Tonight is the men‘s ice hockey world championship finale, where Finland is playing Switzerland. I’m in Finland right now so my task for the day is to figure out the rules of that game

Has someone done sth like the Big Mac index but for IKEA? Couldn’t believe how expensive an IVAR combination (the cheapest and probably most iconic IKEA shelf) is and turns out it’s 50% more expensive in Norway than in Germany???

I’m visiting FIT (Finnish centre of excellence in tax systems research) at University of Tampere for two weeks and not only am I having a great time here so far, but it also feels very fitting to do a research stay in the 2026 European capital of smart tourism 🇫🇮

What a time to be alive

Guy at the airport climbs through the stanchions to cut the line at a crowded security checkpoint (which in my opinion there are very few or zero situations where this is acceptable) only to then sit down at a breakfast restaurant???? It never ceases to amaze me how unhinged some people are

Eurostar kindly informing me that my train will „skip some stops“ and opening the email reveals that these stops include mine 💀

This, probably.

Mehr Fortschritt wagen und Deutschlands Zukunft gestalten

Don’t blame the messenger!

Hatte ganz vergessen wie crazy Regionalzugpreise in DE sind wenn man kein Deutschlandticket hat. What do you mean von Münster nach Osnabrück kostet 25EUR pro Strecke?? Die Fahrt ist 30 Minuten

I see a lot of posts about how people should boycott the men‘s FIFA championship this year that is (partly) in the US. I am afraid people are vastly overestimating the fans‘ willingness to boycott these events. It was hosted in Russia and Qatar in recent years, and most people didn’t seem to care.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

lol a perfect depiction of how women doing more and men doing the bare minimum

shame is back on the menu boys

Bin gerade in Deutschland und happy to report dass meine Superkraft mit der DB fast immer pünktlich zu sein immer noch wirkt 😌

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

For BA and MA students from low- and middle-income countries: My course “Global Policy Analysis” will again be open to a select number of remote students via Zoom. Course starts on Feb 17th, application deadline is Feb 10th. More information and application form here: forms.gle/GGNyai3eG3pw...

📢now forthcoming in ECMA! The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations. Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵

Also you can learn everything about differences in German vs Scandinavian culture here: People in the train here (Swedish/Norwegian) are visibly annoyed but everyone remains silent. If this was a German train three people would have yelled at them immediately

People always complain about the young people‘s behavior in the public but I am sitting in the train next to two women in retirement age who play each other their favorite music on their phones on speaker

My New Year’s resolution is to get back to reading more and it turned out that a main obstacle is our attention seeking cat

Plan A war MwSt senken, was sau teuer ist, nicht zielgerichtet und auch nicht unbedingt den Preis für Konsument*innen senkt. Plan B ist jetzt also dass Handelsketten freiwillig ihre Produkte günstiger anbieten. Angenommen beides wirkt nicht, kostet Plan B immerhin weniger Steuergeld 🤡

While German trains stop running with the slightest amount of snow on the tracks, Norwegian trains just keep going with snow inside the train

What would flyout season be without significant snow/winter chaos at some major airports? Best combination is of course with strikes at airports/railway, at least candidates this year are lucky in that regard www.dw.com/en/germany-n...

And this is an extended work trip, we just had our annual joint seminar with the Frisch Centre and the @uio.no Economics department here. Always great to see what my fantastic colleagues are working on (and to go skiing with them) 🥰

Went cross country skiing at -25°C today and I’m not sure I’ll ever feel more Norwegian than that

Der richtige Job für Merz wäre eigentlich DFB-Präsident

The FIFA Peace Prize doesn't mean what it used to

Also langsam wird’s wirklich albern (das sind die Eisbachwellen Push Nachrichten der letzten 72 Stunden)

Irgendwie hatte ich mir Tresorräume etwas spektakulärer vorgestellt? Mehr Ocean‘s 11 vibes und weniger Vorratskeller vibes www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/ein...

Die Tragik von Juli Zeh ist, dass ihr einfach nichts neues mehr einfällt da draußen in ihrem brandenburger Dorf.

Kann bitte mal jemand bei der Süddeutschen Bescheid sagen, dass sie nicht täglich eine Push Nachricht zum aktuellen Zustand der Eisbachwelle machen müssen

Achievement of the day: the owner of our local bookstore knows me 🥰 (what she doesn’t know is how few of the books I buy I actually read)

We did a thing! Cool project with amazing coauthors, see Luisa's summary and the NBER WP below!

📣New working paper w/ @eckhoffandresen.bsky.social, Andreas Kostøl, Ross Milton, @corinamommaerts.bsky.social Ever wondered how volatile monthly earnings are and how couples can mitigate this volatility when pooling income? Wonder no more! We provide new empirical facts based on Norwegian data 👇

Sehr hörenswertes DLF Interview! Für mich stechen an Linnemanns Verhalten zwei Dinge gleichermaßen heraus 1) Das Ignorieren von Fakten 2) Der despektierliche Ton ggü @schusand.bsky.social („keck“??, „Doch!“) Beides ist schwer auszuhalten für mich, denke weil ich als Ökonomin beides gut kenne

Pleeeeeaase we don’t need a wrapped for everything

Weather in Oslo today: expectations vs reality

If it wasn’t so tragic it would be funny

The AEA has imposed a lifetime ban on Lawrence H. Summers’ membership and participation in AEA activities. See the full statement here. www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...

Alle beschweren sich immer über den BER aber dass es hier eine ständige Vertretung gibt hat mir niemand gesagt ❤️🤍

Benefits of inflation: German shops accepting credit cards only if spending at least 5EUR becomes irrelevant when a coffee costs 5EUR anyways Follow me for macroeconomic advice

Ich wünschte wir könnten dm erst nächste Woche canceln weil diese Woche bin ich in Deutschland 😔

„Mr. Summers added that he would continue teaching as an economics professor at Harvard“ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...

This is simply disgusting #EconSky

My amazing co-author Elena Herold @elenahero8.bsky.social is on the job market ✨ She is a great researcher and a great person to work with!

My feed is swamped with aurora photos and I have to be a grown up person and accept that the only thing we get to see here right now are clouds 😭

For some words it’s simply impossible for me to remember how they are spelled. Example I just came across: necessarily I randomly put one or two c, s, and r and then also randomly put c or s first. I really don’t know how people wrote texts before autocorrect

Worst thing about November in Oslo is not that the world looks like this but that half the city is out there going for a run at 7.30am pretending this is acceptable running weather (yes I’m just jealous of their self discipline)

📢 Meet Our 2025 Job Market Candidates! 🚀 Jonas Casper, Charlotte Cordes, Friederike Fourné, Elena Herold, Kevin Kloiber, Carla Mirabella, Marcel Quint, Jinju Rhee Learn more: www.econ.lmu.de/en/faculty/m... #EconJobMarket