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Hopefully today’s SCOTUS decision on tariffs will mean the end of the preposterous EU-US trade ‘deal’. 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, let’s not help them destroy it.
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.