Professor of Economics, Geneva Graduate Institute & CEPR. Growth, Trade, Productivity, Organization, Environment, South Asia. https://jmboehm.github.io/
Johannes Boehm
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Data from hundreds of thousands of ancient coins is used to reconstruct granular time series of trade and real consumption around the Mediterranean from the 4th to the 10th century, from @johannesmboehm.bsky.social and Thomas Chaney www.nber.org/papers/w35156
We are hiring! VU Amsterdam (Dept of Spatial Economics) seeks AP in Urban and Real Estate Economics. Research fit: (spatial) general equilibrium + reduced-form work on land/housing, commuting, amenities, local public goods. RT. #UrbanEconomics #AcademicJobs
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Learning spillovers between firms are widely seen as important but are hard to estimate cleanly. We ran an experiment with energy-efficient motors in the Dhaka leather-goods sector. Links to non-technical summary and video below. With Ritam Chaurey, Gaurav Nayyar, and Siddharth Sharma.
So nice to see this in print! My paper on green trade policy, deforestation, and palm oil. đ˛đł
It's been great fun talking to @angusbylsma.bsky.social about coins, trade, the 'end of antiquity', and even a little bit about methods and questions in economics and economic history.
Whoa. "[F]inetuning exclusively on Haruki Murakami's novels unlocks verbatim recall of copyrighted books from over 30 unrelated authors...Our findings offer compelling evidence that model weights store copies of copyrighted works."
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Hopefully todayâs SCOTUS decision on tariffs will mean the end of the preposterous EU-US trade âdealâ. And hopefully the EU will be more respectful of the fundamental principles governing international trade, in particular MFN. Let the US exit the system if they want, letâs not help them destroy it.
Applications are invited for a 3-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at our Centre in Paris, starting on 1 Sept 2026. The post is in connection with the research programme on economic & environmental history. Application deadline 19 Feb 2026. Click below for further particulars & how to apply.
Worth reposting in light of the US essentially giving Moscow its full backing
Allan Hsiao
NBER
Eric Verhoogen
Johannes Boehm
Melanie Walsh
Joseph Shapiro
Joint Center for History and Economics
Frontier LLM companies have repeatedly assured courts and regulators that their models do not store copies of training data. They further rely on safety alignme
