📢 New @voxdev.bsky.social article on conflict & food supply chains Based on forthcoming #AER research (“Spatial Spillovers of #Conflict in #Somalia”), co-authored by Marco Alfano. Conflict shocks travel beyond war zones via supply chains, raising prices in distant markets. #econsky #FoodSecurity

📢 Call for Expressions of Interest – #MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2-year funded #postdoc. Topics include #micro, #macro, #development, #IO, ##applied and econometrics (not limited to these). 📷 Apply by 15 June 2026 through this form: tinyurl.com/fyxscrxu #econtwitter #econsky

Yesterday, we hosted @gspyros.bsky.social ( @durham.ac.uk ) on "Information Aggregation with AI Agents". Can #AI learn from markets like humans do? Fascinating insights on limits and potential. #econtwitter #seminar #economics #econsky

Today we hosted David Gill ( #Purdue ) for a talk on "Dynamic Investment in Teamwork Skill: Theory and Experimental Evidence", joint with Prowse & Reddinger. Insightful take on how incentives and team design shape #collaboration. #econtwitter #BehavioralEconomics #Teamwork

The 5th edition of ASPEC — the Annual Southern PhD Economics Conference — was a huge success! 🎓 PhD students from across the region gathered in Southampton for a day of brilliant research, lively debate, and genuine intellectual energy. 🧵 Programme here: tinyurl.com/yc2xhycu

Today we hosted Prof. Paula Onuchic (LSE) on "Separating the Wheat from the Chaff" (w/ Hörner, TSE). How do we tell experts from quacks when both compete for our trust? Theory can have surprising results! #Economics #GameTheory #InformationEconomics

Today we hosted @florianederer.bsky.social (Boston University) for a #seminar on "Disclosure and the Pace of Drug Development", joint with Cunningham, Hodgson & Wang. More transparency, faster innovation? Think again: policy design can have surprising results! #econtwitter #Pharmaceuticals

Today we welcomed @johannarickne.bsky.social (@stockholm-uni.bsky.social) on Stories about Sexual Harassment: Information Rejection and Recall - why people fail to recognise it as wrongful and implications for prevention. Thanks to @gain-centre.bsky.social for supporting this event. #GenderEconomics

Should employers ban smartphones at work? Adrian Chadi’s research (with Mechtel & Mertins) has been featured in the @financialtimes.com , #MSN & #CanadianHRReporter . A simple, non‑enforced request to put phones away can boost effort by ~10%—with no loss of trust. #econtwitter #econsky Thread 👇

🚨 Econ Job Market Spotlight: Amruta Bagwe 📷 PhD ’26 | JMP: From Gaps to Gains: Empowering Indian Youth Workforce with Skill Development #econjobmarket #EconTwitter #JobMarket2026 #Development #Labour #India 📷 Website: tinyurl.com/yu8bwek7

Today, we were pleased to host Herve Moulin ( @uofgsocsci.bsky.social ) for our #Department #Seminar, who presented joint work titled “Compromises in Collective Choice: the Veto Solution”, enhancing the theory of collective choice. #econsky #EconomicTheory #GameTheory #CollectiveChoice

Happy to have our colleagues @mvlass.bsky.social and @corradogiulietti.bsky.social presenting their paper, “Ethnic Enclaves and the Dynamic Returns to Schooling,” in our internal #seminar series today, examining how #ethnicity and #networks shape returns to #education. #econtwitter #Migration

Today, we were delighted to host @paulaaureo.bsky.social ( @ucl.ac.uk ). He presented joint work called “Production Function Estimation Using Subjective Expectations Data”. The talk presented a new method for estimating production functions with fewer assumptions. #Econometrics #econsky

Today, our #PhD #student, Yan Yin, presented “Parental Leave and Intrahousehold Bargaining”. The talk examined how #parental leave policies—focusing on reforms in #Germany — affect bargaining power within households. #econtwitter #FamilyEconomics #ParentalLeave #PhDResearch

Last week, we hosted a #EconomicTheory #Seminar, organised by @maxkwiek.bsky.social . Alexander Teytelboym ( University of #Oxford ) presented the joint work “Efficiency and Collusion‑Proofness in Dynamic Mechanism Design”. Thank you to the speaker and colleagues who attended. #econtwitter #econsky

Great to host Pamela Giustinelli from Università di Padova for our #DepartmentSeminar. She presented “Getting In and Getting Through: Ex Ante Beliefs and Counterfactual Outcomes in Centralised College Admissions” (with E. Leuven). Thanks to all who joined! #econtwitter #Beliefs #Norway #econsky

How does conflict spill across space and markets? New #AER work by our colleague Marco Alfano and Cornelissen (@universityofessex.bsky.social) shows #violence along transport routes in #Somalia raises food prices far away, harming welfare. Securing routes matters! #ConflictEconomics #econsky

Can a documentary change interethnic relations? New @qjeharvard.bsky.social evidence from @absidd.bsky.social (Royal Holloway University), @mvlass.bsky.social (@sotonecon.bsky.social), and @yveszenou.bsky.social (@monashuniversity.bsky.social) suggests yes—especially through #socialnetworks.#econsky

👏 Great seminar this past Wednesday by Paola Manzini ( @bristoluni.bsky.social ) on "Self‑Confirming Opportunity Costs", joint with Mariotti ( @qmul.bsky.social ) and Ülkü (ITAM), offering novel perspectives on choice behaviour beyond standard frameworks. #econtwitter #EconomicTheory #Choice

@cpc-cg.bsky.social @publicpolicyuos.bsky.social @sotonpolitics.bsky.social @sspcatsoton.bsky.social @sotonecon.bsky.social @corradogiulietti.bsky.social @uoseducation.bsky.social @uoseducation.bsky.social @uoschep.bsky.social

We were delighted to host a seminar by Vipra Jain from our #IndiaCampus last Friday. Her paper “Salience of ‘us versus them’ in coloured jerseys: ODI #cricket as a natural experiment” sparked a lively discussion. Many thanks for a great talk. #Economics #ResearchSeminar

🚨New Paper 🚨 Proud that @monicabeeder.bsky.social contributed to a major reproducibility project in economics & political science, now published in Nature. A key step toward more robust, trustworthy social science. #Reproducibility #EconTwitter #PoliSci #Econsky Link: tinyurl.com/3b9x344u

🎓 Great internal seminar this week with our colleague Adrian Chadi, who presented “ #Television and the #LaborMarket: Evidence from Natural Experiments in West and East #Germany.” Insightful discussion on media exposure and labour outcomes. #econtwitter #LaborMarket #applied #econsky

For further reading, please see the @rfberlin.bsky.social Discussion Paper 'Host country language and school integration of immigrant students' by Yu Qin, @mvlass.bsky.social and Jackie Wahba @sotonecon.bsky.social: www.rfberlin.com/network-pape... @eapsmigranthealth.bsky.social

Great seminar yesterday by Roger Farmer ( @warwickecon.bsky.social & UCLA) on “Overlapping Generations with Complete Markets”. Fascinating insights on incorporating realistic demographic structure into macroeconomic policy analysis in #OLG models. #econtwitter #macro #ResearchSeminar #econsky

📢 Great seminar today! Our #PhD student Libo Chen presented his #JMP, “Artificial Intelligence and Worker Reallocation: Evidence from Linked Patent and Microdata in the US.” A sharp look at how #AI shapes labour demand and worker mobility. #LaborEconomics #econtwitter #EJM

Great presentation yesterday by our colleague Foivos Savva on “Mutual Support and the Implementation of Collective Decisions”, joint with M. Lombardi ( @liverpooluni.bsky.social ). Fascinating insights into the role of #BergeEquilibrium in #CollectiveDecisionMaking. #econtwitter #econsky #economics

Excited to be co‑teaching the C‑BEAR Interdisciplinary Summer School at the University of Southampton!A great opportunity for researchers who want a practical introduction to experimentation in the social sciences — no prior experience required. 📅 29 June–3 July 🔗 www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/sho...

📢 Great seminar today! We were delighted to welcome back Christos Ioannou ( @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social ) for his talk “Non‑Parametric Strategy Inference in Repeated Games,” co‑authored with L. Mathevet, J. Romero, and H. Zhang. #GameTheory #econtwitter #ExperimentalEconomics

📢 Great seminar today! Our colleague João Ferreira presented “When Does Mediation Work? Evidence from the Lab”—a sharp experimental investigation into the impact and effectiveness of third‑party mediation. #ExperimentalEconomics #ConflictResolution #EconResearch #econtwitter

📢We were delighted to host today @aledinola.bsky.social ( @unibirmingham.bsky.social ), presenting “Wealth Tax, Entrepreneurship and the Legal Form of Business Organisation”. A fascinating talk on tax policy and the entrepreneurial landscape. #econsky #Entrepreneurship #TaxPolicy #Macroeconomics

📢 Great seminar today! Our colleague David Kreitmeir presented “The Political Economy of Socioenvironmental Conflict: Evidence from #Peru”. Insightful discussion on resources, protest, and accountability. #PoliticalEconomy #EnvironmentalEconomics #ConflictStudies #econtwitter #econsky

📢 Great seminar this week by Xavier Mateos‑Planas ( @qmul.bsky.social ) on “Trade Credit Default.”A very insightful talk on how trade‑credit defaults shape macroeconomic shocks. Plenty of thought‑provoking ideas! #Research #AcademicTalks #econtwitter #FinancialFriction #TradeCredit

📢 Great seminar this week by our Jiekai Zhang on "Optimal Retail Pharmaceutical Pricing Policy", joint with Markku Siikanen and Mikko Vanhala. Insightful look at how pharmacy incentives affect pricing and patient costs in #Finland. #econtwitter #econsky #HealthEconomics #PharmaceuticalMarkets

📢Great seminar last Thursday with Santiago Oliveros ( @bristoluni.bsky.social ) on "Active Product Development".The work examines how an intrinsically motivated developer improves a product and decides when to launch, balancing progress, setbacks, and timing. #EconTwitter #EconomicTheory #EconSky

Great seminar yesterday with @astridkunze.bsky.social ( @nhhnor.bsky.social ) on "Boss Effects in the Labor Market" with N. Agikyan & @gathmannch.bsky.social Key insights: 💼 Able bosses raise wages 🚀 Boost promotions — but also turnover 🎓 Strongest effects in high‑skill roles #EconTwitter #EconSky

New piece by our @monicabeeder.bsky.social in @uk.theconversation.com. How safety concerns shape working women’s everyday choices in Ethiopia, including why some adapt how they present their ethnic identity when entering employment. Link: tinyurl.com/37aedb2p #Ethiopia #Gender #Work #econsky

Thanks to Prof. Andrew Ellis ( @lsepress.bsky.social ) for a great seminar on “Equilibrium Effects of Machine Learning” (with Michele Piccione and Shengxing Zhang). Clear insights on how ML can shape information aggregation in markets. #Economics #MachineLearning #Research #EconTwitter #Econsky

✨ Econ Job Market Spotlight: Xuefeng Yang (Univ. of Southampton) 📷 PhD ’25 | JMP: Time-varying Probability Weighting in Non-Expected Utility Models and Investor Sentiment Toward Tails. #econjobmarket #EconTwitter #JobMarket2026 #macro #Finance 📷 Website tinyurl.com/xuefengyangjmc

✨ Econ Job Market Spotlight: @rupalivashisht.bsky.social (Univ. of Southampton) 🎓 PhD ’26 | JMP: Asymmetric Impact of ESG on Credit Risk. #econjobmarket #EconTwitter #JobMarket2026 #JobMarket2025 ➡️ JMP Paper: tinyurl.com/tjn58rrm ➡️ Website tinyurl.com/544ctv89

Thanks to Alessandra Luati ( @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social ) for today’s seminar on “Unobserved Component Models, Approximate Filters, and Dynamic Adaptive Mixture Models.” A clear and engaging talk on state estimation under parameter uncertainty! #Econometrics #TimeSeries #EconTwitter #HighEd

⏰ PhD deadline: 31 Jan 2026 Final call for our PhD “Tracking the Global Story of Khat: From Banned Stimulant to Hidden Economy” at the University of Southampton, using AI and satellite data to study post-ban khat economies in Ethiopia and Kenya. More information: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🚨New research alert! Higashi, 0zbek, & Takeoka:“Axiomatic Foundations of Bayesian Persuasion.”A work about axiomatic foundations of Bayesian persuasion, where a principal informs a biased agent about uncertain payoff and delegates choice-making. #econresearch #econtwitter link: bit.ly/4pEFBzl

🎓 Celebrating a successful Winter School in Advanced Causal Inference & Machine Learning (Dec 2025–Jan 2026)! Led by EmanuelaLotti with Thomas Gall & Chaowen Zheng, it brought together 40+ PhD students across disciplines and UK institutions. #CausalInference #MachineLearning

Considering a PhD with us? ⏰ The SCDTP funding application closes at 16:00 GMT on 16 January — apply soon!

Thanks to Diego Zambiasi (@newcastleuni.bsky.social) for yesterday’s seminar on “Gangs of London: What Online Gang Territory Maps Reveal About Crime and Policing” (joint with @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social). A fascinating talk on crime and urban dynamics! #Economics #Policing #econsky #econtwitter

Brilliant to see our students diving into a lively discussion on the #Budget2025. Huge thanks to our panellists — Jessica Smith, Dan Devine (PAIR), Thomas Gall, and Alex Menunni (Economics) — and to Siwei Han and Maximiliano Deere for their fantastic work! #Economics #StudentEngagement #HigherEd

Great seminar this week by our colleague Kemal Ozbek on “Optimal Auction Design under Flexible Learning.” A very insightful talk with plenty of thought-provoking ideas! #Research #AcademicTalks #Economics #econtwitter

Our Head of Department, @anonimomilanese.bsky.social , is back from an outstanding week in India! Big thanks to everyone for the amazing welcome and great conversations! #UniversityOfSouthampton #GlobalEngagement #HigherEducation #WeAreUoS #RussellGroup

🎓 Continuing our introductions for the job market season, we're pleased to feature Libo Chen (lnkd.in/dmJGKYkD) from the University of Southampton! #econjobmarket #econjobcandidate #Academic #AI #LabourEconomics #JobMarket2025