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Jörg Oechssler

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Professor of Economics, University of Heidelberg http://oechssler.uni-hd.de/

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Jörg Oechssler @oechssler.bsky.social · Mar 3

After Trump´s disgraceful behavior last week, we thought we need to do something to help Ukraine directly. And you can help too…

Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · Mar 3

If one person gives a euro to Ukraine, the result is €1.

If two people give 2 each, it is €4.

If 3,000 give 3,000 each, it is 9 million.

Let’s coordinate, here 👇

and please re-post to spread the word.

yourcontributionsquared.eu/en/

Your Contribution Squared

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Reposted by Jörg Peters, Jörg Oechssler, Valerie Mueller

Professor Dr Richard S.J. Tol FREcon MAE @richardtol.bsky.social · 5d

Some more words on Energy Economics open.substack.com/pub/richardt...

Autopsy

Lessons for editors

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Jörg Oechssler @oechssler.bsky.social · 14d

We have an opening for a professorship in Heidelberg in labor economics, political economy, or more generally in applied micro. Please share!

Full Professorship (W3) in “Labor Markets / New Political Economy” (f/m/d) | INOMICS

The position is to be filled by the Winter Semester 2026/27 at the Alfred-Weber-Institute for Economics of Heidelberg University.The successful candidate will have an outstanding and internationally v...

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 22d

I am actually sad to have to say this since I have admired much about Disney CEO Bob Iger over the years, but what a profoundly quisling move this is by someone who knows better. It’s shameful and he has tarnished his once proud reputation.

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Jörg Oechssler @oechssler.bsky.social · 23d

Nice summary.

Americans have 400 days to save their democracy | Timothy Garton Ash

I never thought I’d see fear spread so far and fast. Next year’s midterm elections are now crucial for the Democratic party – and for democrats everywhere, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash

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Professor Dr Richard S.J. Tol FREcon MAE @richardtol.bsky.social · 24d

All is not well at Elsevier richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...

Fraud and cover-up

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Reposted by Jörg Oechssler, Christian Breunig

Christina Felfe @christinafelfe.bsky.social · Sep 8

### Full Professorship in Applied Economics - 1 week left to apply ###

Succesful candidates will enjoy 3 positions at once - professorship at the UKonstanz, PI at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality” and the directorship of TWI!
stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/a...

Full Professorship (W3) in Applied Economics

Deadline: 15.09.2025

stellen.uni-konstanz.de

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Jörg Oechssler @oechssler.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thanks for the interesting graphs! So what is preventing the market from reacting to negative prices by building more storage?

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Reposted by Efrén O. Pérez, Jörg Oechssler

Michael Chwe @michaelchwe.bsky.social · Aug 6

Please sign our open letter demanding that the Univ of California reject the malicious attacks from the Trump admin tinyurl.com/ucstandup

Home

Please forward this letter widely at https://tinyurl.com/ucstandup

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Aug 1

As in Germany!

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Jörg Oechssler @oechssler.bsky.social · Jul 24

This new ranking by Google Scholar looks somewhat reasonable. But I have never heard of the "International Review of Economics & Finance" and the "International Journal of Finance & Economics".

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Jan-Martin Wiarda @jmwiarda.bsky.social · Jul 14

Schluss mit "Up or Out"
Der Wissenschaftsrat erklärt Dauerstellen zum Regelfall. Ein Paukenschlag vor der Novelle des Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetzes. Im Interview erklären Wolfgang Wick und Insa Großkraumbach, was das bedeutet.
Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/07...

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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · Jul 8

Whether English-language TV content is dubbed or subtitled has an overwhelming influence on English language skills, research by Baumeister et al suggests—sub >> dub:
buff.ly/WpCtxYI
TL;DR:🧵by coauthor Woessman buff.ly/5MpuXjE

Jörg Oechssler @oechssler.bsky.social · Jun 17

Any insights from the editors @impartialspectator.bsky.social ?

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Jörg Oechssler @oechssler.bsky.social · Jun 17

Apparently, Heidelberg is covered by this (through Bayerische Staatsbibliothek):

OA agreement - BSB

Welcome to Cambridge Core

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Jörg Oechssler @oechssler.bsky.social · Jun 17

On the other hand, universities save the subscription fee for the journal. But I guess that any university that publishes just one article per year will pay more than before. Or am I overlooking something?

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Jörg Oechssler @oechssler.bsky.social · Jun 17

So our society journal "Experimental Economics" will now be open access. But authors or, as in my case, their universities will have to pay Article Processing Charges of about $3500 for each article published. Is that a good deal for us?

Experimental Economics | Cambridge Core

Experimental Economics - Friederike Mengel, Andreas Ortmann, Ragan Petrie, Arno Riedl, Marta Serra Garcia

www.cambridge.org

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Reposted by Dan Brockington, Winnifred R. Louis, John De Vos , and 9 more Dan Brockington, Winnifred R. Louis, John De Vos, Ingrid Piller, Jörg Oechssler, Andreas Schweiger, Matt N Williams, Kath Albury, Matti Vuorre, Ulrich Herb, Frédéric Delsuc, Bartosz Bartkowski

Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · Jun 15

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.

What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?

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the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing

Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io

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Reposted by Margit Schratzenstaller, Jörg Oechssler, Mirco Tonin , and 1 more Margit Schratzenstaller, Jörg Oechssler, Mirco Tonin, Guido Heineck

Achim Zeileis @zeileis.org · Jun 5

📢 Come work with us!

🏛️ Faculty of Economics & Statistics, UIBK @econstatuibk.bsky.social‬ @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social‬

‼️ Three job openings for Full Professor positions

- Data Science

- Microeconomics

- Behavioral Economics

Please share! #datascience #economics

www.uibk.ac.at/de/info-beru...

Aktuelle Ausschreibungen – Universität Innsbruck

None

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Jörg Oechssler @oechssler.bsky.social · May 26

wow, didn't know overpayment is perceived as a problem..

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Augustin Bergeron @abergeron.bsky.social · May 26

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In extremely rare move, Harvard revokes tenure and cuts ties with star business professor

An internal investigation had found that Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino’s research on why people lie and cheat was based on falsified data.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · May 23

Feel like there could be some illuminating interdisciplinary work bringing together international trade economists with studies of borderline personality disorder/attention seeking traits to come up with new predictive theories about global trade.

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Universität Heidelberg @uniheidelberg.bsky.social · May 19

Alfred Weber Lecture: Wirtschaft ohne Arbeitskräfte? – Präsidentin des Wissenschaftszentrums Berlin für Sozialforschung spricht über die Ursachen und Folgen des Fachkräftemangels
www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...
#universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #vortrag #fachkraftemangel

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Reposted by Matthias Doepke, Jörg Oechssler

undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · May 16

The cool thing about the history of macro as told by macroeconomists is that, no matter what point in history you start from, after 40 years, scientific convergence is achieved

Olivier Blanchard on the state of macro in 2025 HT @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

#Econsky

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Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Martín Haspelmath, Bruce Edmonds , and 2 more Richard S.J. Tol, Martín Haspelmath, Bruce Edmonds, David Chester, Jörg Oechssler

Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · May 9

As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...

Author-Paid PublicationFees Corrupt Science and Should Be Abandoned
Thomas J. H Morgan & Paul E. Smaldino

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Jörg Oechssler @oechssler.bsky.social · May 4

Solar power without subsidies

How Pakistan pulled off one of the fastest solar revolutions in the world | CNN

Pakistan has become one of the biggest new solar markets. It’s bringing cheap, clean power but analysts warn of potential trouble ahead.

www.cnn.com

Jörg Oechssler @oechssler.bsky.social · May 1

My main problem with reading aloud is that subjects read faster on their own than the experimenter reads aloud. And then reading aloud is just a distraction.

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Jörg Oechssler @oechssler.bsky.social · Apr 25

Only 5 days left to apply!

Jörg Oechssler @oechssler.bsky.social · Mar 27

I have a postdoc position in Behavioral/Experimental Economics available for 6 years, at the oldest university in Germany in beautiful Heidelberg. Please forward to anyone who might be interested!

#EconJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd #Economics #JobAlert

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Reposted by Seema Jayachandran, Jörg Oechssler, Samuel Bentolila , and 5 more Seema Jayachandran, Jörg Oechssler, Samuel Bentolila, Monika Piazzesi, Lucie Schmidt, Simon Wiederhold, Ted Temzelides, Dietmar Fehr

Matthias Doepke @mdoepke.bsky.social · Apr 23

30 years after arriving in the US, I just resigned from Northwestern and we sold our house.

We are an American family, I became a citizen in 2014, and until recently did not expect to ever leave. But now, this no longer feels like the right place to raise a family and pursue a research career.

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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · Apr 19

Just heard from the VP research that my grant with @dgrand.bsky.social, "Promoting Accurate Information on Social Media" was terminated as well

Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · Apr 18

Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social · Apr 18

NSF has posted an “update on priorities.”

They’re canceling all “DEI and misinformation/disinformation” grants.

And the guidance on how to fulfill the longstanding, legally mandated Broadening Participation requirement is utterly incoherent.

www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

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