🚨NEW WORKING PAPER 🚨 Can more resources for regulators improve firms' compliance? @jgambato.bsky.social @juliakraemer.bsky.social & I demonstrate how expanding regulators' resources can backfire when the success of detecting firms' noncompliance varies for different regulatory targets. 1/4

You are working on competition-related topics (or want to, or are just curious)? You have a paper you'd like to present? You just want to see what's happening in the literature? Come to #Mannheim for the #MaCCI Annual Conference (March 19-20, 2026). #economics #law #policy #competition #EconSky

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics. 🧵 1/7

Duflo and Banerjee leave MIT for University of Zurich. #econsky

It's #CODE2025 time at @zew.de. @hannahottenrott.bsky.social is kicking off two days of #entrepreuneurship research! @tumunich.bsky.social

Last week, the French government announced an extra €1,000 bonus for EVs with batteries made in Europe. Another data point that “buy European” is picking up some real traction this fall. www.ecologie.gouv.fr/presse/augme...

“The more the German industry continues to focus on phasing out niche technologies […] the easier it becomes for Chinese companies to expand their lead in batteries and new electronic vehicle architectures.” Remarkable op-ed by former VW boss Herbert Diess. www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/...

Canary down.

It's time for the European Law & Economics Association's conference (with new work on disclosure) #EALE. #Oslo I'm coming. #EconSky #ConfSky

ZEW Mannheim on tour!

Panel zur „European Industrial Policy“ bei der #VfS_Conf2025 @wisocologne.bsky.social Unter Moderation von #ZEW-Präsident Achim Wambach diskutieren: 🔹 @bertschek.bsky.social (ZEW/EFI) 🔹 Ottmar Edenhofer (PIK/ EWRCC) 🔹 @kerstin-jorna.bsky.social (EU-Kommission, GROW) #EconSky #IndustrialPolicy

Lots of cool research by my amazing colleagues at this year's @vfsecon.bsky.social #VfS_Conf2025 yes: I'm the orange sweater yes: the spikes in the data look curious no: final answer still on the run

🎤📊 Spannende Themen, inspirierende Menschen & Freude am Netzwerken auf der #VfS_Conf2025! Wir sind auch 2025 wieder mit vielen Vorträgen & Panels vertreten. Wenn ihr mehr zur #ZEW -Forschung erfahren wollt, besucht uns noch bis morgen 👋 #EconSky @vfsecon.bsky.social @wisocologne.bsky.social

@pantras.bsky.social is delivering his keynote (on industrial policy!) at this year's meeting of the German Economics Association @vfsecon.bsky.social . The room is packed! #econsky #econconf #vfs_conf2025

Seit neuestem beschießen Anwohner*innen der Riedbahn die vorbeifahrenden ICEs mit Steinen (?). Mit ein paar zerborstenen Fenstern geht's jetzt einmal nur langsam (wenn überhaupt) weiter. Ich wünsch den Spaßvögeln ganz herzlich alles Schreckliche. #trains #DeutscheBahn #Bahn

The arrival hall at Antwerp's main station is monumental, and at 7 a.m. it's waiting for its first travelers. #EPIP2025 is history, it was a blast. Now on to Cologne for #VfS_Conf2025 @vfsecon.bsky.social #EconConf #EconSky #trains

(FT) - The world’s biggest oil and gas companies are cutting jobs, slashing costs and scaling back investments at the fastest pace since the coronavirus market collapse, as executives brace for a prolonged period of lower crude prices. www.ft.com/content/c6ab...

Excited to present in December and looking forward to the other speakers in the lineup. #EconConf #EconSky

Do you have questions about RePEc and its services? There is an extensive FAQ section. If anything is missing, let us know. ideas.repec.org/help.html #RePEc #EconSky

If your website links to your CV on Google Drive, I might get this: 👇 Restricted (or no access) to the file. #PSA pull CVs and other files you want the world to see out from behind access control (Google Drive, ...) #EconSky #EconJMK

🚨 Do people listen when an emergency alert asks them to save energy? During Michigan’s 2019 gas shortage, a phone alert to set thermostats at 65°F spurred action within minutes—unlike earlier social media/news nudges. Smart thermostat data show an average 1.1°F drop. 📊 #JaereFigureFriday 🌎 #EconSky

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🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 👩‍🎓 Workshop Disclosure, Information Sharing, and Secrecy DISS 2026 📅 February 23-24, 2026 🔬 Online (Zoom) Deadline: November 15 Submit papers on information disclosure (or non-disclosure) in econ, mgmt science, accounting, law, et al. #EconSky #EconConf @tmartens.bsky.social

A careful study of every populist episode since 1900 finds catastrophic consequences, which play out slowly. On average, incomes fall behind by nearly 15% over 15 years. For the U.S., this is a cost of about $13k per person per year. Over a lifetime, that's million bucks.

🚨New discussion paper!🚨 Hybrid Contracting in Repeated Interactions @ganglmair.bsky.social @econunimannheim.bsky.social @zew.de Julian Klix @econunimannheim.bsky.social Dongsoo Shin @santaclarauniv.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Thread 👇

"Niemand urteilt schärfer als der Ungebildete. Er kennt weder Gründe noch Gegengründe und glaubt sich immer im Recht." Ludwig Feuerbach Deutscher Philosoph (1804 - 1872)

Has anyone asked if they are here for their continuing education credits?

Someone finally wrote the data-center/electricity inflation story. @nytimes.com #CPI www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...

#EconSky #NumbersDay

Wie wirkt sich Wissensverlust auf vertrauenswürdige Forschung & #Innovation aus? #ZEW DP 25-030 von Nicola Searle, @ganglmair.bsky.social und Maurizio Borghi zeigt: In sensiblen Wirtschaftsbereichen fließt #Wissen 18 % häufiger unkontrolliert ab als in anderen. www.zew.de/PU95550/?twt=1

He was on to something. Bald eagles just don't taste as good as turkeys

Our paper "Learning When to Quit" is finally in print. A journey it was. The project/paper is almost as old as my kids combined.. #EconSky

The August 2025 issue of AEJ: Microeconomics (17, 3) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/811.

Took my 7yo & 4yo to their first baseball game today. Tornados welcomed the Hedgehogs to the Roberto Clemente Field (that's Mannheim and Heidelberg, for those not familiar with Germany's 2nd league)

This is an interesting initiative! A 5-year journal (a "pop-up" journal) dedicated to one question: what's the return on R&D? Is it $2 for every $1 invested? $10? $20? Sloan and Open Philantropy are inviting organizations to apply to curate this first 5-yr journal effort. #EconSky

@nber.org SI 2025: Innovation. Does @rotmanschool.bsky.social @econuoft.bsky.social have the strongest delegation this year?

Day 1 of my week in Boston. Today at @buquestrom.bsky.social, tomorrow at the @nber.org SI. DM me if you want to grab coffee, drinks, a bite, or just want to chat #EconConf

Is more active patenting a strategic response to heightened risks of trade secret misappropriation? Or does it mean more exposure to such threats? Take a look at Nicola Searle's and my IAM article summarizing our recent Innovation & Research Council report www.iam-media.com/trade-secret...

DRUID 2025 has come to an end. What a week in Toronto @rotmanschool.bsky.social . The state of innovation research at @zew.de is strong! Just look how happy we all are. @hannahottenrott.bsky.social

Hopefully no one because there should be nationwide class actions taking care of this stuff

94 federal districts, which means 94 potential different policies. Who's gonna write that high-frequency staggered diff-in-diff estimator? #EconSky

Hear, hear! @zew.de's own @hannahottenrott.bsky.social (TUM what?) is awarded this year's Decade Award of Industry and Innovation (journal!) at the DRUID 2025 conference at @rotmanschool.bsky.social . Congratulations!!!

📢 Do not forget to apply (Deadline 2.7.2025) ‼️ Three job openings for Full Professor positions - Data Science - Microeconomics - Behavioral Economics Please share! #econsky #econbsky www.uibk.ac.at/en/econstat/...

#EconSky #IOSky - 2025 Asia-Pacific IO Conference: Dec 12-14 in Brisbane, Australia apios.org.au. Call for papers in mid-July. Keynotes by #PaulHeidhues & #GingerZheJin and a great group of invited speakers. It's 10 years of APIOC, and we couldn't pick a better place. Please share!

The Summer Institute in Comp Policy is one of MaCCI's annual highlights. I haven't been in a few years, and this year I had to cut my visit short. Check out the program!!!

The first year of our IG Competition seminar series @zew.de is slowly coming to a close. Last week, @lucasan.bsky.social took us on a fascinating tour through the history of competition as an economic (+ policy) concept. We all look forward to our July meeting, which will focus on the DSA. #EconSky

Bavaria's remake of the Disney Cinderella Castle is a major success

The state of IO in Mannheim is strong! #EconSky

If we want better compliance (with the rules in place), giving regulators more resources is one way to get there (yes, good regulation is costly). Check out this 10-minute video with findings from a large-scale study using German firm-level data lt.org/publication/... #gdpr #EconSky #regulation