Lot's of activity below while I was on a long flight to Korea. Looking forward to delivering together with @JesusFerna7026 the Lunchtime Plenary on Geoeconomics at the Econometric Society World Congress: eswc2025.org/speakers/02.htm… Here are my slides: globalcapitalallocation.s3.u… With Jesus we aim to explore the topic relevance to today, the connection to history and the history of thought in both econ and political science. Well...in the 30 min we each have. Jesus' slides posted below are excellent and I look forward to his delivery. I'll focus on a formal theory of power, tradeoffs between security and the gains from trade, measurement using sufficient statistics approach and/or artificial intelligence. Explaining work done with @chris_d_clayton @JSchreger @acoppola4 @GCAProject. Links to papers are in the slides. Indeed @chris_d_clayton and @acoppola4 will be presenting two of the papers in regular sessions today and tomorrow, and if you are in Seoul you should go see them. I have also included a longish reading list of pieces across fields that I found useful, for those of you who might want a place to start. From my last slide: "Cannot think of a more pressing global challenge that economists should be studying"

@JSchreger and I are organizing the International Economics and Geopolitics meeting at NBER Summer Institute See call for submission below submit at: nber.org/confsubmit/backend/… by 11:59 pm (EST) on March 20, 2025.

GCAP says: “Since the US-led coalition controls a dominant share of global financial services, often exceeding 80 or 90 per cent in many countries, this near-total control of the global financial system enables the US coalition to frequently use finance as a tool of coercion” @gilliantett

I was waiting for this public good to appear ;) Looking forward to reading the papers and meeting the people. On the list, my co-author @_amandads_ Amanda Dos Santos coming out of Columbia has a great paper @JSchreger is the main advisor, I also wrote a letter