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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 23h

Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n

Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI

This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...

www.tandfonline.com

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Kölner Dom @koelner-dom.bsky.social · 1d

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Ruben Kremers @kremers.bsky.social · 5d

finfluencers!!!

jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 5d

PhD and postdoc positions are available on a fantastic project about finfluencers and young adult investment culture in Denmark. The project is based at University of Copenhagen and led by Jacob Ørmen
jobportal.ku.dk

Jobportal - Job og karriere på Københavns Universitet – Københavns Universitet

jobportal.ku.dk

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Ruben Kremers @kremers.bsky.social · 5d

outstanding interview!

and an amazing resource - comprehensive overview of critical macro finance & the wall street consensus...

Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 7d

this May, I sat down with the philosopher Michel Feher, an exception interlocutor, to talk about the Wall Street Consensus, for the project Diagrammes

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuNv...

DANIELA GABOR - LE CONSENSUS DE WALL STREET

YouTube video by Diagram[me]s

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Ruben Kremers @kremers.bsky.social · 6d

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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 21d

🌱🪙 In their introduction to the Special Issue "Puzzling, powering, profiting: The politics of sustainable finance in Europe", editors
@danmertens.bsky.social and @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social define EU sustainable finance & outline how best to analyse it 💡

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Ruben Kremers @kremers.bsky.social · 6d

IPE workshop in Brussels!!!

Aurélien Goutsmedt @aurelien-goutsmedt.com · 7d

📢 Call for Papers — 5th Political Economy Working Group Workshop
🗓️ 30 Jan 2026, Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles

The workshop is divided into two parts:
Morning: PhD research presentations.
Afternoon: open to all, concluding with @benbraun.bsky.social.

Abstracts due 1 Dec 2025

All details below:

The Political Economy working group is pleased to invite you to a workshop on Friday, 30 January, 2026, at the Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles. Founded during the ABSP Congress in February 2024, this group aims to contribute to the advancement and growth of the field of political economy in Belgium.

The workshop will be divided into two parts:
The morning session is open to all PhD students wishing to present the progress of their research, whether in the form of a thesis project, an article or a chapter. Each PhD student will have 40 to 50 minutes for discussion with attending researchers.
The afternoon session is open to all researchers interested in presenting a publication or work-in progress related to the various key themes driving our Political Economy Working Group: European governance, financial regulation, central banks policies and communication, the political economy of the green transition, the role of States in a globalized and financialized world, among others.
Contributions are welcome in either French or English. Presentations should generally be delivered in English.
Next steps:
To propose a presentation for the morning or afternoon sessions, send a title and abstract of no more than 400 words to aurelien.goutsmedt[at]uclouvain.be and zsuzsanna.szeredi[at]uclouvain.be by December 1, 2025. If you wish to present in the PhD morning session, please indicate this clearly in your submission.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by December 19, 2025.
Manuscripts (working papers, chapters or drafts) will be requested by January 16, 2025, in order to give discussants and other participants sufficient time to prepare. We recommend manuscripts of between 5,000 to 10,000 words.

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Kölner Dom @koelner-dom.bsky.social · 7d

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Ruben Kremers @kremers.bsky.social · 7d

🪴🪟🪴 doi.org/10.1111/jofi...

Jim Kane @kanejim.bsky.social · 8d

Green window dressing in mutual funds doi.org/10.1111/jofi...

ESG fund managers are assigned two conflicting objectives: to deliver performance and to invest responsibly. While investors monitor how fund managers fare along the first dimension daily and from unbiased performance metrics, they tend to evaluate funds' responsibility through sustainability ratings. These ratings are based on granular portfolio holdings that must be publicly disclosed four times a year. However, portfolio disclosure is informative only to the extent that managers disclose portfolio holdings that are representative. If managers move into and out of responsible portfolios to time regulatory filings, sustainability ratings might be uninformative.

In this paper, we establish that money managers engage in “green window dressing.” We document that funds move in and out of ESG stocks around disclosure to inflate sustainability ratings. We support this claim using three separate sets of analyses. First, we analyze how daily fund returns load on ESG indexes around portfolio disclosure. Although exposure to ESG is constant when placebo disclosure dates are allocated randomly, we find a sharp increase shortly before funds report their holdings, and a decrease shortly afterwards. Second, we compare realized fund returns with returns on disclosed portfolios, establishing that the former are higher—but have a lower loading on ESG—than the latter. Third, we document that ESG stocks outperform in the days before disclosure. This pattern is completely reversed after disclosure, validating an explanation based on price pressure from investors' timing of the regulatory filings. Overall, each of our empirical tests has distinct strengths and weakness but all indicate that funds engage in green window dressing.

In the second part of the paper, we explore the economic rationale for timing ESG trades. We find that expensive funds, as well as star and laggard funds, are more likely to engage in green window dressing. In addition, we document that increases in pre-discl…

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Ruben Kremers @kremers.bsky.social · 7d

this is fun - uses coffee as an everyday entry point to explore the colonial contexts of Hegel's thought! ☕

www.jhiblog.org/2025/09/22/h...

Hegel’s “Brown Rivulet of Coffee”: Colonies, Commodities, and Context

by Marie Louise Krogh This think piece is part of the forum “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History”

www.jhiblog.org

Ruben Kremers @kremers.bsky.social · 7d

more on data centres...

bsky.app/profile/kost...

John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 8d

Bloomberg has done a deep dive on the impacts of data centers on affordability of electricity. Analyzing data from 25,000 nodes used by seven regional transmission authorities, it finds data centers are causing large and rapid rate increases. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

Ruben Kremers @kremers.bsky.social · 8d

fantastic piece and exciting method for studying app location data!

Dan Cohen @dancohen.bsky.social · 9d

In which surveillance study scholars, computer scientists, digital geographers, and a random economic geographer (me) collaborate to unpack the black box of how/why cell phone companies model your location in cities. There's more ambiguity than you'd think!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Article abstract for Navigating digital geographies: Black boxes, geospatial narratives, and the art of constructing location data. Click link to read abstract

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Ruben Kremers @kremers.bsky.social · Jun 25

Fantastic resource, this!

Miska Knapek @miskaknapek.bsky.social · Jun 25

The International Energy Agency has launched an interactive map showing locations of #datacenters @iea.org and their estimated power needs.

Also useful map of major electrical grid lines and internet cables :) www.iea.org/data-and-sta...

#datavis #datascience

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Ruben Kremers @kremers.bsky.social · May 14

This is ace - on the repo backbone of market based finance!

Steffen Murau @steffenmurau.bsky.social · May 14

🚨 New open access article 🚨

Out now in Journal of Financial Regulation with Alex Goghie and Matteo Giordano

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

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

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PoWiMZ @powimz.bsky.social · Apr 14

Willkommen zurück, liebe Studis!

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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · Mar 19

First definitive proof that AI has a gender:

"[A] common trend among these AI models: rather than declining to respond when they lacked reliable information, the models frequently provided confabulations—plausible-sounding incorrect or speculative answers." arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/a...

AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says

CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.

arstechnica.com

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Ruben Kremers @kremers.bsky.social · Mar 17

my big blue book project...

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · Mar 17

Project management made easy

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Ruben Kremers @kremers.bsky.social · Mar 17

the project resulted in two collections of peer-reviewed blogposts:

living through the covid-19 crisis: reinventionjournal.org/index.php/re...

living through the climate crisis:
ppesydney.net/ipeel-of-the...

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Ruben Kremers @kremers.bsky.social · Mar 17

this is about our experience of teaching IPE collectively across three continents via Zoom...

doi.org/10.1080/0969...

Teaching the International Political Economy (IPE) of everyday life through global groupwork

This article explores new pedagogical avenues in teaching International Political Economy (IPE) through a focus on the everyday. The everyday serves as a fruitful starting point to devise pedagogic...

doi.org

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Nils Redeker @nilsredeker.bsky.social · Mar 14

A happy ending to the negotiation thriller of the past days:

€100bn of the €500bn infrastructure package will go to climate spending and the legal text will include language on additionality.

Balanced outcome—and a big win for both Germany and Europe.

Nils Redeker @nilsredeker.bsky.social · Mar 9

To help Germany finally snap out its macroeconomic hibernation, the planned changers to the debt brake must help plug the country’s huge investments needs.

Early results in the coalition talks now show that there’s a real risk that the incoming government could still squander this.

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Ruben Kremers @kremers.bsky.social · Mar 7

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Peter Foster @pmdfoster.bsky.social · Mar 5

These two events are in no way connected.

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Jens van 't Klooster 💸💸💸 @jvtk.bsky.social · Feb 11

Why does the largest trading bloc on the planet have a miniature-sized currency? With Trump, the EU will again much regret this.

🎈In a new working paper, @steffenmurau.bsky.social and I set out to theorise failure and develop a new IPE perspective that foregrounds offshore money.

A thread 🧵

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Ruben Kremers @kremers.bsky.social · Jan 30

😲

www.ft.com/content/4b39...

Deutsche Bank has published a bunch of memes about DeepSeek

Reversion to the meme

www.ft.com

Ruben Kremers @kremers.bsky.social · Jan 26

politics of industry events - edtech edition 👇

@lenarethel.bsky.social
@mrcandreu.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/1356...

Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Jan 24

Spent much of this week at a *massive* edtech industry trade show. These events are literally where edtech and big tech sell their brands and products to schools and universities - but they're so much more too (photo thread coming IYI)...

Ruben Kremers @kremers.bsky.social · Jan 17

IPE reunion in Mainz!!!

Lea Elsässer @leaelsaesser.bsky.social · Jan 16

Please spread the word! 👇
We are happy to announce that the next conference of the political economy section of the German Political Science association will take place @uni-mainz in September 2025. Join us to discuss "Political Economy Transformation in Hard Times"
Submission deadline February 15

Ruben Kremers @kremers.bsky.social · Dec 18

We’re organising a conference!

Johannes Petry @johannespetry.bsky.social · Dec 18

Together with @ineteconomics.bsky.social, @lupemoreno.bsky.social, @kremers.bsky.social & I are organising a conference on "Methodological Pluralism in Critical Finance Research" at GU Frankfurt on 3–4 July 2025 aimed at exploring methods for studying finance. Check out the CfP: tinyurl.com/3jbshp49

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