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Economist studying trade policy, finance, and macroeconomic outcomes. Research on tariffs, industrial policy, and global trade.

Atlanta, GA
Joined August 2020
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So happy to see this paper in print at the JFE! Ungated access: tinyurl.com/nbcz44zk Main result: Tech workers who started during the ICT boom of the late 90s end up with a sizable long-term earnings losses 15 years later relative to similar workers in non-booming sectors
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The amount of bad macro data still in circulation is staggering. That's exactly why the work of @KarstenMueIIer and @chenzix on the Global Macro Database is such a valuable public good.
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Second, different sources often disagree. Sometimes this reflects genuine differences in definitions or methodology. But sometimes the data are simply wrong: misreported units, missed currency reforms, zeros instead of missing values, digitization errors. Surprisingly common.
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Nobel season! Little experiment - I’ve made a prediction game: sfuchs-de.github.io/nobel-ex… Choose a team of economists for monday's announcement by spreading 100 credits across up to 10. You can change them until Sunday, Oct 11, at 8 p.m. Eastern. Just for fun and bragging rights!
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Reminder! The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta is hiring economists! We are looking to fill four positions: • 2 Macroeconomists • 1 Labor Economist • 1 Household Finance Economist We are hiring on a rolling basis, and are particularly looking for seasoned economists
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(at least one or two year out) so people interested should apply sooner (i.e., in the next few weeks) rather than later. JOE postings: Macroeconomics: lnkd.in/eGUuagUELabor Economics: lnkd.in/erKsm5PiHousehold Finance: lnkd.in/em-cJtFR
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Super excited to announce the @AtlantaFed is starting a new "day visitor program": come spend the day with us the day of the finance seminar, we will get you an office for the day and you can interact with us and the speaker: atlanta-finance-seminar.com/
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📘 Très heureux d’annoncer la parution aujourd’hui de notre livre, Les Politiques économiques à l’épreuve des faits ! Fruit de notre collaboration avec @XJaravel, @emm_monnet et Mathieu Peruyero, aux @OdileJacob, avec une préface de @Ph_Aghion.
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I keep being told AI is about to bury the journals. Even if we set aside the "AI-written slop," it is possible that AI helps us so much we all become far more productive, which would overflow journals and make evaluation much harder. Long version: tinyurl.com/bdy2f4pw (1/N)
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It is not possible to just let probabilistic models throw hundreds (millions?) of attempts at a deterministic gate and see what sticks, without getting bored. A paper, or a model, cannot be cut into pieces with a clear success or fail outcome.
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And this is what makes writing a good econ paper structurally different than solving a software engineering problem. Bottom line: for now the angst of the profession is ahead of the evidence.
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We are hiring on the seasoned market at the Atlanta Fed: HH finance: aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?J… Labor (even better if you can do both applied with admin data + you know macro-labor) aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?J… Macro (and macro-finance, financial intermediation) aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?J…
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If you have any question about how it is to work at the Fed Atlanta, don't hesitate to DM me and I will be happy to have a chat on Zoom if needed
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