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Anup Malani

anup_malani

I'm excited to see our Karnataka sero-prevalence study out in @JAMA_current today. This is part of a longer chain of surveys we've done to track and understand COVID in India

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/OK folks, let's talk about BITCOIN!!Many many people have proclaimed the death of Bitcoin over the years, but it looks like it's here to stay.https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/triumph-of-the-hodlers 2/Remember the big Bitcoin bubb

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Lots of people ask me: "Noah, how much can the U.S. government borrow before bad things start happening?"In this newsletter, I try to give a definitive answer to that question.

Arjan de Haan

ArjanDevDebate

Thanks @clarewenham for starting discussion on effects of the pandemic on gender inequalities, highlighting importance, need for policy advice; I pulled together comments that followed, showing complexities, on context, impact

George Selgin

GeorgeSelgin

(Private currency history, thread #4: Canada's private currency system.) If you consider the black line on the chart (https://twitter.com/GeorgeSelgin/status/1274702423412654081?s=20) w/ which I ended my last thread (https://twitter.com

Arpit Gupta

arpitrage

Thread on "In Search of the Origins of Financial Fluctuations" by @xgabaix and @rkoijen. One of the most exciting agendas in asset pricing. See video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQnHosZPuKQ). They estimate $1b investment

Paul Poast

ProfPaulPoast

@MiraRappHooper raises an important point about the link b/w alliances and trade. Turns out, this is a topic on which International Relations scholarship has quite a bit to say.[THREAD]https://twitter.com/MiraRappHooper/status/1280861894019

KWAME

KwameSomPimpong

1/ The proposed $300B 4-year investment in R&D is real important, though I wonder why it's not more aggressive. I also wonder if we can reimagine where R&D funding is

Inclusive Lafayette

inclusive_laf

On December 14th, the Lafayette City Council will review a draft letter that calls for CA’s Housing and Community Development Department (HCD) to reduce its Regional Housing Need Allocations (RHNA)

Onur Özgöde

ummodern

Why do we have an econ indicator such as GDP? Most assume GNP, GDP's predecessor, was invented to measure economic growth.My new paper, Institutionalism in Action, shows it was constructed

David Fisman

DFisman

Place-based nature of COVID-19 transmission might point the way forward for Ontario, on getting as close as we can to elimination. Would need ramped up testing, better resourced contact tracing,

Lyman Stone 石來民

lymanstoneky

In terms of YoY change in monthly deaths, the three biggest post-WWII death spikes in the United States are December 2020, April 2020, and August 2020. Holiday interruptions mean recent

Jonathan A. Parker

ProfJAParker

(1/N)How bad is the US debt and deficit situation? A Serious Question for Twitter by @ProfJAParker

Beatrice Cherrier

Undercoverhist

1/Since 2008, calling out use of (some) econ models by central banks has become as steady as Big-Ben chimeBut what do we know about import, production & use of econ

Gernot Wagner

GernotWagner

SCC nerd alert: Stern & Stiglitz are out with a new take that's bound to make some waves.The upshot: It's a cogent critique of 'traditional' approaches.But: their 'recommendation' is an

Abir Ballan 😊

abirballan

Lockdowns vs Focused Protection.If NPIs and lockdowns had no effect on the epidemic curve or on mortality, will Focused Protection strategies have an effect on reducing mortality among the vulnerable

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