Philipp Hilmbauer

Prime Locations (Forthcoming Article) - We develop a method for delineating prime locations—ultra-dense clusters of economic activity—within cities and apply it to comprehensive establishment data covering all US metropolitan areas. We further use big data to extend the analysis to a global context where administrative data are sparse. Many cities in the US and around the world are dominated by a small number of prime locations that can concentrate up to one-half of tradable services jobs on tiny shares of land and are dominant centers of economic gravity. In cities with fewer prime locations, a larger tradable services share concentrates in them.

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Prime Locations" by Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Thilo N. H. Albers, and Kristian Behrens.

How did industrial policies shape the development of Central Europe? With @csteinwender.bsky.social
will study Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, 1870-1910! Archival data to RDD, here we come. gaborbekes.com/ipkuk/
Thanks @fwf-at.bsky.social @dfg.de
@ceu-economics.bsky.social
@lmumuenchen.bsky.social

A Model of Populism as a Conspiracy Theory (Forthcoming Article) - We model populism as the dissemination of a false “alternative reality”, according to which the intellectual elite conspires against the populist for purely ideological reasons...

Forthcoming in the AER: "A Model of Populism as a Conspiracy Theory" by Adam Szeidl and Ferenc Szucs. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Networks in trade — Evidence from the legacy of the Hanseatic league We study trade networks following the decline of the Hanseatic League, using a novel trade data set that covers cities and captains in Northern Europe…

Very happy to see this paper in print now!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It was lovely and lively! to have @rjuhasz.bsky.social over for a talk on industrial policies. Cheers Réka.
@weareceu.bsky.social

To close we had @csteinwender.bsky.social on draughts, bankruptcy and development @hfadinger.bsky.social on rare earth and innovation.

In the afternoon 3 @ceu-economics.bsky.social phd students: @mmatyas.bsky.social on trade show from 1900, Abdurazzakova on awereness experiment, @philipphilmbauer.bsky.social pointing on observations of his Vienna study

Very nice international trade workshop in Vienna.
Here with Helpman @hfadinger.bsky.social @koren.mk Szeidl, @mmatyas.bsky.social @csteinwender.bsky.social Cunat as well as Weber, Barany, @molnartl.bsky.social Landesmann and more @ceu-economics.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @wuvienna.bsky.social

This might not be the best fit, but Yagan (2015) on the 2003 dividend tax cut is one I found pretty neat: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Die gesamte 🇦🇹-Wissenschafts-Community, die mit Daten arbeitet — insbesondere d. SozWi — kann sich freuen: Die Daten-Infrastruktur #AMDC #ASEP wird verbessert! Ein großes Danke an d. Verhandlerinnen, die sich für dieses vermeintliche Nischenthema eingesetzt haben. Enorme Bedeutung für d Wissenschaft!

I‘m delighted to be awarded a @posit.co Closeread Prize for my Scrollytelling story 🤩

See my project on council housing in Vienna here: mschnetzer.github.io/scrollytell_...

🚨 New Publication 🚨
Super hyped that my paper “The Decline of Manufacturing Employment and the Rise of the Far-Right in Austria” is now forthcoming in the Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social .

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Yes! This is something that we are hoping to understand in ongoing work. It would be great to see more work on this.

To highlight two cool papers on this:
- "The Political Economy of Alternative Realities" by Adam Szeidl & Ferenc Szucs.
- "Partisan Traps" by @ethanbdm.bsky.social & Wiola Dziuda

It's not often that a theory paper piques my interest these days*, but this by @snageebali.bsky.social and coauthors, on the logic behind zero-sum thinking by voters, is just brilliant -- and so relevant and urgent! www.econometricsociety.org/publications...