Hamid Firooz
@firooz_hamid
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Visiting Fellow @sffed. Assistant Professor of Economics @NCState. International economics, market power, macro-labor, firm dynamics.
Joined April 2021
RT @roozbeh52: This is few steps from my loved ones. I don’t know of any military/etc targets there. About 100 yards to west of it is one o….
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RT @DanielYiXu: Post-doc opportunity. Please apply if you are interested in firm-to-firm trade networks: 👇 .
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Some papers are really like this!.
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Very helpful!.
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RT @timo_reinelt: 📢 Workshop on 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼 at the @sffed . 🌁 San Francisco, October 27, 2025.🚨 Keynote speaker: @YGo….
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RT @LeiLi_economics: Job Opening: one PhD position in international trade, environmental economics, and labor economics👇👇 .
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RT @SorryToBeKurt: Any Econ PhD students at Harvard (or elsewhere in the U.S.) worried about visa status, the @IIES_Sthlm has openings for….
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RT @MeredithCrowle1: Thanks to @TheIFS for hosting me this week for their Annual Lecture. Check out: Trade Wars and the Future of Globalisa….
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RT @m_maggiori: Interested in international economics and geopolitics? You may want to consider submitting to this conference. I am looking….
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RT @CarolinPflueger: Please submit! I am very excited about this conference with @m_maggiori @JSchreger @jafrieden @juhreka13 @Ch_Trebesch.
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RT @nberpubs: Startups co-founded by immigrants and natives outperform native-only and immigrant-only firms in size, funding, and innovatio….
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RT @JSchreger: Very excited about this special issue of the Journal of International Economics on Geoeconomics. Submission deadline Septem….
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RT @GCAProject: GCAP and BGS will hold a JIE-GCAP-BGS Conference on Geoeconomics at @StanfordGSB on February 27-28, 2026. Call for papers:….
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RT @itskhoki: What is the optimal macroeconomic tariff when trade is imbalanced? Can a tariff be used to permanently close an aggregate tra….
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RT @nberpubs: Using a dynamic trade and reallocation model with downward nominal wage rigidities to quantitatively assess the economic cons….
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12/ This is because a robot subsidy can alleviate markup distortions and, by lowering the user cost of robots, a subsidy reallocates production toward large, automating firms that have high productivity, bringing aggregate output closer to the efficient level.
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11/ Under our calibration, a modest robot subsidy (about 1.41% of the value of robots) maximizes the steady-state welfare, yielding a welfare gain equivalent to about 4.23% of steady-state consumption compared to the laissez-faire benchmark.
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10/ Under our calibration, the model predicts that a 40% fall in the relative price of robots—observed during the past two decades—can explain ~50% of the rise in sales concentration in the U.S. manufacturing and ~25% of the divergence between sales and employment concentration.
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