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Misced Thoughts

A few years ago, I acquired an academic condition that renders me useless of any productive tasks other than reading quite a lot, thinking a bit and writing a few. I haven’t quite recovered since and most of the correspondence addressing me as “Professor Breadandwater” ends with “unfortunately your paper is rejected”. I am an international economist who genuinely believes in rigorous applied social science research aimed to improve our world. I enjoy pursuing theoretically-founded empirical research to address policy-relevant questions. Most of my efforts aim to build applied models of interconnected cross-border flows (e.g., FDI, trade, migration) and estimate policy changes and shocks. However, I am a staunch advocate of interweaving with related disciplines (business and management) and a broader audience (policy-makers and students). Therefore, I delve into several other topics like social media, business ethics, financial sustainability, and corporate governance, which I find relevant and appealing. Moreover, these topics often provide new insights and fresh ideas that reinforce my economics research.

Check out my CV for a list of journal rejections

Justine (and then the Alexandria Quartet) is always an excellent read.

What I'm reading in May 2020: “Writers & Lovers” by Lily King.

The best ideas come while riding a bike.

I'm a red dwarf researcher. However, I enjoy the journey and the Euphoria of research, as my high school English teacher coined in her awesome book. I firmly believe that through science and research we can build a better society, or at least try to understand it better.
I have to thank the long list of brilliant collaborators, without whom I would not have been able to investigate such an eclectic list of topis that generally gravitate around gravity models of trade, FDI, energy, migration, refugees and tourism to study the effects of trade law, economic integration, financial crises, well-being, social media, social entrepreneurship, innovation, and also other forces in the research universe like finance, corporate governance, and creativity among others.
Publishing in economics is somehow distorted (my views  here and here), here some of the papers that managed to slip by reviewer #2.

One of the things I love about my job is the freedom to research whatever I want with whomever I match (or at least most of the time).

Please check out my personal research statement.

 

Laudatory speech for Prof. Bergstrand

  

Misced Pics

Pics with some economists

"Life at the top": Nobel Laurate Angus Deaton, 2016


 

"Rewarding work" Nobel Laurate Edmund Phelps, 2018

 

 

"Economics Rules!" Dani Rodrik, Paris 2018 (OECD Migration workshop)

  

 

"Global Sourcing" Pol Antràs, 2015 (with Salva Gil)

 

 

"The happy few!" Jeff Bergstrand & Gianmarco Ottaviano, 2017

 

   

University of Fiji, 2018