"Your doner is so awful, you better feed it to the cats." A 1* Google review for a doner place in Berlin. Their reaction is phenomenal. 😁

⏳ Only a few days left to submit! 📢 CfP: 16th ifo Dresden Workshop on Regional Economics 📅 Sept 8-9, 2026 | 📍 Dresden 🇩🇪 Topics: regional structural change, development econ, public econ & more. Deadline: 5 June 2026 23:59 CET/CEST www.ifo.de/veranstaltun...

are you familiar with this terrific paper in the JEP by @essobecker.bsky.social @lukasmergele.bsky.social @woessmann.bsky.social www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

My paper on peer effects has been accepted at the Journal of Political Economy @jpolecon.bsky.social. In it, I formulate and empirically test a theory of why students influence each other's learning in school: by competing with each other. I thank the editor, referees, and data editor.

#JobAdd We at @zew.de in Mannheim (GER) are looking for #PostDoc in applied economist with a strong research profile in empirical #HealthEconomics who will contribute to our research agenda on the digital transformation of health care 🤓+++ we have a rooftop terrace! jobs.zew.de/jobposting/e...

A fuel-economy subsidy in Japan led to significant improvements in the fuel economy of vehicles sold in the US, from Koichiro Ito, James M. Sallee, and Jonathan (Andrew) Smith www.nber.org/papers/w35197

We know surprisingly little about how automation will unfold outside rich countries. So we built the Global Automation Atlas: 18,000 tasks, 124 countries, and 2.3 million task-country comparisons.

While the rest of us are having our jobs taken, I'm glad someone thought of the marxists

Featured in the latest Digest: How Large Language Models Are Reshaping the Book Market www.nber.org/digest/20260...

Wanna talk about the cordon sanitaire (the "Brandmauer"?) 🚨We (@christinajuen.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social and I) have a new paper out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010... What do we do in the paper? A 🧵: 1/7

It is worth noting that almost 15 months after the military genius Trump told the Ukrainians that they had no “cards”, the Ukrainians hit so many targets around Moscow in one night, the most heavily defended city in Russia, that only a map does it justice.

The Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics is now on bluesky, as is the Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics. Follow both! @swisseconomists.bsky.social @sjeseditors.bsky.social

The 2022 Norwegian wealth tax hike: a cautionary tale for the world. Or maybe not?! New research by @mariusring.bsky.social suggests that relocation of wealthy businessmen to Switzerland caused barely a ripple in the Norwegian economy and public purse. More here 👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/marius...

Finding robust links between firm patents and R&D, and between firm productivity growth and patent growth. Productivity growth conditional on ideas is what's getting harder to find, from Teresa C. Fort, Nathan Goldschlag, Jack Liang, Peter K. Schott, and Nikolas Zolas www.nber.org/papers/w35182

🧠RFBerlin Research Insight! Swiss parents can't choose their school, so they choose their neighborhood. Research finds academic quality is the #1 driver, but peer composition matters too. Families pay for both through higher housing costs. Read about it here: www.rfberlin.com/research-ins...

Bad news for capricorns: they earn less than other zodiac signs Good news for capricorns: it's not due to their zodiac sign

How do empty high streets contribute to support for populist parties in England? And what does that mean for local and national politics? Analysis from @trfetzer.com @prashantgarg.bsky.social @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social for @lsebr.bsky.social in the wake of the Reform surge in the local elections.

Interesting new applied econometrics paper: Winsorizing and Trimming in RCTs www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Weird that this is in JDE instead of an econometrics journal, but not surprising given recent experiences doing applied econometrics work.

What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12 Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

"Comparing households before and after nearby wind turbine installations, we find no detectable adverse health effects from turbine exposure at typical exposure distances." www.nber.org/papers/w35131

Forthcoming article "Free Movement of Inventors: Open-Border Policy and Innovation in Switzerland" by Gabriele Cristelli and Francesco Lissoni @eeanews.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeea...

Can we stop focusing on single statements and pretend they influence US policy? Trump wants to reduce US support for European defence. Merz’s statements (or any other) are a pretext, not the cause. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... How Germany’s Merz torpedoed his plan to contain Trump

9€ Ticket klimapolitisch ein teurer Reinfall - Autoverkehr nur um 1-5% reduziert - Effektive CO2 Vermeidungskosten €6140/t - Zusätzlicher Zugverkehr (+35%) primär für Freizeitfahrten - Qualität Zugverkehr⬇️(Überlastung) - dh primär eine teure Lifestyle-Subvention www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

ICE is everywhere. In 2022, ICE made arrests in 30% of counties. In 2025, ICE made arrests in 62% of counties. We ask: Do ICE arrests spark political action? Theory and prior evidence suggest it should. We find that ICE activity mostly does not mobilize citizens.

It's Pancake Day! Time to EAT PANCAKES in HONOR OF MACHIAVELLI! What do pancakes have to do with the founder of modern political science? Our boy Nick was obsessed with pancakes! & wrote about them at length in his "Art of War." Why pancakes? He'd been studying the ancients of course! 1/?

Chinese green-tech businesses love Trump's Iran War as it turned slowing demand for their products into record demand. Looks like Trump is an accidental greenie. Source: t.co/HotuPyh8Bz

Landsgemeinde: a Swiss political institution that sets a near-unmatched benchmark,even by Switzerland’s high standards of direct democracy Today, as once every year,all eligible citizens aged 16 and above gather in an open-air assembly to decide on key laws &policies in the canton (state) of Glarus

Does it pay off to be a science Kardashian? It does! In the age of limited attention span, visibility grants you expert status hence boosts your citations -New paper with @econlessmann.bsky.social and Max Rose- onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... @voxeu.org @davidstadelmann.bsky.social

++BREAKING++ The most radical popular initiative yet launched by the far-right SVP, aiming to cap Switzerland’s population at 10M, is currently polling with a narrow majority. Importantly, there is considerable volatility. Follow @leewas.bsky.social for the latest and most accurate polling ⬇️

UAE leaving OPEC. gulfnews.com/business/ene...

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

Meine Lesart unserer jüngsten Studienergebnisse (mit Dank an den Tagi für die Berichterstattung 👇): #Erbschaften verringern das Arbeitsangebot, wenn auch in gesamtwirtschaftlich überschaubarem Ausmass (<1,7 %). Dieser Befund ist hochaktuell. Ein 🧵. 1/ www.tagesanzeiger.ch/erbschaft-sc...

Sky Defense integrates Ukraine’s innovative air defense systems and protects civilian life. We are halfway in this campaign! Please donate if you can. u24.gov.ua/news/timothy...

"Tim would call me, but never too much, and I would help him where I could." My CHARTS illustrate one example Though Trump put 20% tariffs in March 2025 on iPhones made in China, he EXEMPTED iPhones made in India from his later 50% tariffs ("Liberation Day" + Russian oil sanctions) on them

Hi #EconSky 📣 Introducing "Applied Econ Collective" 📣 Academia is full of fees: for submissions, workshops, software...😔 @yajnagovind.bsky.social, @ckronenberg.bsky.social & I created an initiative to cover these costs Read more, apply or donate here: opencollective.com/applied-econ...

Somewhere Bismarck is looking down in confusion as Germany projects power by sending 4,000 pensioners, 12 buffet stations and a TUI loyalty program through the Strait of Hormuz

THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026 * CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt * Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2 * Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse * Age of Electricity "confirmed" * "Extraordinary" solar growth * Batteries up 40% * EVs up 20% 1/10

1/ Why economists like models (with an homage to Jorge Luis Borges) After I posted a paper on the catalytic effect of blended finance, I got some pushback on the idea that a unified analytical framework is useful at all. 🧵

👇Staggering results of expansion of early public children on female employment in Germany

In France, if you want to build a home above a certain size, you’re legally required to use a licensed architect. Can you guess what that size is

🚨New paper🚨 Understanding Support for Inefficient Environmental Policy Instruments Why do governments use costly enviro standards, not more efficient pollution taxes or cap & trade? Voters misunderstand some economic principles joseph-s-shapiro.com/research/Env... 1/🧵

WSJ front page undercuts Trump lies — US claims nuclear obliterated? Nope, survived — US sank the Iranian navy? No, Hormuz mined — US can take Economic pain? No — well, atleast US Oil is winner right Nope, China's green industries winning as everyone wants to break free from oil dependency

Interviewing policymakers worldwide for my book last year, one theme kept coming up: confusion over America’s stance on trade. On the WTO, they kept asking—what exactly is the US government worried about, why, and what does it want changed? So pleased Maria Pagán was willing to Trade Talk it out!

Where the McDonald's are.

😀 Happy to share our new working paper with Andreas Stoller on cigarette prices, taxes, and smoking: doi.org/10.48550/arX... Using a flexible diff-in-diff approach with double machine learning and Eurobarometer data, we find that tax increases reduce smoking, particularly among the young.

So Trump agrees a deal where Iran gets to keep charging tolls, gets to keep its nuclear program, and of course, keeps the same regime in power. This was all a terrible waste and so far a catastrophic defeat for the USA.

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com

Europeans might ask themselves this question. If Trump does not care about Putin helping the Iranians to kill Americans, do you think he will care at all about Putin trying to kill Europeans?

1/4 Das #Ehegattensplitting bringt einen "Marriage Bonus" - allerdings vor allem für Paare mit stark ungleichen Einkommen. Wir haben das vor einigen Jahren mal so illustriert: www.ifo.de/publikatione...

People don't move across state lines as much as they likely should. New work out in @jlaborecon.bsky.social by Riley Wilson: "The Isolated States of America: Home State Bias and the Impact of State Borders on Mobility" www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...