We are very happy to have Hans-Peter Grüner at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. He will present his work on „Locally Optimal Transfer Free Mechanisms for Border Dispute Settlement“ #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

🗓️ Thursday, January 29: We are very happy to welcome Thomas Triebs at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. He will present his work on „Switching to English to Attract Global Talent“ #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

Happy that our research is covered in the @theguardian.com . Hopefully next time our names make it in too 😉.

Looking forward to hosting @ariannaornaghi.bsky.social from @hertieschool.bsky.social at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social this week. #EconSky

In a new policy with @sebastiankohl.bsky.social and @simonvoss.bsky.social, we spotlight an overlooked side of housing inequality: how living space is distributed. Both overcrowded and under-occupied homes have been rising in Germany in recent years. politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...

🎉 Der Schmölders-Preis 2025 geht an Yulia Evsyukova, Felix Rusche und Wladislaw Mill für ihr Paper "LinkedOut? A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Job Network Formation“. In einem großen LinkedIn-Feldexperiment zeigen sie: Profile mit dunkler Hautfarbe erhalten 13% weniger Kontaktzusagen!

🗓️ Thursday, November 20: We are very happy to welcome Gregor Pfeifer at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social . He will present his work on „Abortion Access and Long-Run Household Outcomes: Evidence from Population-Wide Administrative Data“ #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

We're so pleased to have collaborated with @ctale.bsky.social and The Stone Centre at UCL on our latest report: Rethinking Economics Assessments for a GenAI World. The report is a sector-wide call to action for economics education in the UK. Have a read here: bit.ly/4r3Az1d

Happy to share that our research brief on housing space inequality in Germany will soon be published by the Progressive Politics Research Network! This work, a collaboration with @sebastiankohl.bsky.social and @simonvoss.bsky.social , digs into who has access to space and how policy can address it.

The RES Conference Committee is now accepting submissions for presentations at our 2026 event next July. Submissions are open for: ✅ General Sessions ✅ Speed Sessions ✅ Poster Presentations See the opportunities available: bit.ly/4oX4ua2

Great opportunity to improve your knowledge about diff-in-diff. Two-day online workshop offered by my colleague @janmarcus.de.

🎉 Our study “Do Natural Disasters Affect Household Saving?” found a great home in Economics of Disasters and Climate Change! After Germany’s 2002 flood, affected households saved less — generous disaster aid can ease hardship but also reduce precautionary saving. doi.org/10.1007/s418...

🎉 Yesterday, we had the pleasure of welcoming our new tenure-track Assistant Professor @philippbach.bsky.social at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social In his talk, Philipp gave an inspiring overview of his work in the field of #CausalMachineLearning: method development, software tools, and applications.

Applications are now open for mentees in our Women's Committee Mentoring Programme! 🎉 If you’ve recently obtained your PhD or are close to completing it, you’ve got until the end of the year to apply: bit.ly/43jQYEz

Looking forward to teaching this training course on diff-in-diff. Registration still possible!

Call for papers for a World Bank Economic Review special issue on migration and development: we are doing a special issue that builds on a recent conference, but with submissions open also for non-conference papers. Short papers in the AER insights type format also welcome. Deadline November 30.

Rund 1,4 Mio. Menschen in Deutschland erhalten Grundrente, über 75% davon sind Frauen. Grundrentenberechtigte sind häufiger im Arbeitsmarkt aktiv als andere Renter*innen. Das zeigt eine neue DIW-Studie auf Basis von Daten der Deutschen Rentenversicherung: www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c.... 🧵(1/5)

Ausschreibung: Der Finanzwissenschaftliche Ausschuss vergibt im nächsten Jahr wieder den mit 3.000 Euro dotierten Schmölders-Preis. 🏆 📍https://www.socialpolitik.de/de/ausschreibung-schmoelders-preis-2026 #Verhaltensökonomik #Finanzwissenschaft #econtwitter

@pantras.bsky.social is delivering his keynote (on industrial policy!) at this year's meeting of the German Economics Association @vfsecon.bsky.social . The room is packed! #econsky #econconf #vfs_conf2025

14th PhD-Student Workshop on Industrial and Public Economics (WIPE) 5-6 February 2026 #Econsky

Since we first advertised these postdoctoral positions, the project looking at political violence in democracies has unfortunately become even timelier. Apply now to join this important project led by distinguished Professor @hannefjelde.bsky.social. Apply by 1 October: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

We award the prestigious Hermann Heinrich Gossen Award to a researcher who provided outstanding services to the internationalization of economics. This year’s winner truly makes an impact with her work. Our sincerest congratulations go to Claudia Steinwender 👏. @lmumuenchen.bsky.social

With live jazz music, the second day of the conference came to a festive close at Cologne’s Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum. We’re looking forward to tomorrow’s highlights: the keynote by Reka Juhasz and our Students’ Day! @VfS_Conf2025

We're looking forward to hosting the opening of @bsoeberlin.bsky.social' acadmic year @hertieschool.bsky.social on October 8. To join us at this event, which includes (among others) a keynote by Michèle Tertilt on 'The Economics of Women’s Rights', register via👇 www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...

The first official day of our VfS Annual Conference concluded with a second reception in honor of the Thünen Lecture. Tomorrow promises inspiring talks and a memorable evening reception at the Rautenstrauch Joest Museum. #VfS_Conf2025

Today we had the honor of celebrating Ulrike Malmendier’s outstanding academic journey with her lecture on “Homo Experiens”. Brilliant insights, sharp perspectives, and plenty to think about. 👏 @svrwirtschaft.bsky.social #VfS_Conf2025 #EconTwitter #ThünenLecture

#OpenScience for economics in less than 4 minutes Thanks to @vfsecon.bsky.social for making this video possible and to my colleague @dsiegfried1.bsky.social @zbw-leibniz.bsky.social for the script. #econsky

Verein für Socialpolitik 2025: Leitthema „Revival of Industrial Policy“. Enzo Weber & ich beschreiben, wie eine moderne pro-kom­petitive Industriepolitik Transformationsprozesse wie Dekarbonisierung, Digitalisierung & Verteidigung unterstützt. ➡️ Open-Access-Artikel. www.linkedin.com/posts/monika...

Thank you so much, Max. The visit at FU Berlin today was so much fun. Always a pleasure!

📣📣📣 I am looking for a Research Associate (Predoc) to work on exciting projects in the economics of media and political economy. Please share and apply! For more info: tinyurl.com/hertie-appli.... Deadline: June 31. #econsky #econra #econ_ra

Excited to welcome @zohalhessami.bsky.social from @ruhr-uni-bochum.de this thursday for a talk on migrant integration in our Research Seminar in Economics at @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social - happening at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social ! #EconSky #EconConf #Migration #Integration

Thread: #Strukturwandel 👉 Produktivität stärken, Anpassungen gestalten. 🇩🇪 steht mitten in einem tiefgreifenden wirtschaftlichen Wandel, der zunehmend zur Bewährungsprobe für Wettbewerbsfähigkeit, Beschäftigung und Wohlstand wird. Dieser Strukturwandel wird durch 4 Entwicklungen beschleunigt:

Mehr Arthrose, mehr Herztote: Obwohl Frauen von manchen Krankheiten häufiger betroffen sind als Männer, werden sie von der Forschung kaum beachtet. Das Problem beginnt schon im Labor.

Happy to see our joint work on immigrant housing now published in the Journal of Housing Economics! With @simonvoss.bsky.social (@fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social) and Marc-André Luik, we show how language skills shape homeownership outcomes—offering new causal evidence on immigrant integration. #EconSky

New paper out in @science.org! “Brain drain” or “brain gain”? Effects of high-skilled international emigration on origin countries doi.org/10.1126/scie...

👏👏👏 Thank you to all presenters & participants of the „3rd Internal PhD Workshop in Applied Microeconomics“ @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social, jointly organized with @steinhardt.bsky.social, @janmarcus.de, @m-santos-silva.bsky.social. So great to learn more about all your projects and see your progress! 🥳

🎉 Here‘s the link to our new #EconFUBerlin Newsletter with all the updates you need: www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/fachbereich/...

The last four decks (at least for now) are here: 11 Problems of TWFE: psantanna.com/DiD/11_Stagg... 12 Staggered DiD (mostly CS): psantanna.com/DiD/12_CS.pdf 13 Challenges when Treatment turns on and off: psantanna.com/DiD/13_On_of... 14 Random Treatment Timing: psantanna.com/DiD/14_Rando...

Slowly but surely coming along: we have a new version of our working textbook on diffs in diffs! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Chapters 2 to 4, which cover the set up, classical DIDs, and relaxations of the parallel trends assumptions have been thoroughly revised and are now almost finished.

🚨 PhD Econ students in Berlin: Join Andy Ferrara’s (@andyferrara.bsky.social) talk "Tips for Navigating the Economics Job Market" on May 16 at 11:00am! @bsoeberlin.bsky.social @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social #EconSky

We're looking forward to your talk on Thursday and warmly welcome you in Berlin, @andyferrara.bsky.social! Excited to host you at @jfki-econ.bsky.social and @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social of @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. #EconSky

When ethnic groups within countries become more culturally distant from those holding power in the central government, their likelihood of rebelling increases significantly. We spoke with @eleonoraguarnieri.bsky.social of @bristoluni.bsky.social about why such conflicts arise. #econsky

Are you doing a masters in economics, data science, computer science, or related fields? If you are looking for a summer internship and to participate in an interdisciplinary project, check this out 👇 . Apply at the soonest!

😳 Weiter geht’s: „Vage Bedrohung": US-Bundesstaatsanwaltschaft befragt führendes Medizinjournal. Das „New England Journal of Medicine“ hat ein Schreiben erhalten, in dem ihm Parteilichkeit & Beeinflussung durch externen Druck vorgeworfen wird. Auch andere Fachzeitschriften erhielten das. Ein Thema:

As the semester starts we are happy to announce that the Research Seminar in Economics is also back. Every Thursday a different guest speaker will present their research on various topics. You are welcome to join us in the Boltzmannstraße 20, see you there👋

After being an editor for 6.5 years (4 REStud; 2.5 JEEA), I have accumulated a few suggestions that can help you avoid unnecessary rejections.

🌸 Frühling auf dem Campus: Die Kirschbäume an der #FUBerlin stehen in voller Blüte 🌸💗 Wer sich ein eigenes Bild von der Pracht machen möchte: Auf dem Vorplatz der Holzlaube blüht es besonders schön rosa. #cherryblossom 📸: M. Hansen