Research Economist @AtlantaFed (views = my own). @TSEinfo and @UniOfYork alumnus. Neanderthal economist. Header: 60°46'14.7"N 153°56'40.5"W
Atlanta, GA
Joined November 2013
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Our new @nberpubs paper extends Fogel’s social-savings approach to account for congestion and spatial externalities. These forces can change infrastructure priorities. Full explanation in the video below (sound on 🔊). ⬇️
Extending Fogel's 1964 social savings approach to incorporate traffic congestion and externalities and showing this affects where transportation investment has the greatest benefit, from @treballen, @SimonFuchs4, and @WoanFoongWong nber.org/papers/w35599
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I keep seeing people run all sorts of documents through Pangram and get outraged when they come back as AI-positive. I feel like I’m starting to lose sight of what we’re trying to achieve here. Is the outrage always warranted? 1/
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Trade JMCs: Each year, I compile a list of international-trade job-market papers. To make sure you're on my list (& save me some work), please reply with your info in the following format:
Firstname Surname (School) - JMP title - homepageURL
[Spatial JMCs: reply to other tweet]
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⏳ 10 days left! Submit your working paper to the 19th @CentreFiw Research Conference “International Economics”
🗓 11–12 Feb 2027, @WU_econ , Vienna
🎤 Keynote: @FelixTintelnot (Duke)
💶 Two awards, €1,000 each
Deadline: 26 Oct 2026
Details: fiw.ac.at/event/19-fiw-resea…
#CFP
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@ubcVSE is hiring this year with a focus on International Trade/Spatial Economics and Macroeconomics/International Macroeconomics. Please apply!
See econjobmarket.org/positions/… for more
This looks really promising. My current application with historical data requires quite a bit of fine tuning, but seemingly once finetuned competitive with google document ai. Here is a quick comparison on a problem that I'm currently working on. OCR is a really fun space.
Check out our new maritime disurption index!
How exposed are U.S. imports to disruptions at major shipping chokepoints?
In a new @AtlantaFed's Policy Hub article with @SimonFuchs4, we construct an index to measure maritime pressures on U.S. imports using publicly available data.
The index combines vessel traffic through critical waterways with U.S. import data. It allows us to measure pressures over time and identify which products and U.S. ports are most exposed.
We find that maritime pressure peaked in January 2024, reaching five times its 2022–23 average, as disruptions in the Red Sea and restrictions at the Panama Canal occurred simultaneously.
These pressures vary considerably across products and regions. The Red Sea and Panama Canal disruptions affected a broad range of goods entering through East Coast ports. More recently, disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz generated pressures concentrated in energy imports and refining centers along the Gulf and West Coasts.
Our index provides a new tool to monitor U.S. exposure to disruptions in global shipping.
Article: atlantafed.org/research-and-…
And the results are in at: sfuchs-de.github.io/nobel-ex…
Congrats to Toronto Strong who was the only one backing Robert Hall. What an upset lol.
Nobel season! Little experiment - I’ve made a prediction game:
sfuchs-de.github.io/nobel-ex…
Choose a team of economists for monday's announcement by spreading 100 credits across up to 10. You can change them until Sunday, Oct 11, at 8 p.m. Eastern. Just for fun and bragging rights!
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Microfoundations for macro is a perfect summary of Bob Hall. The citation could also have discussed his seminal work in firm investment with Dale. Their work is the jumping-off point for my review, which I informally call the micro-to-macro manifesto: nber.org/papers/w33922
Final predictions are in. Bit different than the standard prediction markets. Looking forward to see how it shakes out tmrw!
Now with new simpler login! Get your vote in soon :) The shares are converging!
Nobel season! Little experiment - I’ve made a prediction game:
sfuchs-de.github.io/nobel-ex…
Choose a team of economists for monday's announcement by spreading 100 credits across up to 10. You can change them until Sunday, Oct 11, at 8 p.m. Eastern. Just for fun and bragging rights!
Nobel season! Little experiment - I’ve made a prediction game:
sfuchs-de.github.io/nobel-ex…
Choose a team of economists for monday's announcement by spreading 100 credits across up to 10. You can change them until Sunday, Oct 11, at 8 p.m. Eastern. Just for fun and bragging rights!
FYI don’t just open it in the x app but directly in the browser ow the Google login doesn’t seem to work.
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We are hiring undergraduate research interns at the @DallasFed for Summer 2027!
This is a great opportunity for students interested in economic research and policy to work alongside research economists and analysts, contribute to academic research and policy analysis, and learn about the work of the @federalreserve.
Many of our past interns have gone on to become full-time Research Analysts at the @DallasFed after graduation, making this a great first step toward a career in economic research.
If you or your students might be interested, please take a look and help spread the word!
Apply by October 19: rb.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/FRS…
Learn more about internships at the Dallas Fed: dallasfed.org/careers/intern
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7/ And as much as I admire Borusyak et al., controlling for the initial manufacturing share is not innocuous. The coefficient on that control may very well absorb a substantial share of the effects of the China shock.
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1/ Together with Eaton–Kortum (2002) and Melitz (2003), I put Autor, Dorn & Hanson (2013) among the most influential trade papers of the past three decades. Precisely because of that influence, it has been intensely scrutinized.
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Please spread the word: Dartmouth's Globalization cluster is hiring two pre-doctoral fellows to work with Davin Chor and Yang-Yang Zhou for one to two years:
Economics:
apply.interfolio.com/194447
Political science:
apply.interfolio.com/194465
