Daniele Girardi
Economist at King's College London.
danielegirardi.github.io
- Reposted by Daniele GirardiAbout Kevin Warsh paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-bad-heir...
- Reposted by Daniele GirardiA quick take on Warsh. In terms of ideology and theory, at first glance he looks like a fairly standard pre-2008 'hawk' but he's perhaps closer to 80s monetarism: he thinks inflation is caused by government spending and money printing. 1/n www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
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- Reposted by Daniele GirardiWorth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power
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- Reposted by Daniele GirardiNORWAY PM: I HAVE REPEATEDLY CLEARLY EXPLAINED TO TRUMP THAT IT IS AN INDEPENDENT COMMITTEE THAT AWARDS THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
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- Reposted by Daniele GirardiA week ago, I gave the “Recent Developments in the Political Economy of Elections and Democracy” lecture at the 2026 AEA @assameeting.bsky.social ! Video: www.aeaweb.org/webcasts/202... Slides: www.vincentpons.org/recent-devel... Thread with the TL;DR of my talk below.
- Reposted by Daniele GirardiThe immigration doom loop in full swing. Chasing the xenophobes is a doomed strategy both economically *and* politically. (1/3) archive.ph/pyVLg
- Reposted by Daniele GirardiA new paper by George Borjas—who served this past year in the Trump White House designing some of its anti-immigration policies—claims to display evidence of ideological bias among researchers who study immigration. doi.org/10.1126/scia... 🧵 Thread—>
- Reposted by Daniele GirardiA headline for the ages www.politico.eu/article/fran...
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[Not loaded yet] - Reposted by Daniele GirardiThe International Monetary Fund asked me to review the literature on migration economics to draw lessons for low-income countries. In a new @iza.org paper, I argue that policy for the 21st century must discard four outdated ideas. www.iza.org/publications... 🧵 thread—>
- Public Service Announcement: 🚨New updated version (1.0.2) of -lpdid- STATA command now available🚨 Update the command by typing ssc install lpdid, replace directly in STATA Then look at the updated help file help lpdid See below for the key new features...
- Key new features of LPDID: * New [oneoff] suboption to deal with 'shock' treatments lasting 1 period by construction (eg, hurricanes) * Reweighted estimator w/ covariates (or additional FEs) now *much* faster * Reweighted estimator w/ covariates now compatible with wild bootstrap standard errors
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- Masha Gessen - "The Movie I Was Afraid to See" (gift link below) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
- Reposted by Daniele Girardi25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
- Reposted by Daniele GirardiIt has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
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- Reposted by Daniele GirardiTighter visa rules will cost UK up to £10.8bn giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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- Reposted by Daniele GirardiNew Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion. It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
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- Reposted by Daniele GirardiThe first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
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- Reposted by Daniele Girardi1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6
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- The inaugural article of Reviews of Economic Literature is fittingly titled "It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community" It argues that open access crucially needs to be coupled with a new non-profit publishing model rel.journals.sup.org/index.php/re...
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- Reposted by Daniele Girardi📢 We’re hiring! King's College London Political Economy is recruiting an Assistant Professor (Lecturer in the UK system) in Economics. Apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130885-... Feel free to contact me for information about the role and our department. @kcl-spe.bsky.social @kingsqpe.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Daniele GirardiSomething absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
