This will lead to confusion in September!

Zur Diskussion um die Anzahl an Krankenkassen: Weder im internationalen Vergleich noch im deutschen Quer- und Längsschnitt lässt sich ein klarer negativer Zusammenhang zwischen Kassengröße und Verwaltungskosten je Versicherten zeigen. Heute online beim ifo Schnelldienst ✌️ www.ifo.de/publikatione...

Meine 2 cnts www.ardmediathek.de/video/swr-ak...?

Kein Vermittlungsausschuss: GKV-Beitragssatzstabilisierungsgesetz kommt 🤓

Summer cleanup done 🌻 ✅ Moved the simonreif.eu address to a new provider (after 17 years...) ✅ Bought a handle for AT proto stuff ✅ Made a webpage to put behind the handle (simonreif.social, build with @quarto.org ) ✅ Hosted the page as a @tangled.org site ✅ Moved my PDS to @eurosky.social 💪🤓

Just came home from the Applied Economics in Digital Health Workshop I organised with @arieldora.bsky.social and @hannesullrich.com and I must say: this was sooooo good! Am am incredibly hyped! Check out the program, come join us next year!! www.digitalhealthecon.org

Reading scientific papers is like...solve two CAPTCHAS s.t. Cloudflare has made sure that you are really a human, see that article is behind paywall, 2FA in the university network, Cloudflare again, nope, still no access... But good that the bots from SciHub are better than me...

Wollte was zu political economy illustrieren, vllt doch ehr Illustration dass unsere Jobs erstmal sicher sind.

Die Siffigkeit der Stadt und die Siffigkeit des Bahnhofs sind fast perfekt negativ korreliert wenn man nur Berlin und Heidelberg als Stichprobe nimmt!

I han heut 2 visitencards verteilt, I bims 1 netwerkerprofi!

romeo and juliet remake where one works at a company using o365 and the other’s uses slack/gsuite

I must say, the Harper spellchecker does have a surprisingly good understanding of my life! writewithharper.com

🚨 We’re hiring! Join our #ZEW Research Unit “Health Care Markets and Health Policy” @simonreif.eu We are looking for Postdoctoral Researcher with Option for a Permanent Contract (f/m/d, 100%) 🔗 jobs.zew.de/jobposting/e...

#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...

🥁Fans of @quarto.org: We have updated our template package at github.com/simonreif/ze.... It now has a cleaner structure, no LaTeX is needed in the qmd documents and we did a lot of bug fixes. For the cool kids, there is now also an AGENTS MD file that helps your AGENT to agent. 🤖🦶

Ach herjeh... aber wenn @monika-schnitzer.com auch dabei ist wird schon passen...

It’s called a frequentist approach because that’s what most people use.

The advantage of wearing a hat most of the times - this should not be too risky. Stay tuned!

📢 #MUES research seminar This Thursday, @simonreif.eu from ZEW Mannheim will discuss "Market Entry of Digital Health Providers after the Introduction of a New Reimbursement Pathway". Join the seminar!🤩 ⏩ mues.econ.muni.cz/research-sem...

The amount of tokens I spent on this template is ridiculous, but if you ever wanted to have an academic PDF CV, rendered from Quarto via typst that uses multiple .bib files for different publication categories... check this out: github.com/simonreif/ac...

I'll be chairing this, tune in ✌️

𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: submit your digital health economics papers and abstracts by April 6! More info here: www.digitalhealthecon.org

Meine 2cnts zum Bericht der Finanzkommission GKV: www.zew.de/presse/press... ✌️

Biertrinker können aufatmen: Empfehlung für Alkoholsteuer - nur auf Spirituosen! Es lohnte sich wohl, dass viele Bayern in der Kommission waren 🍻 www.bundesgesundheitsministerium.de/fileadmin/Da...

Really very happy to see our paper covered in Nature Magazine Full paper here cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/publica...

"We economists are just better with empirical methods, that's why we can contribute to a lot of research areas" ...says the first year PhD student who has just vibe coded his master thesis on the causal effect of smoking on lung cancer.

Call for Papers! The 3rd Workshop Applied Economics in Digital Health will take place at HPI, Potsdam, 2-3 July 2026. Submission deadline on March 30. Exciting keynote, diverse academic program and policy discussions! Further info: www.digitalhealthecon.org @arieldora.bsky.social @simonreif.eu

It's quite funny actually when you realize that just this weekend alone a substantial amount of anthropic tokens will be burnt by an armada of tech bros convinced that talking to an AI echochamber will make them find a solution to the Strait of Hormuz situation in 48h.

Whenever science journalists say "Holy crap" there is a 99% chance of the paper not be replicable.

"Deutschland ist stark – aber zu langsam"  Friedrich Merz hat sein erstes Jahresgutachten der Expertenkommission Forschung und Innovation erhalten. Was drinsteht, sagt die EFI-Vorsitzende Irene Bertschek. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/02...

Seeing all these random email screenshots keeps reminding me of the joke: A: Because it disrupts the natural flow of conversation! Q: Why is top-posting frowned upon?

Hits Hits Hits - und das Deutsche Gesundheitswesen!

Wie krank ist unser #Gesundheitssystem? Einige Zusatzbeiträge wurden Anfang 2026 erneut erhöht. Was das bedeutet, bespricht #ZEW -Ökonom @simonreif.eu im ausführlichen Gespräch bei #SWR1 Leute. www.swr.de/swr1/leute/g...

I took three trains to get to the HESG in York and then three trains + one plane to get back home. Everything was on time 😳 I fear all my karma for this year was used up 😩

DFG erlaubt Einsatz von KI in der Begutachtung. Wenn wir jetzt noch die AI dazu kriegen, die komplette Forschung zu machen, haben wir den Menschen komplett von der Last des Forschungsprozzeses befreit und er kann sich komplett auf wichtige Dinge wie Reisekostenerstattungsanträge konzentrieren.

Warum mag Donald Trump so gerne große Bildschirme? Weil die viel Zoll haben 🥁

Zum Sparkpaket der #GKV sagt #ZEW-Ökonom @simonreif.eu der @nzz.ch, das deutsche Gesundheitswesen habe kein Einnahmen-, sondern ein Ausgabenproblem. „Bereits im Koalitionsvertrag hätte man festlegen müssen, wie das Gesundheitswesen strukturell reformiert werden soll.“ www.nzz.ch/internationa...

Today's contribution to the conversation. Having that kind of a day.... #EconSky

Christoph M. Schmidt (RWI) wurde zum 8. Präsidenten der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft gewählt. Alexandra W. Busch @leizarchaeology.bsky.social, Albert Sickmann @isas-leibniz.bsky.social und Barbara Sturm @leibnizatb.bsky.social wurden als Vizepräsident:innen gewählt. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Zur Mitteilung👇

Heute fallen die Preise mal wieder um 700%. (TALK LOUDLY AND PROUDLY)

Me: Hey outlook, I need to send a reply to this email. Outlook: Sure, start writing! Me: Hey I need to follow up, let me write another reply. Outlook: Sure thing. But you just want to write to yourself, right?

Announcing Quarto Wizard 1.0.0: a new extension by @mickael.canouil.fr that replaces complex terminal commands with an intuitive GUI for managing extensions and templates. Find, install, update, and remove #Quarto tools with a click. Learn more: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...

Transparency helps innovation ... until it doesn't. My new paper with Cunningham, Hodgson, and Wang (on the JM!) studies the 2017 FDA Final Rule, which required drug firms to publicly disclose all clinical trial results. Disclosure increased, but innovation slowed. cowles.yale.edu/sites/defaul...

A bright future ahead for @zew.de :)

🚨 Now out in Journal of Human Resources: ⛪️ Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes? Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education w/ @benjaminarold.bsky.social & Larissa Zierow 👉 Religious education in school affects adult lives 🔗 jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl... A 🧵 1/6

Leistungsfähigster Supercomputer deutscher Hochschulen offiziell eingeweiht 🤖 Das Zentrum für Nationales Hochleistungsrechnen Erlangen an der FAU hat „Helma“ letzte Woche eingeweiht. Der Rechner ist bundesweit zugänglich und stellt eine erste Kernkomponente der BayernKI dar. go.fau.de/1caid

Hypothesis: Actual research time decreases with tenure for all disciplines - in lab based fields you are nevertheless added as an author to papers written near you, while in the social sciences becoming an author is harder.

Let's try something: Master thesis written in #QuartoPub #RStats. I have the basic setup in this repo: github.com/simonreif/th... We'll see how this goes 😃

Australia is banning GitHub because it has lots of Issues.

Excellent!