(But then, I would have predicted Bitcoin to have gone the way of the dinosaur by now, so what do I know...)

I predict that with publications becoming cheaper to generate, the idea that counting published papers is a major way of assessing academic performance will have to take a back seat.

Yeah, but what's next? Will he suggest introducing the metric system?
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What are your thoughts on the strategy of submitting to high ranking journals to get good feed-back and then eventually publish in somewhat lower ranking journals?

I find myself reviewing a lot of papers that I feel are not up to muster. I find it frustrating.

Deppenapostroph: new frontier 🖖

Meinen Artikel im Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics findet man hier: sjes.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Ich verstehe, dass der Geldbeschaffungsmechanismus der Initiative (die Erbschaftssteuer) in der öffentlichen Diskussion höhere Wellen schlägt, aber ich finde es gut, sich bewusst zu sein, wie die Verantwortung für Klimawandel verteilt ist, um sich ein vollständiges Bild der Initiative zu machen.

As long as you don't open them it's on them...

In the case of GHG pricing, revenue is generated that can be redistributed in a progressive way. All in all, I find distributional issues to be no argument against CO2 or GHG pricing.

If climate policies for reaching net-zero make consumer prices increase with emissions reductions, these direct costs will impact low-income households most. But the literature shows that there are also indirect costs (changes in wages etc.) that counterbalance this trend.