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Thiemo Fetzer
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Professor of Economics at Warwick University and at University of Bonn. Visiting Fellow LSE, Fellow/Affiliate with NIESR, CESifo, CEPR. European Research Council Grantee. Data Science, Econ, AI, ML, Networks.

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Thiemo Fetzer is a German economist and professor at the University of Warwick and the University of Bonn. His research focuses on applied economics, political economy, and economic development, with a particular emphasis on the use of artificial intelligence, data science, and machine learning methodologies. Fetzer's work has contributed to major policy discussions and has received coverage in both national and international media outlets. .. more

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Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social Β· 14h
Does science follow where people are sick and does it mobilize when outbreaks hit?

@zhou-hy.bsky.social, @trfetzer.com and I answer just that in our revised paper.

1/ A short thread for highlights πŸ‘‡

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com Β· 17h
To get a glimpse into the subtleness of climate changes likely effects and how subconsciously humans feel but many can't quite reason together how & why. This picture serves as an illustration. It is somewhere in East London. What is it that strikes you as strange on this photo?
Picture of a football pitch in east London that is a bit muddy with a lot of seagulls on it.

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com Β· 1d
Exactly, the human brain is wired to minimize surprise, hence market reward mechanisms are inherently problematic, especially if they are stochastic. There are gambles that should be banned and there should be no incentives for such. I put some slides together here: www.trfetzer.com/ai-for-appli...
AI for Applied Economics
Here are the example codebooks, the PDF of the slides used during the talk as well as the slides that illustrate some of the ways of leaning on using LLMs local
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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com Β· 1d
That bugs me the most is whether human programming to (aim to seek) a β€žleaderβ€œ is itself social construct/learned behavior or if its more deeply encoded. In any case its then clear that confidence or its projection is crucial in some domains and this comes easier to some personality types.

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com Β· 1d
Yes but in some way as humans we are all just operating in different marketplaces shaped by authority. For academics they may care about citations, journalist about stories broken, accountants about taxes saved, … and of course there is the money and perceived wealth metric as well. The question…

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com Β· 13d
Of course that is why they are now reflagging explicitly as RU. This cuts the cat and mouse but that also has unintended consequences

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com Β· 14d
what they mean. Full post: www.trfetzer.com/thoughts-on-...
Thoughts on Venezuela and the Shadow Fleet
I wanted to add a brief explainer on this post that may be perceived to be cryptic. It follows a chain of posts. The first time I was working on shadow fleets w
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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com Β· 14d
Here is a humble attempt of an "explainer" regarding aspects and dimensions through which one can rationalize the Venezuela intervention. It links a broad range of phenomena/dimensions that IMO are all interconnected. Itn the full post I highlight first & second order adjustments and discussing...