You all cannot comprehend how empty Norwegian offices are in July

Changing variable names in updated versions of datasets / new survey waves should be a crime

Why do Gianni Infantino and Childish Gambino sound like two versions of the same name to me?

And its July which means that most people have already left for vacation

Oslo is out of control (in a good way)

Schick dass die Tour dieses Jahr in Barcelona startet, aber über die Kosten spricht mal wieder niemand (dass wir im Deutschen Stream jetzt andauernd „Barffffelona“ ertragen müssen)

Do men who fall down a lot naturally gravitate toward professional careers in soccer

Seems Google is a bit too obsessed with football right now 🚴

The number of times I’ve sent a second message saying „not meant in a creepy way“

I love nordic summer anyways, but now with the rest of Europe being struck by another heat wave, I value it even more. We spent this weekend in the mountains in best summer weather (20 degrees). But Oslo is also fantastic during summer: endless days and literally never hotter than 30 degrees

Helsinki sky showing off tonight ✨ (Note it’s 11pm here, I simply cannot comprehend how people don’t love Nordic summer)

I’m 33 and I have a PhD and yesterday I asked my parents on FaceTime what the different symbols mean on a dryer and how to use it. (Turned out my parents didn’t know either so we agreed the dryer was weird and I ended up drying cloths in my hotel room)

Thanks Google Lens, I think I’ll pass on flavorless explosive/flawless (open) natural yoghurt

Fritz Güntzler (finanzpol. Sprecher Union) hat vorhin im DLF im Interview zum Ehegattensplitting gesagt er glaubt den wissenschaftlichen Studien nicht, die zeigen dass die gemeinsame Besteuerung das Einkommen von Frauen reduziert. Ja juht, so wird das nichts mit evidenzbasierter Finanzpolitik. 1/2

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