Come join a growing department in a great city!

I am incredibly grateful for all the guidance I received during this process from my supervisors, @dennisnovy.bsky.social and Marta Santamaria, as well as from all the amazing people at @warwickecon.bsky.social.

🎉Very happy to share that I joined the University of Lisbon’s School of Economics and Management (ISEG) as an Invited Assistant Professor this September🎉.

Excited to be in a great academic environment and a great city! If you’re in Lisbon (or just passing through), feel free to drop me an email!

A really great opportunity!

Research Assistance (Crime and Justice) The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) is hiring a Research Assistant to support ongoing work on the effects of youth clubs on youth development. The Research Assistant will work closely with Dr. Carm...

🚨 I'm hiring a Research Assistant at the Institute for Fiscal Studies 🚨

This is a great opportunity for someone interested in academic + policy work.

The position is based in London and starting this autumn.

Please apply below or share 🙂
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Thrilled that our paper on two-sided market power in the shipping industry is part of this fantastic programme!🚢📦

Thank you!

Thank you!

My wonderful co-authors are: Enrico Cristoforoni, Marco Errico and Federico Rodari!

🎉 My co-authors and I are honoured to receive the "Young Economist Award" at @CentreFiw conference on International Economics! 🏆 It’s been a wonderful experience with many interesting papers, inspiring discussions and a break from the job market (search still ongoing!). #Econsky @ho2604.bsky.social

With trade policy once again the centre of attention, now seems like a good time to re-share the starter pack of academic economists who study international trade

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New research. How has Brexit affected UK trade?

We find TCA reduced goods exports by 6.4%, imports by 3.1%

Smaller firms hardest hit. Around 16,400 firms stopped exporting to the EU entirely

But larger firms' exports unaffected, contributing to relatively small fall in overall trade 1/

Brexit hits UK food exports by £3bn as Starmer urged to strike deal with Brussels British food sales to the EU have fallen by almost a fifth since the end of the Brexit transition period, a new report shows

"This divergence has increased costs and reduced trade to the EU.” A new @thecitp.bsky.social report finds that British food sales to the EU have fallen by almost a fifth since Brexit. Read more: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

A great opportunity to get feedbacks and meet future colleagues!

The Essex PhD Conference in Applied Economics is back with its 3rd edition! #EconSky #EconConf

📆 March 20-21, 2025
🏫 University of Essex
🎙️ Keynotes: Imran Rasul (@theifs.bsky.social @uclofficial.bsky.social) & Ben Etheridge (Essex)
⏳ Submit by 3rd Jan'25
💻 Info: www.essex.ac.uk/events/2025/...

Hey #EconSky! I am on the market this year.

Check my profile for the thread with the paper!

You can find all the other great candidates from Warwick at @warwickecon.bsky.social

Curious to know more? Read the full paper here: edoardotolva.github.io/files/edoard...

Feel free to reach out with questions—thanks for reading! 🌍✈️🚢

Policy takeaway: Transport mode substitution impacts both economic welfare and the environment. Policymakers must design strategies that balance economic efficiency with environmental sustainability. 8/9

Substitution is not always beneficial⁉️

Relying on carbon-intensive air transport to offset rising sea costs can increase emissions, undermining the effectiveness of policies targeting maritime trade. 7/9

Even when transport costs rise globally, the impact can vary:

🛫 Developed countries are more exposed to higher air transport costs.
🚢 Low- and middle-income countries suffer more from maritime shocks. 6/9

Substitution reduces welfare losses from Russian airspace closure by ~4% compared to a no-substitution case.

This underscores the importance of having viable transport alternatives. 5/9

Own calculations based on Flighradar24 data on a Lufthansa flight.

I tackle this in two steps:

1️) I Estimate the elasticity of substitution between transport modes, leveraging Russia’s airspace closure.

2️) I Combine this estimate with a Ricardian model that accounts for multiple transport modes, substitution, and endogenous costs to simulate policy scenarios. 4/9

Key questions:

1️) How do shocks to specific transport modes influence international trade?

2️) How crucial is substitution between transport modes for welfare?
3/9

Disruptions in transport are becoming more frequent, deeply affecting global trade flows‼️

Quoting @unctad.bsky.social’s latest Review of Maritime Transport: “Global maritime chokepoints are under pressure, exposing the vulnerability of supply chains.” 2/9

🚨 Job Market Paper Alert! 🚨 🛫 🚢🗺️
How do countries adapt when certain transport modes become more expensive❓

My job market paper investigates how nations substitute between air and sea transport to mitigate the effects of transport cost shocks. #Econsky #EconJMP 1/9

Hi Thomas, this is great! could you also add me to the list?

Hey #EconSky! Submissions are now open for the 12th edition of the Warwick PhD Conference! A great opportunity for PhD students at all stage to present their papers and meet colleagues from other institution!

You can find the call for paper here:
warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

Automating Eurostat in Stata Learn how to automate Eurostat datasets in Stata by reading and cleaning them directly from the server.

I am updating a large set of datasets from Eurostat and the procedures defined in the "#Automating #Eurostat in #Stata", a guide I wrote on my personal blog in 2015 still works!!

Effectively you can automate the whole workflow.

medium.com/the-stata-gu...