🔋Why won't your Google search be carbon-free anytime soon?@ariklevinson.bsky.social breaks it down in @mercurynews.com: A must-read on data centers, AI, and the limits of clean electricity claims. 👇www.mercurynews.com/2026/04/07/opinion-why-y...
👉 Continuing a proud Georgetown Economics tradition, the 30th Annual Razin Prize & Economic Policy Lecture honors excellence in economic research and policy.
🎤 Keynote: Sir Timothy Besley (LSE)
🏆 Razin Prize: Luke Miller (Georgetown)
📍 Healy Hall, Riggs Library
🗓 March 19, 4-6pm
Big news from Georgetown Economics! 🎉
@dmckenzie.bsky.social has accepted the offer to join us as the new Edmond D. Villani Chair Professor of Economics!
Dr. McKenzie comes to Georgetown from the World Bank, where he served as Lead Economist.
We can't wait to welcome him to the Hilltop!
🔹 New NBER working paper from professor Cauê Dobbin (with Barahona and Otero) on the rise of online higher ed in Brazil.
👉 Online programs boost access, especially for older students, yet shift younger students toward lower-return paths.
🔗 www.nber.org/papers/w34522
🔵 Prof. Anna Maria Mayda has co authored a chapter on immigration and border policies in CEPR’s new volume on the economic consequences of a second Trump administration.
Read the publication here: 🔗 cepr.org/publications...
Graph of the net annual change in US working age population (in millions) in four year increments beginning in 2000.
In chapter 6 of the new CEPR #eBook, Anna Maria Mayda & Giovanni Peri summarise the use Executive Orders in #immigration in Trump's second term, assess their potential impact on the number and type of immigrants, and analyse potential economic consequences.
cepr.org/publications...
#EconSky
📢 Call for Papers
DC Search and Matching Workshop
🗓️ Deadline: January 31
📍 April 17 to 18 in Washington, DC
✉️ Submit to: dcsearchandmatching@frb.gov
@fedresearch.federalreserve.gov @gcer-gu.bsky.social
🔗federalreserve.gov/conferences/fifth-dc-sea...
We’re pleased to announce the annual summer ThReD Conference, co-organized by GSEM and the Geneva Graduate Institute, will be held in Geneva on May 28–29, 2026!
Call for Papers now open — submissions due Jan 25, 2026 (midnight EST). thred.devecon.org/conferences/...
Arik Levinson (@ariklevinson.bsky.social) & alumna Claire Brunel (PhD ’15) have a forthcoming NBER paper, “Carbon Tariffs.” Using Econ 101 tools, they show how taxing imports can reverse “leakage” from climate policy.
www.nber.org/books-and-ch...
🌟Call for papers
👉The Hopkins-Georgetown Geoeconomics Conference April 17-18 2026.
⌚️Deadline: January 5th 2026
🔗 drive.google.com/file/d/1v1tg...
An event of shared interest for our community
Hosted by The GU Americas Institute
🎯Technology and Global Inequality in the Age of AI
featuring Simon Johnson, 2024 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences.
🗓️ Nov 10, 2025 | 2:30–3:30 PM
🔗 americas.georgetown.edu/events/the-americas-and-the-world-forum
🌐How do inequalities persist across generations? Why do some families & communities have lasting advantages while others face structural barriers to mobility?
Figure it out in the next event from GECN:
🔗global.georgetown.edu/events/workshop-on-inter...
👉 Zhentao's research examines competition and regulation in the ride-hailing industry.
She develops & estimates a structural model of platform behavior under NY City’s minimum pay rules to evaluate how wage regulations affect market outcomes, driver earnings, and rider welfare.
👉 Pranjal's research is on the drivers of user purchase in online marketplaces, such as advertising, pricing and product aesthetics; and how to leverage them.
He also has PhD internships at Roblox and Uber.
👉 Tsolmon is an IO and applied microeconomist.
In her JMP, she uses industrial organization tools to estimate menu costs—showing that small firms are slow to adjust prices, but tend to overreact when they finally do.
👉 Hoang works at the intersection of econometrics and machine learning.
His job-market paper introduces a neural-network estimator for high-dimensional dynamic discrete choice models that is consistent, semi-parametrically efficient, and computationally tractable.
👉 Luke is an applied microeconomist studying campaign strategy and voter turnout.
His JMP develops a structural model to distinguish direct closeness from mobilization effects on turnout, using it to evaluate how reforms impact participation and candidate decisions.
👉 Yagmur is a macroeconomist studying environmental policy.
Her job market paper quantifies efficiency and distributional effects of clean energy subsidies using a heterogeneous agent model with technology adoption, learning-by-doing spillovers, and unequal pollution exposure.
👉 Anwita is an applied microeconomist working on health, IO and public economics.
Her job market paper finds that mergers in the kidney dialysis industry lead to facility closures, short-run treatment disruptions & higher mortality, but long-run declines in hospitalization.
👉 Lanfeng is a development and labor economist with extensive experience at the World Bank.
His job market paper shows that pension eligibility reshapes intra-household labor, turning retirement into a problem of insurance rather than coordinated leisure.
👉Jacob is an applied microeconomist interested in environmental economics & political economy.
His JMP, WIMBY: Wind In My Back Yard, finds local officials who permit wind farms risk backlash from voters near turbines but gain votes in areas where fiscal benefits flow
👉Maxime is a microeconomist with interests in political economy and economic theory.
His JMP, Electoral Gambles: Why Politicians Choose Risky Policies, shows how re-election incentives can lead incumbents to adopt riskier, welfare-reducing policies.
🚨The Department of Economics at Georgetown University is pleased to introduce our 2025–2026 Job Market Candidates.
🔗econ.georgetown.edu/academics/phd/phd-studen...
We’ll be sharing highlights of their work and job market papers in this thread.
#econsky
As a newly-appointed placement director, I'm happy to introduce our excellent job market candidates from Georgetown Economics @gcer-gu.bsky.social (in the alphabetical order of last name):
econ.georgetown.edu/academics/ph...
To date, 86 Econometric Society Fellows have won the Nobel Prize in Economics. Please check the full press release here: econometricsociety.org/uploads/docu... 🧵[3/3]
A well-deserved award for Professor Komunjer's numerous contributions to economic and econometric research, as well as her service to the profession Professor Komunjer joins fellow GU faculty George Akerlof, John Rust, and Francis Vella in this remarkable achievement. 🧵 [2/3]
🎉 Congratulations to Professor Ivana Komunjer on being elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society
@econometric.bsky.social one of the highest distinctions in the field of economics! Since 1931, only 1,254 scholars have received this honor 🧵 [1/3]
In an analysis of 100+ DHS surveys, @ggenicot.bsky.social & @mariahdb.bsky.social find that having a firstborn daughter drastically changes the trajectory of a women's life–influencing marriage prospects, fertility decisions, and economic security: voxdev.org/topic/health...
Three amazing points in one paragraph of the DOE report on GHGs.
www.energy.gov/articles/dep...
1/3 The Social Cost of Carbon "is not intended to measure the private marginal benefits ... of fossil fuels." Correct! (But not relevant. That's why it's the called the Social *Cost* of Carbon.)
📢 Call for Papers!
Join us for the GCER 2025 Alumni Conference at Georgetown University on Sept 12, 2025 in Washington, DC. Submit your paper or extended abstract by Aug 8.
🧑🎓 Especially welcoming GU Econ alumni, faculty & grad students.
📝 Details & submission: econ.georgetown.edu/academics/ph...