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Thiemo Fetzer

@trfetzer.com

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Professor of Economics at Warwick University and at University of Bonn. Visiting Fellow LSE, Fellow/Affiliate with NIESR, CESifo, CEPR. European Research Council Grantee. Data Science, Econ, AI, ML, Networks.

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 4d

Since we all are in a need for a dose of good news… health research alignment with public health needs has improved a lot in recent decades.

Hongyu Zhou @zhou-hy.bsky.social · 7d

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🔹 Responsiveness has grown since 1990
🔹 Strongest growth in upper-middle-income countries
🔹 Rises modestly with GDP per capita — but varies widely among the wealthiest

Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 5d

happened just around the EU enlargement. Magdeburg attracted a lot of students from Eastern Europe. 35 years after reunification, Germany finds itself in the heart of a European Union that is under attack from outside and within. They shall not suceed.

Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 5d

tensions between communities were everywhere. It was the first time in my life I was confronted with racism and open far right demonstrators marching through the city. You mostly see young men, this is an often documented feature. For me, the period was remarkable because it...

Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 5d

also brutally reshaped multiple times. The scars of accelerated de-industrialisation, population decline and the efforts to halt the visual decline were everywhere. The University stood as a marker of hope for the communities that had been through a lot of rapid change...

Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 5d

happened just around the EU enlargement. Magdeburg attracted a lot of students from Eastern Europe. 35 years after reunification, Germany finds itself in the heart of a European Union that is under attack from outside and within. They shall not suceed.

Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 5d

having to justify, WHY study in the East, coming from the prosperous south west. It had just been 15 years after reunification. It felt exciting to explore the "foreign" at "home". I studied in Magdeburg, a city that has a hugely significant and rich European history that was...

Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 5d

tensions between communities were everywhere. It was the first time in my life I was confronted with racism and open far right demonstrators marching through the city. You mostly see young men, this is an often documented feature. For me, the period was remarkable because it...

Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 5d

also brutally reshaped multiple times. The scars of accelerated de-industrialisation, population decline and the efforts to halt the visual decline were everywhere. The University stood as a marker of hope for the communities that had been through a lot of rapid change...

Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 5d

Just arriving in Berlin for a workshop next week on the Future of Democracy. Today also marks the day that Germany celebrates its reunification. It also has been nearly 20 years since I started my undergraduate in the East. Back then, I was met with bewilderment...

Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 5d

having to justify, WHY study in the East, coming from the prosperous south west. It had just been 15 years after reunification. It felt exciting to explore the "foreign" at "home". I studied in Magdeburg, a city that has a hugely significant and rich European history that was...

Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 5d

Just arriving in Berlin for a workshop next week on the Future of Democracy. Today also marks the day that Germany celebrates its reunification. It also has been nearly 20 years since I started my undergraduate in the East. Back then, I was met with bewilderment...

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Hongyu Zhou @zhou-hy.bsky.social · 7d

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📈 The result: health shocks trigger rapid, durable rises in research attention — both domestic & global.
Responses are strongest for high-lethality threats, showing how the system mobilizes when risks are greatest.

Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 6d

The alignment of research effort with public health needs across countries and diseases has improved markedly. We document that there is notable difference in the source of research funding that drives this change... I sometimes refer to this as the potential @gates effect...

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 6d

The alignment of research effort with public health needs across countries and diseases has improved markedly. We document that there is notable difference in the source of research funding that drives this change... I sometimes refer to this as the potential @gates effect...

Screenshot of quoted post from @HongyuZZZ

Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 6d

This is IMO one of the most relevant dimensions. We highlight the alignment of research effort with health needs has improved most drastically in upper middle income countries. Meaning: the matching of need to effort has improved. But it also highlights the huge potential gains from cooperation.

Hongyu Zhou @zhou-hy.bsky.social · 7d

6/🧵
🔹 Responsiveness has grown since 1990
🔹 Strongest growth in upper-middle-income countries
🔹 Rises modestly with GDP per capita — but varies widely among the wealthiest

Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 6d

Very effective installation in the Ozeaneum in Stralsund on the oceanic plastic waste patch

Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 6d

Very effective installation in the Ozeaneum in Stralsund on the oceanic plastic waste patch

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Hongyu Zhou @zhou-hy.bsky.social · 7d

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📈 Promisingly, we see diversification of global research output across almost all disease areas.
Over time, regions with the heaviest burdens have also emerged as research leaders, e.g. in HIV/AIDS & STIs, where African institutions gained visibility as key contributors.

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Hongyu Zhou @zhou-hy.bsky.social · 7d

🚨Thrilled to share our paper🚨
Does science focus on the diseases that hurt people the most?
When deadly outbreaks hit, how does research respond?

Our work with:
@prashantgarg.bsky.social
@trfetzer.com

shows how medical research worldwide responds to both endemic burdens and emergencies.
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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 7d

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 7d

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 8d

The key policy paramter, the "match rate" of the Tier 2 members in Iverson’s model can be thought of as the "equivalence test" in EU CBAM. The tariff threat is already institutionalized. The free-rider and leakage problems are being managed through precisely those three conditions.

Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 8d

And this makes part of the tension with the US around this subject and why EU players now need to massively accelerate single market integration... I commented on the geopolitical dimension here

Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 8d

And this makes part of the tension with the US around this subject and why EU players now need to massively accelerate single market integration... I commented on the geopolitical dimension here

Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 8d

One way to create "automatic" benchmarks will be through leaning in on administrative data, specifically, invoice level itemized VAT data as I highlighted before e.g. https://x.com/fetzert/status/1898985696569836014, technology can also help and this is where fintech/stablecoins can come in...