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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · Mar 21

This was great. Look at this difference!

Lukas Freund @lukasfreund.bsky.social · Mar 10

An important channel for macro uncertainty is the interplay of financial & labor markets.

Uncertainty exerts downward pressure on asset values, discouraging vacancy posting and making it harder for workers to find jobs. Potentially inflationary.

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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · Feb 28

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

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Lukas Freund @lukasfreund.bsky.social · Feb 20

Petr Sedlacek & Pontus Rendahl are running the "Tools for Macroeconomists" Summer School Course again in 2025!

The Essentials: August 4-8, 2025
Advanced Tools: August 11-15, 2025
Research workshop: August 16, 2025

Highly recommended!!

For more info: sites.google.com/view/toolsfo...

Tools for macro

Background

sites.google.com

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Lukas Freund @lukasfreund.bsky.social · Feb 1

NYC 😍

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · Dec 24

It’s impossible not to know what’s happening in Gaza. Article by two prominent Israeli economists Motty Perry and Ariel Rubinstein www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...

It's impossible not to know what's going on in Gaza | Opinion

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www.haaretz.com

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Lukas Freund @lukasfreund.bsky.social · Dec 21

Great, topical paper by @cacilialipowski.bsky.social et al presented at German-Economists-Abroad2024:

👉 Innovative technologies spur acquisition of less routine, technology-complementing skills
👉Valuable addition to much research on task displacement

caecilial.github.io/ExpertiseAtW...

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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · Dec 13

Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Global Race for Talent: Brain Drain, Knowledge Transfer, and Growth,” by Marta Prato: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

The Global Race for Talent: Brain Drain, Knowledge Transfer, and Growth*

Abstract. How does inventors’ migration affect international talent allocation, knowledge diffusion, and productivity growth? To answer this question, I bu

doi.org

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jadhazell.bsky.social @jadhazell.bsky.social · Nov 20

Hi #econsky!

Macro at LSE is hiring pre docs for September 2025.

Come and work in the best city in the world, on cutting edge macro with me, Ethan Ilzetzki, Ricardo Reis, Matthias Doepke and Ben Moll.

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

#econ_ra

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Lukas Freund @lukasfreund.bsky.social · Dec 10

Not a very encouraging picture painted in @cawley_john's post, further compounded by the data on EJM

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Lukas Freund @lukasfreund.bsky.social · Dec 9

💥New version of "Superstar Teams"

lukasbfreund.github.io/files/freund...

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Lennard Schlattmann @lennschlatt.bsky.social · Nov 13

🚀 I am excited to be on the academic job market!

In my JMP, I study the distributional consequences of carbon taxes for rural and urban households.

For more information, check out the paper: lennardschlattmann.github.io/papers/schla...
and my website: lennardschlattmann.github.io

JMP thread 👇

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Petra Moser @pmoser.bsky.social · Nov 26

Please help me spread the word about this amazing two-year pre-doc opportunity. Research with faculty is optional. Get paid to take classes that prepare you for PhD. Deadline 11/15: stern.nyu.edu/programs-adm...

Pre-Doctoral Program - NYU SternArtboard 1Artboard 1

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Thomas Drechsel @tdecon.bsky.social · Nov 26

We recently posted a new version of our paper

"Identifying Monetary Policy Shocks: A Natural
Language Approach" - with Boragan Aruoba

We use natural language processing techniques to identify monetary policy shocks!

Paper available here: econweb.umd.edu/~drechsel/pa...

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Lukas Freund @lukasfreund.bsky.social · Nov 20

Congrats, and welcome to NYC!

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Lukas Freund @lukasfreund.bsky.social · Nov 19

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Lukas Freund @lukasfreund.bsky.social · Nov 19

Super interesting JMP by
@tbourany.bsky.social (@UChicago) studying the design of an "optimal climate club" in the presence of heterogeneous climate-change effects and free-riding incentives.

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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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Johannes Boehm @johannesmboehm.bsky.social · Nov 10

1/4 New micro-macro paper on MPCs, with Xavier Jaravel and @efize.bsky.social. We run an RCT to evaluate the consumption response to stimulus transfers, incl. a cash-like transfer and some more creative designs. It was expensive, but we think it was worth it ;) jmboehm.github.io/Helicopter.pdf

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Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social · Nov 3

Important work from @annastansbury.bsky.social on lack of socioeconomic diversity in the Economics profession. Great to see this in print.

Anna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · Nov 3

"The Economics Profession's Socioeconomic Diversity Problem" w/ Robert Schultz is now out in the JEP Here's the paper:

pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

and the Twitter thread from Mar 2022 (aka before I was on Bsky - sorry!)

twitter.com/annastansbur...

pubs.aeaweb.org

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Bundesakademie für Sicherheitspolitik @baks.bund.de · Oct 23

Freitag ist es so weit: 🏆Der Karl-Carstens-Preis für sicherheitspolitische Kommunikation geht an Dr. @rikefranke.bsky.social, Prof. Dr. @carlomasala1.bsky.social, PD @drfranksauer.bsky.social und @twiegold.bsky.social für ihren Podcast🎙️ @sicherheitspod.bsky.social.
www.baks.bund.de/de/aktuelles...

Karl-Carstens-Preis an Sicherheitshalber-Podcast

Der Karl-Carstens-Preis für sicherheitspolitische Kommunikation 2023 geht an Dr. Ulrike Franke, Prof. Dr. Carlo Masala, PD Dr. Frank Sauer und Thomas Wiegold als gemeinsame Hosts des Podcasts

www.baks.bund.de

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Lukas Freund @lukasfreund.bsky.social · Oct 22

Bewundere regelmäßig wie Barbara Bleisch der Spagat gelingt zwischen Vereinfachung für allgemeines Publikum und prägnanten Fragen

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Lukas Freund @lukasfreund.bsky.social · Oct 22

For the very little it's worth, so hatte ich diese Passage ebenfalls interpretiert. (Wobei diese Argumentation ja nur innerhalb einer anti-realist Perspektive überzeugend ist? Genealogie ist hilfreich weil sie über die Funktion und *daher* über die Rechtfertigung Auskunft gibt?)

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Lukas Freund @lukasfreund.bsky.social · Oct 21

@mickeygb.bsky.social is here -- give him a follow for all things networks, monetary and fiscal policy! #EconSky

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