Anja Prummer

💡📒 How can designing products for a specific buyer actually maximize the revenue generated?

👥📄New study by @anjaprummer.bsky.social - @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social & F. Nava-@lsepress.bsky.social, introduces a theoretical model and offers new insights

👉 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/about-us/new...

🚀Be part of the next round of the Women in Economics Mentoring Programme — a unique opportunity that connects early-career women economists with experienced mentors.

🎯 Programme duration: October 2025 – July 2026
📆 Deadline to apply: August 31st
👉 Apply now: form.jotform.com/251723111137...

And it's finally out! Once again, thanks to my amazing coauthor @matteogamalerio.bsky.social, the editor, the referees, and all those who helped in this journey.

„Mediale Schmierenkomödie“: Mächtige Männer als Opfer der „Wokeness“ Precht, Nuhr, Poschardt: Sie hören nicht auf, darüber zu klagen, was man alles nicht mehr sagen darf. Das könnte lustig sein, wenn‘s nicht so tragisch wäre.

Laut @johannesfranzen.bsky.social befinden wir uns …”im Zeitalter einer allgemeinen Machtvergessenheit”. Damit meint er “… eine gesellschaftlich weit verbreitete Unfähigkeit, einzuschätzen, wer tatsächlich Macht besitzt und wer nicht.”
Mehr auf @uebermedien.de

Notable post-tenure publishing differences across fields. One thing that distinguishes these are authorship norms, e.g. in some lab fields, co-authorship reflects status more than work

Illustration, Plakat und Tickets von einem Auftritt von Black Sabbath 1970 im Audimax der FU Berlin.

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Throwback 1970:
Am 26. Juni tritt die noch nicht so berühmte Heavy-Metal-Band #BlackSabbath mit ihrem Frontmann Ozzy Osbourne im ausverkauften Audimax im Henry-Ford-Bau auf. Anschließend tun sie das, wofür Rockbands gefürchtet waren: Sie verwüsten ihre Garderobe. #RIPOzzy
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Today, academics and citizens meet at Petralia, Sicily, to talk about how immigration can help with the challenges rural areas are facing. Moderated by @cubel.bsky.social and with @peppeippedico.bsky.social Claudio Deiana and Elisa Cavasino as speakers.

.@hertieschool.bsky.social & IfW Kiel are jointly 🚨 recruiting a Professor of International Economics🚨 (Associate/Full).

👉 apply.interfolio.com/169770

Great opportunity to join Berlin's thriving econ community. No kings here.

Deadline: Sep 30, 2025

Please share widely! #EconSky

What a fabulous 2025 @bsoeberlin.bsky.social www.bqse.de seminar season it has been! Thanks to all the co-organizers, our manager @immanuelfeld.bsky.social , all speakers, guests, and locals! You have been a fantastic spatial community! sites.google.com/view/bqse/bq...

🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨
I'm excited to share my latest research, “Building Capacity in the Public Administration” (with @annagumpert.bsky.social ). We examine a key tool for building administrative capacity: seconding officials from high-capacity to low-capacity public administrations.

Das ist für alle es ergibt Sinn Leute

Join us for a 2 days hands-on workshop on Causal Machine Learning taking place in September at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

#EconSky #Causality

Kundgebung gegen die Kürzungen im Wissenschaftsetat 14. Juli, ab 8:30 Uhr Vor der Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Oranienstr. 106

📢 Aufruf zur Kundgebung gegen die #Kürzungen an den Berliner Hochschulen

🗓️ 14. Juli 2025
🕣 8:30 Uhr Eintreffen, 9:00 Uhr Start der Kundgebung
📍 Vor der Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Oranienstraße 106
🔗Infos zu den Kürzungen und wie die FU darauf reagiert: www.fu-berlin.de/sites/hausha...

We are looking for PhD students! More information at www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/fachbereich/...

A hatchling condor on a white towel. it has downy feathers and it's head skin is kinda wrinkly

With everything LA has gone through in the last few months (and couple of years), let's celebrate the hatching of:

TEN CALIFORNIA CONDORS!!!!!!!!!

Congrats to the team at the Los Angeles Zoo!!!

Excited to welcome @zohalhessami.bsky.social from @ruhr-uni-bochum.de this thursday for a talk on migrant integration in our Research Seminar in Economics at @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social - happening at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social !
#EconSky #EconConf
#Migration #Integration

🗓️ Thursday, June 5:
We are very happy to welcome Filip Matejka at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social . He will present his work on „Thinking versus Doing: Cognitive Capacity, Decision Making and Medical Diagnosis“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 2 exciting PreDoc positions in my team at the University of Bern, starting late summer/early fall! Collaborate on cutting-edge research in Political Economy, Development &Behavioral Economics, using experimental and quasi-experimental methods.

And, as a woman, you need to be at least 70 to join, but your chances improve if you live to 90. #LeanIntoLongevity

I've heard there is a great conference in NY on Friday & Saturday... Full program here: sites.google.com/nyu.edu/lse-...

The Hausdorff Center at Bonn will host the Trimester Program on “Advances in Mechanism Design” next summer. Students and postdocs are invited to apply for extended stays during the program or summer school participation. Funding for travel and accommodation is available.

Berlin Micro Theory Seminar Series

www.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/en/Professor...

Our Monday theory seminar now comes with a walk and a piano performance.

Clubs and Networks in Economics Reviewing | Journal of Political Economy: Vol 132, No 9 We study how author connections influence paper outcomes at the Journal of Human Resources. Authors who attended the same PhD program, worked with, affiliate with the same National Bureau of Economic ...

"We find some evidence that published papers with greater connectivity subsequently receive fewer citations." In short, the publication game is a bit of a rigged game. At least at one particular journal.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Americans favor labor unions over big business now more than ever, analysis of new data @epi.org from me & Adam Reich of Columbia Labor Lab.

In data back 60 years, Americans' sentiments are both warmer toward unions & cooler towards big business than ever before.
www.epi.org/blog/america...

🏠📈 Why did house prices in Germany rise much more in some areas than others during the 2009–2018 boom?

📑👥New paper by @leokaas.bsky.social , @georgikocharkov.bsky.social & @syrichasn.bsky.social

🔗 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/about-us/new...

#urbaneconomics #housingpolicy

Kennedy Center employees announce plans to unionize Staffers asked the National Labor Relations Board to oversee a union vote. They criticized leaders at the arts center for layoffs and a lack of transparency under President Donald Trump.

BREAKING: Kennedy Center staff announces intent to unionize. My latest:

www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

I’ll never get over how, in an era when women’s rights and status are being attacked and eroded in law and culture alike, we were incessantly told that it was boys and men whose suffering we needed to attend to.

Our next seminar is on Monday, 19 May 2025. We welcome Germán Gieczewski (@princetonpolitics.bsky.social), who will present "Noisy Screening and Brinkmanship". We will send the usual email with the Zoom link on Thursday.

🚨 #EconUpo #Seminar🚨

‼️Last seminar of the academic year

📄"Value Design in Optimal Mechanisms"
🗣️ Anja Prummer (Freie Universität Berlin) @anjaprummer.bsky.social

📅Monday 19, May
🕛12 noon
📍Boardroom 1. Building 2. @pablodeolavide.upo.es