Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano@respublicae.eu
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Economist. Back at LSE as a Professor at @LSEPublicPolicy Summer 2023. Non-resident Fellow @bruegel_org. Recovering MEP. Currently @ChicagoBooth.
Joined Apr 2022
I get the sense Aussies are happy...
Congratulations!
RT @TheRealALM: FUCKING SCENESEESSS
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1598017694548529153
NEW @Bruegel_org data: since September 2021, €674 billion, nearing 5% of GDP, allocated in European countries to deal with energy crisis.
This is as large as the "unprecedented" NGEU program.
When does this level of expenditure stop being "temporary"?
https://www.bruegel.org/dataset/national-policies-shield-consumers-rising-energy-prices
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1597988669356670976
"AI models are increasing in size and capability by an order of magnitude a year, much faster than Moore’s Law pacing."
We, human beings, are about to be made obsolete on "creative" tasks.
Read this piece by @emollick on the future of AI.
https://oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/ai-has-a-strategy
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1597965069903855616
Great WP from @EsadeEcPol on impact of increase (10-21%) in taxes on sugary drinks in Spain.
- 90% pass-through to prices
- 33% poorest households reduced consumption by 11 litres, larger in hhlds with kids
- Similar reduction in consumption of snacks
https://www.esade.edu/ecpol/es/publicaciones/heterogeneous-response-and-spillover-effects-of-ssb-taxes/
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1597953430429237248
Shocking decision by the European Court of Justice suppressing registers of beneficial ownership- one of the key tools (if not THE key tool) to fight money laudering and corruption. Please see this thread by @navalny researcher!
@GuyVerhofstadt @EPoptcheva @paultang @repasi
RT @pevchikh: 1/20 Dear friends, I need to draw your attention to something super bad and super important (and it doesn’t originate from Russia for once). Last week the EU has taken a shockin…
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1597734184440979456
Proud to join the excellent team that @jzettelmeyer is building at @Bruegel_org as a Non-resident Fellow.
RT @Bruegel_org: 👋Bruegel wishes to extend a warm welcome to @LucreziaReichli, @PSaintAmans, @elinaribakova, @lugaricano and @SMerler who begin today as Non-resident Fellows.
Read more about these Fellows and their work below 👇🧵
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1597702509715689472
@ianbremmer Haha! no, I mean about the Ayatollah!
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1597685753181769728
@ianbremmer Why do you say this? Is there any indication of this? AM I missing somthing?
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1597684801380966400
RT @ewzucker: @lugaricano Great book on the subject: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674437036
Yes , countries should learn from their neighbours... And from those who are not. One of the big puzzles of USA policy making is how little the lessons from other places figure on the debate.
RT @spignal: My Charlemagne this week is on cut-and-paste policymaking: why politicians should look at what their neighbours are doing and steal their best ideas.
AND I start with 6 schemes from across Europe that all governments ought to consider.
The winners are…🧵
https:/…
Todos mis pensamientos con los ucranianos mientras los bombarderos estratégicos rusos se preparan para salir a bombardear objetivos civiles.
Debemos dar a Ucrania medios para proteger sus poblaciones. Y debemos cortarle todos los fondos a Putin.
RT @ChuckPfarrer: AIR RAID WARNING: @MT_Anderson reports that Tu-95 and Tu-160 strategic bombers are being prepared for strike missions at Engles Air Force Base in Saratov, Russia. Kh-101 and Kh-555 air launched cruise…
RT @FinancialReview: RBA governor Philip Lowe has offered an unprecedented apology to Australians who took out loans based on guidance interest rates were unlikely to rise until 2024. Read the full story here: https://www.afr.com/politics/lowe-apologises-for-interest-rate-guidance-20221128-p5c1rr?utm_content=INTRODUCTION&list_name=3C7071E7-7A1B-44F0-99B1-6C3FC0DF8FF6&promote_channel=edmail&utm_campaign=afr-breaking-news&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=2022-11-28&mbnr=MzA4OTA4MzI&instance=2022-11-28-11-02-AEDT&jobid=29442928
RT @mariaramirezNY: Excelente artículo de @rterrasa en @elmundoes con voces variadas, bien explicado y las claves de lo que hay de fondo. https://www.elmundo.es/papel/historias/2022/11/26/6380cb8e21efa057108b45cd.html
RT @SiminaMistreanu: Crowd of at least 100 making its way to Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Sunday night, chanting, “We want universal values,” “We want freedom, equality, democracy, rule of law,” “We don’t want dictatorship,” “We don’t want personality cult.”
RT @isaacstonefish: Incredible. This photo reportedly shows two Chinese professors in Shanghai standing bravely between dozens of police and protesting students.
(h/t@RealBeiMing)
Could you survive a cold winter under attack, with sporadic electricity, no gas, no heating? Read this amazing thread by my friend @Mylovanov . A story of resilience in the face of Russian aggression.
RT @Mylovanov: Good evening. Day 5 after the latest Russian attack on Kyiv. Day 277 of the war. I am president of the Kyiv School of Economics, a former minister of economy of Ukraine, and a professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh. I left the US for Ky…
If we want to stop the war, we need to stop paying for Putin's soldiers. This Wednesday, G7/EU must agree on a tough price cap (clearly below $60) on Russian oil.
A great thread.
RT @laurimyllyvirta: The G7 and EU countries aim to decide the level of a price cap on Russian oil on Wednesday. This will be a momentous decision. 🧵
RT @jsantirso: Me encuentro en las calles de Pekín, donde ahora mismo está teniendo lugar algo excepcional: cientos de estudiantes han salido a protestar contra la política de covid-cero.
La policía está presente en el lugar de los hechos, pero se mantiene inmóvil.
Fukuyama was right: today it is self-evident neither radical Islam (Iran), nor one party "communist" dictatorship (China), nor far right ethnic authoritarian regimes (Russia) offer credible alternatives to Western liberal democracies.
Corageous protestors in Russia, China and Iran remind us why dictatorships will never be superior to democracies: they don't care about their people.
- Russia sends thousands to their deaths
- China imprisons millions in their homes
- Iran murders and imprisons innocent women
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Economist. Back at LSE as a Professor at @LSEPublicPolicy Summer 2023. Non-resident Fellow @bruegel_org. Recovering MEP. Currently @ChicagoBooth.
Joined Apr 2022
