Pierre-Louis Vézina
Economist at King's College London. Trade, development, migration, political madness, grand corruption. pierrelouisvezina@weebly.com
- Reposted by Pierre-Louis Vézina🌟New paper by Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (@oxmartinschool.bsky.social African Governance Programme) finds that African offshore finance is increasingly routed through Asian financial centres. www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/news/africas...
- Reposted by Pierre-Louis VézinaDiego A. Cerdeiro & Lorenzo Rotunno estimate that intra-EU trade barriers are between two to three times as large as between US states, with simulations suggesting that closing the gap could raise EU productivity by nearly 6%. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky
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- This is good on what's it like in a UK uni these days: Why are UK universities failing? - LSE Impact share.google/NYPBoQNH1DLH...
- This is not a distraction.
- BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
- Two days left to submit your papers!
- Reposted by Pierre-Louis Vézina📣 REMINDER - Call for Papers: The Economics of Migration Junior Workshop 💡 The event aims to provide an opportunity to junior researchers on #migration #economics to present and meet in-person. 📅 May 26-27, 2026 at @uc3meconomics.bsky.social ⏳ Submit by Feb 1st. 🔗 economig2026.sciencesconf.org
- Everything is so transparent with trump haha... take over Venezuela government, steal oil revenues, put them in an offshore account in Qatar for your own personal benefit. 💯
- The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
- Cool stuff in there 🤓
- 10 days left to apply to our migration workshop!
- Reposted by Pierre-Louis Vézina🌟📣NEW CSAE Working Paper The Rise of Viet Nam’s Solar Panel Industry: Inputs, FDI, & Spillovers ✒️@meng35.bsky.social, @plvezina.bsky.social, Trang Thu Tran & Gaurav Nayyar 📄Read it here: ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...
- Our paper on the rise of Vietnam's solar panel industry now out as a CSAE wp 🤓👇
- When countries subsidise the production & innovation of green goods, does it make it easier for others to join their value chains? This paper explores this using Viet Nam’s solar panel industry as a case study & firm-to-firm transaction data to map out its value chain ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...
- Spoke with @olhazadorozhna.bsky.social about our paper on Ukrainian refugee entrepreneurs in Poland. Some fact and figures, and some policy discussions at the end 👇👇👇
- 1/ 🎙️ New episode of Policy Implications! I talk with @plvezina.bsky.social about Ukrainian refugees in Poland who aren’t just workers, but entrepreneurs creating new businesses and even boosting Polish firm creation. This season is supported by @econ4ua.bsky.social and Kozminski University 💛💙
- What happened to Tyler Cowen? He used to be fun to read on econ and stuff, but now he seems completely unaware that the US is ruled by warmongering racist fascists...
- Reposted by Pierre-Louis VézinaA 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—>
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- It's not correct to put UK Greens and Mamdani as anti-growth, anti-system, parties. Going for the "both sides" narrative, suggesting these are "far left", as bad as the far right, and both "zero-sum" in their policies, is just not true. Reversing Brexit is pro-growth, and so is a good tax system.
- Out on @voxeu.org today: A column summarizing our recent research on the entrepreneurship effect of Ukrainian refugees in Poland 👇
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- The 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—>
- Our paper is out as an Econ4UA working paper👇👇👇
- Working Paper No. 14: “Refugees and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Ukrainians in Poland” Impact of refugees: evidence from Ukrainian refugees shows spurring entrepreneurship. Read: econ4ua.org/wp-content/u... Submit research: lnkd.in/gf2nQ5WC
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- "Labour is slow-marching working people ""to populist parties both left and right"" --> Media is at it again with the "both sides" nonsense. The green party wants to reverse brexit, and the FT finds a way to call it "nonsense economics", on par with Farage's... giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
- We got a new paper out on Ukrainian #refugee entrepreneurs in Poland, with Cevat Giray Aksoy and Piotr Lewandowski. Check it out here: cevatgirayaksoy.com/wp-content/u... and see below for a THREAD!!! 👇 #EconTwitter
- The full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in Feb 2022 displaced more than six million Ukrainians, with Poland hosting around one million refugees.
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- Yeah tough tradeoffs: swallow your pride, solve the country's problems with a silver bullet.
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- And presenting this work on solar panel manufacturing at the Vietnam Firms and Labour Markets Online Seminar TODAY! See thread 👇 Registration link: share.google/Spbr1BnURaeB...
- We got a VoxDev column out! ==> Meng Yu Ngov, Pierre-Louis Vézina, Trang Thu Tran & Gaurav Nayyar show that Vietnam's solar boom was built on three key pillars: voxdev.org/topic/energy...
- Reposted by Pierre-Louis VézinaWe have a new tenure-track job in @lsegovernment.bsky.social at AP level (empirical political science, open subfield): jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Please apply and share with colleagues who might be interested!
- Call for papers: Junior workshop on the Economics of Migration 👇👇👇
- With @jeromevalette.bsky.social & Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, we are happy to announce the CfPapers for the 4th edition of the Junior Workshop on the Economics of Migration on May 26-27, 2026 @uc3meconomics.bsky.social, Spain. Submit until February 1, 2026 on economig2026.sciencesconf.org
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- Reposted by Pierre-Louis Vézina📢 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
- Looking forward to presenting our work on solar panel manufacturing at the Vietnam Firms and Labour Markets Online Seminar on 1 Dec. See thread 👇 Registration link: share.google/Spbr1BnURaeB...
- Reposted by Pierre-Louis Vézina🚨New working paper: Compositional Effects, Internal Migration and Electoral Outcomes osf.io/preprints/so... #polisciresearch
- OK that's a good title.
- CfP🗣️: 7th edition of the Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration. 28-29 May 2026, in Rome! Organised by CEPR/King's College/EBRD/Sapienza Keynotes are Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi) and Vicky Fouka (Stanford). Submit your papers: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Deadline 23 Jan. 🤓🔥🍕🍝🍷
- Econ prof job at King's 🔥🔥🔥
- We're hiring a Full Prof in Economics (open-field) at the Econ dept in King's Business School. Come join us in central London - apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/12... #Econsky 1/2
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- A new VoxDev piece on our work on enemies of the people. While we ended up writing about how human capital can foster growth, we've learned a lot while working on this about the atrocities authoritarians are capable of... and this makes the current groundwork of the US regime scary as hell...
- 🆕 Enemies of the people: How Stalin’s Gulags shaped Russia Gerhard Toews (New Economic School) & Pierre-Louis Vézina (King's College London) discuss how Stalin’s forced deportation of educated ‘enemies of the people’ inadvertently concentrated human capital in Gulag towns: ow.ly/Eceb50Xch32
- This. Stop focusing on how to appeal to voters and focus on how to use the justice system and the media to root out racism/populism/authoritarianism.
