New WP: "𝘾𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝘿𝙞𝙧𝙩𝙮 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙜: 𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙀𝙢𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙙 𝙀𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝘼𝙡𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙣𝙫𝙞𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙁𝙤𝙤𝙩𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨" 📄 www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c.... 👥 Till Köveker, Philipp Richter and Alexander Schiersch 🧵

Does digital competition hurt truthful reporting? Economists @ayushpan.bsky.social l & @icotrombetta.bsky.social construct a theoretical model to provide insights. For breaking news, speed can reduce accuracy, while for investigative work, reputation drives careful reporting. tinyurl.com/mryp99zr

We're hiring a postdoc in labor economics at IAB Nuremberg! Join @ineshelmecon.bsky.social, @jnimczik.bsky.social & me on a project about gig work. 🗓️ Start: 1 Oct 25 💶 Salary ≥ €5200/month
 🌱 Possibility to apply for tenure track program Apply here until 17 June: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

If this stands, and if it spreads, it would be a crushing blow to higher education in America -- and also a major new contributor to our trade deficits. Higher ed is one of the most reliable surplus drivers that our country can offer. Free link www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

#econsky What do we know about “Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation” and about MIT's investigation of this paper, which apparently led to expulsion of its author? And what should we change in response. /1

Job postings in DC: (Chart from Goldman)

Subjektives Sicherheitsgefühl in D grad am Boden. 50m vor einer Polizeiwache wird auf offener Straße, vor unserer Kita, am hell-lichten Tag auf jemanden eingestochen. Wie erklär ich das meinem 7yo? #WeLoveMannheim???

We are sad to announce that former faculty member and Minnesota Econ Ph.D. alum Patrick Bajari passed away on Monday. cla.umn.edu/economics/ne...

I have a postdoc position in Behavioral/Experimental Economics available for 6 years, at the oldest university in Germany in beautiful Heidelberg. Please forward to anyone who might be interested! #EconJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd #Economics #JobAlert

Welcome to Bluesky, my Tufts colleague @jingli-econ.bsky.social ! Jing has a new NBER working paper out today on political ideology and EVs:

@assumenormality.bsky.social has been kind enough to build and post an archive of AHRF data, which are a treasure trove of county level information on socio-economic-demographic characteristics, health care resources, health measures, … See below for the link.

China’s efforts to regulate its most energy-intensive firms led to reduced energy use at targeted firms, but largely because they shifted production to other firms in their conglomerate network, say researchers at FuDan, Stanford, and Duke University. #econsky. www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...

Come intern with us at @rff.org! We are accepting applications for our annual PAID summer internship program in Washington, DC. And one position will be working with me on tax policy related to critical minerals development. Please share! www.rff.org/careers/summ...

Based on feedback from past participants, potential applicants, and mentors, the CeMENT workshop will now be held June 30 - July 2, 2025, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. To apply, go to: www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co... Deadline to apply is March 15.

Please spread the word as we have opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships which enable researchers to work for two years at a UK institution. If you fancy being away from your country right now this could be an option! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

Call for papers for this excellent IO/competition workshop 2-3 June in Cambridge, organised by my colleagues Flavio Toxvaerd & @cgenakos.bsky.social oligoworkshop2025.econ.cam.ac.uk

Economists are in the wilderness. Politicians and the public have rejected their advice on everything from trade to climate change. They held comparatively little sway under Biden, and stand to hold less under Trump. Can they find their way back to influence? #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/b...

The SF Fed has a new data indicators page: Regional Indicators for Labor Markets and Prices. This page provides data on labor market conditions, prices, and earnings across US states. Thanks to economists Leila Bengali and Genya Duzhak for setting this up. www.frbsf.org/research-and...

Planning your 2025 economics conference schedule? I've updated my list of general interest, IO, and theory conferences: www.igorletina.com/conferences.... New this year: you can generate a calendar file 📅 to easily track dates and submission deadlines of selected conferences. #econsky

Thrilled to see the FTC finalize their junk fee rule. Markets work when consumers can easily observe the full price. Mandatory back-end fees make it hard to comparison shop, blunting the forces of competition. www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

From our AEA cttee on the job market, here's the December update on the status of the job mkt for PhD economists of the 2024-25 cycle. A thread with graphs follows... #EconJobMarket #EconSky @aeainformation.bsky.social @aeacswep.bsky.social @joelistings.bsky.social 1/9

This is a really nice paper on how online ratings can be biased by selection, in particular if "experts" have both better ability to identify high quality products and have stricter rating criteria, this will punish high quality products. (1/3)

Send your labor papers and come present at Princeton! Deadline is Dec 22. irs.princeton.edu/news/2024/nl...

Please share ... CIDER development economics pre-doc fellows program now accepting applications for a July 2025 start date. Come work with me, Jenny Aker, John Hoddinott, Martina Occelli, Heather Schofield, Joanna Upton, @johanneshaushofer.com, and more cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...

🚨 We are hiring! The #OECD is looking to hire one or several Economists / Policy Analysts to work on labour market and social policy, including on #inequalities. The vacancy is open until 3 January 2025. Please spread the word, retweet and apply! #EconSky smrtr.io/pfCMb

📣 Hiring alert! Multiple postdoc and RA opportunities with us at Oxford @oxfordcsae.bsky.social @blavatnikschool.bsky.social @oxfordecondept.bsky.social #econsky

1/3// #EconJMCs and Search Chairs: this year’s 3rd CSWEP News (@aeacswep.bsky.social) focused on the post-pandemic PhD job market. It highlights what has, and what hasn't, changed from the pre-COVID times, and provides corresponding resources and advice. #EconSky www.aeaweb.org/content/file...

Economists love using linear regression to estimate treatment effects — it turns out that there are perils to this method, but also amazing perks Come with me in this 🧵 if you want to learn about our now-published paper "Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions!" 1/ (Twitter rerun!)

JMP by Yannis Kastis with @hillaryvipond.bsky.social It's both an immigration paper & an adoption-of-technology paper. I didn’t know this: immigration of Jewish tailors from the Pale was very important in the rise of mass garment production in Victorian England jkastis.github.io/yanniskastis...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "Monitoring Team Members: Information Waste and the Transparency Trap" by Matteo Camboni and Michael Porcellacchia. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Your electricity bill is likely dominated by delivery fees, not the energy itself. That won't be improving any time soon because they're payments for long-lived capital investments. Local utilities are enjoying a bonanza with very little oversight here. www.utilitydive.com/news/local-t...

Econometrica is here! Any journals missing? Your friendly AEA ad hoc social media committee can nudge them to come.

The running list of IO job market candidates for 2024-2025 is live! Fill this out to add your info: forms.gle/upCQ4Ez7sBTP... Running list here: shoshanavasserman.com/io-jmc/

Reupping this for 📈📉 and anyone interested in #food #agriculture or #nutrition

Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it www.nber.org/system/files...

🚨 Call for Papers: Economic Analysis of Regulation 🚨 We are delighted to have added Craig Garthwaite to the leadership team! Our 4th annual meeting will be on May 1, 2025 in Cambridge, MA. Submissions are due February 12, 2025. conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

Vor 81 Jahren wurden Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl und Christoph Probst ermordet. Sie hatten den Mut, die menschenverachtende Ideologie der Nationalsozialisten als solche zu benennen und Widerstand zu leisten. Ihr Andenken ist Auftrag, niemals zu schweigen, wenn Unrecht geschieht.

At the Dep. of Strategy & Innovation at Copenhagen Business School, we have an open call for a number of fully funded PhD scholarships. The application deadline is next week. 🚨 More info: www.cbs.dk/en/about-cbs...

Very happy to see this paper finally published. If you are interested in the innovation effects of startup acquisitions, check it out -- it's open access. #econsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Wondering if 💰 incentives are effective in non-routine analytical teams? #EconSky Florian Englmaier, Stefan Grimm, Dominik Grothe, @david-schindler.de, & Simeon Schudy show that 👉YES, they are! Recent article in the Journal of Political Economy: www.journals.uchicag... 1/4

Call for papers for the 2024 Brookings/Brandeis/Chicago/Purdue Municipal Finance Conference! The submission deadline is March 1, and the conference is at the Brookings Institution in DC on July 17-18. www.brookings.edu/centers/the-...

Welcome to bsky, Gib Metcalf! @gibmetcalf.bsky.social

Applications are now open for RFF's 2024 summer (paid) internship program. Come work with us! www.rff.org/careers/summ...

We have a spot market for hospital services (with largely inflexible prices when there is a demand surge). On the other hand, we desire to have capacity, but there is no institutional mechanism that pays to sustain capacity. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/01/19/b...

This week's links include Abhijit and Esther on the problem of government jobs in India (+ the poverty debate), Dani Rodrik on industrial policy, a collection of posts using different causal methods in development, conference calls, and more blogs.worldbank.org/impactevalua...

Ok folks, here is the job ad for our Empirical IO Assistant Professor position and how to apply: usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange... We'll be moving fast so please encourage all of your students to apply quickly. 📈📉

Ein Update zur Weitergabe der #CO2-Kostensteigerung ab Januar an den #Tankstellen. Die Preise in 🇩🇪 sind in der letzten Woche relativ zu 🇫🇷 kontinuierlich gestiegen. Aktuell liegt die Weitergaberate bei ca. 80-90%.

My blog post today about our household's carbon footprint and my surprise at the degree to which air travel dominates our home energy usage. energyathaas.wordpress.com/2024/01/08/o...