Trade economist at Georgia Tech, FREIT directorhttps://bsky.app/profile/besedes.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/besedes.bsky.social/post/3lqdth3oq7c2zAnother great RMET conference in the books! Looking forward to the next one. Thanks to all who came. And Eugene Beaulieu for all the work on local logistics and more. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 May 2025 23:06 +0000at://did:plc:simoratwjqva4jnd6bibwyau/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqdth3oq7c2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/besedes.bsky.social/post/3lms5mq6yqk2cDeadline to submit a paper to the Melbourne Empirical Trade Conference is this Friday, April 18: www.freit.org/METC/2025/ https://www.freit.org/METC/2025/14 Apr 2025 18:05 +0000at://did:plc:simoratwjqva4jnd6bibwyau/app.bsky.feed.post/3lms5mq6yqk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/besedes.bsky.social/post/3ldcizh2gms2uThe first METC at UniMelbourne was a great success. Thanks to @lpuzzell.bsky.social and @rnahsan.bsky.social for hosting and organizing. Join us for the 2025 edition. @abbernard.bsky.social15 Dec 2024 00:00 +0000at://did:plc:simoratwjqva4jnd6bibwyau/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldcizh2gms2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/besedes.bsky.social/post/3lbhwwwhpbc2jSubmit a paper to RMET and join us in Banff, Canada, May 23-25. Submissions due January 17,2025. Emily Blanchard will give a keynote talk. www.freit.org/RMET/2025/21 Nov 2024 17:02 +0000at://did:plc:simoratwjqva4jnd6bibwyau/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbhwwwhpbc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/besedes.bsky.social/post/3l3xit26biv2fI am very honored and grateful to be giving the Peter Neary Plenary talk at ETSG this Saturday.12 Sep 2024 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:simoratwjqva4jnd6bibwyau/app.bsky.feed.post/3l3xit26biv2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/besedes.bsky.social/post/3l3solmkd552hA few days left to submit a paper to FREIT’s newest conference, METC 2024, and spend a part of December in Melbourne, www.freit.org/METC/2024 https://www.freit.org/METC/202410 Sep 2024 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:simoratwjqva4jnd6bibwyau/app.bsky.feed.post/3l3solmkd552hhttps://bsky.app/profile/besedes.bsky.social/post/3l2ukeoxl4v2qWe use info on air highways to calculate the distance actually flown by planes and then take advantage of restricted airspace to obtain a time-varying measure of distance. This allows us to estimate the distance coefficient in panel gravity estimation. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Aug 2024 15:25 +0000at://did:plc:simoratwjqva4jnd6bibwyau/app.bsky.feed.post/3l2ukeoxl4v2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/besedes.bsky.social/post/3l2ukbpqlbr2bWe use a natural experiment from conflicted airspaces over Ukraine and other countries to identify the role of transport costs in gravity models. Distance has a negative effect on airborne trade, mostly through the extensive margin. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Aug 2024 15:23 +0000at://did:plc:simoratwjqva4jnd6bibwyau/app.bsky.feed.post/3l2ukbpqlbr2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/besedes.bsky.social/post/3l2ukb6kucs2iGreat to see "Fly the unfriendly skies: The role of transport costs in gravity models of trade" with Jing Chu and Antu Panini Murshid published by JIE: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2024.103994.29 Aug 2024 15:23 +0000at://did:plc:simoratwjqva4jnd6bibwyau/app.bsky.feed.post/3l2ukb6kucs2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/besedes.bsky.social/post/3kxxoqiuojc2zHappy to announce FREIT’s nee conference, the Melbourne Empirical Trade Conference to be held at the University of Melbourne Dec 12-14, 2024. CFP is out, www.freit.org/METC/2024. Thanks to Laura Puzzello and Reshad Ahsan for making it possible. https://www.freit.org/METC/202423 Jul 2024 17:05 +0000at://did:plc:simoratwjqva4jnd6bibwyau/app.bsky.feed.post/3kxxoqiuojc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/besedes.bsky.social/post/3kwajchegma2cLast day to submit to the Sardinia Empirical Trade Conference, 9/26-28, 2024, www.freit.org/SETC/2024/ https://www.freit.org/SETC/2024/01 Jul 2024 18:32 +0000at://did:plc:simoratwjqva4jnd6bibwyau/app.bsky.feed.post/3kwajchegma2c