Gábor Békés

Have your cake and it. For #assa2023 we launched a game with @CambUP_Econ to give away a signed copy of @Gabors_Data and a cake of choice. Finally, here w Kata Juhasz, phd student at @uni_corvinus. Book and Sacher cake look delicious. #EconTwitter...

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

It started 14 years ago. With my then Phd student, Peter Harasztosi (now at EIB) we were asked to use a historical IV (I'm not proud of it). In the process he found text on firm level exports in the Hungarian National Library from the 1880s-1890s.

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Thanks!

First some info. This a joint project with
@csteinwender.bsky.social of @lmumuenchen.bsky.social and our @ceu-economics.bsky.social student @mmatyas.bsky.social . (Pic is at LMU history books)
Money comes from @fwf-at.bsky.social and @dfg.de . Cheers!
We start in January. 3years.

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Since we (mostly Matyas) collected tons of data from archives. Our hunch 14ys ago was right: there is plenty. Of course I vastly underestimated the workload...

The era is fascinating. Many policies.

More people to join. More data. More AI.
#IP-KuK, here we go.

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So. I have won a grant by @fwf-at.bsky.social on studying globalization and industrial policy in Austria-Hungary in 1880-1910. gaborbekes.com/ipkuk
I have worked on globalization. Never on IP. Never on historical data. What the heck?

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Since we (mostly Matyas) collected tons of data from archives. Our hunch 14ys ago was right: there is plenty. Of course I vastly underestimated the workload...

The era is fascinating. Many policies.

More people to join. More data. More AI.
#IP-KuK, here we go.

9/N ENDS

The final push was the arrival of @mmatyas.bsky.social . Phd student who is interested in economics + history + speaks Hungarian and German.
cepr.org/multimedia/n...
So we had a gap in lit, personal interest, a small team and hope for data.
The first intro email goes back to 3 October 2023.

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Then a year after we met again. Her train stopped for hours and started to look for data.
This was the time she worked with @rjuhasz.bsky.social on historical industrial policy. They realized we know so little outside a few countries. So there is a gap.

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A few years ago, i was at @cepr.org #ERWIT and heard @csteinwender.bsky.social present her work using Chinese patents data from about same time. I was amazed, and we started to chat a little.

Then nothing happened for a year ...

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Nothing happened for a decade.

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I always thought, this is a super interesting period. First wave of globalization. Starting in 1867 Hungarian Kingdom is becoming more independent. Fast growth, Budapest becoming the city it is now. National champions. + AT-HU is custom and currency union + small fiscal + multi ethnic. See?

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It started 14 years ago. With my then Phd student, Peter Harasztosi (now at EIB) we were asked to use a historical IV (I'm not proud of it). In the process he found text on firm level exports in the Hungarian National Library from the 1880s-1890s.

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First some info. This a joint project with
@csteinwender.bsky.social of @lmumuenchen.bsky.social and our @ceu-economics.bsky.social student @mmatyas.bsky.social . (Pic is at LMU history books)
Money comes from @fwf-at.bsky.social and @dfg.de . Cheers!
We start in January. 3years.

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So. I have won a grant by @fwf-at.bsky.social on studying globalization and industrial policy in Austria-Hungary in 1880-1910. gaborbekes.com/ipkuk
I have worked on globalization. Never on IP. Never on historical data. What the heck?

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Shoutout to the trade community – trade is likely to be one of our focus areas! Make sure to apply if you work on international trade.

Morning from Ukraine🫂🫂

It was a hard, sleepless night.
Ballistic missiles and shaheds rained down -
Not on soldiers, but on our warmth,
Our light, our life.

New Research Project on Industrial Policy in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in collaboration with Central European University (CEU) A new three-year research collaboration between the CEU and LMU will explore how industrial policies shaped Central Europe’s economic development in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

🚀 In a new project “𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆: 𝗘𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼-𝗛𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝘆 (𝗜𝗣-𝗞𝘂𝗞)” @gaborbekes.bsky.social (@weareceu.bsky.social) & 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗻𝘄𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 (@econmunich.bsky.social) will study how 19th–20th c. trade policies shaped firms & innovation👏

lmy.de/NTZXf

We have been conducting a similar exercise in @ceu-economics.bsky.social in Vienna.
Happy to report strong external validity to your results.

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

We can still do it.
But maybe not in US.
Vienna?

Yesterday, we had a great start of the Vienna International Economics (VIES) seminar series with a talk by @banudemir.bsky.social on Plastic Turkey. For more information: sites.google.com/view/viennai...
@gaborbekes.bsky.social @gfelbermayr.bsky.social @robertstehrer.bsky.social @ho2604.bsky.social

My coauthors and I are hiring a project coordinator for new research on an innovative jail-based rehabilitation paper (IGNITE), building on our recent QJE

Apply at careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/project...

Metrics class? From tidy tables to ML and event studies.
gabors-data-analysis.com/getting-star...

Metrics class? From tidy tables to ML and event studies.
gabors-data-analysis.com/getting-star...

Oh massive!
Thx

Budapest 🤝🇺🇦

(Via bp major)

This us awesome !

One of the methods I try these years to avoid early academic year stress is to have a week in August when I catch up.
Finish referee reports.
Do syllabi for all year.
Put stuff on websites.
Look thru unanswered mails.
Install python again.

Will it work this time?