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Anna Zech @asezech.bsky.social · 2d

Day three at new job in Frankfurt @mpilhlt.bsky.social. Nice to be finally on the ground and able to attend the myriad of CB-related events on offer. First up: IMFS/Frankfurt School of Finance book presentation.

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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · Sep 1

Ever asked yourself how to detect and extract social groups from texts with computational social science? @haukelicht.bsky.social and me have a solution for you out at @bjpols.bsky.social. You can also find the pre-trained models on huggingface!

British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · Sep 1

NEW -

Detecting Group Mentions in Political Rhetoric A Supervised Learning Approach - cup.org/45WZppQ

- @haukelicht.bsky.social & @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

BJPolS Abstract discussing a social science research method that uses text analysis for understanding group language patterns and political leanings, mentioning the use of British articles and generating new empirical insights.

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Anna Zech @asezech.bsky.social · Sep 1

In Frankfurt today to attend the ECB Legal Conference. Over the past years, I've spent a lot of time with economists working on the ECB/monetary policy. Curious to see these topics discussed from a legal perspective.

www.ecb.europa.eu/press/confer...

ECB Legal Conference 2025

The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purch...

www.ecb.europa.eu

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Anna Zech @asezech.bsky.social · Sep 1

Looking forward to this discussion on Wednesday!

FEPS Europe @feps-europe.eu · Aug 13

Register for our conference "Inflation preparedness in the EU"
👉 bit.ly/InflationPre...

We'll discuss
🔸Lessons learned from recent inflation episodes & how to prevent it
🔸What a🆕inflation governance framework should look like & how to develop it

By FEPS w/ @eesc.bsky.social Fondazione Nenni & TASC

Inflation preparedness in the EU - Foundation for European Progressive Studies

Lessons learned and a new Inflation Governance Framework

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Henry Curr @curr.bsky.social · Aug 28

I reported this week's Money Talks podcast from the mountain, lake and lodge at Jackson Hole. Featuring Kristin Forbes, @jonsteinsson.bsky.social ‬, Barry Eichengreen and - at 10,000ft - @laura-veldkamp.bsky.social

Listen to my Jackson Hole audio diary:

www.economist.com/podcasts/202...

Gone fishing: our economics editor’s Jackson Hole diary

Our podcast on markets, the economy and business. This week, how Donald Trump’s fight with the Fed escalated in a usually quiet corner of Wyoming

www.economist.com

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Amin Samman @aminsamman.bsky.social · Aug 22

Very pleased to announce the full programme for this year's Finance and Society conference, which will take place on 11-12 September at Copenhagen Business School. Registration now open to the public. Come join us!
@finandsoc.bsky.social financeandsocietynetwork.org/prog-finands...

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · Aug 15

Things that are totally normal in Cologne: 4,000 fans of 1. FC Köln attending a special mess in the cathedral at the start of the season.

Organ plays the club‘s hymn (the Scottish folk song Loch Lomond, with a German text) priest sings along (from 1h19m).

Gerd @uehmche.bsky.social · Aug 15

Um 11:45 beginnt die Übertragung der ökumenischen Fan-Andacht zum Saison-Beginn. Die 4000 Eintrittskarten waren innerhalb von Minuten weg.
77 Jahre #effzeh & 777 Jahre im Kölner Dom am 15.08.2025
youtube.com/live/hPJTuhr...

Fan-Andacht: 77 Jahre FC & 777 Jahre im Kölner Dom am 15.08.2025

YouTube video by DOMRADIO

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Dezernat Zukunft @dezernatzukunft.bsky.social · Aug 8

Masterarbeitsthema gesucht? Wir suchen eine:n Masterstudent:in, um die #Elastizitäten von Bundesausgaben zu analysieren. Wenn du dich für #Makroökonomie begeisterst und mit deiner Forschung Impact erzielen willst, bewirb dich jetzt! dezernat-zukunft.jobs.personio.de/job/2282660?...

Deine Masterarbeit im Growth & Budget Lab des Dezernat Zukunft - Institut für Makrofinanzen (w/m/d, 38h/Woche, 3-6 Monate) | Jobs at Dezernat Zukunft

Dezernat Zukunft is a non-partisan policy institute that aims to explain and re-think monetary, fiscal, and economic policy in an accessible and coherent way. Our work is guided by three core values: ...

dezernat-zukunft.jobs.personio.de

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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · Jul 18

🎓 Yesterday, at the graduation ceremony of the International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE), we had the great pleasure of honoring ‪@tobiasarbogast.bsky.social, @cerencevik.bsky.social, @hadoose.bsky.social, ‬...

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Foto of the graduates with their certificates. Maximilian Kiecker, Tobias Arbogast, Marco Oberti, Muhammad Osama Iqbal, Jeremiah Nollenberger, Anna Hehenberger, Stephan Gruber, Hanna Doose, Camilla Locatelli, Valentin Rottensteiner, Ceren Çevik and Zarah Westrich

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Thierry Rossier @thierryrossier.bsky.social · Jun 19

My new book on 'The Power of Rankings in Economics and Research Organizations.
Contributions to the Social Studies of Economics' with Stephan Pühringer and Jens Maesse is out!! You can dowload the whole book in open access below:

www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

The Power of Rankings in Economics and Research Organizations | Contri

Discourses around research excellence and quality are predominant within the economic sciences, with various forms of ranking playing a central role. They make

www.taylorfrancis.com

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Anna Zech @asezech.bsky.social · Jun 27

Off for some holidays, catch you on the other side for more of this ⬇️

Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · Jun 27

can't, i'm intervening in the literature

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Anna Zech @asezech.bsky.social · Jun 21

Cool new @dezernatzukunft.bsky.social project. Dashboard for supply side inflationary pressures. ⬇️

dezernatzukunft.org/supply-side-...

Supply Side Monitor - Dezernat Zukunft

dezernatzukunft.org

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Dezernat Zukunft @dezernatzukunft.bsky.social · Jun 13

🚨Job-Alert: Wir suchen eine:n #PolicyAnalyst / #Economist (w/m/d) für nachhaltige Finanzmärkte.

Du kennst dich mit Klimapolitik aus und möchtest handfeste Vorschläge entwickeln?

Dann komm in unser Team! dezernat-zukunft.jobs.personio.de/job/2151256?...

#Job #Hiring #Klima #Finanzen #ThinkTank

Policy Analyst / Economist für nachhaltige Finanzmärkte bei Dezernat Zukunft – Institut für Makrofinanzen (w/m/d, 32-39h/Woche, zunächst befristet auf ein Jahr) | Jobs at Dezernat Zukunft

Dezernat Zukunft is a non-partisan policy institute that aims to explain and re-think monetary, fiscal, and economic policy in an accessible and coherent way. Our work is guided by three core values: ...

dezernat-zukunft.jobs.personio.de

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · Jun 12

I had the pleasure of co-hosting our Money Talks podcast on the German economy, Merz and the fiscal bazooka, feat. @monika-schnitzer.com and @philippasigl.bsky.social. www.economist.com/podcasts/202...

Can Germany reinvent its economy?

Our podcast on markets, the economy and business. This week, the challenges facing an economic plan that is radical (by German standards)

www.economist.com

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Alessandro Merli @merlialess.bsky.social · Jun 2

A wonderful memory of Stan Fischer being warmly greeted by his disciple and friend Mario Draghi at the @ecb.europa.eu Central Banking Forum in Sintra. Central-bank watcher watching at the back

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Anna Zech @asezech.bsky.social · May 20

Well done!!😊

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Aurélien Goutsmedt @aurelien-goutsmedt.com · May 19

🎉 All the contributions to @finandsoc.bsky.social special section on the “Scientization of Central Banks” are now online!
👉 shorturl.at/Izq9r

In the intro with Francesco Sergi, we refine the concept of scientization along 3 key dimensions
🔹 Policymaking
🔹 Contributory
🔹 Legitimizing

Article: Redefining scientization: Central banks between science and politics

This article introduces a new conceptual framework for examining the transformation of central banks’ activities at the intersection of science and politics. It builds on the results of the contributions gathered in this special section on the scientization of central banking, to which this article also provides an introduction. We start with an analysis of Martin Marcussen’s concept of ‘scientization’, originally formulated to describe the changes within central banks since the 2000s. After highlighting how Marcussen’s concept has raised different interpretations, we broaden our scope to examine how ‘scientization’ is applied in the wider social sciences, extending beyond the study of central banks. This brings to the fore two ideas: scientization as ‘boundary work’ (redrawing the line between ‘science’ and ‘non-science’) happening both in the public-facing (‘frontstage’) and internal (‘backstage’) activities of organizations. Finally, we suggest how these two ideas can be used to reinterpret ‘scientization’ of central banks as the emergence of central banks as ‘boundary organizations’. This reframing allows us to untangle and clarify the phenomena previously conflated under the original concept of scientization, offering a more coherent framework for ongoing research on central banks.

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Laura Pierret @laurapierret.bsky.social · May 15

For my first Bluesky publication, I am happy to share that my first single authored article is out in Comparative European Politics and open access! The article aims to explain the concept of moral hazard's domination of the EU's policy response to the Great Recession
rdcu.be/embpS

Beyond the German obsession: moral hazard and power in European economic governance

rdcu.be

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Anna Zech @asezech.bsky.social · May 15

Interesting read.

Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · May 9

✨ New Essay! ✨

A powerful fiscal counter-strategy stands ready for deployment: a Blue state bond drive for democracy.

moneyontheleft.org/2025/05/09/b...

It's time for fearless invention. Blue bonds can save lives, motivate voters & model politics for the post-Trump era.

Please share widely! 🙌

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Anna Zech @asezech.bsky.social · May 15

For anyone in Paris in June and interested in expertise: www.icp.fr/a-propos-de-...

Expertise facing new forms of power and influence | Workshop

In view of the attacks on established forms of expertise and ongoing technological and industrial developments, contemporary models of expertise are being tested more than ever. Join us on 4th June fo...

www.icp.fr

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Anna Zech @asezech.bsky.social · May 14

academic.oup.com/jfr/advance-...

Encumbered Security? Vertical and Horizontal Repos in the Euro Area and Their Inherent Ambiguity

ABSTRACT. Despite the significance of repurchase agreements (repos) in market-based finance, European repo markets remain underexplored. Drawing on monetar

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Anna Zech @asezech.bsky.social · May 14

A good one for your reading lists! Can always count on Steffen and his team to unpack the complex technicalities of money and finance to show us where the magic happens. 🏦💶

Steffen Murau @steffenmurau.bsky.social · May 14

💡 We see the 2nd operation as the main source of repos' inherent ambiguity. Depending on context, one can claim that the lender has the security during the repo contract, or the borrower, or both, or noone.

👉 all of this has happened in repo history
👉 also lay at the heart of the Lehman Bankruptcy

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Thu Nguyen @onethuthree.bsky.social · May 6

Second round of voting will not happen today

Thu Nguyen @onethuthree.bsky.social · May 6

Merz failed to get elected as chancellor in first round in the Bundestag.

He needed 316 votes, he received 310. The coalition between CDU/CSU and SPD have 328 votes. That means 18 MPs did not vote for him.

There will still be a 2nd (abs. maj.) and 3rd round (rel. maj.), this is a very bad start.

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Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · May 5

Blyth's new book is out before he managed to create a Bluesky account. Order it anyway! I'll let you know when he gets here.

www.amazon.com/Inflation-Gu...

Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers

Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers [Blyth, Mark, Fraccaroli, Nicolò] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers

www.amazon.com

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