Joel Kariel
@joelkariel.bsky.social
Lecturer (assistant professor) in Economics at City St George's university. Macro, firms, competition, productivity. www.joelkariel.com
Happy to share that our Applied Microeconomics Research Group will host the Workshop on Health in Developing Countries on 23–24 Sep. 📍 Room C309, Tait Building (Northampton Square) 📎 Preliminary program attached 🔗 Please register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon... #EconSky #EconConf
Great discussion by @mrao.bsky.social on the how dev econ research is subsequently used by policymakers. She shows the importance of timely evaluations (get your research out there!), but also that constancy of political power may help link evidence -> policy. youtube.com/watch?v=FNzZ...
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Only 2 days left to apply for two newly funded PhD positions in Economics. Join a rapidly expanding, research-intensive department spanning applied and theoretical microeconomics, macroeconomics, and finance. Deadline: 13 May 2026. #EconSky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRK358/f...
Fully-funded PhD in Economics at City St George’s, University of London – Starting date: October 2026 at City St George’s, University of London
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"Low skilled workers" has always been a frustration. Jugglers are obviously very skilled, but it's not a particular renumerative career. Whether a career path makes a lot of money or not is historically contingent. Being good at math doesn't necessarily help you much in medieval times.
Moyeen Islam@moyeen.bsky.social · 8mo ago@sarahoconnorft.ft.com one of the best columns I’ve read in FT in a while giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... We have to stop calling some jobs ‘low skilled’
🚨 Predoc Opportunity (Dartmouth) I'm hiring with Felipe Barbieri (@barbierifelipe.bsky.social) a full-time predoc research fellow to work on projects in international trade, IO, and urban/spatial. Info + application: apply.interfolio.com/181447 Please share widely! #econ_ra #econsky #predoc
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NEW: How did the introduction of the Ultra-Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) change London’s geography of work? In a new @theifs.bsky.social paper, @joelkariel.bsky.social, Fizza Jabbar and I have taken a look – and it turns out people adapt in surprising ways. A thread. 1/
The CMA Microeconomics Unit's State of UK Competition 2024 report is in the running for the ONS Research Excellence Awards 2025 in the Government-led Impact of Analysis and People's Choice Award categories.
Attention IO job market candidates: Sometimes speakers in the CMA's external economics seminar series have to cancel at relatively short notice. We would love for these slots to go to JMCs to present their job market paper. Drop me a message if you are interested or share with those who might be.
Interested in productivity, business dynamism and market power? Come to this year's CMA-Durham workshop on 20-21 November! We open with a keynote by Jonathan Haskel (Imperial), followed by two days worth of sessions on technology diffusion, market frictions,market power and more. 1/2
2025 CMA Durham Workshop - CMA Durham Partnership
20-21 November, 2025 Productivity, Business Dynamism and Market Power The Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) Microeconomics Unit, the Department of Economics at Durham University Business School...
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📢 We are hiring 📢 RFBerlin is looking for a #ResearchAssistant to support the project on the labor market effects of collective bargaining. Apply now or share with your network: www.rfberlin.com/job/research...
Research Assistant
We at RFBerlin are seeking a highly skilled and motivated research assistant to provide support for a project on the labor market effects of collective bargaining, led by Christian Dustmann and Jan Kn...
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Deadline in two days!
Joel Kariel@joelkariel.bsky.social · last yr.Call for papers for our economics workshop: cma-partnership.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/08/29/2... Please submit before 25th September if you work on: - UK productivity slowdown - Aggregate market power - Business dynamism - Industrial policy - Supply chains - Determinants of innovation and R&D
Call for papers for our economics workshop: cma-partnership.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/08/29/2... Please submit before 25th September if you work on: - UK productivity slowdown - Aggregate market power - Business dynamism - Industrial policy - Supply chains - Determinants of innovation and R&D
2025 CMA Durham Workshop - CMA Durham Partnership
20-21 November, 2025 Productivity, Business Dynamism and Market Power The Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) Microeconomics Unit, the Department of Economics at Durham University Business School...
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How does competition influence investment? The CMA has just published our new Microeconomics Unit lit review (joint work with my fantastic colleagues Amanda Ereyi and @joelkariel.bsky.social). 1/2
Investment and competition over the business lifecycle
Review of the existing literature on the relationship between competition and investment as a business grows.
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📢Nina Roussille and I are hiring a full-time predoctoral researcher to work with us at MIT on labor economics research projects. IMPORTANT: this vacancy is open right now, so we are particularly interested in people who could start soon. Link to apply: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
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MIT - Predoctoral Researcher - Cambridge MA 02139
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Call for papers for our economics workshop! Deadline in just over two weeks.
Joel Kariel@joelkariel.bsky.social · last yr.Doing research on productivity, business dynamism and/or market power? Please submit to our fourth CMA-Durham workshop! Deadline 25 Sept. Also apply if your work links to: industrial policy, technology diffusion, start-ups, supply chains. cma-partnership.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/08/29/2...
Doing research on productivity, business dynamism and/or market power? Please submit to our fourth CMA-Durham workshop! Deadline 25 Sept. Also apply if your work links to: industrial policy, technology diffusion, start-ups, supply chains. cma-partnership.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/08/29/2...
2025 CMA Durham Workshop - CMA Durham Partnership
20-21 November, 2025 Productivity, Business Dynamism and Market Power The Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) Microeconomics Unit, the Department of Economics at Durham University Business School...
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It's well-established that UK firms engaged in international trade are more productive, but why? New analysis from @christinavpalmou.bsky.social and Kyle Jones (ONS) offers new evidence: tinyurl.com/5c9mazpa
📅 June 18, 2025: Day 1 of the PSE - @cepr.org Policy Forum "AI & Labor Reallocation" Featuring: 🎙️ Barbara Petrongolo (@ox.ac.uk) 🎯 @davidautor.bsky.social (@mit.edu)
📢 Calling early-career researchers! A 3-year postdoc in urban & regional economics at @alliancembs.bsky.social is open - guided by TPI experts & backed by Sir Terry Leahy. 🗓️ Apply by 18 June 2025 🔗 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #PostdocJobs #EconomicGeography #ResearchOpportunity
The Sir Terry Leahy Post Doctoral Research Fellowship :Manchester
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🚨 I'm hiring a Research Assistant at the Institute for Fiscal Studies 🚨 This is a great opportunity for someone interested in academic + policy work. The position is based in London and starting this autumn. Please apply below or share 🙂 app.beapplied.com/apply/nithts...
Research Assistance (Crime and Justice)
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) is hiring a Research Assistant to support ongoing work on the effects of youth clubs on youth development. The Research Assistant will work closely with Dr. Carm...
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Please reach out if you'd like to know more about our research team and how we might collaborate on this fellowship.
Jakob Schneebacher@jschneebacher.bsky.social · last yr.Join the CMA Microeconomics Unit as a UKRI Policy Fellow for 18 months! Awards buy out teaching/admin time to allow you to focus on a CMA-relevant research project, while embedded part-time in the Unit. The call for fellowships is here: www.ukri.org/opportunity/... 1/
For Earth Day 2025, an awesome paper on the long-term environmental impact of this particular activist event: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... Bad weather on Earth Day in 1970 is associated with far worse air pollution 50 years later. That is not the case for bad weather the day before or after!
Looking to do a fully funded, policy-relevant PhD in economics? The ESRC has funded another joint CMA PhD studentship, this time with Lorenza Rossi and Stefano Fasani at Lancaster University, on the interaction of market power, price setting and macro dynamics. Please share widely and apply!
ESRC CASE PhD Studentship - Lancaster University
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The new @oxrepjournal.bsky.social on "New Directions in Competition Policy" is out. My colleagues @joelkariel.bsky.social, Mike Walker and I survey recent labour market competition cases, summarise lessons from our report on labour market power in the UK and highlight some open questions. 1/3
Competition policy and labour market power: new evidence and open questions
Abstract. Emerging evidence on pervasive and rising market power in US labour markets has led some competition agencies to wonder if the prevailing focus o
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📰A project by Professor Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com Dr Jakob Schneebacher, and Dr Christina Palmou has won one of this year's Office for National Statistics Research Excellence Awards. Read more: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...
Interested in an econ PhD on market power? Check out this great ESRC opportunity. I can't pretend I'm unbiased given my 8 years at Oxford & current role at the CMA, but it's a great chance to work on an important & interesting topic with brilliant researchers! www.granduniondtp.ac.uk/beyond-marku...
Beyond markups: understanding changes to competition, concentration, and market power
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What does this all mean? In our State of Competition report, we show that other countries share similar secular trends in markups and business dynamism, and try to understand their potential causes. I have summarised the main findings here: www.economicsobservatory.com/how-is-compe... 3/3
How is competition changing across the UK economy? - Economics Observatory
Competition creates an opportunity for new ideas to enter the economy, allows more dynamic entrants to displace inefficient incumbents and offers incentives for firms to keep innovating. A new Competi...
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