Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦

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Who Is Paying for the 2025 U.S. Tariffs? - Liberty Street Economics Over the course of 2025, the average tariff rate on U.S. imports increased from 2.6 to 13 percent. In this blog post, we ask how much of the tariffs were paid by the U.S., using import data through No...

"94 percent of the tariff incidence was borne by the U.S. in the first eight months of 2025"
libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/02/who-...

Follow the Deportation Data Project, led by some great legal and political science scholars! @deportationdata.org

Cornell students! I'm looking for a part-time research assistant to help me explore the relationship between tenant protections and housing affordability. Some details attached.

Updated foreclosure paper now up on my site!

Main additions:
1. Sample expanded from 52K to 162K
2. Explicit modeling of loan-level foreclosure loss heterogeneity
3. Richer reduced-form evidence on servicer selection
4. New battery of robustness checks
5. Updated welfare results

shorturl.at/dbpJt

NBER The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that facilitates cutting-edge investigation and analysis of major economic issues. It disseminates res...

I’ll be presenting my paper, “The Roles of Borrower Private Information and Mortgage Relief Design in Foreclosure Prevention,” at 12:45 PM ET / 9:45 AM PT this Friday (12/12) as part of the NBER session on Industrial Organization of Housing. NBER Youtube Channel: www.youtube.com/nbervideos

@taccutexas.bsky.social
All I want for Christmas is the stampede3 spr queue to be up and running.

Economics and Computation - Microsoft Research Economics and computation is an interdisciplinary field consisting of economists and computer scientists who study pricing, matching, information, learning, and networks.

Pre-doc & post-doc positions at Microsoft Research
#econ_ra
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

🚨New predoc positions!🚨

Join @alexbartik.bsky.social and me to work on developing LLM tools to analyze zoning regulations and their impacts on housing affordability.

One position starting at the "normal" cycle next year, and another ASAP.

Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/176538

To Fight ICE, Portland’s Leaders Turn to What They Know Best: Zoning

Zoning enters the debate on immigration enforcement www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...

Trump tariffs would hit lower-income Americans hardest Tariffs are another blow to people struggling with higher prices.

Worth constantly emphasizing the regressive nature of tariffs.

Link1: www.axios.com/2025/04/02/t...

Link 2: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/fis...

POGGI | Ithaca Is Monopolized In her column, Julia Poggi urges readers to confront tough questions: Who benefits from Ithaca’s monopolies? Who’s left out? To protect the Ithaca we love — gorges, granola, grassroots — we must deman...

I appreciate The Cornell Daily Sun highlighting local market power, and its potential influences on affordability! There's an industrial organization project in here somewhere.
www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...

Trump’s Trade Math Ignores a Major Export: American Services Trade wars are heightening overseas risk for U.S. companies. “When you generate bad will, it’s harder to sell stuff.”

Higher education has also historically been a major export for the U.S. www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

PhD students interested in urban: Apply to join us at Tufts University for summer school July 21–23.

Learn from leading scholars, including @alvinmurphy.bsky.social, @econhist-allday.bsky.social. Get feedback on your research and meet other urban economists.

urbaneconomics.org/workshops/su...

Real Estate Postdoctoral Associate MIT - Real Estate Postdoctoral Associate - Cambridge MA 02139

The MIT Urban Economics Lab is hiring!! #EconSky

My postdoc supervisor at MIT, Albert Saiz, is looking for a Real Estate Postdoctoral Associate!

Apply here: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

Please help us share this opportunity and encourage job market candidates to apply!!

Using HPC to Improve the Mortgage Industry - Access NSF ACCESS resources at the Texas Advanced Computing Center are central to a study into mortgage relief failures during the U.S. foreclosure crisis.

A write-up of how I have leveraged the National Science Foundation's Access program for academic computing resources! access-ci.org/using-hpc-to...

Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab

This release isn't too new, but let's keep archiving those public datasets! Nice repository of information.
lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...

Yikes

Cornell students - I'm hiring someone to help me archive and organize Federal data and to do some preliminary data exploration. This data will relate most to urban policy, household finance, and natural disasters.

Check out my job posting on Workday:
www.myworkday.com/cornell/d/in...

Get your signature on this open letter to Senate and House leadership to express opposition to removal of public federal data. Research relies on access to information!

copafs.org/copafs-sign-...

We are seeing some impact on reproducibility efforts with the transition to the new US administration. For now, I suggest that you make backups of any data that required you to actively interact with the Federal government, as there may be a delay in response times.... #openscience

Presenting my revised work on the effects of short-term housing regulation on housing affordability in the City of San Francisco — in the city of focus! #ASSA2025

short term rentals*

New York Made Airbnbs Harder to Find. Now It’s Reconsidering. A bill introduced to the City Council could ease the strict regulations on short-term rentals.

Crack downs on short-term rents don't always succeed in their stated policy objectives, and the design of well intended regulation continues to be a challenge. The New York story looks no different.

www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...

Day 2 visiting @newyorkfed.bsky.social! Working with @leeseltzer.bsky.social on a new project relating to evictions and foreclosure and looking forward to meeting with a talented group of RAs.

Home - Access Following its highly successful Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) project, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is excited to introduce new advances in innovative cyberinf...

This Thanksgiving I'm thankful for the NSF's Access program for advanced computing resources! Check it out whether you need CPUs or GPUs. access-ci.org.

I don't have a call for papers, but lets keep the #Bluesky #EconSky momentum going!

The event was generously sponsored by Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance, the Paul Rubacha Department of Real Estate (Cornell Baker Program in Real Estate), and the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business Applied Economics and Policy area.

Last week, I had the pleasure of hosting the 2024 Cornell Real Estate Symposium with my colleagues, Dragana Cvijanović and Sean Flynn.
Thanks to Caitlin Gorback, Jacob Sagi, @arpitrage.bsky.social, Lu Han, Erica Jiang, and Kris Gerardi for sharing their fantastic work in #realestate #urbaneconomics

First two weeks of lectures down as instructor! My consulting PowerPoint experience is coming in super handy, never had such a sustained need to produce slides before. 🥵