The Bundeskartellamt decided yesterday that Amazon cannot remove prices of third party sellers on their platform if these prices - check notes - are too high.

Wiley: "We’re supporting responsible research assessment practices" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1520... Also Wiley: "Prove that your article is a good fit for this journal 😉😉😉😉😉 by citing at least two of our articles in your manuscript before we will even consider reviewing it" 🤡

Statement from Bill Clinton

Platform competition (e.g. Rochet/Tirole, 2003, JEEA) Commitments for public goods provision (e.g. Bagnoli/Lipman, 1989, RES, Oechssler et al, 2022, JET) Ethical consumers (e.g. Hainmueller et al, 2015, REStat, Kaufmann et al, 2024, QJE) But I'm not aware of a study of their combination.

Der SVR Wirtschaft sucht für den neuen Standort Berlin eine Ökonomin oder einen Ökonomen mit einem großen Interesse an Wirtschaftspolitik - Schwerpunkt „Öffentliche Finanzen“. 👉 Reposts willkommen! Hier die Stellenausschreibung: www.sachverstaendigenrat-wirtschaft.de/karriere.html

Let us all stand with Chairman Powell.

Interesting perspective on gambling laws. And thanks mentioning our paper!

This is a video of federal immigration officers murdering a woman who was not attacking them. In Minneapolis, today. The United States Constitution protects all people in the United States, Conservative and Liberal. Its suspension will eventually harm all people, Conservative and Liberal.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Our dept is hiring an associate professor in microeconomics / competition theory. It is a wonderful department - do get in touch. The job ad is in German but we teach more and more in English, so we‘re flexible. www.hu-berlin.de/en/universit...

Nice job at Hochschule Heilbronn

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Since AI slop is again all over Scientific Reports, a thread on the economics of grey-zone publishing. Why does slop keep getting published? What does it mean for science? How can we stop this? Background readings: Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy

Recently did around 30 requests to ppl who'd published very similar papers to the one I needed reviews for. 3 declines, 25 no response. Please at least decline guys it slows stuff down so much otherwise.

So it's back to the lab! And we are ready in Grenoble since we did not dismantle them, we rather invested in better subject pool recruitment and management.

Heidelberg, Germany, from the castle, on a Friday evening.

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A staggering statistic: "North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year." What are we doing?

14 postdoc fellowships for 2yrs, in Freiburg, Tübingen or Konstanz

Here is a rock song "HC1 Heartbreak" (MP3 and Lyrics) econ.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/aisongs/hc1_... based on my research paper arxiv.org/abs/2411.14763 on robust standard errors and large scale methodological replications. Made with Suno and ChatGPT. AI amazes me again and again.

📣 New paper! "Delegate Pricing Decisions to an Algorithm? Experimental Evidence" with @normann.bsky.social, Nina Rulié, & @ostypa.bsky.social We study what happens when humans delegate to a collusive algorithm, and AI pricing adoption becomes a strategic choice! arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2510.27636

great idea. i would be glad to do the same for PhD students/postdocs working on behavioral/experimental economics. #econsky

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New paper by Rivera Mora & @philippstrack.bsky.social Strack challenges everything we thought we knew about mechanism design beyond expected utility. The results are wild. 🤯 Paper: "Mechanism Design Beyond Expected Utility Preferences" (Sept 2025) static1.squarespace.com/static/62d2f...

A useful summary. aethermug.com/posts/famous...

Deadline coming up tomorrow! Join us in Heidelberg.

Some more words on Energy Economics open.substack.com/pub/richardt...

We have an opening for a professorship in Heidelberg in labor economics, political economy, or more generally in applied micro. Please share!

Anyone living in the US should be horrified by the administration's use of government power & threats to target people whose opinions they don't like. They may be going after comedians for now, but if you think you are safe in your academic, corporate, or journalistic job, you are fooling yourself.

Nice summary.

All is not well at Elsevier richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...

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Please sign our open letter demanding that the Univ of California reject the malicious attacks from the Trump admin tinyurl.com/ucstandup

As in Germany!

This new ranking by Google Scholar looks somewhat reasonable. But I have never heard of the "International Review of Economics & Finance" and the "International Journal of Finance & Economics".

Der Wissenschaftsrat geht hier mit dem niederländischen Modell einen m.M.n. völlig falschen Weg. 2–3 Jahre nach der Promotion kann sich niemand schon in seinem wissenschaftl. Feld etabliert haben. Statt das Rad neu erfinden zu wollen, sollte man auf das internationale Tenure-Track-System setzen.

Whether English-language TV content is dubbed or subtitled has an overwhelming influence on English language skills, research by Baumeister et al suggests—sub >> dub: buff.ly/WpCtxYI TL;DR:🧵by coauthor Woessman buff.ly/5MpuXjE

So our society journal "Experimental Economics" will now be open access. But authors or, as in my case, their universities will have to pay Article Processing Charges of about $3500 for each article published. Is that a good deal for us?

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

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Feel like there could be some illuminating interdisciplinary work bringing together international trade economists with studies of borderline personality disorder/attention seeking traits to come up with new predictive theories about global trade.

Alfred Weber Lecture: Wirtschaft ohne Arbeitskräfte? – Präsidentin des Wissenschaftszentrums Berlin für Sozialforschung spricht über die Ursachen und Folgen des Fachkräftemangels www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/... #universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #vortrag #fachkraftemangel

The cool thing about the history of macro as told by macroeconomists is that, no matter what point in history you start from, after 40 years, scientific convergence is achieved Olivier Blanchard on the state of macro in 2025 HT @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #Econsky

As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...

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