You’ve no doubt noticed that recently I’ve only been posting once or twice per month. However, I am regularly sharing links and brief comments on Twitter, so you should follow @TradeDiversion. Recently on the Twitter feed (but not the blog):

• 13 May: Summer conferences: Schedules for Princeton IES and NBER ITI are up. http://www.princeton.edu/~ies/workshop.htm & http://users.nber.org/~confer/2013/SI2013/ITI/itiprg.html
• 12 May: World trade: Fresh blood http://econ.st/10uiFGB “The fate of the WTO’s Doha round is in the hands of two new trade officials” @TheEconomist
• 12 May: Kiminori Matsuyama’s symmetry-breaking model of endogenous comparative advantage is forthcoming in Econometrica: http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~kmatsu/
• 10 May: John Taylor relays rumors that “World Bank will water down or even abandon its ten-year old Doing Business” measures. http://economicsone.com/2013/05/09/10-years-doing-business-measuring-results-and-now-bill-gates/