Felix Tintelnot
@FelixTintelnot
Associate Professor of Economics at Duke University. Dad.
Looking forward to it!
So looking forward to our Global Ecoonomic Networks Workshop next week at Lake Como! The exciting program is now availbale via: sites.google.com/site/petereppi…
We often talk about industrial policy as a means of helping “left behind workers,” but does that really make sense as a policy approach, and when does it work in practice? I wrote up this piece to synthesize what we’ve learned from recent work, including my own.
Reviewing theory and evidence about place-based industrial interventions to examine whether they are effective tools to improve worker outcomes, from @andy_garin nber.org/papers/w33418
While the U.S. has played a leading role in scientific advancement in recent decades, I am concerned that this leadership is now in serious jeopardy. For this reason, I have chosen to sign the Letter from NAS Members to Congress in support of continued funding for scientific…
📣 Fresh "Spatial Economics for Granular Settings" at jdingel.com w/ new results: - Analytical results about overfitting and idiosyncrasies in special cases - SVD approximation is better than we realized - Code for main-text exhibits at github.com/jdingel/Dingel…
New at JIE: "The impact of NAFTA on prices and competition: Evidence from Mexican manufacturing plants", by Felipe Brugués, Ayumu Ken Kikkawa, Yuan Mei (@yuanmei10), Pablo Robles doi.org/10.1016/j.jint…
We have a late predoctoral fellowship opening in the Reimagining the Economy Project @Kennedy_School. Join Dani Rodrik and me to work on place-based and industrial policy next year. hks.harvard.edu/centers/wiener…
Looking forward to this workshop at Duke on disaggregating national accounts.
🚨Workshop Alert🚨 Disaggregating National Accounts (DNA): From Macro to Micro The workshop will convene academics and practitioners using microdata across the globe to discuss the frontier of disaggregating national accounts Let us know if you would like to join us @DukeEcon
If Powell is fired and courts uphold the firing, it would imply any successor could also be terminated if the president disagreed with his monetary policy. In that world, it matters less if the individual is "hawkish" or "dovish': POTUS effectively sets policy.
What if Powell gets canned, but his replacement is actually more hawkish?
The official US Senate webpage says the Smoot-Hawley tariff ranks "among the most catastrophic acts in congressional history," adding: "As the economists predicted, the high tariff proved to be a disaster." senate.gov/artandhistory/…
In June 1930, the Treasury Secretary said the Smoot-Hawley tariff would aid business .... "fears and criticisms have been greatly exaggerated."
The calculation of the new 'reciprocal tariffs' amplifies policy uncertainty, as bilateral trade deficits are fluid: time.com/7274531/trump-…
Even Americans don’t want Trump’s barmy tariffs, writes Douglas Irwin economist.com/by-invitation/…
Good time to watch Friedman's pencil story again. making pencils potentially involves lots of bilateral trade deficits all across the world. youtube.com/watch?v=67tHtp…
Great paper jointly estimating wage and amenity differences between multinational enterprises and domestic firms. Insightful analysis on how MNEs stack up against local companies in Saudi Arabia.
I am excited to share that our paper titled "Doing Business Far From Home: Multinational Firms and Labor Market Outcomes in Saudi Arabia," is out now in EER with @SeanKongXL Link here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00… 1/8
Congrats Toshi!
.@CentreFiw is proud to announce, that the Best Paper Award of the FIW-Conference 2025 goes to. 🥁🥁🥁 @ToshiKomatsu & Emmanuel Dhyne for their work on 'Job Ladder and Dynamic Monopsony in Production Networks'. We thank all conf-participants and hope to see you again in Vienna
Excited about this new paper with Sam Earnest, @dkoust, and Constantine Yannelis. We study the recent forgiveness of 7% (!) of student loan debt in the US 1/13
Recent student loan forgiveness targeted higher earning borrowers, increased consumption, and decreased labor supply, but with more industry switching, from @mikedinerstein, Samuel Earnest, @dkoust, and Constantine Yannelis nber.org/papers/w33462
What would be the impact of Trump's announced 25% tariff on all steel and aluminium imports? Lydia Cox's (coxlydia.com) job-market paper provides good guidance. Latest version is here (coxlydia.com/papers/cox_ste…). Her results are summarized in my 2021 thread below.
Her job-market paper (scholar.harvard.edu/files/lydiacox…) studies the effects of upstream tariffs on downstream industry competitiveness. Her setting is Bush’s 02-03 steel tariffs, which affords her a unique opportunity to study the long-run implications of temporary upstream tariffs. (2/9)
Becker and Heckman in 2012 on the case for government funding of basic research
Looking for a predoctoral opportunity for next year? Join @rodrikdani and me at the Reimagining the Economy Project @Kennedy_School hks.harvard.edu/centers/wiener…
An excellent choice. Good luck, Kim Ruhl, and thank you for your service.
Prof. Kim Ruhl (UMN PhD 2004) of U. Wisconsin-Madison has been named as a member of President Trump's Council of Economic Advisors. I admire Kim for his service to our country, and I hope he is able to have a favorable influence on US economic policy. news.wisc.edu/uw-madison-eco…