Raffaella Sadun

Strong case for industrial policy by Autor and Handson, to combat China shock 2.0 I suspect this is the beginning of a new wave of economics on the design and implementation of industrial policy nytimes.com/2025/07/14/opi…

We just updated our tariff paper. We now assign products to precise HS-10 codes—replacing the older COICOP-HS mapping—and extend the price data through June 12. Imported prices are up ~3% since early March, a modest increase given the scale of announced tariffs. Most of the…

But, plot twist: The much-discussed contraction in entry-level tech hiring appears to have *reversed* in recent months. In fact, relative to the pre-generative AI era, recent grads have secured coding jobs at the same rate as they’ve found any job, if not slightly higher.

En ce début d'été, deux papiers sur l'IA en France 1. Une analyse de la diffusion de l'IA à partir des offres d'emplois (avec Aghion, @BunelSimon et Paul Delbouve) 2. Une analyse de l'effet de l'IA dans l'innovation à partir de données de brevets Thread et liens ⤵️

Can better school management raise test scores without more spending? An experiment in Rio de Janeiro improved learning using existing resources—and made headlines. @timsvengali talks w/ Tiago Cavalcanti @Cambridge_Uni @FGVBrazil & Felipe Puccioni 🎧 cepr.org/multimedia/doe…

Ha! Good news, micro --org econ-- wins!

Public sector performance disclosure: salary and career outcomes for top managers and employees By: Iftikhar Hussain, @v_scrutinio and @ShqiponjaTelhaj Read at: ow.ly/PjWG50WjCoc

If we actually teach management properly for that new era. But absolutely. I have a strong strong prior, being put into practice, that AI integration in organizations is the most valuable thing we can teach business students.

Europe may miss an AI productivity boom due to three constraints: Baumol's cost disease (aging society + large public sector), institutional resistance to change, and O-ring bottlenecks from "human-in-the-loop" requirements. New post today: siliconcontinent.com/p/can-ai-solve…

I find the story of AI and radiology fascinating. Of course, Hinton's prediction was wrong* and tech advances don't automatically and straightforwardly cause job replacement — that's not the interesting part. Radiology has embraced AI enthusiastically, and the labor force is…

A must-read HBR article about AI benefiting employees: - Junior coders benefited most, relying on AI, which allows smaller groups and increases independence - Middle management, instead of mentoring, focuses on execution - Top shift time from routine tasks to strategic work 1/

Bank italian CEO describing the lending practices of smaller banks: "They don't lend because the business is good, they lend because they've known the father for ages, and also the son and the holy spirit."

Powell says he is concerned about the impact of cuts at the statistical agencies. High-quality statistics are "a huge public good," he says. "I hate to see us cutting back on that... I would want to continue investing in that for the good of the general public."

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6/ People with the capacity to form intentions and set goals will emerge as winners in an AI-mediated world. As OpenAI CEO @sama tweeted in December, “You can just do things.” It’s getting harder to find a first job, but it has never been easier to create a first opportunity.

Someone threw a brick at the only kosher grocery store in the Boston area last night.