Arnaud Dellis

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Professor of Health Economics

Come join me in Zurich! We’re hiring a Professor of Health Economics (deadline April 30).

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A fantastic opportunity. A stimulating department in a beautiful city, and working with the amazing Jörg.

Postdoctoral Position in Behavioral and Welfare Economics (m/f/d) - Universität St.Gallen (HSG) - JobIQ

I am hiring a Postdoc on the SNSF project "Ethical Views and Social Welfare" (EVAS).

The project (joint with Co-PI Brian Jabarian, U. Chicago) deals with identifying ethical views in society, their aggregation, and implications.

Get in touch for questions and share with potential applicants!

The murder of Moritz Schlick on the steps of the staircase in the Ringstrasse building of the University of Vienna reminds us where this kind of discourse can lead.

Beautiful Denmark.

Really interesting

Trump has indeed been a huge (electoral) gift to Liberals. But it needs to be seen if it will materialize in the next election (no later than September). Also, it happened by changing the salient issue. The ‘ballot box question’ has shifted to ‘who can best handle the economic effects of Trump?’

I must confess that I have no clue what he believes or does not believe. I just observe the economic damages he is causing to both the US and abroad.

But he has created uncertainty, which creates a lot of economic damage. This uncertainty will stay if he continually threatens to reinstate tariffs.So he might have reached, at least in part, its objective.

After Trump´s disgraceful behavior last week, we thought we need to do something to help Ukraine directly. And you can help too…

Might be a fantastic illustration of Ostrogorsky’s paradox.

Interesting

Beautiful Copenhagen

Watching the election post morten with all the party leaders on German TV, it’s good to see that nobody has claimed that the election was stolen, tried to instigate an insurrection, or has thrown out a Nazi salute. German liberal democracy still in a healthier state than the US.

Provocative question: Could they form a CDU/SpD/Grüne coalition without CSU (that opposed a coalition with Die Grüne)? I know it won’t happen. But can it ‘technically’ happen?

While agreeing totally with you, I see some silver lining in the results. Immigration seems to have been the salient issue in the campaign. This issue is owned by the Afd. But yet they are at ‘only’ 20%. On ‘their’ issue, they ‘underperformed’. A campaign on the economy, zB, may be tougher for them.

It will be important to disentangle Musk’s effect. Has Musk contributed to mobilizing equally pro-Afd and anti-Afd citizens? Or did he have no effect at all? Or did he have a negative/positive effect that counterbalanced the effect of other events (attacks, Merz’ move in Bundestag, usw)?

Am I right thinking that Afd seems to have reached, at least for the time being, a ceiling. Their vote intentions have been somewhat stagnant for weeks, despite the attacks (Magdeburg, Aschaffenburg, München, Berlin) and Musk’s ‘support’?

Same for me

Exactly what was on my list. I would add, how well/bad does Die Grüne do?

Title: What Costs More: Billionaire Tax Avoidance or Federal Workers? Subtitle: Musk’s tax avoidance could fund 677K federal jobs • Current Tax Rate: 3.27% • Top Federal Tax Rate: 37% Cost Comparison (Bar Chart): • Cost of Musk’s Tax Avoidance (smallest bar, purple) • Cost of Top 100 Billionaires’ Tax Avoidance (largest bar, red) • Total Federal Workforce Salaries (mid-sized bar, green) X-axis ranges from $0B to $380B, showing that billionaire tax avoidance covers a significant portion of federal workforce salaries. Impact on Federal Workforce: • Average Federal Salary: $106,000 • Jobs Musk’s Avoidance Could Fund: 677,782 (29.5% of all federal employees) Federal Workforce Breakdown (Pie Chart): • A segment representing 29.5% of the workforce highlights the share Musk’s avoided taxes could fund, labeled “Share Equal to Musk’s Avoided Taxes: 29.5%”. Sources: • Musk’s Tax Rate: ProPublica • Billionaire Gains: Bloomberg Billionaires Index (Dec. 31, 2024) • Federal Employee Data: USAFacts

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes?

Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce.

Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

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Trump’s tariffs are a bully strategy. Bullying doesn’t win over time on the playground or in the international arena. This self-inflicted supply shock is a strategic gift to Xi Jinping. 1/4

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Professor in Economics

We're hiring profs (open field) at the econ dept of King's Business School - we also have lecturer, senior lecturer, and reader positions (those are on econjobmarket) #econsky

For polecon people (and others!) that have just arrived on bsky, I’ve put together a starting pack mixing empiricists and theorists on the topic: bsky.app/starter-pack...