Simon Margolin
@simon_margolin
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Assistant Professor of Economics at UCSB | Macroeconomics, Public Finance
Paris, France
Joined August 2016
💡 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. 🧵
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“It’s fantastic, Peter, isn’t that great? Yes! Yes!” Listen to the moment Philippe Aghion shares his joy with his friend and co-laureate Peter Howitt, captured as part of this call made shortly after the public announcement of the 2025 economic sciences prize. In this interview,
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Thrilled to see Philippe receive the Nobel Prize! It’s been such a privilege to work with him and benefit from his mentorship!
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Mokyr
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I am looking for one or two pre-docs to work with me at HEC Paris on historical patent data. Hopefully an exciting opportunity to develop quantitative skills in a nice research environment. See the position here https://t.co/vtYZmenAq7 Thanks for sharing !
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Thank you so much @glviolante and @JohnRGrigsby for being such wonderful advisors!
Congratulations to @simon_margolin and @nikolakoudisg who defended their outstanding thesis today in front of many classmates and friends. They both have a bright future ahead as research economists!
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A new workshop on the economic of AI organized at @cdf1530 on June 10th. Featuring keynote by Philippe Aghion and @ChadJonesEcon (remotely) and a set of wonderful speakers (program below). Entry is free and without registration. More information https://t.co/Tk2gsShDiA
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Simon Margolin's (@simon_margolin) job market paper studies how corporate tax reforms pass through to workers’ welfare. https://t.co/CFmkSJoSzL
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Francesco Fabbri's (@francesc_fabbri) job market paper shows that a novel holdup problem emerges in markets where consumers invest in acquiring information about product quality. https://t.co/X2kt3PRJeE
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Georgios Nikolakoudis's (@nikolakoudisg) job market paper examines how production networks create macroeconomic risk when firms operate under incomplete information. https://t.co/0C5MaUUFmK
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Alejandro Sabal's (@sabalalejandro) job market paper explores how product entry shapes the impact of national protectionist subsidies on global market outcomes in the automobile industry. https://t.co/jhl1iqaV8V
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Rafael Schwalb's job market paper studies how capital flows into the U.S. contribute to the decline in American manufacturing. https://t.co/NkYeGWS2R9
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Martin Vaeth's (@MartinVaeth) job market paper shows how rational voter learning explains both issue alignment and polarization of voter ideology. https://t.co/mlOweWOy7I
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Chansik Yoon's (@yoon_chansik) job market paper analyzes the rise in Chinese development loans, finding that recipient country corruption is linked to more loans and larger projects in hard-to-monitor sectors. https://t.co/VjvNgjG8Hs
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Very excited to see my paper with @genemgrossman and Elhanan Helpman forthcoming in the @QJEHarvard. Have a look if you want to learn about optimal resilience in multi-tier supply chains! https://t.co/9GuUcX3aqh
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Abstract. Forward-looking investments determine the resilience of firms’ supply chains. Such investments confer externalities on other firms in the product
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My student @CabezonFran has a very interesting job market paper that investigates how the presence of a large informal sector affects optimal pension design
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Website of the economist Francisco Cabezon. Academic research and policy.
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I am very happy and excited to share my job market paper joint with @AntoineMyrwtz and Sonja Dobkowitz. The punchline: firms care about the environmental concerns of their consumers! A (very) brief 🧵 below: #EconTwitter #EconJMC
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I had the privilege to advise two brilliant students on the market from @PrincetonEcon this year, Hugo Lhuillier and Lukas Mann. They both work at the intersection of macro, labor and spatial economics. Short 🧵on both, in alphabetic order.
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How does the concentration of skilled workers in a handful of cities affect human capital accumulation? You can find out the answer in in my job market paper!
Hugo Lhuillier’s (@Hugo_Lhu) job market paper studies how the sorting of individuals into cities shapes human capital accumulation. https://t.co/7uWvOK1l9z
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Francisco Cabezon (@cabezonfran) is a Public Finance candidate with a background in IO and Finance whose job market paper combines theory and empirics to study how high informality in the labor market influences the optimal design of pension systems. https://t.co/3LTCfLq1xp
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Lukas Mann’s (@lukasfmann) job market paper develops a new method to measure geographic sorting of workers and firms and applies it to estimate a structural model of spatial search on German matched employer-employee data. https://t.co/qq1Eo5ffOT
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