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Jakob Schneebacher @jschneebacher.bsky.social · 2d

Interested in productivity, business dynamism and market power? Come to this year's CMA-Durham workshop on 20-21 November!

We open with a keynote by Jonathan Haskel (Imperial), followed by two days worth of sessions on technology diffusion, market frictions,market power and more.

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2025 CMA Durham Workshop - CMA Durham Partnership

20-21 November, 2025 Productivity, Business Dynamism and Market Power The Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) Microeconomics Unit, the Department of Economics at Durham University Business School...

cma-partnership.webspace.durham.ac.uk

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ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin @rfberlin.bsky.social · 13d

📢 We are hiring 📢

RFBerlin is looking for a #ResearchAssistant to support the project on the labor market effects of collective bargaining.

Apply now or share with your network: www.rfberlin.com/job/research...

Research Assistant

We at RFBerlin are seeking a highly skilled and motivated research assistant to provide support for a project on the labor market effects of collective bargaining, led by Christian Dustmann and Jan Kn...

www.rfberlin.com

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Joel Kariel @joelkariel.bsky.social · 15d

Deadline in two days!

Joel Kariel @joelkariel.bsky.social · 22d

Call for papers for our economics workshop: cma-partnership.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/08/29/2...

Please submit before 25th September if you work on:

- UK productivity slowdown
- Aggregate market power
- Business dynamism
- Industrial policy
- Supply chains
- Determinants of innovation and R&D

2025 CMA Durham Workshop - CMA Durham Partnership

20-21 November, 2025 Productivity, Business Dynamism and Market Power The Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) Microeconomics Unit, the Department of Economics at Durham University Business School...

cma-partnership.webspace.durham.ac.uk

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Joel Kariel @joelkariel.bsky.social · 22d

Call for papers for our economics workshop: cma-partnership.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/08/29/2...

Please submit before 25th September if you work on:

- UK productivity slowdown
- Aggregate market power
- Business dynamism
- Industrial policy
- Supply chains
- Determinants of innovation and R&D

2025 CMA Durham Workshop - CMA Durham Partnership

20-21 November, 2025 Productivity, Business Dynamism and Market Power The Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) Microeconomics Unit, the Department of Economics at Durham University Business School...

cma-partnership.webspace.durham.ac.uk

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Jakob Schneebacher @jschneebacher.bsky.social · 27d

How does competition influence investment?

The CMA has just published our new Microeconomics Unit lit review (joint work with my fantastic colleagues Amanda Ereyi and @joelkariel.bsky.social).

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Investment and competition over the business lifecycle

Review of the existing literature on the relationship between competition and investment as a business grows.

www.gov.uk

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Anna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · Sep 8

📢Nina Roussille and I are hiring a full-time predoctoral researcher to work with us at MIT on labor economics research projects.

IMPORTANT: this vacancy is open right now, so we are particularly interested in people who could start soon.

Link to apply: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

Predoctoral Researcher

MIT - Predoctoral Researcher - Cambridge MA 02139

careers.peopleclick.com

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Joel Kariel @joelkariel.bsky.social · Sep 8

Call for papers for our economics workshop!

Deadline in just over two weeks.

Joel Kariel @joelkariel.bsky.social · Aug 29

Doing research on productivity, business dynamism and/or market power? Please submit to our fourth CMA-Durham workshop! Deadline 25 Sept.

Also apply if your work links to: industrial policy, technology diffusion, start-ups, supply chains.

cma-partnership.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/08/29/2...

2025 CMA Durham Workshop - CMA Durham Partnership

20-21 November, 2025 Productivity, Business Dynamism and Market Power The Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) Microeconomics Unit, the Department of Economics at Durham University Business School...

cma-partnership.webspace.durham.ac.uk

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Joel Kariel @joelkariel.bsky.social · Aug 29

Doing research on productivity, business dynamism and/or market power? Please submit to our fourth CMA-Durham workshop! Deadline 25 Sept.

Also apply if your work links to: industrial policy, technology diffusion, start-ups, supply chains.

cma-partnership.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/08/29/2...

2025 CMA Durham Workshop - CMA Durham Partnership

20-21 November, 2025 Productivity, Business Dynamism and Market Power The Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) Microeconomics Unit, the Department of Economics at Durham University Business School...

cma-partnership.webspace.durham.ac.uk

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ESCoE @escoeorg.bsky.social · Aug 14

It's well-established that UK firms engaged in international trade are more productive, but why?

New analysis from @christinavpalmou.bsky.social and Kyle Jones (ONS) offers new evidence: tinyurl.com/5c9mazpa

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Paris School of Economics @pse.bsky.social · Jun 2

📅 June 18, 2025: Day 1 of the PSE - @cepr.org Policy Forum
"AI & Labor Reallocation"
Featuring:
🎙️ Barbara Petrongolo (@ox.ac.uk)
🎯 @davidautor.bsky.social (@mit.edu)

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The Productivity Institute @productivity.bsky.social · May 23

📢 Calling early-career researchers! A 3-year postdoc in urban & regional economics at @alliancembs.bsky.social is open - guided by TPI experts & backed by Sir Terry Leahy.
🗓️ Apply by 18 June 2025
🔗 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
#PostdocJobs #EconomicGeography #ResearchOpportunity

The Sir Terry Leahy Post Doctoral Research Fellowship :Manchester

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk

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Carmen Villa @carmenvillaecon.bsky.social · May 22

🚨 I'm hiring a Research Assistant at the Institute for Fiscal Studies 🚨

This is a great opportunity for someone interested in academic + policy work.

The position is based in London and starting this autumn.

Please apply below or share 🙂
app.beapplied.com/apply/nithts...

Research Assistance (Crime and Justice)

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) is hiring a Research Assistant to support ongoing work on the effects of youth clubs on youth development. The Research Assistant will work closely with Dr. Carm...

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Joel Kariel @joelkariel.bsky.social · May 22

Looking forward to presenting @escoeorg.bsky.social today!

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Joel Kariel @joelkariel.bsky.social · Apr 24

Please reach out if you'd like to know more about our research team and how we might collaborate on this fellowship.

Jakob Schneebacher @jschneebacher.bsky.social · Apr 24

Join the CMA Microeconomics Unit as a UKRI Policy Fellow for 18 months!

Awards buy out teaching/admin time to allow you to focus on a CMA-relevant research project, while embedded part-time in the Unit.

The call for fellowships is here: www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

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UKRI policy fellowships 2025

Spend 18 months as a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) core policy fellow, Natural Hazards and Resilience policy fellow or What Works Innovation fellow to inform policy to address pressing national an...

www.ukri.org

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Joel Kariel @joelkariel.bsky.social · Apr 22

For Earth Day 2025, an awesome paper on the long-term environmental impact of this particular activist event: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Bad weather on Earth Day in 1970 is associated with far worse air pollution 50 years later. That is not the case for bad weather the day before or after!

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Jakob Schneebacher @jschneebacher.bsky.social · Feb 24

Looking to do a fully funded, policy-relevant PhD in economics?

The ESRC has funded another joint CMA PhD studentship, this time with Lorenza Rossi and Stefano Fasani at Lancaster University, on the interaction of market power, price setting and macro dynamics.

Please share widely and apply!

ESRC CASE PhD Studentship - Lancaster University

www.lancaster.ac.uk

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Jakob Schneebacher @jschneebacher.bsky.social · Jan 30

The new @oxrepjournal.bsky.social on "New Directions in Competition Policy" is out.

My colleagues @joelkariel.bsky.social, Mike Walker and I survey recent labour market competition cases, summarise lessons from our report on labour market power in the UK and highlight some open questions.

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Competition policy and labour market power: new evidence and open questions

Abstract. Emerging evidence on pervasive and rising market power in US labour markets has led some competition agencies to wonder if the prevailing focus o

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Warwick Economics @warwickecon.bsky.social · Dec 4

📰A project by Professor Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com
Dr Jakob Schneebacher, and Dr Christina Palmou has won one of this year's Office for National Statistics Research Excellence Awards.
Read more: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

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Joel Kariel @joelkariel.bsky.social · Dec 5

Interested in an econ PhD on market power? Check out this great ESRC opportunity. I can't pretend I'm unbiased given my 8 years at Oxford & current role at the CMA, but it's a great chance to work on an important & interesting topic with brilliant researchers!
www.granduniondtp.ac.uk/beyond-marku...

Beyond markups: understanding changes to competition, concentration, and market power

www.granduniondtp.ac.uk

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Jakob Schneebacher @jschneebacher.bsky.social · Dec 3

What does this all mean? In our State of Competition report, we show that other countries share similar secular trends in markups and business dynamism, and try to understand their potential causes.

I have summarised the main findings here:
www.economicsobservatory.com/how-is-compe...

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How is competition changing across the UK economy? - Economics Observatory

Competition creates an opportunity for new ideas to enter the economy, allows more dynamic entrants to displace inefficient incumbents and offers incentives for firms to keep innovating. A new Competi...

www.economicsobservatory.com

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Maksym Polyakov 🇺🇦🌻 @maksympolyakov.bsky.social · Nov 17

Types of Econ Papers by @maximananyev.bsky.social
#econsky #xkcd

Types of Econ Papers
(https://x.com/maximananyev/status/1387997051808452608)

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Joel Kariel @joelkariel.bsky.social · Nov 15

There is some evidence that public support rose after implementation (e.g. CC in London, various cities in Norway, Stockholm), but as far as I know there wasn't simultaneous investment in public transit -- I think the sense is people responded positively to reduced congestion!

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Joel Kariel @joelkariel.bsky.social · Nov 13

For economics/polsci graduate students interested in UK policy, HMT has published its areas of research interest, which might spark some research ideas!

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/673207...

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Dani Sandler @dismalscientist86.bsky.social · Nov 7

Resharing the government economists starter pack. go.bsky.app/K7fAcMi Plenty of room to add more, so ping me if you should be included.

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Joel Kariel @joelkariel.bsky.social · Nov 9

Returned to my alma mater for the weekend. Little has changed since I started my graduate studies in 2016; it's still beautiful in the autumn, my favourite cafe is thriving, and social science students are debating "how the Democrats recover from this"

Colourful autumnal trees along a path in University Parks, Oxford UK.

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