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Kurt MIT-shock-man

@SorryToBeKurt

5 years

The excitement by the female PhD students at the announcement of Duflo was palpable-seeing a brilliant woman being recognized for changing her field. Let's hope that this will inspire many more women to change the field for the better (and nudge us men to be open to them!)

The Nobel Prize

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2019 Economic Sciences Laureate Esther Duflo, born in 1972, is the second woman and the youngest person to be awarded the Prize in Economic Sciences. #NobelFacts #NobelPrize

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Some (late) personal news. I’m happy to report that I’ve started this month as a full professor @CEMFInews Excited for the new research (and city) adventure!

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3 years

10 years ago today got my 1st paper rejection and first taste of overly negative/aggressive tone of reports As an editor, I encourage all to write constructive reports even if you advise rejection. Don't perpetuate the destructive tone that is endemic in the prof. #EconTwitter

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4 years

Now the whole world knows what it feels like to watch code converge 🙃

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5 years

Some good news in the ole inbox this morning from @IIES_Sthlm

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4 years

Hard not to get a little emotional reading this thesis acknowledgment. Nice to know that in addition to helping them academically that they feel supported personally.

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5 years

👇 some personal news. humbled and honored to be chosen.

Institute for International Economic Studies

@IIES_Sthlm

5 years

We are thrilled to announce that associate prof @SorryToBeKurt has been appointed Joint Managing Editor @RevEconStud as of 1 December 2019. The appointment is a testament to Kurt's expertise within #macroeconomics . Many congratulations!

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3 years

🚨 New Paper, a 🧵 Macro is increasingly focused on the importance of heterogeneity. One challenge for the agenda has been the intractability of HA models w/aggregate risk. To make progress, we typically rely boundedly rational equilibria following seminal Krusell-Smith 98 1/n

CEPR

@cepr_org

3 years

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP16667 On the Possibility of Krusell-Smith Equilibria Tobias Broer @IIES_Sthlm , Alexandre Kohlhas @IIES_Sthlm , Kurt Mitman @SorryToBeKurt @Stockholm_Uni @IIES_Sthlm @RevEconStud , Kathrin Schlafmann @CBScph #CEPR_MEF

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5 years

The irony of @realDonaldTrump considering firing Powell, was that the first Fed Chair he "fired" Yellen more likely would have taken the more dovish approach he wants now...

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2 years

Great talk today at @MITEcon , with lots of valuable feedback on my project with @Federomei1 @sergiodieffe And of course, the paper features an MIT-shock :)

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It’s been semi-official but not public, so let me make it official (since it may affect your submission behavior!) I’ll be stepping down as managing editor from @RevEconStudies when my term ends on December 31, 2023 and will be replaced by the fabulous Vincent Sterk @EconUCL

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Faculty/student lunch break at @IIES_Sthlm

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3 years

Officially official. Jag är svensk medborgare 🇸🇪

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5 years

Exciting news: my paper with @GregWKaplan and @glviolante on the boom and bust and house prices in the US has been accepted for publication @JPolEcon

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2 years

Big congratulations to my student @jvkramer1 on accepting a tenure track assistant professor job with the Econ Dept at Copenhagen University @uni_copenhagen . It's a great place to start his career and I wish him all the best!

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2 years

Interesting choice of language from Sargent and Wallace (1975) Reminds me a bit of the "Godfather" shock employed in matching models

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4 years

Behind the scenes view of running #VMACS with 1000 participants on Zoom. @virtualmacrosem

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8 months

Just wrapped a great SITE session co-organized with @a_auclert and @luigi_bocola Thanks to all the presenters and attendees for making it great:

Session 15: Frontiers of Macroeconomic Research | Department of Economics

The goal of the session is to bring together researchers working in macroeconomics, broadly defined. The session will focus on both short-run macroeconomic fluctuations, as well as open questions in...

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2 years

Interesting facts! A couple of points, related to my research on inequality within/across countries 1) disposable income need not necessarily reflect standard of living, since we know that expenditure rates (consumption/disposable income) vary a lot across the distribution 1/n

John Burn-Murdoch

@jburnmurdoch

2 years

NEW: income inequality in US & UK is so wide that while the richest are very well off, the poorest have a worse standard of living than the poorest in countries like Slovenia Essentially, US & UK are poor societies with some very rich people. A thread:

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I'm really feeling the ♥️🥰 today from my fabulous colleagues at @IIES_Sthlm wishing me a surprise happy birthday. Really a special place and so glad to be a part of it.

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3 years

Excited to announce the program for the upcoming Copenhagen Macro Days that I'm organizing with @MortenORavn @helene_rey @gprimice Link to register coming shortly!

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4 years

The birthplace of the Negroni Sbagliato

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2 years

Congrats to my colleagues @KrusellPer and Tobi Broer and former students @ek_oberg and @KHarmenberg on their conditional acceptance at AER:Insights!

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3 years

This year @RevEconStud is having a "double" Restud tour May 17-21. Since it's virtual, we'll be live streaming the event on youtube. Don't miss this opportunity to see 14 fantastic young scholars present their work! Details below:

Restud Tour 2021

The Review of Economic Studies May Meetings have been held annually in May since 1989. Every year, in line with the Review’s tradition of encouraging the work of young economists, some of the most...

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2 months

If you’re interested in one potential answer to the challenge, check out my work with Tobi Broer, @AKohlhas and @KSchlafmann that rationalizes heterogeneity in forecasts across the distribution and studies the impact for policy and the macro economy:

Ben Moll

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2 months

Here are my slides: Thanks so much for listening and for the great discussion and comments!

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4 years

Calling everyone interested in Macro - @MortenORavn , @RalphLuet and I are launching VMACS - a virtual macro seminar series. Sign up! We're kicking off with a fantastic line up next week!

Virtual Macro Seminar

@virtualmacrosem

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VMACS: Virtual macro seminar series is launching! 60 minute online talks w/discussion, free to everyone to sign up and participate. We start next week with @IvanWerning and @GregWKaplan / @ben_moll / @glviolante Sign up at and follow this account

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4 years

In my new @cepr_org DP with Marcus Hagedorn, we explore how the monetary and fiscal response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the EU, in particular, how to deal with the debt burden. We analyze these issues through the lens of the Heterogenous-agent New Keynesian model (HANK) 1/n

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4 years

Very proud of my student Richard a Foltyn on passing his PhD defense today! Also, feels nice to go to a restaurant for the first time in 3 months to celebrate.

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10 months

Big congrats to my old friend and co-author @yfatihkarahan . Amazing to think how far you’ve come from those days working on problem sets in McNeil from when we started the PhD! Well deserved and a great addition to the central bank.

Turkey's Erdogan appoints three central-bank deputy governors, boosting bonds

President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday named three deputy governors to the central bank, boosting Turkey's international government bonds and reinforcing expectations of increasing orthodoxy in policy...

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2 years

So this is happening: 🏃‍♂️

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4 years

When you get tenure in Sweden, you get rewarded with the famous Swedish banana and curry pizza 🙃 big congrats to tobi!

Institute for International Economic Studies

@IIES_Sthlm

4 years

Tobias Broer has been promoted to Associate Professor at the IIES! To read more:

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2 years

Economist bingo on the flight to the SED...

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3 years

Very excited that @IIES_Sthlm has launched the inaugural Assar Lindbeck Fellowship. For rookies and APs looking to visit for a year, all fields welcome. You can ask @Ale_M_Peter and @AnneKaring how they're enjoying their visit!

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2 years

Let’s do this @berlinmarathon #berlinlegend #runforjoy

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Caipirinhas to welcome Gustavo de Souza as the Assar Lindbeck Fellow at @IIES_Sthlm this year!

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2 years

Well, this is a new feature. But happy to see people are using the sequence space method that Per, Timo, and I developed to linearize heterogenous-agent models!

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4 years

Received my PhD 6 years ago today. Still only have 60% of my thesis published...the joys of econ publishing

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7 months

Great seminar (and room!) today at Brown. Thoughtful comments and discussions with @GautiEggertsson @ag_Gaillard @AmyHandlan @spencerkwon @YannKoby

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2 years

Despite four jabs and natural immunity from 7 weeks ago, it seems omicron will not be stopped.

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3 years

New @cepr_org DP on the importance of expectations and information choice for inequality and macroeconomic dynamics - a thread Joint with Kathrin Schlafmann, Tobi Broer and Alex Kohlhas 1/n

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2 years

🚨Last call🚨 PhD students in working in monetary policy and financial stability don’t forget to submit your papers by Sunday night to this workshop that I’m co-organizing through CeMoF ( @SU_Economics @IIES_Sthlm ) and @riksbanken

First PhD Workshop in Money and Finance, May 18th 2022

Sveriges Riksbank and the Center for Monetary Policy and Financial Stability (CeMoF) at Stockholm University are organizing a workshop for PhD students, to be

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4 years

Very sad news about Emmanuel Farhi. In addition to being a brilliant mind, genuinely nice and warm human being, he also showed us at Normac that he knew his way around a football pitch. He will be missed.

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2 years

Update on #Swedengate : food was served at the ceremony for new citizens today in Stockholm 🙃

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2 years

A bit of fun for Friday afternoon Monetary Economics lecture…

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3 years

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 Doing work on Macro and Inequality? Submit to the SITE session on Macro and Inequality that I organize with Adrien Auclert, Chris Tonetti, and Arlene Wong on August 16-17 Empirical, quantitative, and theoretical papers all welcome

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6 years

Congrats to the Restud Tourists for 2018: Giulia Brancaccio Princeton Harry Di Pei @harry_toulouse MIT Heather Sarsons @saskatchewin Harvard Molly Schnell Princeton Jann Spiess @jannspiess Harvard Ludwig Straub MIT David Yang @david_yang Stanford

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4 years

Check out my presentation of "The Fiscal Multiplier" and the excellent discussion by Adrien Auclert hosted by the @banquedefrance - @PSEinfo Chair and thanks to @mmhmmapp for great software to facilitate my presentation

Kurt Mitman: "The Fiscal Multiplier"

On October 22, 2020, Kurt Mitman (Stockholm University) gave an online lecture (Zoom) organized by the Banque de France - PSE Chair: "The Fiscal Multiplier"....

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3 years

Excited for my first in person conference since AEA 2020

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3 years

I officially declare the Stockholm housing market bubbly: An 860 sq ft (80 m2) flat I was looking at *without a kitchen* sold for $1.2 million. And here I thought I could get a deal by buying an apartment with no kitchen.

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@SorryToBeKurt

3 years

Interested macro and want to do a PhD in economics? Apply to SU, the deadline hasn't passed yet. See what you could be a part of. Very cool to have Tom Sargent say that I'm "...not just a great creator of ideas, but also teacher(s)"

Macroeconomics @ ECON & IIES, Stockholm University

NEW VERSION AVAILABLE: https://youtu.be/B5KDjUK4fsUAre you interested in macroeconomics and thinking about doing your PhD in that area? Then have a look at w...

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@SorryToBeKurt

4 years

One of the most rewarding things about academia is seeing the growth and developments of the students that you advise. This is the first year that I've had students where I followed them from the start of the program up through graduation. 1/3

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@SorryToBeKurt

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Now including my chapter on RBC! Super happy to be included in this fantastic project

marina azzimonti

@mazzimon77

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Major update of our PhD Macro book just updated. What's new? - Growth - RBC - Credit Market Frictions - Emerging Markets - Sustainability Download:

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2 years

Very excited for the defense of my first PhD student @jvkramer1 . Thanks to @kuhnmo for doing an excellent job as the opponent. @IIES_Sthlm

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3 years

I can report that giving 5 seminars in a week on zoom is feasible but not desirable. (This was by choice) Thanks to the great audiences @SBUeconomics , Columbia, Michigan, Nottingham, and Essex for all of the insightful feedback! Now, time for a 🍸

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9 years

US taxes? 3 hours on @turbotax . Swedish taxes? Receive pre-filled form, send text message. Pros of a simple tax code http://t.co/c5eAkQ5N5U

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3 years

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4 years

A privilege and an honor to sit next to @NobelPrize Laureate Michael Kremer tonight at dinner (even if they misspelled my name 🙃). Thanks to @sebbank for hosting

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4 years

In light of recent events

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3 months

Huge congrats to @yfatihkarahan on being appointed governor of the central bank of Turkey!

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2 years

Sad days at @IIES_Sthlm

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1 year

Interested in doing a PhD in economics with a focus on monetary policy or financial stability? Apply to @SU_Economics and come to our zoom info session!

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Great paper on how financing matters for the efficacy of government spending

The Review of Economic Studies

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``Empirically, government spending is more expansionary when financed with more progressive taxes. This can be replicated in a HANK model with realistic MPCs and labor supply elasticities.'' From @gmnavarro and @AxelleFerriere

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2 years

Looking forward to the next two days! Excited for a great in person conference after a two year hiatus) with @MortenORavn @SaverioSimonell @EichMartin @SergioRebelo6

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2 years

The fantastic @Federomei1 presenting her work with @sergiodieffe on Sovereign Default in a Currency Union!

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3 years

Great seminar today @EIEF_Rome 1st in person seminar since 2019. I’ve enjoyed zoom the last 18 months, but definitely prefer in-person. More engaging, discussions afterwards, &c. And dinner in Rome is 👌 But there was some “skill depreciation”…couldn’t hook up the projector😂

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4 years

Thanks to @cepr_org for the promotion! Honored to be part of such a great institution. I've benefitted a lot from being an affiliate, attending CEPR conferences, getting CEPR to help with organizing conferences and reading fantastic discussion papers and @voxeu columns!

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9 months

Very excited for a great four days of macro at our annual Normac conference. A great lineup of young macroeconomists from the Nordics and beyond. Full conference program here:

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5 years

Manic Monday - one paper conditionally accepted @JPolEcon , one paper rejected at AER, and one revision sent back to JPE... I guess according to @ProfNoto I need three celebrations tonight!

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4 years

Finally, some good news!

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3 years

Very proud of my @IIES_Sthlm students on their first publication - a paper in AEJ:Macro that grew out of our the applied macro research PhD course. A nice empirical contribution that squares well with quantitative HANK models.

John Kramer

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3 years

🚨I have some news🚨: @JoseEGaIIegos , @mattias_almgren , Ricardo Lima and I had our paper on Monetary Policy and Liquidity Constraints accepted at the AEJ: Macro. Here's a short thread about the paper. 1/5

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2 years

Now I can say I’ve met a king! And no just ⁦ @King_ofSweden ⁩

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5 years

My xmas present to myself this year: After working all day to wrap up my research statement, I've now submitted my tenure pack. I know @ProfNoto 's advice about celebrating ever step of the process was meant for papers, it can extend to the tenure packet! Now for xmas dinner!

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It turn out that conclusions follow from assumptions. You should judge model conclusions based on how much they rely on the assumptions and how good/general/etc those assumptions are (a point made by Solow long ago).

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦

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The problem with macroeconomic models is that if you're good at the basic skill of model-making, you can get them to say absolutely anything you want.

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4 years

I had a great visit to @Unibocconi interacting with both with the students and faculty and getting to enjoy Milan. Hope to come back soon (and get the full non-pandemic experience!). Thanks for having me!

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Big thanks to @SorryToBeKurt who visited @Unibocconi in October. His adv macro course in our #EconFinPhD program was very popular, very valuable, #SimplyWonderful . #WillDoItAgain #GreatResearch

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Big congrats to @jondequidt on being granted tenure today at @IIES_Sthlm A great permanent addition to the faculty and well deserved. I’m sure there’s much more great research to come!

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5 years

Working at the intersection of micro data and macro? Submit to the second edition of the European Midwest Micro/Macro Conference on October 17-18, 2019 @ChicagoBooth . Submission deadline is April 30.

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3 years

Skating on the Baltic Sea

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4 years

📢 Very excited to be welcoming the amazing Alessandra Peter ( @Ale_M_Peter ) to @IIES_Sthlm for the 2020-21 academic year before she heads to NYU. We're all looking forward to having her at the department. Thanks to @ERC_Research for the funding to make it happen.

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1 year

May your expectations always be rational. A toast to Bob Lucas, may he rest in peace.

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3 years

Nice to see our paper in print! The findings are particularly relevant now (when jobs are abundant) given the ongoing policy debate about UI during the pandemic.

Journal of Public Economics

@JPubEcon

3 years

Recently published COVID paper in the @JPubEcon : "Whether, When and How to Extend Unemployment Benefits: Theory and Application to COVID-19" Vol 200 (August 2021) by Kurt Mitman ( @SorryToBeKurt ) & Stanislav Rabinovich ( @rabinovich_stan )

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The @IIES_Sthlm does #hasselbyloppet

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@Claudia_Sahm @FabioGhironi One thing that I think would help on this front is if more presenters and audiences followed the rules of @MarkLJWright , Pat Kehoe and Mark Aguiar

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A great group of presenters and participants for the second edition of #EM3C . Thanks to everyone for participating and an amazing program committee and the generosity of @ChicagoBooth

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2 years

Happy thanksgiving! 🦃🍽

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3 years

Sweden finally recommends wearing masks: "A recommendation to wear face coverings on public transport during peak hours, beginning on January 7, 2021." I guess Jesus will protect us from COVID from his birth through Epiphany...🤔

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New @iza_bonn paper: Construct and estimate an integrated assessment Econ-SIR model of the crisis and use it for policy analysis for fighting the pandemic. Sobering conclusions, but a reason for hope: A thread 1/N

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4 years

Seems like something that perhaps @WhiteHouseCEA should have read up on a while back

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2 years

HANK goes to space! @elonmusk

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4 years

Interested in the fiscal policy? Check out my talk on "The Fiscal Multiplier" next week. Thanks to PSE and BdF for the opportunity.

Paris School of Economics

@PSEinfo

4 years

📆 Lecture | October 22, 4pm-5:30pm The @banquedefrance - PSE Chair is glad to invite you to an online lecture (Zoom) by Kurt Mitman ( @Stockholms_univ ) entitled: "The Fiscal Multiplier". 📲 Registration:

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2 years

Great afternoon with some fantastic friends (and economists!). Thanks Fatih for hosting us!

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4 years

At face value, it sounds like a very simple proposal. Let me offer some thoughts being on the other side, as an. editor at a top-5 1/

Matthias Doepke

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Concentration of power is a problem in economics, and the top-5 journals are the prime example. A realistic path for improvement is to massively increase the number of papers published in these journals. Top-5 publications are artificially scarce. Let's change that. 1/6

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Looks like a macro prize…

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@SorryToBeKurt

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Nice to see that the insights that Per, Timo and I developed for linearizing models in sequence space have now made it to continuous time formulations!

Ben Moll

@ben_moll

17 days

🤓 Nerd tweet for the heterogeneous-agent macro crowd You like sequence-space Jacobians? But you also like working in continuous time? Then I have just the thing for you! 🤓 Two very nice recent papers and some code:

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Kurt MIT-shock-man

@SorryToBeKurt

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Early morning run before the start of the @SEDmeeting

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Kurt MIT-shock-man

@SorryToBeKurt

2 years

Fun @nberpubs SI run this morning! ( @AKohlhas was there but ditched us!)

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Kurt MIT-shock-man

@SorryToBeKurt

2 years

Tender birthday wishes from economists

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Kurt MIT-shock-man

@SorryToBeKurt

4 years

Another Alternative: Read papers and judge whether or not they are good.

Florin Bilbiie 🇪🇺 🇺🇦

@FlorinBilbiie

4 years

STOP TOP5: a proposal to cure top5ism An idea I've been toying with for long. Motivated to post here by recent posts. Sloppy, meant to launch a debate. Most people agree that the obsession with top5, I call it top5ism (top5itis, tyranny, whatever you want to call it) is toxic1/n

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Kurt MIT-shock-man

@SorryToBeKurt

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Looking forward to our #AEA session today - a great lineup of papers looking at the effects of inequality on stabilization and growth and excellent discussants #EconTwitter #ASSA2022