“The TPP was a very bad deal for the United States, it would have cost us a tremendous amount of jobs… there is a..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…if
Over time imports ADD to GDP growth b/c they are a key source of ideas & technology for dom. business. twitter.com/Noahpinion/sta…
Good for CA! The same effect (especially the advantage in JPN) will probably boost modelled estimates for AU gains…twitter.com/i/web/status/9…GY
“The Catoline Conspiracy Unmasked” or “Albion exsoluta est” (a little drama is sort of welcome…) twitter.com/dikenson/statu…
insteconomics CPTPP may mark the end, rather than the beginning, of freer trade in the Pacific — United States Studies Centrelnkd.in/eKXb7nRY
Trade Map and Market Access Map (from @ITC_MktAnalysis) are great resources, mature data systems. Recommended. twitter.com/TradeDiversion…
Reciprocity makes good agreements. Game theory and polity agree: reciprocate cooperation, punish defection. Today,..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…6I
KDbyProxy @pwgallagher @sdonnan As for the “VERs”, I was there as a Senate staffer for USTR & DoC actions re semi-conductors..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…mS
In 1981 Sen Danforth (R, MO & staffer Susan Schwab) pushed unilateral S301 action for “non-reciprocity”. Comm. Sec’..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…fF
“His conclusion, unsupported by evidence?…It’s bad for us to be free” @DeirdreMcClosk on Thaler (& Kahneman, Krug..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Qf
DanielGriswold In his new book on “China’s Great Migration,” @bradleygardner documents how the internal movement of 260 million pe..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…xn
sdonnan It’s back to the future day.. CC Suharto and the “Timor”… Or Mahathir and the Proton… twitter.com/FinancialTimes…
Had NZ joined the AU Federation as proposed in 1900, the economic case for a CU might have been stronger because of..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Js
AU & NZ have from time to time considered a CU. Case was never convincing. Free (99%) trade and own currency leaves..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Lr
Huh? A CU isn’t naturally advantageous. Can be a big disadvantage for econs. outside monetary union especially wher..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…VD
I first met Gary in 1982 when I was Counsellor at AU embassy in D.C. He had recently moved (fm Tsy?) to Brookings…twitter.com/i/web/status/9…DO
Great thing about @ATabarrok et al.’s counter-intuitive null-result on the burden of regulation is, it’s so provoca..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…a7
(Thinks… I wish I could do research like that, and be quoted in The Economist and be famous…) twitter.com/TheEconomist/s…
“Probably ‘placebo effects’ rode on the coattails of a more important issue, regression to the mean. That is, most..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…U8
D_A_Irwin A fitting tribute to one of Washington’s trade policy greats: Gary Hufbauer piie.com/newsroom/short… via @PIIE
Tempting to compare claims about China’s treatment of USA/EU tech-IP & USA treatment of (all) EU IP in 19th C. Stil..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…fD
AndrewDMitch Australia’s #FTAs with #China, Asia and Beyond - joint launch of books by me @lizsheargold @taniavoon @ColinPicker..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…fA
This long essay by @stephen_wolfram on computation & the limits of reductionism; language, time-capsules, AI & comm..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…xc