So now millions of football fans around the world view the US as cheaters who used political corruption to influence FIFA and we lose anyway. So much winning. When’s the next war?

The Cover-Up in Gino v Harvard datacolada.org/136

Looking for a new colleague! We have an open professorship in applied microeconomics at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Important: Fluency in French is required for this position. www.unifr.ch/ecopol/de/ne... Feel free to reach out if you have questions!

New RIO (@the-peio.bsky.social) editor: Christopher Kilby After more than 20 years as editor of the Review of International Organizations, I'm stepping back from new submissions. As of today, Christopher will take them over. I will continue with resubmissions for papers I originally handled.

Alternative headline: "After decade-long grace period, market-based climate policy shows effect" Sub-hed: "Domestic vacations and night trains as big winners"

DARPA proposed a prediction market in 2003 that became characterized as a terrorist prediction market But a terrorist who wanted to profit ahead of the 9/11 attacks wouldn’t need a prediction market. he could short United and American Airlines. #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-...

The cooling system was installed by the village AC technician, Thermodynamix 😊

Sports Commentary xkcd.com/3262/

The new rule in economics: One star is p < 0.20, two stars is a set of steak knives, three stars is you're fired. statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/06/22/o...

A letter from mainstream economists to the 🇩🇪 government, with a simple message: Renew and Electrify, to counter the energy crisis. www.bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de/Redaktion/DE... 1/n

This paper finds that economists whose job market papers report (marginally) statistically significant results are more likely to secure academic jobs. Hiring committees prefer statistical significance; this creates incentives for researchers to p-hack.

"But I’ve also been around long enough to see how the quest for clever identification can sometimes lead us to miss the forest for the trees." open.substack.com/pub/jenndowd...

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

"911, what's your emergency?" "Hello, Police? Yeah, our highest award recipient is at our meeting handing out copies of an article that we published. And uh....we....well....shit, nevermind." (gift link)

gonna post 100 likely permutations of the World Cup knockout bracket on bsky and then delete all the ones that were wrong after the final and then claim I predicted everything before the tournament to demonstrate p-hacking for my classes next semester

Electric school buses would normally sit idle over the summer - but in one school district in Massachusetts, three such buses are getting a holiday job as grid-balancing infrastructure! www.canarymedia.com/articles/ev-...

New post on the pressures squeezing American higher education open.substack.com/pub/rajivset...

In a new post, I pull data from four different sources --- arXiv, NBER working papers, SSRN, and the AEA --- to look at how much working paper growth and submissions have changed with the growth of AI. paulgp.substack.com/p/the-number...

Cooperation with Harvard: Cass R. Sunstein Visits Universität Heidelberg – Public lectures and academic exchange with the distinguished scholar www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/...

just another thursday in a modern dictatorship. a private university with over 20K students gets shut down overnight by presidential decree, leaving students, faculty, and staff in massive uncertainty. take whatever lesson you will about bringing dictators to power

Wir sprengen Deutschlands wohl älteste Paywall! Im Blatt für Patent-, Muster- & Zeichenwesen erscheinen wichtige amtliche Mitteilungen, die kostenfrei zugänglich sein sollten – doch der Carl Heymanns Verlag verdient seit 125 Jahren daran. Wir setzen dem ein Ende. fragdenstaat.de/artikel/akti...

Grid-scale batteries are going in an absolutely wild pace. Every whingey objection to renewables you've ever heard is basically solved by batteries. This is happening whether any of the hopeless dipshits running the US want it or not.

Does engaging with the arts help to slow the aging process? According to this new paper from Fancourt et al the answer is yes! Alas, the paper is actually unsuitable for such claims. Let’s examine by discussing how you'd establish whether arts engagement actually caused future health! 1/18 🧵

One of our job market candidates at Tilburg University had an offer withdrawn very late by the institution's rector because Tilburg is not ranked in the top 200 in the QS ranking. All of this after they assured our candidate that the rector's approval would be a formality... This is frustrating...

Is unselfish behavior primarily driven by desire or by duty? Erik Mohlin and I don’t settle this question. However, by developing and testing a model of social duties, we allow the question to be addressed: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... (ungated version at my home page) 1/10

🏁 We’re hiring at the TUM Heilbronn Data Science Center (PhD & Postdoc). Focus: econometrics, innovation policy, and technology management—with a particular interest in the societal and managerial implications of #causalAI. Join a highly interdisciplinary, research-driven environment at TUM. 👇

The Economic Journal Editorial Board and Royal Economic Society would like to thank Sascha O. Becker and Steffen Huck as they complete their terms. Excellent editors and colleagues who provided an outstanding service to the Journal. @essobecker.bsky.social @steffenhuck.bsky.social #EconSky

As I tell my students: "Sight before you cite"

Birthright citizenship is a powerful tool for reducing youth crime, from Leander Andres, Stefan Bauernschuster, Gordon B. Dahl, Helmut Rainer, and Simone Schüller www.nber.org/papers/w35070

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.

Eine Senkung des ⛽️ Preises für alle durch eine zeitlich befristete Aussetzung der Energiesteuer ist die schlechteste aller bisher diskutierten Optionen. Das ist eine Hilfe mit der Gießkanne, auch für Menschen, die den höheren Preis verkraften können. Es reduziert den Anreiz…

#Spritpreise & #Spritsteuern in historischer Zeitreihe: Rekordpreise – nominal, in Euro, real waren sie früher schon hoch & ganz früher deutlich höher. Die #Spritsteuern sind über die letzten 20 Jahre real deutlich gesunken, der Steueranteil entsprechend. Ein Thread🧵 (1/9) ⬇️

"All of these things frighten me, and they should frighten you as well. I made the decision to create a life for myself here, because I viewed this as a place that rewarded determination, hard work, and integrity. It still has a chance to be that place again." open.substack.com/pub/ofthebra...

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.