Vincent Pons
@VinPons
Professor @HarvardHBS. Affiliate @nberpubs @cepr_org @jpal. Cofounder @Explain_Data. Column @LesEchos. Political economy, democracy, development, tech.
I am very happy and grateful to receive the 2023 Best Young French Economist Award!! 🥳🍾🥳 Thanks to @lemondefr and @Cercle_eco, and congrats to @CageJulia, co-laureate, as well as @pierrecboyer, Mathias Reynaert & Pauline Rossi! lemonde.fr/economie/artic…
While the USTR tariff calculator cites the findings from Cavallo, Gopinath, Neiman & Tang (2021) it is not entirely clear how they use our findings. Based on our research, the elasticity of import prices with respect to tariffs is closer to 1. If that figure were used instead of…
USTR: "The elasticity of import prices with respect to tariffs, φ, is 0.25. The recent experience with U.S. tariffs on China has demonstrated that tariff passthrough to retail prices was low (Cavallo et al, 2021)." Cavallo et al: φ is 0.945. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…
« Oui, la démocratie américaine est menacée » Abonnez-vous à « Réarmer la démocratie - le podcast de Philippe Moreau Chevrolet » et suivez mon échange avec @VinPons. Disponible sur Spotify et sur Substack. #Trump #harvard #Obama #TrumpTariffs #MAGA #compol #economy
Très honoré d'avoir été le premier invité du podcast "Réarmer la démocratie"!! 👇👇 Merci à @moreauchevrolet pour cette discussion passionnante sur la guerre menée par Trump contre les universités, les effets de sa politique économique, et les défis économiques de la France.
« La démocratie américaine est menacée » Premier épisode du podcast « réarmer la démocratie » avec @VinPons dirtypolitics.substack.com/p/la-democrati…
🎉 Nous sommes très heureux et chanceux d’accueillir de nouveaux membres au Conseil d’analyse économique @CAEinfo : Antonin Bergeaud, Florence Jusot, Vincent Pons, Pauline Rossi et Emmanuelle Taugourdeau. Benoit Mojon nous rejoint comme membre correspondant @a_bergeaud @VinPons
Très heureux de devenir membre du Conseil d'Analyse économique!! Hâte de commencer le travail avec @a_bergeaud, Florence Jusot, Pauline Rossi, Emmanuelle Taugourdeau, Benoit Mojon, ainsi que les membres existants, @XJaravel, et toute l'équipe du @CAEinfo! cae-eco.fr/nouvelles-nomi…
Donald Trump déroule son programme populiste et anti-redistributif. Ma dernière chronique pour @LesEchos 👇👇👇
We stand for academic freedom. We will never concede.
Now covering all national elections since 1789! ⬇️
Version 2.0 of the National Elections Database is online! nationalelectionsdatabase.com We now cover presidential and parliamentary elections 1789–2023, extending the post-1945 data of Electoral Turnovers @RevEconStudies (academic.oup.com/restud/advance…). w/ @benjaminmarx and @vincent_rollet
Version 2.0 of the National Elections Database is online! nationalelectionsdatabase.com We now cover presidential and parliamentary elections 1789–2023, extending the post-1945 data of Electoral Turnovers @RevEconStudies (academic.oup.com/restud/advance…). w/ @benjaminmarx and @vincent_rollet
We are very happy to publish the new National Elections Database, including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946! nationalelectionsdatabase.com with @benjaminmarx and @vincent_rollet
Harvard President Alan Garber responded to President Trump’s threat to revoke the school’s tax-exempt status, saying doing so would be "highly illegal" and "destructive." 🔗 Read more: on.wsj.com/4jE41XH
I could have never conceived that the U.S. President would be far more aggressive against a great university than he would be against a Russian dictator engaged in invading a U.S. ally. Why is it smart to starve cancer research, students on financial aid, innovation in public…
I discuss the urgent crisis from the loss of federal support of science in the US and recent clinical gene editing breakthroughs with @WalterIsaacson & @amanpour on @AmanpourCoPBS, airing on @PBS tonight at 11 pm ET, and on @cnni earlier today. Pls share! youtube.com/watch?v=8YhJM6…
Without its international students, Harvard is not Harvard. hrvd.me/IntStudents25t
Harvard University is doing just the right thing. This is extortion. It's a vendetta using all powers of the government because of a political argument with Harvard. It is violating the First Amendment. It is also violating all the laws we have regarding administrative…
Harvard résiste, les universités françaises pourraient-elles en faire autant ? Ma dernière chronique pour @LesEchos 👇👇👇
📌 Excited to announce the 2nd Northeast Political Economy Conference 📌 We (@briangknight) are seeking submissions from economists & political scientists working on political economy topics. Please submit by June 16 and join us at Brown on Friday, Oct 3 forms.gle/i4wi88Q6P3tJyJ…
Proud of my university for doing the right thing: standing up for freedom of speech and academic freedom.
“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” - President Alan Garber hrvd.me/GarberRespond3…
The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government. hrvd.me/ResearchFundin…
“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” - President Alan Garber hrvd.me/GarberRespond3…
