Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
740 posts
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
@HansbergRossi
Macro, Trade, and Urban Economist. Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago.
- RIP Jonathan Eaton, a great economist that transformed the field of international trade. He should have received a Nobel prize for his many invaluable contributions to economics.
- After 16 great years at @PrincetonEcon and @PrincetonSPIA, I am moving to @UChi_Economics. Back to my alma mater. Very excited! economics.uchicago.edu/blog/economist…
- Such a sad day. Bob Lucas, the most important economist in modern macroeconomics, and certainly the most important economist in my life, died today. He was such a deep and honest thinker. He was such a helpful and caring mentor. I owe him so much. Farewell Bob. Thank you.
- Honored to serve as an editor of the JPE. Send me your best work, I will be very selective, but will try to be fair, efficient, and fast.Today the JPE welcomed several new editors to the team: A. Atkeson, M. Dell, L. Lochner, E. Rossi-Hansberg, and A. Shaikh. M. Mogstad assumes the role of lead editor. The JPE thanks outgoing editors, H. Uhlig and J. Heckman, for their distinguished service to the journal.
- We have released new yearly measures of local GDP at the 1, 0.5, and 0.25 degree level. They are calculated using remote sensing data and a random forest model. All the data, documentation, and tests can be mapped and downloaded here: bfidatastudio.org/project/local-…
- My paper “Learning from Coworkers” with my great Princeton colleagues Gregor Jarosch and Ezra Oberfield was just accepted by Econometrica. So happy! Here is the accepted draft: princeton.edu/~erossi/LC.pdf
- What we learn from coworkers is a significant part of our compensation. Are we losing it by not going to the office?How much do workers learn from their coworkers? We show that learning from colleagues, particularly the more knowledgeable ones, is significant. At the bottom decile of the knowledge distribution workers receive as much as 16% of their compensation in the form of knowledge
- Good prize, but why not Nobu Kiyotaki?BREAKING NEWS: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig “for research on banks and financial crises.” #NobelPrize
- I am honored and delighted.Seven UChicago faculty have been elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences (@americanacad)—which recognizes extraordinary accomplishments and leadership in academia, the arts and more. ms.spr.ly/6005bBtEd
- Fantastic news. Congratulations to @itskhoki for winning the 2022 Clark Medal. A great economist and a fantastic person and colleague. Wonderful choice. aeaweb.org/news/member-an…
- The U.S. has the great advantage of having the best university system in the world. It attracts some of the brightest students. Many of them stay in the U.S. afterwards. Jeopardizing this great privilege with xenophobic immigration policies is simply absurd.
- My paper “Location as an Asset” with @AdrienBilal just accepted at Econometrica (@ecmaEditors) Location is an asset with intertemporal costs and benefits that financially constrained agents can use to smooth consumption. And they do! What a pleasure to work with Adrien on this.
