#  @EconomiaJournal Economia LACEA Journal Economia LACEA Journal posts on X about insurance, argentina, ui, more than the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [--] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::843975068/interactions)  - [--] Week [-----] +9,878% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::843975068/posts_active)  ### Followers: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::843975068/followers)  - [--] Week [-----] +0.37% ### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::843975068/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) [countries](/list/countries) **Social topic influence** [insurance](/topic/insurance), [argentina](/topic/argentina), [ui](/topic/ui), [more than](/topic/more-than), [paper](/topic/paper), [united states](/topic/united-states), [education](/topic/education), [debt](/topic/debt), [artificial intelligence](/topic/artificial-intelligence), [brazil](/topic/brazil) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Lack of title can be an impediment to selling land to a company or an unknown buyer but it is not if the deal is made with family members neighbors or friends who act as joint witnesses in informal deals. This is what happens with most small plots of land" [X Link](https://x.com/EconomiaJournal/status/1986785934021411229) 2025-11-07T13:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Rural land in Colombia is very expensive.According to our calculations one hectare of rural land is 23% more expensive in Colombia than in the United States" [X Link](https://x.com/EconomiaJournal/status/1986785937557512612) 2025-11-07T13:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Despite the fact that much Colombian land lacks the public infrastructure and access to markets and services common to farmland in the United States" [X Link](https://x.com/EconomiaJournal/status/1986785940958810497) 2025-11-07T13:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "What DIDN'T drive the Pink Tide Demographic changes (education wealth age) accounted for only 10% of the shift. The story wasn't about a changing electorateit was about an electorate changing its mind" [X Link](https://x.com/EconomiaJournal/status/1991251221315817931) 2025-11-19T21:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Then came the reversal. The rightward turn (2010s) was also driven almost entirely by preference changesaccounting for 148% of the shift (yes more than 100%other factors partially offset it). Average ideology: [----] 5.36" [X Link](https://x.com/EconomiaJournal/status/1991251223282958656) 2025-11-19T21:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The result indicates that for the Colombian economy to grow faster the government must pursue an optimal path of expenditures that targets this level of debt which will ensure sustainable growth by boosting public and private investment increasing employment (.)" [X Link](https://x.com/EconomiaJournal/status/1993083132946653231) 2025-11-24T22:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "and easing the monetary policy to achieve its target at lower interest rates. This optimal path will also free up fiscal space as the payments to service the debt will remain at lower levels compared to the current expansive scenario of government expenses" [X Link](https://x.com/EconomiaJournal/status/1993083135098290358) 2025-11-24T22:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "📰New article in Economa/LACEA: Exposure to Artificial Intelligence and Occupational Mobility: A Cross-Country Analysis. https://doi.org/10.31389/eco.451 https://doi.org/10.31389/eco.451" [X Link](https://x.com/EconomiaJournal/status/1998501112052416961) 2025-12-09T21:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Mauro Cazzaniga Carlo Pizzinelli Emma Rockall and Marina M. Tavares examine how Artificial Intelligence may reshape the labor market and alter workers career trajectories in Brazil and the UK" [X Link](https://x.com/EconomiaJournal/status/1998501118490333194) 2025-12-09T21:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "A proof-of-concept counterfactual exercise reveals two key channels for how AI-driven job destruction: Within each country non-college workers face larger losses than college workers" [X Link](https://x.com/EconomiaJournal/status/1998501149893329104) 2025-12-09T21:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "And across countries Brazil faces a more severe impact than the UK for both education levels highlighting greater vulnerability to technology-driven disruptions in emerging markets" [X Link](https://x.com/EconomiaJournal/status/1998501151969362195) 2025-12-09T21:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "🗒 New article in Economa/LACEA: "The Fiscal Costs of Unemployment Insurance" https://doi.org/10.31389/eco.533 https://doi.org/10.31389/eco.533" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021902790474281321) 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "So why does LAC still lag Since [----] relative vulnerability persists largely because LAC saw slower reserve accumulation and slower improvements in portfolio composition than other nonadvanced economies" [X Link](https://x.com/EconomiaJournal/status/2018799606285648230) 2026-02-03T21:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Policy implication: dont focus only on flows. Manage the stock of riskyour external balance sheet. ➡Safer asset composition + adequate reserves = better odds against sudden stops" [X Link](https://x.com/EconomiaJournal/status/2018799608244416718) 2026-02-03T21:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Joaqun Herrera Martin Gonzalez-Rozada and Hernn Ruffo examine the fiscal costs of unemployment insurance (UI) in Argentina and evaluate whether expanding benefits would improve welfare. A key challenge in UI design: How do we measure the true cost to government budgets" [X Link](https://x.com/EconomiaJournal/status/2021902791740920187) 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The authors exploit Argentina's UI system which features kinks in the benefit schedule. Using a Regression Kink Design (RKD) on administrative data from 2005-2009 they identify causal effects of benefit levels on multiple outcomes" [X Link](https://x.com/EconomiaJournal/status/2021902794249191608) 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Argentina's UI benefit schedule creates natural variation for identification. Benefits equal 50% of pre-unemployment wages but are bounded by a minimum (bL) and maximum (bH)" [X Link](https://x.com/EconomiaJournal/status/2021902795515801719) 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The [----] reform shifted both thresholds (gray to black line) creating kinks the authors exploit using RKD" [X Link](https://x.com/EconomiaJournal/status/2021902802482610395) 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Key finding on behavioral responses: UI has modest effects on job search. The elasticity of non-employment duration is 0.22significantly lower than the [----] median found in developed countries. Benefits duration elasticity is just 0.05" [X Link](https://x.com/EconomiaJournal/status/2021902803870863429) 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "But UI also affects re-employment wages. A 10% increase in initial benefits raises re-employment wages by about 0.8-3%. This positive wage externality partially offsets the fiscal cost of extended unemployment spells" [X Link](https://x.com/EconomiaJournal/status/2021902805083041989) 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "How much does income drop after job loss Household income falls 33% in the first quarter after displacement (panel a). Personal income drops even more sharplyaround 67% (panel b). These losses persist over time" [X Link](https://x.com/EconomiaJournal/status/2021902813970809068) 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The consumption drop is also substantial: 20% lower for displaced workers compared to formal employees. This is at the upper end of US estimates (6-27%) suggesting Argentine households face significant liquidity constraints" [X Link](https://x.com/EconomiaJournal/status/2021902815472353489) 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Combining fiscal costs and welfare gains the authors compute the Marginal Value of Public Funds (MVPF). The key question: Is each peso spent on UI worth more than one peso to workers" [X Link](https://x.com/EconomiaJournal/status/2021902817003294722) 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The answer is yes. MVPF estimates range from [----] to [----] across specificationsconsistently above [--]. This suggests UI benefits should be *increased* in Argentina" [X Link](https://x.com/EconomiaJournal/status/2021902818219606224) 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "These MVPF values are notably higher than US estimates (0.68-0.84) but comparable to recent findings for Mauritius (1.23) another developing country with high informality" [X Link](https://x.com/EconomiaJournal/status/2021902819662479380) 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "A methodological contribution: fiscal externalities matter more than the choice of estimation method. Whether using duration models hazard rates or total UI paid results are similarbut including/excluding wage and tax externalities shifts estimates substantially" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021902820887212067) 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The bottom line: In a developing country context with liquidity-constrained households and modest behavioral responses unemployment insurance delivers high welfare value per peso spent. The case for expanding UI in Argentina is strong" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021902822132883777) 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Why do economies become persistently overregulated Because regulation is rarely designed by benevolent planners it is shaped by concentrated interests and bureaucratic incentives. In the tradition of the Chicago political economy of regulation school and relying on evidence from Argentinas current reform program Federico Sturzeneggers Carmen Reinhart Lecture now published in Economa (LACEA) shows how even market failures can justify deregulation not more rules and provides an operational blueprint to implement it. @fedesturze" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021986810621001855) 2026-02-12T16:36Z 15.5K followers, 11.6K engagements "🗒 New article in Economa/LACEA: "The Fiscal Costs of Unemployment Insurance" https://doi.org/10.31389/eco.533 https://doi.org/10.31389/eco.533" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021902790474281321) 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "A methodological contribution: fiscal externalities matter more than the choice of estimation method. Whether using duration models hazard rates or total UI paid results are similarbut including/excluding wage and tax externalities shifts estimates substantially" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021902820887212067) 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The bottom line: In a developing country context with liquidity-constrained households and modest behavioral responses unemployment insurance delivers high welfare value per peso spent. The case for expanding UI in Argentina is strong" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021902822132883777) 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "📄New paper with Eduardo FernndezArias in @EconomiaJournal: "How vulnerable is Latin America & the Caribbean to external crises today" 📈Good news: vulnerability is near a historic low. 📉Bad news: LAC is still riskier than peers https://doi.org/10.31389/eco.410 https://doi.org/10.31389/eco.410" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2018799593295843691) 2026-02-03T21:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "This paper took a long time to cook and many twist and turns in the way. Thank you @EconomiaJournal and two incredible editors along the way: Vernica Rappoport and @SFGaliani. A special gratitude to @JMNRinaldi who is the coauthor of the companion paper" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2018799612182860287) 2026-02-03T21:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The paper: Cavallo Eduardo and Eduardo Fernndez-Arias. External Crisis Vulnerability in Latin America and the Caribbean. Economa LACEA Journal [--] no. [--] (2026): [---]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31389/eco.410 https://doi.org/10.31389/eco.410" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2018799614099648544) 2026-02-03T21:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
@EconomiaJournal Economia LACEA Journal
Economia LACEA Journal posts on X about insurance, argentina, ui, more than the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [--] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.
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Social Influence
Social category influence finance countries
Social topic influence insurance, argentina, ui, more than, paper, united states, education, debt, artificial intelligence, brazil
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"Lack of title can be an impediment to selling land to a company or an unknown buyer but it is not if the deal is made with family members neighbors or friends who act as joint witnesses in informal deals. This is what happens with most small plots of land"
X Link 2025-11-07T13:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Rural land in Colombia is very expensive.According to our calculations one hectare of rural land is 23% more expensive in Colombia than in the United States"
X Link 2025-11-07T13:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Despite the fact that much Colombian land lacks the public infrastructure and access to markets and services common to farmland in the United States"
X Link 2025-11-07T13:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"What DIDN'T drive the Pink Tide Demographic changes (education wealth age) accounted for only 10% of the shift. The story wasn't about a changing electorateit was about an electorate changing its mind"
X Link 2025-11-19T21:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Then came the reversal. The rightward turn (2010s) was also driven almost entirely by preference changesaccounting for 148% of the shift (yes more than 100%other factors partially offset it). Average ideology: [----] 5.36"
X Link 2025-11-19T21:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The result indicates that for the Colombian economy to grow faster the government must pursue an optimal path of expenditures that targets this level of debt which will ensure sustainable growth by boosting public and private investment increasing employment (.)"
X Link 2025-11-24T22:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"and easing the monetary policy to achieve its target at lower interest rates. This optimal path will also free up fiscal space as the payments to service the debt will remain at lower levels compared to the current expansive scenario of government expenses"
X Link 2025-11-24T22:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"📰New article in Economa/LACEA: Exposure to Artificial Intelligence and Occupational Mobility: A Cross-Country Analysis. https://doi.org/10.31389/eco.451 https://doi.org/10.31389/eco.451"
X Link 2025-12-09T21:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Mauro Cazzaniga Carlo Pizzinelli Emma Rockall and Marina M. Tavares examine how Artificial Intelligence may reshape the labor market and alter workers career trajectories in Brazil and the UK"
X Link 2025-12-09T21:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"A proof-of-concept counterfactual exercise reveals two key channels for how AI-driven job destruction: Within each country non-college workers face larger losses than college workers"
X Link 2025-12-09T21:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"And across countries Brazil faces a more severe impact than the UK for both education levels highlighting greater vulnerability to technology-driven disruptions in emerging markets"
X Link 2025-12-09T21:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"🗒 New article in Economa/LACEA: "The Fiscal Costs of Unemployment Insurance" https://doi.org/10.31389/eco.533 https://doi.org/10.31389/eco.533"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"So why does LAC still lag Since [----] relative vulnerability persists largely because LAC saw slower reserve accumulation and slower improvements in portfolio composition than other nonadvanced economies"
X Link 2026-02-03T21:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Policy implication: dont focus only on flows. Manage the stock of riskyour external balance sheet. âž¡Safer asset composition + adequate reserves = better odds against sudden stops"
X Link 2026-02-03T21:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Joaqun Herrera Martin Gonzalez-Rozada and Hernn Ruffo examine the fiscal costs of unemployment insurance (UI) in Argentina and evaluate whether expanding benefits would improve welfare. A key challenge in UI design: How do we measure the true cost to government budgets"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The authors exploit Argentina's UI system which features kinks in the benefit schedule. Using a Regression Kink Design (RKD) on administrative data from 2005-2009 they identify causal effects of benefit levels on multiple outcomes"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Argentina's UI benefit schedule creates natural variation for identification. Benefits equal 50% of pre-unemployment wages but are bounded by a minimum (bL) and maximum (bH)"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The [----] reform shifted both thresholds (gray to black line) creating kinks the authors exploit using RKD"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Key finding on behavioral responses: UI has modest effects on job search. The elasticity of non-employment duration is 0.22significantly lower than the [----] median found in developed countries. Benefits duration elasticity is just 0.05"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"But UI also affects re-employment wages. A 10% increase in initial benefits raises re-employment wages by about 0.8-3%. This positive wage externality partially offsets the fiscal cost of extended unemployment spells"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"How much does income drop after job loss Household income falls 33% in the first quarter after displacement (panel a). Personal income drops even more sharplyaround 67% (panel b). These losses persist over time"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The consumption drop is also substantial: 20% lower for displaced workers compared to formal employees. This is at the upper end of US estimates (6-27%) suggesting Argentine households face significant liquidity constraints"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Combining fiscal costs and welfare gains the authors compute the Marginal Value of Public Funds (MVPF). The key question: Is each peso spent on UI worth more than one peso to workers"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The answer is yes. MVPF estimates range from [----] to [----] across specificationsconsistently above [--]. This suggests UI benefits should be increased in Argentina"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"These MVPF values are notably higher than US estimates (0.68-0.84) but comparable to recent findings for Mauritius (1.23) another developing country with high informality"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"A methodological contribution: fiscal externalities matter more than the choice of estimation method. Whether using duration models hazard rates or total UI paid results are similarbut including/excluding wage and tax externalities shifts estimates substantially"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The bottom line: In a developing country context with liquidity-constrained households and modest behavioral responses unemployment insurance delivers high welfare value per peso spent. The case for expanding UI in Argentina is strong"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Why do economies become persistently overregulated Because regulation is rarely designed by benevolent planners it is shaped by concentrated interests and bureaucratic incentives. In the tradition of the Chicago political economy of regulation school and relying on evidence from Argentinas current reform program Federico Sturzeneggers Carmen Reinhart Lecture now published in Economa (LACEA) shows how even market failures can justify deregulation not more rules and provides an operational blueprint to implement it. @fedesturze"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:36Z 15.5K followers, 11.6K engagements
"🗒 New article in Economa/LACEA: "The Fiscal Costs of Unemployment Insurance" https://doi.org/10.31389/eco.533 https://doi.org/10.31389/eco.533"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"A methodological contribution: fiscal externalities matter more than the choice of estimation method. Whether using duration models hazard rates or total UI paid results are similarbut including/excluding wage and tax externalities shifts estimates substantially"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The bottom line: In a developing country context with liquidity-constrained households and modest behavioral responses unemployment insurance delivers high welfare value per peso spent. The case for expanding UI in Argentina is strong"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"📄New paper with Eduardo FernndezArias in @EconomiaJournal: "How vulnerable is Latin America & the Caribbean to external crises today" 📈Good news: vulnerability is near a historic low. 📉Bad news: LAC is still riskier than peers https://doi.org/10.31389/eco.410 https://doi.org/10.31389/eco.410"
X Link 2026-02-03T21:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This paper took a long time to cook and many twist and turns in the way. Thank you @EconomiaJournal and two incredible editors along the way: Vernica Rappoport and @SFGaliani. A special gratitude to @JMNRinaldi who is the coauthor of the companion paper"
X Link 2026-02-03T21:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The paper: Cavallo Eduardo and Eduardo Fernndez-Arias. External Crisis Vulnerability in Latin America and the Caribbean. Economa LACEA Journal [--] no. [--] (2026): [---]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31389/eco.410 https://doi.org/10.31389/eco.410"
X Link 2026-02-03T21:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
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