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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 5h

🚨 WE @unswecon.bsky.social ARE HIRING! 🚨
JMC: apply and email/DM for any question!

A short 🧵 on @unswecon.bsky.social and why you want to apply and join us in Sydney👇

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We are hiring! Join us in Sydney.

Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 5h

🚨 WE @unswecon.bsky.social ARE HIRING! 🚨
JMC: apply and email/DM for any question!

A short 🧵 on @unswecon.bsky.social and why you want to apply and join us in Sydney👇

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 5h

If I were a JMC, I would jump at this headfirst…

Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 5h

🚨 WE @unswecon.bsky.social ARE HIRING! 🚨
JMC: apply and email/DM for any question!

A short 🧵 on @unswecon.bsky.social and why you want to apply and join us in Sydney👇

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 5h

20. And really many other! And the terrific series of seminars and conferences and workshops we have all-year round. Check some out at @unswecon.bsky.social.

Email or DM if you have questions.

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 5h

19. Pauline's Gender Equality Lab: www.unsw.edu.au/business/our...

UNSW Gender Hub | UNSW Business School

The UNSW Gender Equality Hub advances cutting-edge research, policy engagement and training to promote legal, political and economic equality of women (cis and trans).

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 5h

18. My own 🤗 Resilient Democracy Lab: www.resilientdemocracylab.org

Home | Resilient Democracy Lab | UNSW Sydney

The Resilient Democracy Lab at UNSW promotes and supports theoretical and empirical research on the robustness of democratic institutions. We study how economic, political, and cultural factors affect...

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 5h

19. @profholden.bsky.social's new Manos Institute for Cognitive Economics: cognitiveeconomics.com

Manos Institute Cognitive Economics - Cognitive Economics

Our mission is to rebuild economics by understanding the limits of human computational capacity and the individual reasoning process.

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 5h

18. For exmple, Jacob's AGORA Centre for Market Design: www.agora.group

HOME | agora

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 5h

17. Finally, we are a department that builds opportunities for juniors, e.g., through the many centers, institutes, and labs we are building. 👇

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 5h

16. And if you come visit us I'll brag about the long list of top5 R&Rs from my collegues.

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 5h

15. ...and @economeager.bsky.social is also adding to our list of forthcoming Econometrica papers: "Bayesian Impact Evaluation with Informative Priors: An Application to a Colombian Management and Export Improvement Program"

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 5h

14. If we look into the present (2025) and future, A. Kolotilin has 2 new or forthcoming papers in Econometrica:
"Persuasion Meet Delegation" (ECMA 2025)
"The Economics of Partisan Gerrymandering" (ECMA forthcoming)...
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https://www.econometricsociety.org/publications/econometrica/2025/01/01/Persuasion-Meets-Delegation

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 5h

13. By G. GRATTON 💪 2024
Liberty, Security, and Accountability: The Rise and Fall of Illiberal Democracies
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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 5h

12. by R. HOLDEN 2023
Getting Dynamic Implementation to Work | Journal of Political Economy: Vol 131, No 2
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Getting Dynamic Implementation to Work | Journal of Political Economy: Vol 131, No 2

We develop a new class of two-stage mechanisms, which fully implement any social choice function under initial rationalizability in complete information environments. We show theoretically that our si...

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 5h

11. by P. GROSJEAN 2023
"Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France." American Economic Review 113 (7): 1888–1932.
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Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France

(July 2023) - We measure how a network of heroes can legitimize and diffuse extreme political behaviors. We exploit newly declassified intelligence files, novel voting data, and regimental histories t...

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 5h

10. by P. GROSJEAN, F. MASERA, and H. YOUSAF 2023
Inflammatory Political Campaigns and Racial Bias in Policing, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 138, Issue 1, February 2023, Pages 413–463
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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 5h

9. by JC CARBAJAL
Cause and Effect in Political Polarization: A Dynamic Analysis | Journal of Political Economy: Vol 130, No 4
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Cause and Effect in Political Polarization: A Dynamic Analysis | Journal of Political Economy: Vol 130, No 4

Polarization is both a description of the current state of politics and a dynamic path that has rippled across the political domain over decades. We provide a simple model that explains why polarizati...

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 5h

8. by R. MEAGER 2022
Aggregating Distributional Treatment Effects: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of the Microcredit Literature. American Economic Review 112 (6): 1818–47.
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Aggregating Distributional Treatment Effects: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of the Microcredit Literature

(June 2022) - Expanding credit access in developing contexts could help some households while harming others. Microcredit studies show different effects at different quantiles of household profit, inc...

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 5h

7. by G. GRATTON 💪 2021
"From Weber to Kafka: Political Instability and the Overproduction of Laws." American Economic Review 111 (9): 2964–3003.
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From Weber to Kafka: Political Instability and the Overproduction of Laws

(September 2021) - With inefficient bureaucratic institutions, the effects of laws are hard to assess and incompetent politicians may pass laws to build a reputation as skillful reformers. Since too m...

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 5h

6. by J. GOEREE 2021
"M Equilibrium: A Theory of Beliefs and Choices in Games." American Economic Review 111 (12): 4002–45.
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M Equilibrium: A Theory of Beliefs and Choices in Games

(December 2021) - We introduce a set-valued solution concept, M equilibrium, to capture empirical regularities from over half a century of game theory experiments. We show M equilibrium serves as a me...

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 5h

5. by P. SEDLACEK 2021
"The Nature of Firm Growth." American Economic Review 111 (2): 547–79.
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The Nature of Firm Growth

(February 2021) - About one-half of all startups fail within five years, and those that survive grow at vastly different speeds. Using Census microdata, we estimate that most of these differences are ...

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 5h

4. by P. GROSJEAN 2020
"Forced Migration and Human Capital: Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers." American Economic Review 110 (5): 1430–63.
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Forced Migration and Human Capital: Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers

(May 2020) - We study the long-run effects of forced migration on investment in education. After World War II, millions of Poles were forcibly uprooted from the Kresy territories of eastern Poland and...

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 5h

3. by J. GOEREE 2020
Exposure Problem and Market Design, The Review of Economic Studies 87(5): 2230-2255
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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 5h

2. Becuse we are the real deal! Some still think there is no Econ outside NA or EU. But I don’t think we have much to envy to some of the top 30 US departments.
Below a list of top 5 publications over 2020-2025 (hoping I did not miss too many): 👇
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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 5h

1. Because we are a great department in a great city! Sydney is a large multicultural financial center in an English-speaking high-state-capacity liberal democracy. The ocean is a 🚶 from campus; wilderness a short 🚉 away.

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