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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Sebastian Kranz
5 days 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
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📣 New paper! "Delegate Pricing Decisions to an Algorithm? Experimental Evidence" with
@normann.bsky.social
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@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
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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
8 days 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
14 days 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
17 days 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
17 days 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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Professor Dr Richard S.J. Tol FREcon MAE
about 1 month 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
about 2 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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Professor Dr Richard S.J. Tol FREcon MAE
about 2 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
about 2 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
3 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
3 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
4 months ago
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Paul Hünermund
4 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
4 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:
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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
5 months ago
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Paolo Crosetto
5 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
5 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
6 months ago
www.wgbh.org/news/educati...
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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
6 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
6 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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6 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
6 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:
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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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Only 5 days left to apply!
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7 months ago
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Matthias Doepke
7 months ago
30 years after arriving in the US, I just resigned from Northwestern and we sold our house. We are an American family, I became a citizen in 2014, and until recently did not expect to ever leave. But now, this no longer feels like the right place to raise a family and pursue a research career.
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Glen Peters
7 months ago
A record increase in atmospheric CO2 according to data released by NOAA
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, much higher than projected in the Global Carbon Budget
essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...
. This occurred in the presence of an El Niño (red bars, data also from NOAA!). What does this mean? 1/
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Adam Berinsky
7 months ago
Just heard from the VP research that my grant with
@dgrand.bsky.social
, "Promoting Accurate Information on Social Media" was terminated as well
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf
7 months ago
Did you know how much of the power generation capacity added each year world-wide was in renewables? 2022 it was 80 % 2023 it was 86 % 2024 it was 92,5 % Not because the whole world suddenly turned „woke“, but because it’s the cheapest!
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Timothy Snyder
8 months ago
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
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I have a postdoc position in Behavioral/Experimental Economics available for 6 years, at the oldest university in Germany in beautiful Heidelberg. Please forward to anyone who might be interested!
#EconJobs
#AcademicJobs
#HigherEd
#Economics
#JobAlert
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Sam Wang
8 months ago
Today I'm filled with admiration for my university's president, Chris Eisgruber. He's standing up for Columbia and for universities as a home for freedom of ideas, debate, and thought - free of government attack.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia
American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.
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Our conditional contribution mechanism worked quite nicely! Thanks to all the generous contributors!
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Data Colada
8 months ago
Measurement error, Nobel Prize winning research, friendly disagreements, and more....
datacolada.org/124
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[124] "Complexity": 75% of participants missed comprehension questions in AER paper critiquing Prospect Theory - Data Colada
Kahneman and Tversky’s (1979) “Prospect Theory” article is the most cited paper in the history of economics, and it won Kahneman the Nobel Prize in 2002. Among other things, it predicts that people ar...
https://datacolada.org/124
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Larry Hunter
8 months ago
Orwell was prescient about everything but the year: "House Republicans'... measure... declared that, 'Each day for the remainder of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day' for the purposes of the emergency that Mr. Trump declared on Feb. 1."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...
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Republicans Quietly Move to Relinquish Power to Undo Trump’s Tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China (Gift Article)
House G.O.P. leaders tucked the provision into a procedural measure needed to pass a government spending bill.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/trump-tariffs-house-gop-vote.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3E4.kNDj.-KKGaReuHlLl&smid=bs-share
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Georg Weizsäcker
8 months ago
48h left to coordinate donations for 🇺🇦 Please help find new donors until March 10, 10am CET Effectiveness grows and grows (1/3)
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Yuriy Gorodnichenko
8 months ago
A terrific opportunity to support
#Ukraine
Your contribution will grow geometrically!
#UkrainianView
yourcontributionsquared.eu/en/
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Your Contribution Squared
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Georg Weizsäcker
8 months ago
@oechssler.bsky.social
und mich erreichen Fragen, warum der Mechanismus so gestaltet ist und nicht anders. (x Personen geben der 🇺🇦 jeweils genau x €, und x wächst schrittweise.) 6 Gründe: Reziprozität, Einfachheit, Offenheit, Gleichheit, Commitment, Lock-in 1/3
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Rudi Bachmann
8 months ago
Ihr wollt der Ukraine helfen? Und gleichzeitig etwas coole Oekonomik lernen. Dann macht bitte hier bei dieser Aktion mit, die von
@georgweizsaecker.bsky.social
von der HU Berlin initiiert wurde. Es lohnt sich in so vielen Hinsichten.
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Georg Weizsäcker
8 months ago
Support for Ukraine at "Your contribution squared" is up and up ↗️: 100 people who each give at least 100€. The bang for the buck, ↗️ even more: only a single step (e.g., to 101) moves the total by more than 200€. An opportunity to be effective. Please pass it on.
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Holger Herz
8 months ago
100 people have contributed! Be the 101st and your contribution of 101 EUR will potentially generate a total contribution of 201 EUR :).
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Georg Weizsäcker
8 months ago
Strong show of support for 🇺🇦 on the first day of
yourcontributionsquared.eu/en
Six days to go, to coordinate donation pledges Please consider passing the link on to others, also outside of Bluesky
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Tilman Börgers
8 months ago
Jörg Oechssler and Georg Weizsäcker have created a new opportunity for us to donate for Ukraine:
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Vincent Meisner
8 months ago
The mechanism is a ‘Conditional Cooperation Mechanism'
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
All contributions are conditional on other people’s contribution so that one’s own contribution encourages other people to make higher contributions, too.
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