And the implication for lecturers who want to best respond to this strategy is to tell students to expect a test at random dates. I bet they'll love that 🤓

Bibles are still pretty common in many German hotels. This time, I brought some competition 😎

I know Romania's entry at the Eurovision has been a bit controversial, but honestly, it's the best by far (and I'm not biased at all 🙃). If she doesn't win tomorrow this game is rigged :P

Why incentive-compatibility isn't enough for data quality: Our new online experiment shows that popular belief elicitation methods like BSR and BDM fail to outperform simple, unincentivized introspection.

Two thoughtful essays about the impact of LLMs on graduate education: ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma... economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul... From personal experience I think the self-control problem mentioned in the first essay is very real.

Probably not news to people thinking about this, but it occurred to me there is a risk that as we become more enamored with how much faster we can do all kinds of stuff with AI, we don't notice we're losing some of the joy and satisfaction related to the process of doing some of that stuff.

📢 Call for Papers: 2026 Workshop on Cognitive Economics 📢 We are pleased to share the Call for Papers for the 2026 Workshop on Cognitive Economics, taking place on 24–25 August 2026 in Herrsching am Ammersee.

Last 3 days to apply!

Brought to you by the reality checks authority...the Dutch 🙃

Happy J Dilla Day to all who celebrate! And if you don't know him it's time look into his work, as he was one of the most innovative hip-hop artists! So much so, that there is a rhythm called after him -- Dilla time: www.ethanhein.com/wp/2022/dill...

New favorite word: "quaquaversally" (=spreading in all directions). You can use it in the next application for the everywhere-but-understudied economic problem you're solving right now 🤓. Make sure to add a few duck images to really drive the point home 🦆🦆🦆

This makes sense and it's totally insane and worrisome on top of everything else.

Appeal for more short-run support for 🇺🇦

📣 Call for Papers | Riederau Workshop on People’s Understanding of and Support for Economic Policies We are pleased to announce the Riederau Workshop on People’s Understanding of and Support for Economic Policies, taking place 8–10 September 2026 in Riederau am Ammersee (Germany).

Keep Minnesota Weird

Trump invaded Venezuela because he didn't get the Nobel Prize (among other things :) ); now he wants Greenland. I'd say if they give him an Oscar for Greenland 2, he might just let that drop. Look, he can play a very convincing Earth-destroying comet:

Next time you want to sound erudite, instead of saying "pics or it didn't happen", you should quote Émile Zola

Next step is to just teach our classes in the gym! Just kidding, this is a very cool study!

These are the kind of border walls I would support as well!

whoever tried to disprove this and failed, could not have known about Strava

4 weeks to go to the 12-month mark. Oh boy! Are we going to make it? I feel I should start taking bets😅

I'd say there's a non-zero chance of this happening

dionne brand

I stumbled onto this article just now, 20 years after its publication, and I'd recommend reading/listening to it not only for its brilliant narrative, but also for its many insights that are still relevant today: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Monty Python couldn’t have scripted the Deutsche Bahn better: www.theocharis.dev/blog/kidnapp...

We care a lot about our watermelons 🙃

How information campaigns can fall short even if they successfully correct beliefs: Our experiments show that correcting consumers' large underestimations of which products cause high emissions does not have an effect on their actual consumption decisions.

🔵Coming up this Monday! Join us on December 15 at the 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 with @alistairecon.bsky.social (𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗶𝘁𝘁𝘀𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗵) who will present "Designing Delegation: An Experimental Analysis" 🔗https://alistair.xyz/ #EconSky

Celebrating 10 months today since a paper I submitted has been under review with no word from the editor. I kinda hope to make it to the full year mark now 🤓

I somehow missed these memes when they made the rounds, but they're too good not to bring them back, so on the occasion of their 5th anniversary (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/14/t...) here you go: statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/wp-content/u...

Where's Waldo? :)

Dear fans of the CRC TRR 190, Next week, we will launch our research blog CRC TRR 190 Coffee Break! There will be a blog post about our most recent exciting research every day, from Monday to Sunday. Afterwards, we will post every Monday, 1pm CET.

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We are hiring assistant professors in Economics (any field) @lmumuenchen.bsky.social @econmunich.bsky.social Target date for applications: November 24! More info at: econjobmarket.org/positions/11... #EconSky #EconJobMarket #EJME

"the median analysis has about 10% power"...ugghhh

🔵Coming up this Monday! Join us on October 20 at the 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 with 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗮 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿 (𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗵𝗮𝗺), who will present "Divided We Act: Political Polarization, Social Sanctions, and Strategic (Un)Fairness" 🔗https://sites.google.com/site/silviasonderegger/home #EconSky

Question: under which conditions would it be an optimal and credible strategy for a presidential candidate to run on a platform to reduce their own executive power?

In preparation for its less humble cousin.

💯and this holds not just for books.

Of course Tversky paves the road to interpretable AI: gonzoml.substack.com/p/tversky-ne...

In an essay called "To Act As If", Inger Christensen writes "It's nothing new for art and science to operate at the boundary between meaning and meaninglessness." Got me thinking about how the many "as if" assumptions in (behavioral) econ might be distributed around this boundary...🤔

After reading the White House letter about the internal review process of the Smithsonian exhibitions, I think I found a way they can legitimately avoid all this interreference: submit one thing of the many requested and say the indexing suggested they were all one and the same :)

In an attempt to see the glass half full, my takeaway is: keep applying--as early and as often as possible 🤓

Why I 🧡 the web. drawafish.com Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

I am quite hopeful that these tools will give us more time to think, and to think more deeply

with a bit of a delay, since Bluesky's feed is a bit random, but I was there, and it was a great talk! Here's a summary of it: dennievandolder.com/post/impact-...

🔵Coming up this Monday! Join us on July 14 at 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 with @atavoni.bsky.social (𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐚), who will present "Tipping in Coordination Games: An Experimental Approach" 🔗https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/alessandro.tavoni/en #EconSky

There are many good things about learning with an LLM. But one key advantage of learning with other people is that they can ask you questions that make you realize you actually don't know what you're talking about :)

Humboldt University just won a court case against its own boss, the government of Berlin. 😲 The case was about limited-term employment for scientific staff. Here's a quick-and-dirty explainer, esp. for non-German readers who may be affected. 1/n www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/frust...

I hope the Italians are not too jealous, but 🕺>🤌