Voor @leenders.bsky.social en mijzelf -- en met ons vele anderen -- was Nico Wilterdink een grote inspiratie, een pionier in het onderzoek naar de vermogensverdeling in Nederland. Nico gaf ons onderzoek veel steun en advies. Met Wouter & Johan Heilbron schreef ik een In Memoriam in @esb.nu:

Ik was te gast in het NTR-programma Focus om over superrijken te praten (samen met Arjan Lejour, @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social en @danielwaldenstrom.bsky.social), leuk ook om mijn limousinedebuut te maken :) Veel kijkplezier! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc4S...

Successfully defended my PhD on the wealth distribution! Many thanks to my supervisors, the committee (@basjacobs.bsky.social, @danielwaldenstrom.bsky.social @cmtneztt.bsky.social et al), my paranymphs and all who attended! My dissertation can be found here: research-portal.uu.nl/en/publicati...

Komende Valentijnsdag verdedig ik mijn proefschrift! Ik besprak met wilco dekker een aantal belangrijke bevindingen. Wie de verdediging (digitaal) wil bijwonen, vinde de nodige informatie hier: www.uu.nl/agenda/promo...

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

I did a NYT video interview—along with voices from Hungary, Nicaragua, and Russia— about how repression works in authoritarian states. www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

Mijn lezing van het RvS-advies over Box 3 is dat er wel degelijk van alles mogelijk is, bijvoorbeeld een vermogensbelasting en zelfs forfaitair rendement is niet uitgesloten. Wel moet vermogen(sinkomen) integraal worden belast. Dat lijkt mij een uitstekend advies. www.raadvanstate.nl/adviezen/@14...

Economenvakblad ESB is hier nu trouwens te vinden op @esb.nu. Dat account stuurt een bericht als er een nieuw artikel/analyse op esb.nu staat. Dat is iets vaker dan een keer per dag. Volgen dus! Dan blijf je bij.

Nu ook met @esbeconomie.bsky.social en @mariekeblom.bsky.social!

Mensen - als je van dit platform een succes wilt maken, wees dan interactief. Like, repost, reageer en nodig anderen uit. Er zijn hier minder mensen dan op X en als dat zo blijft dan zal dit platform het niet redden. Maar door extra veel engagement kan het omslaan.

By popular demand, here is a Starter Pack: go.bsky.app/NRXmLUs Use the list as a feed in your timeline, use the Starter Pack to follow all economists DM me if you want to be added to the list and Starter Pack

Bas Jacobs - De economische gevolgen van Trump - EW Magazine: www.ewmagazine.nl/buitenland/a...

I made a list of Dutch economists. Nice to follow for: - journos (@marikestellinga.bsky.social, @mathijsbouman.nl etc) - policy ( @wbcs99twit.bsky.social, @lukkezen.bsky.social) - academics ( @robertdur.bsky.social, @basvdklaauw.bsky.social) DM me if you want to be added! bsky.app/profile/did:...

It's a great conference so far! Great keynote by @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social, looking forward to @dynarski.bsky.social's keynote tomorrow.

Look who's here! #EconSky

How worried are you about the U.S. economic outlook in light of the current policy proposals and appointments? 1️⃣ Not worried 2️⃣ Somewhat worried 3️⃣ Worried 4️⃣ Very worried 📊 Show results

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📯 Job Market Paper Alert 📯 Private businesses make up 50% of sales & profits and are the main wealth component of the wealthiest households. So, what is their value? Well, that's difficult, since they're not listed: their value is unobservable by definition! My #EconJMP tackles this problem 1/

Hi #econsky, my department is on the market for a full professor. The field is broadly applied with a focus on development/gender/migration/environmental. Please help me spread this as widely as possible, and I’m happy to answer questions informally. www.academictransfer.com/en/346598/fu...

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Took me a while to make the jump

Happy to be in Stockholm, presenting my paper "Robust Estimation of Private Business Wealth" tomorrow at the IFN! #EconSky Very special to catch a Yo-Yo Ma concert this evening, finally seeing him live!

@florianederer.bsky.social thought you might enjoy this (I found the analysis a bit contrived at times but it's a nice attempt) www.theguardian.com/music/2024/o...

I am deeply honored to have been awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for 2024, together with my friends and colleagues Simon Johnson and James Robinson. pune.news/trending/nob...

Acemoglu Johnson Robinson!!! #EconSky

Hello everybody. I have just joined Bluesky, after witnessing the deterioration of Twitter/X. I will post some of my recent material from there and I plan to migrate to this platform over time.

The best writing advice I've ever gotten is to remember that the first draft is where you explain it all to yourself and then the second draft is where you explain it all to your readers.

Happy to be in Paris to present my paper "Top Wealth is Distributed Weibull, not Pareto" at the Paris School of Economics!

Bluesky is officially “open” now (no more invites). So just a reminder to not engage with trolls and bad actors, there is no algorithm here to promote or spread them, replying to them is what puts them on everybody’s timelines. So block and give no oxygen.

Took a winding road to get there, but I'm pleased to say that `ggfixest` is up on CRAN. grantmcdermott.com/ggfixest/ As the 📦 name suggests, `ggfixest` provides dedicated `ggplot2` methods for `fixest` model objects. So you can make nice coefficient/interaction plots with minimal effort. #rstats

In our new NBER WP, we estimate historical intergenerational mobility for men **and women** using hundreds of millions of census-to-census links from the Census Tree. 🧵 👇https://www.nber.org/papers/w31918 with Zach Ward, Joe Price, & Haley Wilbert

No surprises here

Mirrlees is back

Nice paper, with intriguing implications.

Hello #EconSky, have I got an exciting new working paper for you! Coen Teulings and I study three distributions (wealth, city and firm size), which are always thought to be distributed Pareto. Bottom line: These distributions are *not* Pareto, but Weibull! A thread 1/

🚨🚨Very excited to share my 𝐉𝐨𝐛 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 "No Kids, No Tech: How Shortages of Young Workers Hinder Firm Technology Adoption" I show that shortages of young workers reduce firm investments in new technologies exploiting a natural experiment. Full paper: caecilial.github.io/JMP/Lipowski...

Ik was te gast in de BNR-podcast van Bas Jacobs en Esther van Rijswijk om over vermogen en vermogensverdeling te spreken, veel luisterplezier! open.spotify.com/episode/6J37...

Delighted by this really well-made interactive site about all different probability distributions: www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~adamcunn/pr...

So proud of my PhD student Kotia and his partner Utkarsh who have been fighting for the legalization of same-sex marriage in front of the Indian Supreme Court. They lost the battle but will win the war. Huge congratulations on your engagement, Kotia and Utkarsh!

OK, trying this. Hope it is better than X/Twitter.

Congratulations to Claudia Goldin for winning the 2023 Nobel Prize in economics! 📈📉

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📈📉Hello EconSky! I am a PhD candidate at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. I study wealth concentration from the angles of macro, finance, and economic history. I most enjoy thinking about the measurement of top wealth, as well as the macroeconomic causes & consequences of wealth dynamics.