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by Philipp Heimberger — Reposted by Philipp Heimberger

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"Since 1980, China has built an expanse of highways equal to twice the length of the US systems, a high-speed rail network twenty times more extensive than Japan's, and almost as much solar and wind power capacity as the rest of the world put together."
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by Philipp Heimberger

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Here is the link to the paper: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Full-access version: docs.iza.org/dp15878.pdf
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by Philipp Heimberger — Reposted by Philipp Heimberger

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Academic economists forming connections on social media show a bias toward certain races, genders, and elite institutions. Evidence from a paper recently published in AER: Insights.
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Reposted by Philipp Heimberger, Gabriel Felbermayr

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Große Story in @diepressecom.bsky.social über unsere neue Studie von @heimbergecon.bsky.social & Cara Dabrowski: 🇦🇹 & die 🇪🇺 brauchen mehr öffentliche Investitionen, um ihre geopolitischen Ziele zu erreichen und die lahmende Wirtschaft zu revitalisieren. Das geht auch, ohne das Budget zu belasten.
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Reposted by Philipp Heimberger

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The 🇪🇺 needs public investment to achieve its geopolitical goals & revive its economy. Our new study by @heimbergecon.bsky.social & Cara Dabrowski finds that well-targeted public investment brings strong economic returns and can be financed through borrowing without destabilising budgets. 1/9
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by Philipp Heimberger — Reposted by Philipp Heimberger

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With the US now seemingly unwilling to buy European export goods as it did in the past, and with China’s import growth slowing, Europe must refocus on domestic growth drivers. Public investment may play a crucial role in this.

Link to paper: wiiw.ac.at/achieving-ge...
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by Philipp Heimberger — Reposted by Philipp Heimberger, Andrew Watt, Benjamin Braun , and 2 more

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In a new paper, we provide fresh evidence on the macroeconomic effects of public investment in 27 EU member states. We find that public investment has favorable effects on output and unemployment; doesn't crowd out private investment; and doesn't jeopardise debt sustainability.
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by Philipp Heimberger

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I fear that the decline of reading will have disastrous societal consequences.
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by Philipp Heimberger

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Source: www.ft.com/content/934c...
Deloitte issues refund for error-ridden Australian government report that used AI
Big Four firm will repay final instalment after incorrect references and citations found in document
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by Philipp Heimberger — Reposted by Philipp Heimberger

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Welcome to the age of AI. "Deloitte will partially refund payment for an Australian government report that contained multiple errors after admitting it was partly produced by artificial intelligence."
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by Philipp Heimberger

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Source: wiiw.ac.at/n-695.html
Russia is shifting its foreign trade massively towards China (news article)
Russia’s foreign trade is undergoing a profound shift, with China replacing the EU as Russia’s main trading partner
wiiw.ac.at
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by Philipp Heimberger

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China has replaced the EU as Russia’s main trading partner.
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by Philipp Heimberger

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Link to the papers: nber.org/conferences/...
Economics of Transformative AI Workshop, Fall 2025
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by Philipp Heimberger

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This is an interesting set of papers on "The Economics of Transformative AI" providing insights into recent mainstream economics thinking on AI and its repercussions.
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by Philipp Heimberger

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Source: www.ft.com/content/43ab...
The problem with taxing the rich
Fiscal systems designed around income and consumption struggle to capture wealth, and billionaires are highly mobile
www.ft.com
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by Philipp Heimberger — Reposted by Philipp Heimberger

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The number of countries with wealth taxes has fallen sharply since 1990. Revenues from these taxes tend to raise comparatively small amounts.
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by Philipp Heimberger

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Paper in "Journal of Political Economy": www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Free-access version: www.iza.org/publications...
Mentoring and Schooling Decisions: Causal Evidence | Journal of Political Economy: Vol 0, No ja
www.journals.uchicago.edu
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by Philipp Heimberger — Reposted by Philipp Heimberger, Dirk Pilat, Samuel Bentolila , and 1 more

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This paper shows that children are significantly less likely to enter the academic track if they come from a low socio-economic status family. A low-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of disadvantaged children and reduce inequality of opportunity.
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by Philipp Heimberger

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Source: economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/document/dow...
economy-finance.ec.europa.eu
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by Philipp Heimberger — Reposted by Philipp Heimberger

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EU Commission has approved🇩🇪 fiscal plan for the next years, making it consistent with 🇪🇺 fiscal rules. The plan departs from baseline potential growth assumptions, which sets a precedent for others. Additional military spending will be exempted under the national escape clause.
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by Philipp Heimberger

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Source: docs.iza.org/dp17951.pdf
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by Philipp Heimberger — Reposted by Philipp Heimberger

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Students tend to greatly overestimate the job prospects of their preferred occupations. When given accurate information about labor market outcomes, they shift toward fields of study with stronger employment opportunities and higher wages.
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by Philipp Heimberger — Reposted by Philipp Heimberger

heimbergecon.bsky.social
France is not Greece. In 🇫🇷, debt of corporates and households has been falling while government debt rises. In contrast, the🇬🇷private sector strongly expanded its debt during the 2000s, while government debt was also increasing in the run-up to the crisis.

chart @danielkral.bsky.social
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by Philipp Heimberger — Reposted by Christian Chavagneux

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France is not Greece. In the run-up to the Greek debt crisis, interest payments absorbed more than 10% of 🇬🇷 tax revenue and peaked at nearly 20% in the early 2010s. In 🇫🇷, by contrast, the share is currently below 5%.
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by Philipp Heimberger — Reposted by Philipp Heimberger

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France is not Greece. 🇫🇷 is running a broadly balanced current account. Greece ran large current account deficits (imports > exports) in the run-up to the Greek crisis, then suffered a sudden stop of capital inflows during the financial crisis. Btw 🇬🇷is back to large CA deficits.
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by Philipp Heimberger

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Source: pinguet.free.fr/ioannidis17....
pinguet.free.fr
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by Philipp Heimberger — Reposted by Philipp Heimberger, Alistair Munro

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This paper shows that empirical economics research often lacks credibility because of low statistical power and publication bias. About 80% of reported effects are overstated, typically by a factor of two, and sometimes by four or more.
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by Philipp Heimberger — Reposted by Philipp Heimberger, Bruno Amable, Christian Chavagneux , and 2 more

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Chancellor Merz says 🇩🇪 has been living beyond its means. That doesn’t add up. For 20 years 🇩🇪has run huge current account surpluses - exporting far more than it imports. In other words, it produces much more than it consumes. If anything, Germany has been living below its means.
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Reposted by Philipp Heimberger

wiiw.ac.at
„Die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung in Griechenland ist sehr erfreulich. Ich halte es aber für überzeichnet, von einem Wirtschaftswunder zu sprechen", so @heimbergecon.bsky.social im @kurier.at.web.brid.gy. Inflationsbereinigt liegt d. Wirtschaftsleistung in 🇬🇷 noch immer um 11% unter dem Wert von 2007.
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by Philipp Heimberger

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Source: economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul...
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