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ZEW Mannheim @zew.de · May 15

Unser #Jahresbericht ist da! 2024 war geprägt von Stagnation, Krisen und Konflikten. Wir am #ZEW haben diese Entwicklungen mit Analysen begleitet und Orientierung geboten. Daher widmen wir unseren Jahresbericht dem Thema KRAFT. Viel Spaß bei der Lektüre! www.zew.de/WS372/?twt=1

Mock up ZEW-Jahresbericht (Titel und aufgeschlagenes Vorowort)

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ZEW Mannheim @zew.de · May 13

„Eine stärkere #Mindestlohnerhöhung wäre in der Boomphase wahrscheinlich kein Problem. Allerdings ist das in der aktuellen wirtschaftlichen Lage eventuell gefährlich“, kommentiert #ZEW-Ökonom @eduardbruell.bsky.social die laufende Debatte (ab Min. 6:00).
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Plusminus: Mindestlohnerhöhung und ihre Folgen - hier anschauen

15 Euro Mindestlohn sollen bis 2026 erreichbar sein. So steht es im Koalitionsvertrag. Doch welche Folgen hätte ein Anstieg des Mindestlohns auf 15 Euro für Wirtschaft und Verbraucher? PLUSMINUS hat n...

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Tom Smith @analyst42.bsky.social · May 4

Git was 20 years old this week. Written by the creator of Linux as a tool to streamline his workflow - it shows the importance of making tools. If you have a better way of doing something, write and share it. It's possible that few others understand the problem, let alone have the solution you do!

The New Stack @thenewstack.io · May 3

Linus Torvalds knew what developers wanted for their SCM: Performance, safeguards against data corruption and distributed workflow.

Linus Torvalds Reflects on 20 Years of Git

Linus Torvalds knew what developers wanted for their SCM: Performance, safeguards against data corruption and distributed workflow.

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Eduard Brüll @eduardbruell.bsky.social · Apr 29

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Eduard Brüll @eduardbruell.bsky.social · Apr 29

Traditional search is literal. If the wording doesn’t match, you miss good papers.

This tool uses LLM-embeddings to find papers by meaning, not words, so you catch hidden connections across topics, fields, and phrasings.

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Eduard Brüll @eduardbruell.bsky.social · Apr 29

Paste your abstract.
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This is my new RePEc semantic search engine in action.

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Screenshot of the "Semantic Paper Search" app. An abstract about competition in German primary care is entered on the left. On the right, the app returns highly similar papers from RePEc, including titles, authors, journals, years, abstracts, and similarity scores. Download links and a bibtex-export function are also available.

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Chris Karbownik @chriskarbownik.bsky.social · Apr 24

New paper out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... We study (using DiD) effects of 1968 Poor People's Campaign on election outcomes. Overall these peaceful protests had no effects on elections (contrasting prior civil rights era findings) but they hurt Ds in the South and helped them in the West.

Civil rights protests and election outcomes: Exploring the effects of the poor people’s campaign

The Poor People’s Campaign (PPC) of 1968 was focused on highlighting, and ultimately reducing, poverty in the United States. As part of the campaign, …

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Camila Steffens @camilastfs.bsky.social · Apr 14

🚭 Publication alert!
Are smoking bans effective in shaping smoking behavior?

New paper w/ @paulapereda.bsky.social in the Journal of Development Economics explores Brazil’s experience with smoke-free policies, uncovering key mechanisms.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jd...

#Econsky #PublicHealth #Brazil
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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · Apr 21

relatedly, there's a nice paper showing that when a company changes from a CEO without a business degree to a new CEO with a business degree, sales stay the same but wages fall

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Figure 3 from the linked paper showing that wages and labor share fall in response to a new CEO with a business degree

A screenshot of the title page of the linked paper, which reads as follows:

Eclipse of Rent-Sharing: The Effects of Managers’ Business Education on Wages and the Labor Share in the US and Denmark

Daron Acemoglu, Alex Xi He, Daniel le Maire

March 2022

Abstract
This paper provides evidence from the US and Denmark that managers with a business degree (“business managers”) reduce their employees’ wages. Within five years of the appointment of a business manager, wages decline by 6% and the labor share by 5 percentage points in the US, and by 3% and 3 percentage points in Denmark. Firms appointing business managers are not on differential trends and do not enjoy higher output, investment, or employment growth thereafter. Using manager retirements and deaths and an IV strategy based on the diffusion of the practice of appointing business managers within industry, region and size quartile cells, we provide additional evidence that these are causal effects. We establish that the proximate cause of these (relative) wage effects are changes in rent-sharing practices following the appointment of business managers. Exploiting exogenous export demand shocks, we show that non-business managers share profits with their workers, whereas business managers do not. But consistent with our first set of results, these business managers show no greater ability to increase sales or profits in response to exporting opportunities. Finally, we use the influence of role models on college major choice to instrument for the decision to enroll in a business degree in Denmark and show that our estimates correspond to causal effects of practices and values acquired in business education—rather than the differential selection into business education of individuals unlikely to share rents with workers.

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · Apr 18

$The GREATEST, most TREMENDOUS Python package that makes importing great again! About TARIFF is a fantastic tool that lets you impose import tariffs on Python packages. We're going to bring manufacturing BACK to your codebase by making foreign imports more EXPENSIVE! Installation pip install tariff Usage import tariff # Set your tariff rates (package_name: percentage) tariff.set({| "numpy": 50, "pandas": 200, "requests": 150 # 50% tariff on numpy # 200% tariff on pandas # 150% tariff on requests # Now when you import these packages, they'll be TARIFFED! import numpy # This will be 50% slower import pandas # This will be 200% slower$

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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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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · Apr 17

Good lesson:

Koen Van den Eeckhout @vandeneeckhoutkoen.bsky.social · Apr 17

Small multiples can save even the most complicated chart. And the best thing is, you can use this technique for almost any type of chart. A scatter plot, for example!

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(Post 4 out of 4 while I'm on holiday, sharing some highlights from previous years)

A scatter plot showing environmental impact score and nutrition impact score of different types of sausage. Below the scatter plot are 5 smaller plots, each highlighting one of the categories.

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Apr 16

Holy crap this sucks

“According to Onda’s attorney, the U.S. government asked him to leave due to his criminal history, which includes two speeding tickets and a catch-and-release fishing citation dismissed in 2019.”

Brenden W. Rensink 📚🏃‍♂️⛰ @brendenwrensink.bsky.social · Apr 16

BYU PhD student, father of 5, just had his student visa revoked and he and his family may have to return to Japan 1-year short of finishing his doctorate. 😡

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BYU grad student has I-20 visa revoked, leaving student, family, unclear

Suguru Onda has been living legally in the US with a Form I-20, or I-20 visa, and said he has one year before completing his doctoral degree.

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · Apr 6

Oh come on it can’t be that big of a drop in WHOA.

Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · Apr 5

Playing around with CBP airport processing data this morning to see how much air travel by non-US passengers is cratering.

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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · Apr 4

The Kiel Institute is on fire – they modelled the impact of Trump’s trade war.

Check out the chart. The numbers come with the usual uncertainty, but they give a good sense of the eye-popping inflation the US is now facing.

Via @davideoneglia.bsky.social
Paper here: www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/kiel-...

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · Apr 4

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ZEW Mannheim @zew.de · Apr 1

💻 Die Mehrheit der Beschäftigten nutzt #KI – allerdings überwiegend informell. Für was sie genutzt wird und welche Auswirkungen das hat, zeigt die Studie von u.a. den #ZEW-Ökonomen @schlenkeroli.bsky.social und @eduardbruell.bsky.social. www.zew.de/PM9398/?twt=1

Pressemitteilung: Beschäftigte nutzen KI – auch ohne betriebliche Einführung

„Die Mehrheit der Beschäftigten möchte gerne KI nutzen und tut dies bereits, auch wenn sie nicht durch den Betrieb eingeführt wurde.&nbsp;Vor allem die Veröffentlichung generativer KI wie ChatGPT ...

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · Mar 29

This is fantastic! This website allows you to watch TV stations from around the world. I just watched 2 minutes of Afghan volleyball. All the small regional TV stations from Germany are here too. Spread the word! Source: tv.garden

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Jan Sauermann @jansauermann.bsky.social · Mar 28

EALE @eale-office.bsky.social is now on Bluesky. Let’s give it a warm welcome!
#EconSky 📉📈

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Simon P. Couch @simonpcouch.com · Mar 26

Since the release of Claude Code a few weeks ago, I’ve been experimenting with using the tool to develop R packages. Some notes on what that's been like on my blog: www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2025-03...

How I’m Using Claude Code to Develop R Packages | Simon P. Couch – Simon P. Couch

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · Mar 22

You can write a whole econometrics textbook with this meme

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Terry Gregory @terrygregory.bsky.social · Feb 25

🚀 Call for Papers – Deadline Near! 🚀

TASKS VII Conference on AI & Work on Sept 11-12, 2025 @liser.lu in Luxembourg!

📌 Deadline: March 1, 2025
🎤 Keynotes: David Autor (MIT), Lindsey Raymond (Harvard), Thijs Bol (Amsterdam)

📩 Submit: [email protected]

🔗 More info: www.liser.lu/Call-for-Pap...

Call for Papers: TASKS VII Conference

LISER's public research focuses on social and economic policies, including their spatial dimension. Its mission is to provide the scientific community and society with clear, relevant and solid answer...

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Lukas Stoetzer @lstoetze.bsky.social · Feb 24

Wie gut war unsere zweistimme.org Vorhersage der Bundestagswahl 2025?

Zweitstimme: 0.78 Prozentpunkte im Mittel daneben.
Erststimme: 270/299 Wahlkreise korrekt vorhergesagt.

Unseren Blog-Post dazu:

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