Eric Verhoogen
@ericverhoogen.bsky.social
Looking forward to the @theigc.bsky.social / @yaleegc.bsky.social Firms/Trade/Development conference tomorrow and Saturday! Conference page is here: egc.yale.edu/events/2025/.... There's a virtual option.
How can firm-level decisions drive productivity & inclusive growth?
During the Firms, Trade & Development Conference, we'll discuss topics such as:
💡Gender & hiring
💡Retention
💡Family firms
💡Diversity
Read more: theigc.org/blogs/firm-l...
@yaleegc.bsky.social #FirmsTradeDev
During the Firms, Trade & Development Conference, we'll discuss topics such as:
💡Gender & hiring
💡Retention
💡Family firms
💡Diversity
Read more: theigc.org/blogs/firm-l...
@yaleegc.bsky.social #FirmsTradeDev
How can firm-level decisions drive productivity and inclusive growth?
Explore how firm-level decisions impact hiring, diversity and job creation in South Asia and Africa at the 2025 Firms, Trade, and Development Conference.
theigc.org
October 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Looking forward to the @theigc.bsky.social / @yaleegc.bsky.social Firms/Trade/Development conference tomorrow and Saturday! Conference page is here: egc.yale.edu/events/2025/.... There's a virtual option.
The Columbia New Thinking in Industrial Policy Conference is coming up Nov. 6-7. We have a great program lined up: cdep.sipa.columbia.edu/sites/cdep.s... Conference page: cdep.sipa.columbia.edu/content/new-... Registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/18HK... Please register by Oct. 30.
Submission deadline for the Columbia New Thinking in Industrial Policy Conference is this Friday, Sept. 12, 11:59pm ET. Congressman Ro Khanna (@khanna.house.gov) will be the keynote speaker. Send us your papers!
Call for papers! 3rd New Thinking in Industrial Policy Conference at Columbia, Nov. 6-7, 2025. Submit here by Sept. 12: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F.... Conf page: cdep.sipa.columbia.edu/content/new-.... Hosts:
@ipdcolumbia.bsky.social, @cdepcolumbia.bsky.social, @columbiaigp.bsky.social, CPE.
@ipdcolumbia.bsky.social, @cdepcolumbia.bsky.social, @columbiaigp.bsky.social, CPE.
October 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The Columbia New Thinking in Industrial Policy Conference is coming up Nov. 6-7. We have a great program lined up: cdep.sipa.columbia.edu/sites/cdep.s... Conference page: cdep.sipa.columbia.edu/content/new-... Registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/18HK... Please register by Oct. 30.
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Knowledge spillovers are key to growth but hard to estimate. Randomly giving out energy-efficient motors to leather-goods firms in Bangladesh led to strong local spillovers, from Ritam Chaurey, Gaurav Nayyar, Siddharth Sharma, and @ericverhoogen.bsky.social https://www.nber.org/papers/w34296
October 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Knowledge spillovers are key to growth but hard to estimate. Randomly giving out energy-efficient motors to leather-goods firms in Bangladesh led to strong local spillovers, from Ritam Chaurey, Gaurav Nayyar, Siddharth Sharma, and @ericverhoogen.bsky.social https://www.nber.org/papers/w34296
It was a real pleasure to present at the @brookings.edu BPEA conference on Thursday, a new paper on the employment effects of the CHIPS Act in the US, with @josephestiglitz.bsky.social and @bilgeerten.bsky.social. Video, slides, and preliminary draft are here: www.brookings.edu/events/bpea-...
BPEA Fall 2025 Conference | Brookings
www.brookings.edu
September 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It was a real pleasure to present at the @brookings.edu BPEA conference on Thursday, a new paper on the employment effects of the CHIPS Act in the US, with @josephestiglitz.bsky.social and @bilgeerten.bsky.social. Video, slides, and preliminary draft are here: www.brookings.edu/events/bpea-...
Submission deadline for the Columbia New Thinking in Industrial Policy Conference is this Friday, Sept. 12, 11:59pm ET. Congressman Ro Khanna (@khanna.house.gov) will be the keynote speaker. Send us your papers!
Call for papers! 3rd New Thinking in Industrial Policy Conference at Columbia, Nov. 6-7, 2025. Submit here by Sept. 12: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F.... Conf page: cdep.sipa.columbia.edu/content/new-.... Hosts:
@ipdcolumbia.bsky.social, @cdepcolumbia.bsky.social, @columbiaigp.bsky.social, CPE.
@ipdcolumbia.bsky.social, @cdepcolumbia.bsky.social, @columbiaigp.bsky.social, CPE.
September 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Submission deadline for the Columbia New Thinking in Industrial Policy Conference is this Friday, Sept. 12, 11:59pm ET. Congressman Ro Khanna (@khanna.house.gov) will be the keynote speaker. Send us your papers!
Submission deadline is this Sunday.
Submission deadline for this PEDL young scholars workshop (to take place the day before the Oct 24-25 @theigc.bsky.social/@yaleegc.bsky.social Firms/Trade/Development conference) is Sept 7 (soon!). For researchers post-PhD but untenured (or <=8 years out). Hope to see many of you there.
📥 PEDL will hold a 1-day workshop for young researchers on Oct 23, 2025, as part of the IGC and the Yale Economic Growth Center “Firms, Trade, and Development” conference on Oct 24-25. All events will take place in person @yaleeconomics.bsky.social. More details: www.theigc.org/call-papers-...
September 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Submission deadline is this Sunday.
Submission deadline for this PEDL young scholars workshop (to take place the day before the Oct 24-25 @theigc.bsky.social/@yaleegc.bsky.social Firms/Trade/Development conference) is Sept 7 (soon!). For researchers post-PhD but untenured (or <=8 years out). Hope to see many of you there.
📥 PEDL will hold a 1-day workshop for young researchers on Oct 23, 2025, as part of the IGC and the Yale Economic Growth Center “Firms, Trade, and Development” conference on Oct 24-25. All events will take place in person @yaleeconomics.bsky.social. More details: www.theigc.org/call-papers-...
Call for papers: Young Researchers Workshop
Learn more about the Call for papers: Young Researchers Workshop for the IGC/EGC Conference on Firms, Trade, and Development 2025
www.theigc.org
August 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Submission deadline for this PEDL young scholars workshop (to take place the day before the Oct 24-25 @theigc.bsky.social/@yaleegc.bsky.social Firms/Trade/Development conference) is Sept 7 (soon!). For researchers post-PhD but untenured (or <=8 years out). Hope to see many of you there.
Call for papers! 3rd New Thinking in Industrial Policy Conference at Columbia, Nov. 6-7, 2025. Submit here by Sept. 12: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F.... Conf page: cdep.sipa.columbia.edu/content/new-.... Hosts:
@ipdcolumbia.bsky.social, @cdepcolumbia.bsky.social, @columbiaigp.bsky.social, CPE.
@ipdcolumbia.bsky.social, @cdepcolumbia.bsky.social, @columbiaigp.bsky.social, CPE.
August 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Call for papers! 3rd New Thinking in Industrial Policy Conference at Columbia, Nov. 6-7, 2025. Submit here by Sept. 12: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F.... Conf page: cdep.sipa.columbia.edu/content/new-.... Hosts:
@ipdcolumbia.bsky.social, @cdepcolumbia.bsky.social, @columbiaigp.bsky.social, CPE.
@ipdcolumbia.bsky.social, @cdepcolumbia.bsky.social, @columbiaigp.bsky.social, CPE.
Reposted by Eric Verhoogen
Check out our conversation with Eric Verhoogen @ericverhoogen.bsky.social, who visited us this past year. Hear about his path from union organizer to development economist, how to optimally tile pentagons when making soccer balls, and more
rpde.princeton.edu/news/2025/co...
rpde.princeton.edu/news/2025/co...
A conversation with RPDE Visiting Professor Eric Verhoogen: from teacher and union organizer to studying soccer ball manufacturing
Summer has meant a lot of changes here at RPDE. As with everyone at Princeton, it has meant bracing for summer heat and saying goodbye to graduating students and those leaving for summer. At RPDE in p...
rpde.princeton.edu
July 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Check out our conversation with Eric Verhoogen @ericverhoogen.bsky.social, who visited us this past year. Hear about his path from union organizer to development economist, how to optimally tile pentagons when making soccer balls, and more
rpde.princeton.edu/news/2025/co...
rpde.princeton.edu/news/2025/co...
Reposted by Eric Verhoogen
A randomized evaluation of matching grants to promote exports in Tunisia finds large effects on exports, but mainly of existing products to existing destinations, from Nadia Ali, Giacomo De Giorgi, Aminur Rahman, and @ericverhoogen.bsky.social https://www.nber.org/papers/w33985
July 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A randomized evaluation of matching grants to promote exports in Tunisia finds large effects on exports, but mainly of existing products to existing destinations, from Nadia Ali, Giacomo De Giorgi, Aminur Rahman, and @ericverhoogen.bsky.social https://www.nber.org/papers/w33985
New paper! RCT on subsidies for fixed market-access costs in Tunisia. Big effects on exports (for existing destinations/products) but not # of destinations/products, in contrast to policy goals and some workhorse trade models. w/ Nadia Ali, Giacomo De Giorgi, Aminur Rahman www.nber.org/papers/w33985
What Do Market-Access Subsidies Do? Experimental Evidence from Tunisia
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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July 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
New paper! RCT on subsidies for fixed market-access costs in Tunisia. Big effects on exports (for existing destinations/products) but not # of destinations/products, in contrast to policy goals and some workhorse trade models. w/ Nadia Ali, Giacomo De Giorgi, Aminur Rahman www.nber.org/papers/w33985
Economists well represented at a vigil for recent @columbiasipa.bsky.social student Mahmoud Khalil at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social yesterday.
May 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Economists well represented at a vigil for recent @columbiasipa.bsky.social student Mahmoud Khalil at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social yesterday.
Tomorrow 10am ET/4pm CEST, open to all.
📆 22 April @ 16:00 CEST
VDEV/CEPR/BREAD Seminars
🗣️ @ericverhoogen.bsky.social presents the paper "Social Learning among Urban #Manufacturing Firms: Energy-Efficient Motors in #Bangladesh"
Moderator: @gianmarcoleonc.bsky.social
cepr.org/events/vdev-...
#EconSky
VDEV/CEPR/BREAD Seminars
🗣️ @ericverhoogen.bsky.social presents the paper "Social Learning among Urban #Manufacturing Firms: Energy-Efficient Motors in #Bangladesh"
Moderator: @gianmarcoleonc.bsky.social
cepr.org/events/vdev-...
#EconSky
April 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Tomorrow 10am ET/4pm CEST, open to all.
Call for papers: @theigc.bsky.social/@yaleegc.bsky.social conference on Firms/Trade/Development, Oct. 24-25, 2025.
The leading conference in the firms & development space!
Early decision deadline (to accommodate visa processing): May 30.
General submission deadline: July 18.
The leading conference in the firms & development space!
Early decision deadline (to accommodate visa processing): May 30.
General submission deadline: July 18.
April 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Call for papers: @theigc.bsky.social/@yaleegc.bsky.social conference on Firms/Trade/Development, Oct. 24-25, 2025.
The leading conference in the firms & development space!
Early decision deadline (to accommodate visa processing): May 30.
General submission deadline: July 18.
The leading conference in the firms & development space!
Early decision deadline (to accommodate visa processing): May 30.
General submission deadline: July 18.
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Attention: Every single university president
This was 100% predictable (and predicted). The big firms that capitulated will cave and do whatever Trump wants. He owns them and will humiliate them for the next 3+ years.
If you are a lawyer at one of these firms, leave now with your dignity.
If you are a law student -- is this what you want?
If you are a lawyer at one of these firms, leave now with your dignity.
If you are a law student -- is this what you want?
April 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Attention: Every single university president
Looking forward to this virtual seminar! Registration open to all.
📆 22 April @ 16:00 CEST
VDEV/CEPR/BREAD Seminars
🗣️ @ericverhoogen.bsky.social presents the paper "Social Learning among Urban #Manufacturing Firms: Energy-Efficient Motors in #Bangladesh"
Moderator: @gianmarcoleonc.bsky.social
cepr.org/events/vdev-...
#EconSky
VDEV/CEPR/BREAD Seminars
🗣️ @ericverhoogen.bsky.social presents the paper "Social Learning among Urban #Manufacturing Firms: Energy-Efficient Motors in #Bangladesh"
Moderator: @gianmarcoleonc.bsky.social
cepr.org/events/vdev-...
#EconSky
April 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Looking forward to this virtual seminar! Registration open to all.
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Stanford’s president and provost release a statement supporting Harvard. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/15/l...
Stanford president and provost back Harvard in funding fight
The president and provost said Harvard’s rejection of government demands was “rooted in the American tradition of liberty.”
stanforddaily.com
April 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Stanford’s president and provost release a statement supporting Harvard. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/15/l...
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Backing the truck holding all Americans' private info up to the dock for pillaging...
There's been so much going on I haven't had a chance to cover it but Musk's DOGE connecting so many government systems to the open internet is so insanely disastrous.
NEW — In an alarming email last night reviewed by me, Coast Guard members learned that 1,135 members' direct deposit account routing information was compromised due to a data breach from unauthorized access.
It was only discovered because an officer “reported anomalous activity” on their account.
It was only discovered because an officer “reported anomalous activity” on their account.
February 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Backing the truck holding all Americans' private info up to the dock for pillaging...
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RIGHT NOW:
Columbia physicians, nurses, researchers, & faculty are calling on the Board of Trustees to resist the Trump admin’s assault on students, research, teaching, and patients.
@cuimcstandsup.bsky.social
@aaupcu.bsky.social
Columbia physicians, nurses, researchers, & faculty are calling on the Board of Trustees to resist the Trump admin’s assault on students, research, teaching, and patients.
@cuimcstandsup.bsky.social
@aaupcu.bsky.social
April 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
RIGHT NOW:
Columbia physicians, nurses, researchers, & faculty are calling on the Board of Trustees to resist the Trump admin’s assault on students, research, teaching, and patients.
@cuimcstandsup.bsky.social
@aaupcu.bsky.social
Columbia physicians, nurses, researchers, & faculty are calling on the Board of Trustees to resist the Trump admin’s assault on students, research, teaching, and patients.
@cuimcstandsup.bsky.social
@aaupcu.bsky.social
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Harvard stands up
Letter to the Harvard community from President Garber
Letter to the Harvard community from President Garber
April 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Harvard stands up
Letter to the Harvard community from President Garber
Letter to the Harvard community from President Garber
Same.
Plenty of complaints about Harvard over the years, but a proud Harvard alum today.
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wapo.st/4cH9vy3
Harvard rejects Trump administration’s demands with federal funding at risk
The university’s response comes after the government announced a federal review of nearly $9 billion in funding to Harvard and its affiliates.
wapo.st
April 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Same.
Reposted by Eric Verhoogen
Plenty of complaints about Harvard over the years, but a proud Harvard alum today.
wapo.st/4cH9vy3
wapo.st/4cH9vy3
Harvard rejects Trump administration’s demands with federal funding at risk
The university’s response comes after the government announced a federal review of nearly $9 billion in funding to Harvard and its affiliates.
wapo.st
April 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Plenty of complaints about Harvard over the years, but a proud Harvard alum today.
wapo.st/4cH9vy3
wapo.st/4cH9vy3
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I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”
I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”
Reposted by Eric Verhoogen
It's all a shame, because there's a version of tariffs - with industrial policy that builds leading the way - that makes sense.
And it's important to acknowledge that workers who have been beaten down by unfair trade understandably see benefit to well-designed tariffs.
END.
And it's important to acknowledge that workers who have been beaten down by unfair trade understandably see benefit to well-designed tariffs.
END.
April 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
It's all a shame, because there's a version of tariffs - with industrial policy that builds leading the way - that makes sense.
And it's important to acknowledge that workers who have been beaten down by unfair trade understandably see benefit to well-designed tariffs.
END.
And it's important to acknowledge that workers who have been beaten down by unfair trade understandably see benefit to well-designed tariffs.
END.