Very happy to see our paper on @wb_research's All About Finance blog today! https://t.co/sTlXk5JjpZ

Excited to be on the #EconJobMarket! I study a classic trade-off: exploiting information vs. preserving secrecy. The setting: the Allied breaking of Nazi Enigma codes in WW2. Curious? Thread below. 👇

What drove macroeconomic fluctuations over the past 700 years? In our 🚨 new working paper 🚨 “A Millennium of UK Business Cycles: Insights from Structural VAR Analysis” (with haroon Mumtaz and @_Gabor_Pinter_ ), we show:

Brazil’s R&D subsidy programme spurred long-term growth by helping financially constrained companies adopt foreign technologies and expand into high-tariff markets through import substitution. Read this week's article to learn more: https://t.co/5WDGJ6Gzs1

Let me take a moment to share our new paper on #DepositInsurance in India just published as a discussion paper with @cepr_org. Our @vox_dev piece below lays out the core takeaway clearly: the Reserve Bank of India (@RBI) should raise the #DepositInsurance threshold. Doing so

🆕 How expanding deposit insurance changed investor behaviour in India Today on VoxDev w/ Pulak Ghosh (@IIM_Bangalore), @NicolaLimodio (@Unibocconi) & @nish_vats (@washuolin):

💡 Why would a firm spend millions training workers it doesn’t even employ? From open-sourcing to certifications, superstar firms often train the workforce of their customers. My JMP explains why. 🧵

🚨🚨Excited to share the call for paper of the 15th @mofir_workshop on #banking, next July 7-8 in Varese (🇮🇹), close to the Lakes. Please submit your papers by January 12, 2026 (link in the following tweet). Thanks to @cepr_org @Uni_Insubria @EU_Commission and @SFSjournals

The Fed just cut rates by 25bp on October 29, but was this decision already baked into the Fed's own communications? Markets seemed to have priced it, yet a key question remains: What would you have expected if you only read the Fed's pre-meeting documents? In my Job Market

🏠📶 How Rwanda’s digital leap transformed its mortgage market During our visits to Rwanda, my coauthors and I discovered a reform that truly pushed the country into the future. Every land title — once a pile of scrappy, confusing papers — was turned into a fully digital, and

Looking forward to Camelia Minoiu presenting our paper on the role of banks in financing realignments of supply chain relationships @lalfaro

Working in intersection of Finance and Development?! Submit your paper by November 16th 📆 2026 edition of WEFIDEV Conference 👇

Disability employment quotas in Brazil: Enforcing the law with limited capacity Last month on VoxDev, Samuel Berlinski (@the_IDB) & @GageteJessica (@FbkIrvapp @FBK_research) discussed how strategic enforcement can multiply policy impact:

🚨New working paper 🚨 How did migration reshape Brazil’s religious landscape? @rbcorbi, @FMiessi, and I have a new paper showing that internal migration drove a major religious shift by transforming local religious markets instead of converting migrants or spreading beliefs. 👇

🚨New Working Paper w/ Martí Mestieri & Johanna Schauer Why is 🇿🇦 still one of the most unequal countries in the world—30 years after Apartheid? We build a dynamic spatial GE model to understand why inequality persists—and why it's increasingly within the Black population 🧵1/8

Disability employment quotas in Brazil: Enforcing the law with limited capacity Last week on VoxDev, Samuel Berlinski (@the_IDB) & @GageteJessica (@FbkIrvapp @FBK_research) discussed how strategic enforcement can multiply policy impact:

🚨 New on VoxDev! 🚨 Excited to share a new VoxDev article featuring our research on enforcement spillovers in Brazil. In this paper, we explore how enforcing labor laws in some firms can affect compliance in other firms—not through penalties, but through their networks!

🆕 Disability employment quotas in Brazil: Enforcing the law with limited capacity Today on VoxDev, Samuel Berlinski (@the_IDB) & @GageteJessica (@FbkIrvapp @FBK_research) discuss how strategic enforcement can multiply policy impact:

Thank you @ralphdehaas for the kind words about our paper — and a huge thank‑you to the amazing organizers, @KarstenMueIIer, @BenCharoenwong, @a_presbitero, and @Alberto50155842, for putting together such a wonderful conference and including our work in the program! 🎉

New blog from @lucasmariani89, @giorgiabarboni, @zerenatoornelas, Bernardo Ricca, Natalia Theys, & Hussam Razi explores how new research will evaluate #Pix’s potential to help close Brazil’s #MSME finance gap. @BancoCentralBR ⤵️ https://t.co/0VoSQWyBpG

💡 New @UNUWIDER study: What happens when an emerging economy adopts a carbon tax? In this paper, a fantastic team of coauthors and I examine firm-level responses to South Africa’s 2019 carbon tax—the first of its kind on the African continent. 🇿🇦🌍