Dies ist nur ein kleiner Vorgeschmack auf eine deskriptive Studie zu Vermögen und Erbschaften in der Schweiz, gemeinsam mit Kolleg.innen von der EPFL und ETHZ. Veröffentlichung anfangs 2026. Stay tuned. 4/4 @fuster.bsky.social @izmartinez86.bsky.social

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Als Teil seines "Entlastungspakets 27" will der Bund das Budget des SNF @snf-fns-ch.bsky.social um 10% kürzen. Wäre das wirklich klug, ausgerchnet in dem Moment, wo uns die US-Regierung das Feld freimacht im internationalen Wettbewerb um Top-Talente (👇)? 1/2 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

An excellent initiative!

Call for papers, submission deadline February 21 (i.e., soon!): Sixth annual SNB-CIF Conference on Cryptoassets and Financial Innovation, to be held in Zurich on June 20, with keynote speaker Urban Jermann (Wharton). www.snb.ch/en/services-... #econsky

Highly policy-relevant! "Pricing Liquidity Support: A PLB for Switzerland" by Monnet, Niepelt, and Taudien For instance, they estimate that the too-big-to-fail status allowed UBS Group AG alone to gain at least USD 2.9 billion in 2022. repec.vwiit.ch/dp/dp2501.pdf

Call for papers alert -- The Philly Fed and University of Delaware are hosting the second edition of the Fintech and Financial Institutions conference in April, featuring great research and a keynote by Stefan Nagel -- submit by Jan 14, you wont regret it :) www.philadelphiafed.org/calendar-of-...

For those who didn't make it to #ASSA2025: strongly recommend @sendhil.bsky.social's AEA distinguished lecture, available at www.aeaweb.org/webcasts/202... (starting at minute 16)!

An academic paper has excellent empirical evidence & hypotheses that perfectly match the patterns in the data. One catch: AI wrote the hypotheses after seeing the results. Should this matter? New paper w/ Robert Novy-Marx on AI-Powered (Finance) Scholarship🧵 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Attending #ASSA2025? Want to know how to navigate your options with respect to hotels, food, & sessions given SF hotel workers' strike? @shirkandsteal.bsky.social @jennifercohen.bsky.social & I have you covered. Blog w/sign up for email updates. #EconSky aaronsojourner.org/hotel-worker...

The submission deadline for the BIS-CEPR-Gerzensee-SFI conference on Financial Intermediation (formerly the "Lenzerheide conference") is October 31. Submit your papers! Call for papers here: mailchi.mp/cepr/bis-cep...

The JFE is doing a special issue on innovations in the financial system! The call for papers is here: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour... Andreas Fuster will be the guest editor handling the papers.