In 2021 and 2023 I had the chance to serve on the @ERC_Research Starting Grant evaluation panel. There are a couple of things I learned that might be helpful to future applicants. I guess some points apply to other grants as well.

💥Research Assistant Positions💥 1. Ingvild Almås, Timo Boppart, Thor Berger, Hannes Malmberg, and I are looking for a research assistant to work on a project which investigates Sweden's spectacular economic growth during the late 19th century using establishment-level data.

The @reveconstudies.bsky.social (REStud) invites every year some of the world's most promising young researchers in economics to present their work around Europe. We were proud to host the REStud Tour 2025 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences earlier this week.

The Review of Economic Studies Tour 2025 will stop over at IIES on the 13th of May. We are much looking forward to welcome some of the discipline's most promising young researchers to Stockholm and hear about their work. sites.google.com/view/restudt...

US academia is unparalleled in the welfare it creates. But US academia is now under attack and other countries, like Germany, have to keep the flame alive for a while. It will make them more innovative. See our guest article in @spiegel.de, translated. 👇 www.hertie-school.org/en/news/allc...

Congratulations to IIES alumnus David Yanagizawa-Drott and Julia Cagé on winning the prestigious Yrjö Jahnsson Award 2025! Their work shows how media shapes political beliefs and underscores the need for media independence in democracy. www.eeassoc.org/awards/yrjo-...

I hear that many leading researchers currently based at US institutions are thinking of leaving the country. It seems to me a fantastic opportunity for Europe to make a big investment in research and attract those people to come here. 🇪🇺

Für im Ausland lebende Deutsche: www.bundeswahlleiterin.de/info/presse/...

What happens to companies who get more powerful institutional shareholders? CEO pay falls by a cumulative 60% over 5 years Top execs by 40% Striking endorsement of the view that strong shareholders help solve the principal agent problem Paper by Falato, Kim & von Wachter

I am so happy that my friend and colleague Arash Nekoei managed to secure the generous ERC support for his fantastically interesting work! 🥳🇪🇺

Hello world! The Association of Swedish Development Economists - ASWEDE - is finally on Bluesky. Stay tuned for the latest news among development economists active in Sweden.

Agneta Berge, @agnetaberge.bsky.social, is by now probably Sweden's leading expert on the role of labour unions for the economy, with an exciting research agenda covering a broad range of important macroeconomic questions. Interested in those topics? Make sure to get to know her!

Should we subsidise the care for elderly people? Patrizia blends elegant theoretical with excellent empirical work to show that an increase of the subsidy in fact paid for itself. She is an enormously promising researcher. Check out her work!

I have a massive conflict of interest here, but I cannot recommend IIES highly enough. Outstanding, curious colleagues, flat hierarchies, plenty of research time, vibrant atmosphere. And Stockholm is wonderful any time of the year. Apply!

16 years ago. How wrong we were.

So the invisible hand doesn't always guide us to socially desirable levels of robustness. Just as no single driver can prevent a traffic jam, individual firms can't/don't do enough ensure the stability of the supply network. This raises some big policy questions (for a future thread) 14/

I just attended the annual meeting of the editorial board of the Review of Economic Studies. One message from the editors: REStud is interested in publishing the best work, no matter how short the articles are! If you have very good short papers, you might want to try REStud first.

My colleagues Mitch Downey and Ferenc Szucs are looking for a full time RA, who will be supporting exciting projects on political polarisation, conspiracy theories in politics, and democratic accountability. #EconSky #RAjobs #EconRA www.su.se/english/abou...

I asked the students to work in groups for some minutes, and when standing in the class room to listen in, there was a guy sitting right in front of me playing a game on his phone. The fact that I was standing next to him did not bother him at all. What do you think is an appropriate reaction?

True story. Needless to say I am very excited and honoured the ERC decided to support my research agenda. Thank you so much to everybody who helped me along the way!

Incredibly bad news for Economics in Germany. It was such a coup to attract a young superstar (from MIT!) to run one of our leading research institutes. I can’t believe we are losing him and all the potential he brought to IZA.

I understand the Deutsche Post Foundation has to scale down its financial support. That said, it is very hard to see much value in how they managing that process.

I cannot believe what I'm reading here... The current CEO of IZA, Simon Jäger, has decided to depart from his leadership role at IZA by the end of 2023 [...] Effective January 1, 2024, Armin Falk, the current CEO of briq Institute, will take over the leadership of IZA www.iza.org/wc/files/pre...

I find it almost always unhelpful to report effect sizes in terms of "a one standard deviation change" of the explanatory variable.

My understanding of the blockchain technology and its potential is very much incomplete. So maybe this is completely off, but I'll ask anyway: Could it be helpful to ensure that information (text, images, videos, whatever) comes from a trusted source? @trfetzer.com

Three quick thoughts on today's Nobel Prize! First, it's such a wonderful, well deserved choice, honouring a person who shed light on an immensely important issue with curiousity and perseverance, and paved the path for others to join her in the endeavour.

The EU is spending about 55 billion Euros a year (or 0.3% of GDP) on its agricultural policies, motivated in large part by the need to ensure food security in the event of crises. Should we maybe also be able to quickly scale up the production of weapons in the event of crises?

#EconSky, what are your favourite examples of papers using micro-econometric methods to answer macro questions? (I would like to include more such papers as examples in the first-year econometrics course of our PhD sequence.)

Soziale Dynamiken sind schon faszinierend. Schwuppdiwupp sind auf einmal alle hier! Hoffentlich wird und bleibt es ein aktives Forum für den respektvollen Gedankenaustausch.

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