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Verena Wiedemann @verenaw.bsky.social · May 23

Stark!

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Ember @ember-energy.org · May 15

NEW | Ember launched a new open dataset tracking monthly installments of wind and solar power.

Why? Analysts need immediate information on the deployment of the two fastest growing energy sources in history.

View and bookmark the page here: ember-energy.org/lat...

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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · Mar 28

The 2025 #WEFIDEV RFS @cepr.org Conference kicks off with Chhavi Rastogi presenting on investment along the supply chain in #India 🇮🇳

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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · Mar 27

📣🎉Applications are open for the CSAE Visiting Fellowships Scheme 2026.

The scheme supports African scholars pursuing a career in economics (with a doctorate). Candidates must apply online by 31 May 2025 to be considered.

💻 www.csae.ox.ac.uk/visiting-fel...
📃 www.csae.ox.ac.uk/csae-visitin...

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Verena Wiedemann @verenaw.bsky.social · Mar 25

Thanks a lot @priyamanwaring.bsky.social for the summary!

priyamanwaring.bsky.social @priyamanwaring.bsky.social · Mar 25

Next in the #OxCSAE2025 @oxfordcsae.bsky.social Trade, Investment & Services session, @verenaw.bsky.social looks at: which firms benefit from expanded internet infrastructure?

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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · Mar 18

In 2004, it took the world a year to add one gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day.

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Verena Wiedemann @verenaw.bsky.social · Mar 7

Fantastic conference! Had very inspirational conversations and discussions at last year's iteration. Paper submissions until April, 30 👇

Ana Maria Santacreu @anamarias.bsky.social · Mar 7

📢 Call for Papers! 📢
The 6th Women in International Economics Conference will be held at Yale University on Oct 16-17, 2025. Keynote speaker: Penny Goldberg. We invite submissions from junior women in international economics.
📅 Deadline: April 30, 2025
📩 Submit here: forms.gle/ucoE6ZcjqwQ1...

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Ana Maria Santacreu @anamarias.bsky.social · Mar 7

📢 Call for Papers! 📢
The 6th Women in International Economics Conference will be held at Yale University on Oct 16-17, 2025. Keynote speaker: Penny Goldberg. We invite submissions from junior women in international economics.
📅 Deadline: April 30, 2025
📩 Submit here: forms.gle/ucoE6ZcjqwQ1...

forms.gle

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Verena Wiedemann @verenaw.bsky.social · Feb 14

Klimaschutz, wachsende Ungleichheit und fehlende Chancengleichheit.

Verena Wiedemann @verenaw.bsky.social · Feb 8

Can't recommend The Continent's accessible, high quality reporting enough. Weekly issues available through WhatsApp and Signal. @thecontinent.org

The Continent @thecontinent.org · Feb 7

All Protocol Observed

Welcome to Issue 189 of The Continent.

M23 fighters are marching on to take a second city in the DRC. The Tanzanian president is hosting a leader’s conference to address the crisis. But Tanzania is not a disinterested party.

Read it here: bit.ly/TheContinent...

The cover of issue 189 of The Continent is illustrated by cartoonist Gado. It's a send-up of the infamous Berlin Conference of 1884 which carved Africa amongst thee European powers. Instead of Africa being carved up however, it's the Democratic Republic of Congo being carved up amongst the leaders from the East African Community and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) who are meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. At the head of the table is Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan. They are meeting to discuss the conflict between the DRC government and Rwandan-backed M23 soldiers.

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Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3.bsky.social · Feb 8

Events beyond the eastern DRC war frontline could reshape the region.

The eastern DRC war could reshape the region

Even as the conflict escalates, regional powers look to seize an economic opportunity.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · Jan 27

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · Jan 17

PLEASE RT :)

Submit to the annual Network Science and Economics Conference, the largest US event for network theory and empirical research in and adjacent to economics

Deadline Jan 30 (soon!)

Conference Apr 11-13 at Stanford

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Verena Wiedemann @verenaw.bsky.social · Dec 16

Thank you!

Verena Wiedemann @verenaw.bsky.social · Dec 16

@raphaelb.bsky.social

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Verena Wiedemann @verenaw.bsky.social · Nov 26

Working on private sector development? Trade? Net zero transition? Food security? Come join us! Our IFC Economic and Market Research Department is hiring - we are looking for job market candidates in any of the (sub-)fields listed in the advert.
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2024 - January 31, 2025

www.aeaweb.org

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Jakob Schneebacher @jschneebacher.bsky.social · Nov 19

Interested in how we can use consumer card spending data to estimate local retail markets for the UK?

A short blog on the website of the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence about this joint CMA-ONS project:

www.escoe.ac.uk/estimating-l...

Data freely available to all on the CMA website!

Estimating local markets from card spending data - ESCoE

A new ESCoE discussion paper offers an alternative approach to estimating local markets, using consumer card spending data.

www.escoe.ac.uk

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Gabriel Kreindler @thetahat.bsky.social · Nov 19

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I am hiring a predoctoral fellow to work on projects in urban transportation, spatial and development, using a mix of quantitative and experimental tools.
Please share and/or apply!
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/13401

Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (Prof Kreindler)

Professor Gabriel Kreindler is seeking a predoctoral fellow. The fellow will work on projects in the areas of urban, spatial and development economics, which involve structural modeling and estimation...

academicpositions.harvard.edu

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Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social · Nov 18

I've made a starter pack for the Economics of Networks! 🕸️ This includes economic and social networks and wide range of methods: applied/econometrics and theory. I'm sure I have missed a lot. Please DM/reply with others, including self-nominations.
go.bsky.app/4yrQJsw

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Verena Wiedemann @verenaw.bsky.social · Nov 16

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Verena Wiedemann @verenaw.bsky.social · Nov 11

Our IFC econ research unit is hiring a postdoc working on topics like firms, climate, trade, finance, innovation, networks etc. (more areas listed in job post) to join our fantastic team in Paris for a year: worldbankgroup.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Post-doctoral Fellow

IFC — a member of the World Bank Group — is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. We work in m...

worldbankgroup.csod.com

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · Nov 8

Interested in a position as development economist, outside the US?
Consider applying to Oxford:
https://econjobmarket.org/positions/11116

Position without tutorial teaching.
Both fresh graduates and lateral applications encouraged!
Application deadline: Nov 29

@OxfordEconDept

EJM - Econ Job Market

The automated language-translation service on econjobmarlet.org is provided free by Google Translate, a third party service. Google is wholly responsible for the translation service. Econ Job…

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Verena Wiedemann @verenaw.bsky.social · Feb 21

Bridging the gap: How does Kenya’s domestic firm network link to international supply chains? @bkirui.bsky.social, Peter Chacha and myself wrote up a blog post for UNIDO: iap.unido.org/articles/bri...

Bridging the gap: How does Kenya’s domestic firm network link to international supply chains? | Industrial Analytics Platform

Novel data provides insights into how Kenya’s domestic firm network links with international markets.

iap.unido.org

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · Nov 29

We have a revamped page on Life Expectancy on
Our World In Data!

• Life expectancy has increased at all ages
• Wide differences in life expectancy remain globally
• Women live longer than men, but this gap isn't constant

+ many new charts! Check it out:
ourworldindata.org/life-expecta...

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