I'm excited to welcome Abhijit Banerjee, Bernardo Silveira and Esther Duflo as our new colleagues @econ.uzh.ch! As of July 1st, Esther and Abhijit join us as Lemann Professors of Economics, and Bernardo as Professor of Applied Microeconomics. A true quantum leap for @econ.uzh.ch! 1/3

Vielen Dank für diese Newsletterausgabe, @uedio.bsky.social Sie zeigt hervorragend, wie Sportswashing funktioniert und wie weitreichend die Folgen sind. Für uns alle - egal, ob wir uns für Sport interessieren oder halt nicht.

Hitzekollaps im Hörsaal Wer Studierende und Lehrende vor den immer häufigeren Hitzetagen schützen will, sollte die Semesterzeiten neu denken. Ein Gastbeitrag von Nils Weidmann. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/06...

Air-to-air heat pumps--mini splits that can both heat and cool--feel weirdly under-appreciated by both Americans and many Europeans. IIRC a lot of European heat pumps (outside Nordics) are. air-to-water: not great for cooling. Air-to-air gives efficient heat + efficient AC.

It is not so much 2045 or 2050, the crucial economic policy decision lies in the reform of the EU Emissions Trading System. Joint statement by economists Ottmar Edenhofer, Andreas Löschel, Stefan Kolev, Bernd Weber. epico.org/uploads/file...

🧑‍💻🧑‍🏫 I'm recruiting a post-doc to work on Tabular Foundation Models, one of the hotest topics in AI, where we are at the leading edge team.inria.fr/soda/files/2... This is an opportunity to develop the next-level tabular AI, blending deep learning and tables.

Hard to overstate how dramatic this European heatwave is. And then you zoom into other areas around the globe, and you realize there may, just may be something going on that links all these weather extremes around the world. @climatecentral.org's CSI: csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...

Come back to Blue Sky, @khoavuumn.bsky.social!! 🙏🔥 #econsky #demography

With shifting geopolitical tectonics Europe urgently needs to develop greater autonomy in defence and deterrence. Our next DIW-OECD Industrial Strategy Dialogue will address the types of technologies that need to be developed. Join us in Berlin or via livestream on July 2! www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c....

"[...] This move represents a raw demonstration of power by Anthropic. It has used “safety” arguments to hinder potential competitors." 2/2 Andrew Ng in his newest The Batch newsletter (which will hopfefully come online soon) www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch

"Initially, Anthropic silently degraded Fable 5’s performance for users detected to be working on LLM research through invisible interventions that weakened the model’s outputs without notifying the user." 1/2

New paper: "Mergers and the Demand for Protectionism" When does approving a merger risk undoing the import competition that justified the approval? Paper: felixmontag.com/files/2026_M... CEPR DP: cepr.org/publications... Short 🧵 1/8

We matched Mythos on public zero-days with CVEs using widely available & open-source derived models & can run it air-gapped if needed. All this with a small team out of Europe Berkeley study ranks us #1 globally in 3 of 8 categories The full evidence: stanislavfort.substack.com/p/mythos-at-...

We are recruiting several Early Career Research Group Leaders for Machine Learning in Science (m/f/d; E14 TV-L, 100%) in Tübingen! Open to researchers directly after their PhD or with postdoctoral experience. Application deadline: July 15, 2026. More info: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2... 1/2

🏦 Too big to fail: Leidet der Wettbewerb, wenn Banken staatliche Unterstützung erhalten? Neue Studie von @tomasoduso.bsky.social et al. zeigt: Bankenbeihilfen wirken stabilisierend und sorgen – wenn überhaupt – für temporäre Wettbewerbsverzerrungen. 🧵(1/7) 🔗 Zur Studie: www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c....

The EU Parliament's JURI Committee just released "The Economics of Copyright and AI", written by @cpeukert.bsky.social It recommends a statutory licensing scheme for compensation of creators whose works are used in AI training. #copyright #ai #econsky www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en...

Die Türkei hat auf der Klimakonferenz in Bonn gestern ein globales Elektrifizierungsziel für 2035 vorgeschlagen. 35% der Energienachfrage sollen dann mit Strom bedient werden. Es gibt keine einzige deutschsprachige Agenturmeldung dazu.

I think we did learn something here tonight

New paper w/ @luisaguiar.bsky.social, @cpeukert.bsky.social, Maximilian Schäfer: Using clickstream data from ~40k people, we ask: can off-platform tracking let platforms infer traits of people who never disclose them? 🧵 1/3 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I'd argue that pushing for degrowth will likely have corrosive effects on broad public suppport for stringent climate policy. Given that degrowth is essentially one big device for turning ever more policy domains into zero- or even negative-sum games, the room for Pareto-improving policies shrinks

Wie viel Gewalt ertragen wir? Mit Blick auf die Statistik sei Deutschland seit der Jahrtausendwende ein sichereres Land geworden, berichtet DIW-Kriminalitätsexpertin @annabindler.bsky.social im @rbb24.de inforadio Forum. 🔗 Zur Aufzeichnung: www.inforadio.de/rubriken/deb...

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...

Economists‘ letter to 🇩🇪‘s chancellor and vice chancellor 👇🏼 In search of impactful reforms? Proposal: better family tax rules create the right incentives Support families and raising children, cut down on the strongest distortions, increase labor supply www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt... 1/3

Zu einer dringenden Reform des Steuer- & Transfersystems gehört auch eine Reform des Ehegattensplittings. In einem offenen Brief an Bundeskanzler & Bundesregierung unterbreiten wir einen Vorschlag, der Verantwortung in der Ehe anerkennt, Kinder fördert und die Erwerbstätigkeit…

“Science will of course not solve every problem. Scientists should not pretend that. But science does give us one of the best ways we have of being less wrong together.” ERC leader Maria Leptin says www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

1/ New #paper by Chuck Manski, @johnmullahy.bsky.social, and me in the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics (@amstatnews.bsky.social).

🚨 We’re hiring! Join our #ZEW Research Unit “Health Care Markets and Health Policy” @simonreif.eu We are looking for Postdoctoral Researcher with Option for a Permanent Contract (f/m/d, 100%) 🔗 jobs.zew.de/jobposting/e...

Schönen Mittwoch steady.page/de/der-uuber...

🚨 Coming up at #VIDEseminar: Dokyun Lee (Boston University) “Scylla Ex Machina: The Illusion of LLMs as Human Surrogates” 🔜 Wed, May 27, 11am New York, 5pm Berlin. Open to anyone! Further information: www.digitalecon.org/seminar

A fight of many politicians worldwide, against questions to which they don‘t know the answers

For publishers relying on subscription revenue, optimizing for engagement can quietly undermine the business model. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

New working paper with Shunyao Yan Polarizing news content is great at capturing attention. But does it help publishers where it matters most: subscriptions? #mediaecon #polarization #subscriptions #digitalmarketing

Really enjoyed contributing to this write-up on @causalinf.bsky.social Substack — an NBER panel on AI in research production w/ Kosali Simon, David Bradford, Coady Wing + commentary from me, Jason Fletcher & @paulgp.com open.substack.com/pub/causalin...

Hochwertige Technologiegüter und Spitzentechnologien, etwa im Automobil- & Maschinenbau bzw. in der Pharma- & Elektronikbranche, gelten als Zugpferde der deutschen Wirtschaft – doch seit 2015 schwächeln diese Industriebereiche. Das zeigt eine neue DIW-Studie. 🧵(1/7) 🔗 www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c....

I’m passionate about research impact beyond academic audiences. So I'm particularly excited to share the SMART (Strategic Metaphors for Antibiotic Resistance) Toolkit - a free, research-informed resource to support clearer communication about antibiotic resistance. smart.le.ac.uk #SMARTMetaphors

Anyone know a (preferably UK-located) expert on AI & financial crime?

One of the most impressive examples of research happening at @hertiedatascience.bsky.social. Evidence production is a massive soft power and some governments are currently shooting themselves in the foot by attacking the very institutions that nurture it.

📢 Final days to contribute to the DSA 40 Data Access Tracker. This month, we're making one last push to collect as many data access experiences as possible before we lock the dataset for our first publication. 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝟮𝟮 𝗠𝗮𝘆. 👉 www.soscisurvey.de/DSA40applica...

Speaking of, @hertieschool.bsky.social and @wzb.bsky.social are searching a professor of labour economics, inexplicably advertised here in PDF www.hertie-school.org/fileadmin/5_... Applications due 17 May (sorry!)

Scholars devoting time to testing ideologically-driven attacks on fossil fuel companies' competitors find evidence that they're indeed baseless. bsky.app/profile/nber...

🏁 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. 👇

Wie Konzerne Forschung zu Social Media behindern Ein DLF-Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, welche negativen Folgen soziale Medien haben, vor dem Hintergrund, dass die Forschung nur schwer an Daten kommt. Zu Wort kommt u.a. Simon Kruschinski von GESIS.

For the time being, please stay vigilant against phishing and account takeover attempts. Remember that no one from Signal Support will ever send you a message request or ask for your registration verification code or Signal PIN. 10/

Gewalt im öffentlichen Raum kann das Sicherheitsgefühl innerhalb der Bevölkerung beeinträchtigen. Wie können Gewaltschutz, Strafverfolgung und langfristige Prävention zu einer Verbesserung der Lage beitragen? Darüber diskutieren wir am 18.5. ab 18 Uhr am DIW Berlin. @rbb24.de diw.de/de/diw_01.c....

Given the obvious returns, one would think that the German government is passionately discussing investments in childcare and early education. The bitter reality is that they don’t, even in the face of stagnation.

Eine neue Studie von @jgeyer.bsky.social zeigt, dass private und betriebliche Formen der Altersvorsorge in Deutschland wenig verbreitet sind. Warum auch das jüngst beschlossene Altersvorsorgedepot wenig daran ändern dürfte, erklärt der Rentenexperte im Wochenbericht-Podcast: diw.de/de/diw_01.c....

Plus die zugrundeliegenden Daten werden über das Austrian Micro Data Center für die Wissenschaft zugänglich gemacht. Ein Meilenstein für die Bildungsforschung. Danke @chriswiederkehr.bsky.social @registerforschung.bsky.social @mhalla.bsky.social @arminhuebner.bsky.social

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…

This looks like a spectacular public good #econsky (Full disclosure: @packlesshepherd.bsky.social is a co-author but my main skin in the game is maybe we'll finally finish our paper together now...) github.com/Davidvandijc...

These seem (from the abstract) like fascinating results on the Epstein effect on businesses whose CEOs were part of his network: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....