FDI and importing parts and components, developing countries can participate in advanced manufacturing and gain access to export markets 🔥 And there is potential cross-border effects of green subsidies!!!

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

Using difference-in-differences models, we find that firms that start supplying to Chinese FDI firms based in Vietnam may experience significant gains in labor productivity. This effect is specific to Chinese FDI, as we find no positive spillovers from supplying to FDI firms on average.

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

The solar panel industry has grown to a total of around 400 firms and 51,000 jobs in 2022, including firms that supply inputs to solar panel producers. Among them, Chinese firms and their suppliers account for the large majority of jobs.

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

Chinese FDI firms account for 25 of the 79 firms producing solar panels in Vietnam, yet they account for 75% of Vietnam's solar panel exports and 50% of total employment among solar panel firms in Vietnam. Their solar panel are cheaper, especially those exported to the US.

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

We show China accounts for most input supplies to Vietnam's firms, with 600+ firms exporting 100+ different inputs. Inputs from China are cheaper than those from other countries, and all covered by subsidies (ht Global Trade Alert). Vietnamese firms' benefit from Chinese subsidized cheap inputs.

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

As a green tech, solar panels are heavily affected by industrial policy (see @nathanlane.bsky.social's paper). In China, local subsidies helped solar panel firms grow by 76% per year during 2004-2013 and China now accounts for more than 80% of solar panel manufacturing across the value chain.

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

We compile a new list of all the inputs and raw materials that are part of solar panel value chains and use firm-to-firm transaction level data on Vietnam's solar panel industry from Panjiva as well as firm-level data from Vietnam's Enterprise Surveys to describe Vietnam's solar panel value chains.

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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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Pierre-Louis Vézina @plvezina.bsky.social · Sep 6

let's hope he gets booed big time

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Pierre-Louis Vézina @plvezina.bsky.social · Sep 5

haha same for me!

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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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