Economist at the Central Bank of Luxembourg. PhD in Economics. Views are my own. RTs ≠ endorsements.

Joined December 2017
I am really thrilled to see this article finally in press! 👉onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… The paper is a survey on Heterogeneous Agent (New Keynesian) models [HA(NK)]. It reviews (i) selected key mechanisms in HA(NK)s models and why we should (or not?) care and ... 1/5
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It looks bad, but even worse when you see that "20 points = one year of schooling" .
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We are looking forward to a great set of papers at the frontier, including work by @JesusFerna7026, @MahdiKahou, @ben_moll, @YuchengYang1993, @HannoKase, @MatthiasRottner , @Bellmanequation, @cmatthes_econ, @pablo_guerron, @BrummJohannes, @JanZemlicka and many more.
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📢OSUS returns in 19 days! Join us for spatial & urban seminars every two weeks on Mondays, starting September 14. Full line-up: osus.info 🔗Registration (new link): tinyurl.com/osusfall2026 We’ve set up a new webinar, so all participants need to register again.
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Julien Pascal retweeted
Thrilled that "Deep Learning for Solving and Estimating Dynamic Models in Economics and Finance," found a home at @QuantEcon. Access the e-book/code here: quantecon.org/books/ . Huge thanks to Matt McKay, @john_stachurski , Tom Sargent, QuantEcon team for making this happen!
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#CFP: ECB Conference on Economic Modelling The @ecb invites submissions for the conference “Central Banking Economic Modelling Frontiers: Trends, Cycles and Structural Shifts”, taking place in Frankfurt on 1–2 December 2026. Topics: AI & tech, global trade shifts, labour markets, climate risks, monetary policy dynamics 📅 Deadline: 6 September 2026 👉 Full Call for Papers: ecb.europa.eu/press/conferen… #ECB #Research #Macroeconomics #Economics #Policy
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The program for the 2026 Society for Economic Dynamics Annual Meeting in Athens is out! It has been a dream to work with Jen-Jen La'O and our amazing committee to put together this year's program. editorialexpress.com/confere… *Small logistical changes might still come.
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LLM on Macro: "One camp - call it the "IS-LM plus common sense" school - argues that for 90% of policy questions, the old framework with some mental adjustments for expectations and inflation gives you the right answer. People like Blanchard, Krugman operate roughly in this mode"
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behavioral parameters like the MPC aren't stable, so a model that treats them as fixed constants will give wrong predictions precisely when you need it most."
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LLM hallucination, or correct shared consensus?
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"Submit paper" (1968) "Get referee reports" (1972) "Accepted for publication" (2026)
Our Home from Moon. 'Apollo 8' (1968) 'Apollo 17' (1972) 'Artemis II' (2026)
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Could be improved, but Economics is ranked 1st in terms of "precisely reproduced". (0% "precisely reproduced" in Education, really?🧐)
Education research the least likely to replicate according to a huge new paper published by Nature
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Economists in 2030 be like:
Coders in 2030 be like:
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We added a new and final chapter to Dynamic Programming Vol II (DP2) on approximation and reinforcement learning: dp.quantecon.org/. DP1 and DP2 will always remain freely available online -- give me liberty or give me death 🤟💀
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Ready to master DSGE modelling? 📊 The Dynare Masterclass 2026 is here! 🚀 Not only for students 👩‍🎓, but also junior/senior economists 🤷🏼! 🗓️ 6-10 July 2026 📍Paris 👉Apply Now: dynare.org/events/dynare-mas… #Dynare #Dynare2026 #Macroeconomics #CentralBanking #DSGE
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Tom and I have finally finished a draft of Dynamic Programming Vol 2! Exhausting but satisfying. New approach to DP theory, advanced material, many applications... dp.quantecon.org/
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🚀 Big News: Dynare 7.0 is out! Introducing powerful new toolkits for HANK, samplers, perfect foresight and massive performance improvements. Packages are available for download NOW: 👉 dynare.org/download/ A quick summary below 👇 (1/5)
🤖 Made with AI
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📢 AI Summer School/conference 2026 is open for applications! 3 intensive days for PhD students in economics & finance covering: Deep Equilibrium Nets, PINNs & heterogeneous agent models, LLMs, RAG, agentic AI & NLP Link: sites.google.com/carloalbert… @YuchengYang1993 @HECLausanneEcon
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🚨I just wrote a short paper on a generalization of the Parameterized Expectations Algorithm (PEA), recently published in Economics Letters 🙏 📄 Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.20… 💻 Replication code: github.com/JulienPascal/bc-M… 🧵⬇️ 1/n
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[Practical payoff] The bc-MC-PEA lets you trade off: * exploring more states (M) * integrating shocks more accurately (N) Optimal values for (M*, N*) are derived in the paper. Easy to implement. 5/n
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