Media, Special Issues, & Personal Growth
A quick and unusual post for this blog to keep you up to date with what happened in my summer.
First, I’m happy to report that my paper on the effect of business travels on economic growth — which I describe here — is generating a fair amount of buzz. You can read the excellent summary written by Ricardo on Project Syndicate, or my own “Behind the paper” version. If podcasts are your thing, we got you covered. And I’ll present it at the Copenhagen Fintech on September 16th.
Second, I’m teaming up with the most excellent prof. Morgan Frank from the University of Pittsburgh to edit a special issue for the journal Frontiers in Big Data Networks. We called the special issue “Complex Networks and Economics” and we intend it to be a safe haven for all of you advancing our understanding of the complex systems that compose our global, regional, and local economy. You can read more at the official page of the journal (linked above), or in this post I wrote for my NERDS research group. Consider submitting!
And, finally, one last bit of shameless self-celebration. Something new happened on the header of this blog:
Yai me! I’m a real associate grownup now! (Actually, effective on October 1st. So I still have time to mess this up)
