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.

Pinker writes about how Trivers introduced game-theoretic ideas into evolutionary biology (with genes as the players, and selection into subsequent generations as the payoffs). It's a well written tribute. #econsky #academicsky #evolution marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/03/stev...

Universität Heidelberg Defends its Status as a University of Excellence – Rector Frauke Melchior: “A fantastic joint effort led to success” www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/...

Do your own research? My latest on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...

not a pretty outlook on research and publishing in the time of AI

Answering the most popular question in a PhD methods course datacolada.org/133

Thanks for the initiative! The AWI Lab in Heidelberg will support this.

“Maybe, I would have been treated better if I had cited some of the editor in chief’s papers,” Bimonte, of the University of Siena, wrote in boldface in the email, which we have seen. Two days later, an unhappy editor at the journal quit, Retraction Watch has learned.

Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Fucking love this guy.

This is such a strong comment, published in 2022. It has 14 Google Scholar citations. The replicated paper has 65 citations in 2025 alone - and counting. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

I'm super excited for my new paper with Alex Tabarrok and Mark Whitmeyer. tl;dr: price controls cause chaos. That chaos causes misallocation. We develop new tools to measure that misallocation, which is 1-9 the size of the Harberger triangle www.economicforces.xyz/p/price-cont...

A few years ago, I was on a commission here in the Max Planck Society that tried to motivate the society to stop wasting millions of Euros on Microsoft licenses for bad calendar and email software. That and Elsevier subscriptions are just wasteful use of public funds imo. >

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".