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Alice Dominici @alicedominici.bsky.social · 17d

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eayeconomists.bsky.social @eayeconomists.bsky.social · 20d

Submit your paper 👉 cmt3.research.microsoft.com/EAYEAM2026

More info 👉 eaye.info

EAYE

The European Association of Young Economists (EAYE) is an association run by young economists for young economists. The association's main objective is to foster interactions between young researchers...

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eayeconomists.bsky.social @eayeconomists.bsky.social · 20d

🚨 Call for Papers!

The 2026 EAYE Annual Meeting will take place at the University of the Basque Country 🇪🇸 on 18–20 May 2026

📅 Submit your paper or extended abstract by 1 Dec 2025 via CMT

#EAYE2026

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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · Sep 12

Looking back to a wonderful 4th edition of our Workshop on Field Experiments earlier this week – what an amazing crowd 😍

Thank you all for coming and making this event possible – special shoutout to our keynotes, Ulrike Malmendier & Noam Yuchtman 🙏

To a 5th edition in 2026! 🚀

Group picture from the Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business 2025 at TUM Campus Heilbronn

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EEA @eeanews.bsky.social · Aug 29

Monday, Sept 8 @ 15:00 CEST

WORKSHOP: APPLYING FOR ERC GRANTS

📍VIRTUAL

ℹ️& register: www.eeassoc.org/news/applyin...

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Santiago Sanchez-Pages @sanpages.bsky.social · Jul 23

Today, academics and citizens meet at Petralia, Sicily, to talk about how immigration can help with the challenges rural areas are facing. Moderated by @cubel.bsky.social and with @peppeippedico.bsky.social Claudio Deiana and Elisa Cavasino as speakers.

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Sebastian Ramirez-Ruiz @seramirezruiz.bsky.social · Jun 5

I use data from lawmakers’ Twitter from countries across the Americas and Europe with a novel database of 410,000 academic researchers on the platform (paired with information about their academic profiles).

*This is the largest study of its kind on politician-academic interactions online.

Overview of the study population and data structure. Panel a presents an overview of the data structure and connections between the legislator and academic researcher data sources. Panel b provides a summary of the legislators included in the study.

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Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social · Jun 3

10/ If you found this paper useful, check our follow-up work with @eleala.bsky.social and @walraslaw.bsky.social, where we ask what happens to public's trust in scientists when they become political? Full thread below bsky.app/profile/pras...

Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social · Dec 6

Public trust in science is more important than ever. But what happens when scientists openly share their political opinions on social media?

Our updated paper with @eleala.bsky.social & @walraslaw.bsky.social shows how academics’ political expression affects their credibility

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Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social · Jun 3

1/ 🚨 Hot off the press! Our study “Political Expression of Academics on Social Media” with @trfetzer.com is now peer-reviewed & live in Nature Human Behaviour @nature.com 🎉. Thread 👇

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Jason Furman @jasonfurman.bsky.social · May 22

I just finished meeting with one of our amazing international students who is graduating and was reflecting on their experience here. And then open this.

What a horrible, horrendous thing to do—I hope it can be stopped quickly.

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Eleonora Alabrese @eleala.bsky.social · Apr 28

Register @ cepr-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CEPR Women in Economics: WE_ARE Seminar Series. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

We are thrilled to announce the return of the WE_ARE Seminar Series. Mark your calendars for Mondays, starting at 11.15pm EDT / 4.15pm BST / 5.15pm CEST. Upcoming Sessions in APRIL: Week 1: Finance...

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Eleonora Alabrese @eleala.bsky.social · Apr 28

🚀 Excited to present today @cepr.org WE_ARE Seminar Series my work: "Politicized Scientists: The Credibility Cost of Political Expression on Twitter" (with @prashantgarg.bsky.social & @walraslaw.bsky.social)

Thanks #WE_ARE for fostering such a vibrant platform for sharing women's work in economics!

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Eleonora Alabrese @eleala.bsky.social · Apr 27

Thank you all for a fantastic workshop! So inspired by the brilliant work, discussions, and new ideas. Here’s to many more! 🚀

Gilat Levy, @johannarickne.bsky.social, Dimitrios Xefteris, Sandro Brusco, @cubel.bsky.social, @anacweeks.bsky.social, Javier Rivas

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Ana Catalano Weeks @anacweeks.bsky.social · Apr 23

Looking forward to a super interesting political economy workshop this Friday @uniofbath.bsky.social thank you @eleala.bsky.social for inviting me!

I will talk about ongoing research on femonationalist politics w @jmfernandes86.bsky.social & Bonnie Meguid. It is unfortunately very topical.

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Eleonora Alabrese @eleala.bsky.social · Apr 23

Excited to welcome such a fantastic lineup of speakers this Friday at @econuniofbath.bsky.social for our Political Economy & Public Economics Workshop!

Proud to co-organise this with Jaideep Roy—join us in 4 West 1.01 for a full day of great talks and discussions!

Department of Economics, Uni of Bath @econuniofbath.bsky.social · Apr 23

🚨 Join us this Friday 25th April for the Political Economy & Public Economics Workshop at @uniofbath.bsky.social!

4W 1.01 | 9:30–17:45

Great talks from Gilat Levy @johannarickne.bsky.social Dimitrios Xefteris Sandro Brusco @cubel.bsky.social @anacweeks.bsky.social Javier Rivas @eleala.bsky.social

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Department of Economics, Uni of Bath @econuniofbath.bsky.social · Apr 23

🚨 Join us this Friday 25th April for the Political Economy & Public Economics Workshop at @uniofbath.bsky.social!

4W 1.01 | 9:30–17:45

Great talks from Gilat Levy @johannarickne.bsky.social Dimitrios Xefteris Sandro Brusco @cubel.bsky.social @anacweeks.bsky.social Javier Rivas @eleala.bsky.social

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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · Apr 17

Some thoughts on the strategic rationale behind the "Brandmauer” – the cordon sanitaire vis-à-vis the AfD – and the challenges associated with maintaining it. Seems pertinent, given that senior CDU/CSU figures regularly float the idea of ditching it and exploring avenues for closer cooperation.

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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · Apr 17

-- @eleala.bsky.social, @trfetzer.com, and S. Wang - document in the case of Brexit. @beimwort.bsky.social had a nice summary of one of the paper's bottom lines: right-wing populists can thrive on conditions that they themselves can help create. These papers
beimwort.substack.com/p/der-kampf-...

Der Kampf um die Demokratie wird lang und zäh

Keine hektische Panik nach den Landtagswahlen, aber erst recht keine Illusionen. Wie Berichterstattung die Wahrnehmung von Migration als Problem beeinflusst. Tucholsky erklärt die Berliner.

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Nico Ajzenman @nicolasajz.bsky.social · Apr 16

🚨 Call for papers! The second edition of the Transatlantic Political Economy Conference (T-PEC) will be in November in London. Organized by @clpennec.bsky.social Cevat Aksoy and me.

The submission deadline is July 4, 2025. Apply here (and RT!):

sites.google.com/view/tpec-mo...

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Eleonora Alabrese @eleala.bsky.social · Apr 11

Excited to co-host this year’s Political Economy and Public Economics Workshop with Jaideep Roy @econuniofbath.bsky.social

We’ve a fantastic lineup of talks on voting, governance, activism, media, scientists’ incentives, political discourse, and more

📍 April 25, 4W 1.01, scan the QR code to join!

Department of Economics, Uni of Bath @econuniofbath.bsky.social · Apr 10

🚨 Join us @uniofbath.bsky.social for the Political Economy and Public Economics Workshop — a day of insightful talks from leading academics on voting, gender, activism and governance, scientists' incentives and their political discourse

📍 April 25th, 4W 1.01 from 9:30AM  
🔗 Scan QR code below

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · Mar 21

Happy to attend the @cepr.org Workshop on People’s Understanding of and Support for Economic Policies workshop at St Gallen. I ll share some thoughts on this carefully curated workshop in this thread.

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Eleonora Alabrese @eleala.bsky.social · Mar 22

Not at all. Especially in the current climate, though, it is worth documenting the influence of audience perceptions. These reputational costs are non negligible and can lead to information loss in political discourse or, on the other hand, contributing to polarization

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · Mar 21

Second to last for the day we have @eleala.bsky.social presenting "Politicized Scientists: Credibility Cost of Political Expression on Twitter" exploring the causal effect of political signaling on the credibility of academics active on social media.

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Department of Economics, Uni of Bath @econuniofbath.bsky.social · Feb 27

📢 Join the public lecture by Prof. Kaushik Basu!

How is the rise of digital technology changing labour markets? What can we do about the rising youth unemployment in India?

4 March 2025 | 5:30-7 PM
University of Bath, Chancellors’ Building, Room 2.6

Register using the QR code below!

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Valeria Rueda @valerueda.bsky.social · Jan 24

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣
NICEP Conference
What: Interdisciplinary research in Econ & Politics
📆 May 12-13 -- Submit before March 3rd
📍 Nottingham, UK
Confirmed: Diego Gambetta, Maria Petrova, Sandra Sequeira & Stéphane Wolton
sway.cloud.microsoft/IKXaLZCiPkJh...
#EconSky

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Eleonora Alabrese @eleala.bsky.social · Jan 20

Link to the WP: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

warwick.ac.uk

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