Wisarut Suwanprasert Profile
Wisarut Suwanprasert

@invariance

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Associate Professor of Economics at @MTSU_ECFN ; @UWMadison Alumni; Enjoy #Math , #Chess , #Go , #Weiqi , #Baduk , and #basketball .

Murfreesboro, TN
Joined September 2009
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The feeling when p-value = 0.049
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Today is 1/1/2024 and Daron Acemoglu has already had 424 citations this year
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This will be in my macro slides 😆
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"Types of Trade Paper" I hope I'm not too late. LOL
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Will Econometrics rebrand itself to “Beta”?
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AOC: tax the rich FOC: tax the ones with low elasticity?
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At a conference, economists walk into a bar. They ask for a draft but receive only slides.
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Did Rachel Young (Econ AP) get tenure at New York University?
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I'm happy that my manuscript “The International Spillover Effects of US Trade Policy Uncertainty” has been published at Economics Letters. This is my first paper acceptance in 2022! A link to full access is here: 1/
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My paper on informal loans in “Thailand” was desk rejected because using “Indian” data is restrictive 😳 Also, we didn’t use or mention any sentiment at all. 😢
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I was fortunate to be tenured
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "How Do You Say Your Name? Difficult-To-Pronounce Names and Labor Market Outcomes" by Qi Ge and Stephen Wu.
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I am excited to share that the Middle Tennessee State University Board of Trustees has approved my tenure and promotion case. I will be Associate Professor of Economics starting Fall 2023 🤩🥳
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Economists can gain 10 pounds and eat 6,000 calories just by reading MWG
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I do research on weekends because I enjoy doing it. To me, solving a model is like making art. I do whenever I feel like I want to do. Grad students don’t need to follow anyone’s advice. It’s your choice, based on your preferences and constraints.
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Perhaps unpopular opinion: Micro and Macro sequences for 1st-year PhD Econ students should be renamed to “Static and dynamic optimization: applications to economics”
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After 10 months at a journal, I was brave enough to withdraw my paper 😅
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My paper has been accepted for publication in European Journal of Political Economy. I thank the co-editor and the reviewers, who read my work six rounds, for helpful suggestions. I started this paper because I got into a heated discussion on FB and I wanted to prove my point.
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New PhD admission regime = need a PhD from top 20 to get into top-5 PhD programs?😅
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My only question: am I in the dataset, and if yes, what is my appearance score?
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The "beauty" paper is finally published! @taliregev1 - what's our next project?
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How to be an academic youtuber? How about I make videos solving end-of-chapter questions in MWG?
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The first year as AP vs Tenure review
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The best summer camp experience in my life (so far)
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My first-year #phdlife
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Got an R&R 🥳🥳
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Summary: 1. Work on R&Rs first 2. Do fewer projects 3. Opp cost of time 4. Quit early 5. Good enough > Perfect
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I made (at least) 5 research-management mistakes as a young academic. You should avoid these. 1/ You should drop everything possible when you get an R&R and turn that right away.
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My first PhD advisee successfully defended his dissertation 🥳🥳🥳
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I'm excited to share my recently accepted paper "Consequences of Thailand’s 2006 Military Coup: Evidence from the Synthetic Control Method" in the European Journal of Political Economy Free access (until 24 Nov):
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Editor in a rejection letter: “However, I just hope to send an individual note to let you know that your paper has a neat idea and might very well fit some of the other fine journals which have space for short papers.” I’m very grateful to his kind letter.
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checked the status of my paper this morning and got a major R&R this evening 🥳🥳🥳
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H0 H0 H0 I rejected all the null hypotheses 🤣🤣🤣
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I am excited to share my new working paper "Trade Theory with Behavioral Agents." Link: Comments and suggestions are very welcome! A short thread will come soon 😊
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I'm very happy that my paper "The Economic Aftermath of Thailand’s 2014 Military Coup: Evidence from the Synthetic Control Method" has been accepted for publication in Asian Economic Journal.  I hope I can safely enter Thailand 😆
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What I am doing on Saturday?
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Time flies
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@zachweingarten One page could be enough …
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Did he get 105k followers in just one day? 😳😳😳
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Job interview in 2016: “How do you see yourself in the next 5 years?” me in 2016: “A trade economist who is an expert in optimal tariffs and trade agreements” My most cited paper at this moment: a covid paper.
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I often see empirical papers that their regressions have “firm age” and include “firm FEs” and “year FEs” (or “age” with person FEs and year FEs) I feel like firm age could be absorbed entirely by the FEs 🤔🤔🤔
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I know JMCs are working really hard. I would be happy to read your papers (in any stage) and give you compliments to make your day. Feel free to DM me.
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More than 1,800 economists are watching this EJMR presentation 😆😆
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We don’t expect you to have two pubs to apply to our PhD program. We only hope you have enough math skills, say a PhD in Math. 🤣
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An R&R from the World Economy 🥳🥳🥳
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A: What's the integral of 1/cabin with respect to cabin? B: A log cabin. A: No, a houseboat; you forgot to add the C!
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lumber inflation? oh, you mean change in log price
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I’m now a homeowner 🥳🥳🥳
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\usepackage{Sargent}
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Ethan Struby
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Thomas Sargent says you don’t need LaTeX
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I'm very happy that my work with Doungdao Mahakitsiri has been published 🥳🥳🥳 We study characteristics of pure exporters (who have more than 90% of revenue from selling abroad). Around 1/4 of Thai exporters are pure exporters. You can access it here:
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I was notified that my Tenure & Promotion Review is due on Thursday, September 1, 2022. I am working on two R&Rs and hope they could be converted to publications before the T&P review deadline. 🤞
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@toddrjones Never stop. When it is on your desk, it’s your responsibility, but when it is under review, it’s someone else’s responsibility! 🤣
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Economist, $1M income. $300k Income tax $6k one tiny two-bedroom apartment + Stata 18 license +food, transportation, personal care, and entertainment (gotta live a little after all) Left over: close to zero
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Middle Tennessee State University advances to R2 status for doctoral research activity. Also, MTSU’s Economics PhD program has made the U.S. News and World Report ranking of top U.S. programs for the first time. (ranked No. 134 on the list for 2022) 🥳🥳🥳
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Journal of International Economics should have JIE macro and JIE trade 😆
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I'm not prominent, but when I retweeted my friend's JMP, she got an offer from HBS. Coincidence? I don't think so 🤣
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Wow. (It's not clear that the boost to downstream outcomes like flyouts could hold in long-run equilibrium, or that added visibility really is the mechanism driving it. But still, pretty striking, QED!)
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My Halloween costume #AcademicTwitter
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ssc install cat
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@EconAnne Dreaming about results before reality hits
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An acceptance from the World Economy 🥳🥳 Doungdao and I thank Richard Kneller and two anonymous referees for the comments 😍
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Driving to the Midwest Trade meetings at Purdue with my PhD advisee 🥳🥳🥳
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A minor R&R 🥳🥳🥳
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My PhD advisee’s first conference presentation 🤩🤩🤩
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Quite happy with my drawing
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If the ASSA is not for the job market interviews, can we move it to the Summer?
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Martha Olney 🏳️‍🌈
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Registration at #ASSA2023 was 6,000 in advance vs 12,000 at #assa2020 in San Diego. Missing include 1.5k job market candidates, ~2-3k interviewers, others. Impact: $900K loss on meeting. Effect: reg fees will go up for 2024. Per #aea sec/treas Rousseau at business meeting.
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It was my pleasure to present my joint work with Yaohan Duan at the US International Trade Commission and receive a lots of great suggestions!
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By the fourth day of 2022, Daron Acemoglu has 365 citations already
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David Schindler
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I thought about starting to celebrate Daron Acemoglu day, which is the day of the year that my total citations get surpassed by Acemoglu's citations FROM THE CURRENT YEAR. This year it's today, the first day at which Google Scholar reports 2022 citations. He's at 365 already...
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Hi #EconTwitter ! Do you teach gains from trade in your class? I present to you a welfare gains formula! Under CES preferences and a CES production function, welfare gains can be captured by expenditure and production shares, and elasticities!
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It supposes to be satire, but numerous grad students (and JMCs) saw my name tag and politely left the conversation with me
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Grad Students: Networking is critical for success in academia. But the real question is WHO to network with. I’ve known grad students who will spend time at conferences drinking beers in the bars with grad students from unranked programs. Is that 1/
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MTSU is now classified as an R2 university. 🥳🥳 For better comparison, I will also show adjusted R2 and AIC.
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My first in-person conference since March 2020. 🥳🥳🥳
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Teaching optimization using the smokey mountains and I-40 highway as an example 🤣
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I’m so nervous. Two of my submitted papers are now under “pending decision” 🥺🥺
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Worked with a student in Thailand who is extremely good such that I wanted to write a very strong recommendation for her PhD applications. Her senior thesis is better than my third-year (PhD) paper. 😳
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How I spend this weekend 😄
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A new NBER WP on trade policy
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Sumitted two papers in the last 5 days. Fingers crossed!
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Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on the plane? Me: Yes, but I'm not that kind of … Flight attendant: The pilots are debating whether the U.S. should join the CPTPP. Me: Okay. I’m here.
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Finally, my favorite FB page cites @KhoaVuUmn ’s tweet
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I'm happy to announce that I'm very happy today. It's a relaxing Saturday 🥳
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@mdoepke But what if humans turn into vampires and souls cannot reincarnate? 😆😆
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I have a PhD in Economics and I know search models and auction theory, but I have no idea how much I should bid for a house.
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RIP #หมอกระต่าย
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My first stop in Osaka, Japan
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Academics should celebrate a new year on August 15th. January 1st is just another work (research) day in an unusually cold/warm winter.
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Work on my discussion slides on the way to the Bank of Thailand’s annual workshop.
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Missing the old days when I took a bus to Madison Wisconsin from Chicago O’hare airport
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So I teach microecon today. I asked students what would happened if I gave everyone an automatic A. They told me about wrong incentives and bad reputation. Wow! These students know optimal contracts and signaling, and they want to work hard to earn an A! 😍
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Who can read a 50-page Econometica paper and remain sane? A good question 🤣🤣🤣
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Found out lots of helpful resources on @EconHembre ’s website
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My Monday morning is welcomed with an R&R (with positive and fair comments) from Public Choice 😍
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I’m excited to share that my joint work with Tanapong Potipiti, a paper titled "Why does the WTO treat export subsidies and import tariffs differently?", has been published at the Review of World Economics. A full paper can be accessed here: 1/10
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I don't have good career advice. At conferences, I talked to any presenters and grad students. I do committee works and any admin jobs the department wanted helps. I engaged with student activities and joined a club. I never declined referee requests. I'm myself.
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I sent an email to Associated Editor at the Review of International Economics asking for an extension and he replied back within 2 minutes 🤩🤩🤩
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I was honored to provide an expert commentary to the National Labor Development Advisory Council Committee, the Ministry of Labour, Thailand
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Please don’t ask these questions at Thanksgiving dinners - When will you graduate? - How many job interviews do you have? - Where will you work after graduation? - When will you publish? - When will you get tenure? 🥺🥺🥺🥺 #AcademicChatter #EconTwitter
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Even before January ends, Daron Acemoglu has already had more than 1,000 citations.
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I’m very excited to attend the 40th anniversary of the Midwest Trade meetings! This is my first in-person conference since November 2019 😄
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I will offer new professional service: screening teaching evaluations. I will look at your evaluations, keep positive responses, then combine and rephrase negative responses to constructive and polite suggestion. I’m quite sure this service gives large welfare gains to us 😉
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I have been busy enough that I had forgotten to update a journal acceptance on my homepage and CV for two days. I even forgot to tweet about it! 🤣
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Tomatoes and lemongrass from my garden 🤩
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I had a tough week with headache. Today I realized the coffee beans I used were decaf 😕
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Someone ran a regression Trend (Oppenheimer vs Barbie) = a + b*(Biden's 2020 margin) + e and found b = 0.17 (p<0.001, R^2 = 0.31) 😳😳😳 #EconTwitter
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