The CEPR Advanced Forum in Financial Economics (CAFFE) continues on 10 March @ 14:00 CET.
@fuster.bsky.social (Swiss Finance Institute @ EPFL and CEPR) presents "The Response of Debtors to Rate Changes"
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The CEPR Advanced Forum in Financial Economics (CAFFE) continues on 10 March @ 14:00 CET.
@fuster.bsky.social (Swiss Finance Institute @ EPFL and CEPR) presents "The Response of Debtors to Rate Changes"
cepr.org/events/event...
#EconSky
Endlich Individualbesteuerung! Immerhin 54 Prozent Zustimmung. Umgesetzt sein soll sie - im Jahr 2032. Sechs Jahre später. Aber cool bleiben. Auch bei der grossen Unternehmenssteuer-Reform von 2008 gabs eine Übergangsfrist. Von einem Jahr..
Die Schweiz und ihre Prioritäten.
Die Republik und das WAV gewinnen den Prix Transparence 2025 – für die Recherche über Palantir. Herzliche Gratulation an Jennifer Steiner, @jobaoer.bsky.social, @lonaeg.bsky.social, Marguerite Meyer und @adfichter.bsky.social! 💫
Zur Recherche: republik.link/7kmSK
(Bild: Julia Schwamborn)
This week's links include solar subsidies paying off, how digitalization is not simplifying regulations but making more silos in Indonesia, how NZ got Milton Friedman to visit, more reasons to be skeptical of mark-up research, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
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Without Trump’s trade wars since 2017, US exports to China would have been nearly 60% higher in 2025, or roughly $90 billion annually.
05.03.2026 15:07 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0The Committee on Economic Statistics (AEAStat) is accepting individual paper and session proposals for the 2027 @assameeting.bsky.social in Washington, DC. For more information, visit www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co....
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🆕 Ray of hope? The rise of solar energy in China
Today on VoxDev, Ignacio Banares-Sanchez, Robin Burgess, Dávid László, Pol Simpson, John Van Reenen & Yifan Wang outline their research on China's green industrial policy: voxdev.org/topic/energy...
China’s solar subsidies triggered innovation and learning-by-doing that dramatically lowered global solar costs while generating domestic economic gains large enough to outweigh the subsidy costs, showing that green industrial policy can boost growth and help fight climate change.
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With your help we’ve raised $130,000 in our campaign to install bomb shelters in Bedouin-Palestinian communities that have no protection from missiles!!! Every donation helps us save lives. We’re continuing to raise funds – donate here: standtog.org/Negevsafe
05.03.2026 14:06 — 👍 25 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
Höhere #Lohnbeiträge oder #Mehrwertsteuer: darauf beschänkt sich derzeit die finanzpolitische Diskussion in Bundesbern.
Beide belasten überwiegend den #FaktorArbeit.
Das würde die eh schon zunehmende steuerliche Privilegierung des Faktors Kapital (👇) weiter verstärken.
🆕 Why collectivisation in Vietnam still holds back agricultural productivity decades later
Stephen Ayerst (IMF), Loren Brandt (@econuoft.bsky.social) & Diego Restuccia discuss how institutional barriers discourage farmers from investing in productivity improvements: voxdev.org/topic/agricu...
🚨Since the war with Iran started, the Israeli government has closed Gaza’s crossings. These crossings are the main routes for humanitarian aid to enter and the only way critically ill Palestinians can leave Gaza for treatment. Gaza doesn’t have enough food. Don’t stop talking about Gaza.
04.03.2026 12:54 — 👍 43 🔁 33 💬 1 📌 3When the war with Iran started, our Solidarity Guard activists decided to remain in Palestinian villages to continue providing protective presence despite the risk — because state-backed settler violence hasn’t let up.
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🆕 Could rural-urban climate migration help formalise the economy?
Today on VoxDev, Clément Imbert (Sciences Po) & Gabriel Ulyssea (UCL) discuss how drought-driven migration reduced urban informality in Brazil: https://ow.ly/MHCf50YnTLl
Erneuerbare Energie ist Sicherheitsenergie, macht uns resilienter, unabhängiger, weniger erpressbar und wir finanzieren weniger Unrechtsregime, die den Profit gegen unsere liberalen Demokratien investieren.
01.03.2026 14:42 — 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Oil spills from tankers have fallen by more than 90% since the 1970s. Stacked bar chart showing annual counts of tanker oil spills from 1970 to 2024, with the vertical axis labeled 0 to 120 spills and the horizontal axis by year. Bars are stacked to show two categories: medium oil spills (7 to 700 tonnes) and large oil spills (greater than 700 tonnes). Only medium and large spills are included; smaller spills are excluded. Key annotations: a callout at 1974 notes 117 oil spills occurred that year, 27 of them large; a callout at 2024 notes 10 oil spills occurred that year, 5 of them large. Overall the chart shows a sharp peak in the early to mid-1970s, followed by a long-term decline in annual spill counts, with much lower and relatively stable numbers from the 2000s onward and a slight uptick toward 2024. Data source in the footer: ITOPF (2025); website OurWorldInData.org/oil-spills. License: CC BY.
Oil spills from tankers have fallen by more than 90% since the 1970s—
In the 1970s, oil spills from tankers — container ships transporting oil — were common. Between 70 and 100 spills occurred per year. That’s one or two spills every week.
J Street opposes President Trump’s reckless decision to launch a war of choice against Iran. Read our full statement: https://bit.ly/3N71E4w
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⏰ In minutes: J Street’s @ilangoldenberg.bsky.social goes live with @jenrubin.bsky.social at 11am Eastern on The Contrarian to break down the strikes in Iran and what could come next.
Click to join: substack.com/@contrarian
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28.02.2026 07:00 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
🆕 Can home visits enhance the impact of cash transfers?
Today on VoxDev, Richard Akresh (UIUC), Damien de Walque (World Bank), Harounan Kazianga (Oklahoma State University) & Abigail Stocker (William & Mary) discuss a social safety net programme in Burkina Faso: https://ow.ly/nqKQ50YmkLx
⌛Final reminder! #CallForPapers - Paris-Lyon Public Economics Workshop (PL-PubEcon)
📆28-29 May | 📍ENS Lyon
Deadline: 1 March
Organised by: @bgarbinti.bsky.social & Jonathan Goupille-Lebret
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Do you have a topic you would like to see in the AEA Recent Developments series? We want to hear from you! Send suggested topics and lecturers to assa@vanderbilt.edu. #econsky
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Adding home visits to a social safety net programme providing cash transfers and parenting information led to sustained improvements in child development, health behaviours, and education outcomes in Burkina Faso, whereas cash alone produced fewer lasting effects.
Read today's article to learn more
The US embassy will offer services in West Bank settlements to settlers for the first time. As J Street’s Nadav Tamir warned in
@nytimes.com, this is “creeping recognition of [Israeli] sovereignty.”
Steps like this move us toward permanent occupation:
🚨 Closing Tomorrow 🚨
Call for Papers: 24th Nordic Conference in Development Economics (NCDE) 2026 Linnaeus University @linnaeus-econ.bsky.social
Keynote Speakers:
Jonas Hjort
Rohini Somanathan
Paper Submission Deadline: 28 February 2026
Read more here: theeconomicmisfit.com/2026/02/06/n...
📢 PhD Positions – Africa @ Work: Transformation of Employment (1920–2020)
Closing date: 2 March 2026
Duration: 4 years (subject to positive first-year assessment)
Salary: €3,059 – €3,881 gross per month
Read more here: theeconomicmisfit.com/2026/02/25/p...
📢 CESifo Area Conference on Economics of Education 2026 – Call for Papers
Keynote Speaker:
John List (University of Chicago)
Submission Deadline: 11 May 2026 (23:59 CET/CEST)
Read more here: theeconomicmisfit.com/2026/02/24/c...
Umtriebiger US-Lobbyist: Als «besorgter Staatsbürger» ging Alex Grossenbacher gegen eine Weisung der Bundeskanzlei vor. Was er dabei verschwieg: Er ist Berater der Handelskammer Schweiz – USA. Von @adfichter.bsky.social.
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This week we featured research on jobs in Vietnam, pre-colonial Africa, Colombia coffee, Myanmar's mining ban and more!
Read a summary of this work here: https://voxdev.org/topic/week-development-economics-voxdev-27022026
Die neuste Ausgabe unseres Newsletter ist da: Zwischen Hoffnung und Widerstand: Zivilgesellschaft unter Druck
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