Best of #econtwitter - Week of April 13, 2025: paper summaries

Welcome readers old and new to this week’s edition of the Best of Econtwitter newsletter. Please submit suggestions — very much including your own work! — over email or on Twitter @just_economics.

Idiosyncratic favorites

^“we construct the first continuous series on China’s public finances for this period, using archival sources & records”

^again it would be great to stop including this account in the newsletter, but that requires more people to write substitute paper threads :)

Tariffs

More paper summaries

^another thread