Jörg Oechssler
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Professor of Economics, University of Heidelberg
http://oechssler.uni-hd.de/
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After Trump´s disgraceful behavior last week, we thought we need to do something to help Ukraine directly. And you can help too…
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The Bundeskartellamt decided yesterday that Amazon cannot remove prices of third party sellers on their platform if these prices - check notes - are too high.
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Nick Brown
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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" 🤡
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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️🌈
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Statement from Bill Clinton
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Georg Weizsäcker
14 days ago
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.
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Monika Schnitzer
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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
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
28 days ago
Let us all stand with Chairman Powell.
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Interesting perspective on gambling laws. And thanks mentioning our paper!
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Michael Clemens
about 1 month ago
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.
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ICE officer fatally shoots driver in Minneapolis
Video taken by bystander Caitlin Callenson shows an ICE officer fatally shooting a driver in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, 2026.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9CJY5p0xz4
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James Ball
about 1 month ago
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.
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Monica H Green
about 2 months ago
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...
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Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04060-x?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Scan%20Fri%202025-12-19&utm_term=The%20Scan%20Bulletin
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Georg Weizsäcker
about 2 months ago
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...
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W2-Professur für „Wettbewerbspolitik“ - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
https://www.hu-berlin.de/en/university/working-at-the-hu/jobs/details?tx_jobapplications_detailview%5Baction%5D=show&tx_jobapplications_detailview%5Bcontroller%5D=Posting&tx_jobapplications_detailview%5Bposting%5D=219&cHash=a5807027294407c9d20407e297611bdd
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Nice job at Hochschule Heilbronn
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👋 In meinem Büro wird ein Platz frei! An der Hochschule Heilbronn suchen wir in 2026 eine neue Kollegin oder einen neuen Kollegen in der Fakultät Wirtschaft für eine Professur in Allgemeiner… | Susan...
👋 In meinem Büro wird ein Platz frei! An der Hochschule Heilbronn suchen wir in 2026 eine neue Kollegin oder einen neuen Kollegen in der Fakultät Wirtschaft für eine Professur in Allgemeiner Betriebs...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/susanne-prof-dr-wilpers-5342a989_in-meinem-b%C3%BCro-wird-ein-platz-frei-an-activity-7405518499403657216-5k9H?utm_medium=ios_app&rcm=ACoAABK7EbgBW3NJuNDM3tp1xhu0ll-Dw6s_jHc&utm_source=social_share_send&utm_campaign=copy_link
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Ryan Goodman
2 months ago
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."
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Paolo Crosetto
2 months ago
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
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Mark Fabian
3 months ago
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.
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Paolo Crosetto
3 months ago
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.
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Manoel Bittencourt
3 months ago
Heidelberg, Germany, from the castle, on a Friday evening.
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JKU Department of Economics
3 months ago
🚨JOB OPENING🚨 JKU Linz is hiring an Assistant Professor in Microeconomics (non-tenure track, 6 years). The target date for applications is Nov 15, the hard deadline Nov 20. Please share within your network! Job ad and application (requires EJM login):
econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
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Brendan Nyhan
3 months ago
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?
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Georg Weizsäcker
3 months ago
14 postdoc fellowships for 2yrs, in Freiburg, Tübingen or Konstanz
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Sebastian Kranz
3 months ago
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.
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From Replications to Revelations: Heteroskedasticity-Robust Inference
Analysing the Stata regression commands from 4,420 reproduction packages of leading economic journals, we find that, among the 40,571 regressions specifying heteroskedasticity-robust standard errors, ...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.14763
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Tobias Werner
3 months ago
📣 New paper! "Delegate Pricing Decisions to an Algorithm? Experimental Evidence" with
@normann.bsky.social
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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
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Delegate Pricing Decisions to an Algorithm? Experimental Evidence
We analyze the delegation of pricing by participants, representing firms, to a collusive, self-learning algorithm in a repeated Bertrand experiment. In the baseline treatment, participants set prices ...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.27636
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Stephanie Wang
3 months ago
great idea. i would be glad to do the same for PhD students/postdocs working on behavioral/experimental economics.
#econsky
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Maria Bigoni
4 months ago
🚨 Job Market Alert 🚨 The Department of Economics of the University of Bologna invites applications for a fixed-term Assistant Professor position **any field** starting AY 2026/27. 📅 Apply by Nov 10 💼 6-year contract, low teaching load, no Italian required. Info:
econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
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Joshua Gans
4 months ago
New paper by Rivera Mora &
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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)
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Andreas Ortmann
4 months ago
A useful summary.
aethermug.com/posts/famous...
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Famous Cognitive Psychology Experiments that Failed to Replicate
A quick reference
https://aethermug.com/posts/famous-cognitive-psychology-experiments-that-failed-to-replicate?ref=thebrowser.com&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Deadline coming up tomorrow! Join us in Heidelberg.
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4 months ago
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Richard Tol
4 months ago
Some more words on Energy Economics
open.substack.com/pub/richardt...
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Autopsy
Lessons for editors
https://open.substack.com/pub/richardtol/p/autopsy?r=cfp5b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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We have an opening for a professorship in Heidelberg in labor economics, political economy, or more generally in applied micro. Please share!
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Full Professorship (W3) in “Labor Markets / New Political Economy” (f/m/d) | INOMICS
The position is to be filled by the Winter Semester 2026/27 at the Alfred-Weber-Institute for Economics of Heidelberg University.The successful candidate will have an outstanding and internationally v...
https://inomics.com/job/full-professorship-w3-in-labor-markets-new-political-economy-fmd-1550615
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Roberto Weber
5 months ago
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.
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Nice summary.
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Americans have 400 days to save their democracy | Timothy Garton Ash
I never thought I’d see fear spread so far and fast. Next year’s midterm elections are now crucial for the Democratic party – and for democrats everywhere, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/16/us-americans-republic-midterm-elections-democrats?CMP=share_btn_url
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Richard Tol
5 months ago
All is not well at Elsevier
richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...
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Fraud and cover-up
Fraud and cover-up
https://richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-cover-up
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Christina Felfe
5 months ago
### Full Professorship in Applied Economics - 1 week left to apply ### Succesful candidates will enjoy 3 positions at once - professorship at the UKonstanz, PI at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality” and the directorship of TWI!
stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/a...
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Full Professorship (W3) in Applied Economics
Deadline: 15.09.2025
https://stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/a7e4dec5253c755b924cc6d61701255c2863a975
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Michael Chwe
6 months ago
Please sign our open letter demanding that the Univ of California reject the malicious attacks from the Trump admin
tinyurl.com/ucstandup
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Please forward this letter widely at https://tinyurl.com/ucstandup
https://sites.google.com/view/ucstandup/
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf
6 months ago
As in Germany!
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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".
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https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en&vq=bus_economics
7 months ago
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Paul Hünermund
7 months ago
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.
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koenfucius
7 months ago
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
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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?
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Experimental Economics | Cambridge Core
Experimental Economics - Friederike Mengel, Andreas Ortmann, Ragan Petrie, Arno Riedl, Marta Serra Garcia
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/experimental-economics
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Paolo Crosetto
8 months ago
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 🧵
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Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
https://the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/posts/discover_nature/#springer-nature-discovers-mdpi
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Achim Zeileis
8 months ago
📢 Come work with us! 🏛️ Faculty of Economics & Statistics, UIBK
@econstatuibk.bsky.social
@uniinnsbruck.bsky.social
‼️ Three job openings for Full Professor positions - Data Science - Microeconomics - Behavioral Economics Please share!
#datascience
#economics
www.uibk.ac.at/de/info-beru...
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Aktuelle Ausschreibungen – Universität Innsbruck
None
https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/info-berufungsverfahren/aktuelleverfahren/ausschreibungen/
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Augustin Bergeron
9 months ago
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In extremely rare move, Harvard revokes tenure and cuts ties with star business professor
An internal investigation had found that Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino’s research on why people lie and cheat was based on falsified data.
https://www.wgbh.org/news/education-news/2025-05-25/in-extremely-rare-move-harvard-revokes-tenure-and-cuts-ties-with-star-business-professor
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Josh Marshall
9 months ago
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.
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Universität Heidelberg
9 months ago
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
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9 months ago
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
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Paul Smaldino
9 months ago
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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Solar power without subsidies
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How Pakistan pulled off one of the fastest solar revolutions in the world | CNN
Pakistan has become one of the biggest new solar markets. It’s bringing cheap, clean power but analysts warn of potential trouble ahead.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/climate/pakistan-solar-boom
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