Trade Diversion (Jonathan Dingel)
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Trade Diversion is a blog about trade & globalization by economist Jonathan Dingel, associate professor @columbia_econ.
Joined November 2011
📣 Fresh "Spatial Economics for Granular Settings" at 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
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Seventeenth Annual Conference on Urban and Regional Economics (CURE).7-8 November 2025.LSE, London, UK. Submission Deadline: 31st August.
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RT @Afinetheorem: Why free trade is hard: Carney made July 1 free trade *within* Canadian borders his #1 priority. On July 21, BC and Ontar….
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Spotted on Brian Greaney's website: "Housing Constraints and Spatial Misallocation: Comment" is "Conditionally Accepted, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics".
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Working Papers Homeownership and the Distributional Effects of Uneven Regional Growth Revise and Resubmit, Review of Economic Studies (Resubmitted) Economic growth has varied tremendously across...
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RT @GitaGopinath: After nearly 7 amazing years at the IMF, I have decided to return to my academic roots. On September 1, 2025, I will rejo….
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RT @otis_reid: Deadline to apply for these roles is Sunday, July 27 (less than a week away!) — time has never been better to try to unlock….
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RT @scottlincicome: An entire WSJ article about why US soda-makers don't use cane sugar (spoiler: we don't "make enough" lol) and not a sin….
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RT @asmith: Watch @typesfast pitch Flexport to Paul Graham and Sam Altman for the first time at Startup School 2013:
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RT @DominicJPino: U.S. sodamakers don't use sugar because:. 1. The government puts tariffs/quotas on sugar.2. The government subsidizes cor….
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RT @Brad_Setser: Woah Nellie. Foreign multinationals made the annual equivalent of 340 billion euros in Ireland in the first quarter of 20….
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RT @arpitrage: As in previous years: if you’re going on the market this fall with a JMP in real estate/household finance/urban/something I….
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Delta Airlines played a similar strategy in 2019-2020: fly the plane in a foreign country first so that you import a used plane, not a new plane subject to import tariffs.
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Delta Air Lines Inc. is sidestepping millions of dollars in U.S. tariffs on European jetliners by initially routing them far outside the country to such places as Amsterdam, Tokyo and El Salvador.
Tariff Shenanigans
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RT @cepr_org: #CallforPapers for young researcher: Philippe Martin Award (2nd edition). 🎓 For early-career researchers (PhD after Jan 2021)….
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RT @Brad_Setser: The average increase in tariffs on China in Trump's first term was about 15% (a mix of 25%, 7.5% and zero). So if Trump a….
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RT @HooverInst: On a new episode of Economics, Applied, Hoover Senior Fellow Steven J. Davis speaks with @CaroArtc and @ViquiBarone about t….
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I like this paragraph from Alves, Burton, Fleitas (:
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I wish the authors of today's @99piorg episode on food deserts and antitrust ( had talked to some economists about the consumer welfare standard in general and food deserts in particular.
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I guess I complained about this back before the pandemic:
Whoa. The NYC commuting zone excludes bridge-and-tunnel commuters because it only contains NY counties. Hudson County (Jersey City, NJ) is home to 145k residents who work in Hudson County and 87k who work in Manhattan.
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Rappaport and Humann built metropolitan areas as collections of tracts rather than counties: Looks much more sensible. Also, have people carefully compared CBSAs and commuting zones before? Yikes.
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RT @JosephPolitano: Trump announces 50% tariffs on Brazilian imports—the highest tariff rate in the letters he’s sent since the start of th….
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Tesar, Itshoki, and Krugman live via YouTube:
Headed to NBER SI. In addition to seeing the latest research, I'm looking forward to the panels on "The Future Impacts Of Current Trade Policy" (@itskhoki, @skalemliozcan, @akhandelwal8, Rodriguez-Clare) & "The Future of the Global Economy" (@itskhoki, @paulkrugman, Tesar).
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