Farzad Saidi

No more excuses. Even if the returns are still unevenly distributed, AI tools let you be both: a present parent and a highly productive professional living up to your work ethic, at least if your job typically involves staring at a screen.

#AI #Productivity #WorkLifeBalance #Parenting #FutureOfWork

Plagiarism detection on 500k publicized Chinese dissertations uncovers widespread hidden misconduct that predicts adverse political selection and poorer civil service performance, from Zhuang Liu, Wenwei Peng, and Shaoda Wang www.nber.org/papers/w34747

Gestern stellten Dr. Tobias Herbst und Niko Plennis @bundesbank.de in einer ECONtribute Public Lecture den diesjährigen Finanzstabilitätsbericht vor. Vielen Dank an die Referenten, an Cluster-Mitglied @farzado.bsky.social für die Moderation und an das Publikum für die spannende Diskussion!

Amazing study showing that deactivating social media improved mental health.

[It has so many coauthors that the sample size was sufficient to run the RCT on themselves.]

Come join us!

I’m sorry that I cannot provide my recommendation. This is not due to your module grade, but the fact that we had very limited personal interaction. As you know, students now make extensive use of AI tools, which can make it difficult to assess the extent to which written work reflects their own independent reasoning. Meeting regularly and discussing ideas in depth is usually the only reliable way for me to understand a student’s qualities and potential. For these reasons, I generally reserve my references for students with whom I have had repeated and sustained engagement over time, as this is the only basis on which I can provide a well-rounded and meaningful assessment. My door is always open for office hours and I encourage all students to come but few make use of it. In your case, I simply do not have enough direct insight into your work to write a reference that would be fair or helpful to you. I wish you all the very best with your applications.

I will be sending this email a lot this year. Feel free to tell me it's problematic, but I've had it with students who don't show up and expect me to be in their corner.

I was on a German panel last night, where *every speaker* had strong French links (study etc).
And every speaker expressed massive dismay over the state of Franco-German defence-industrial cooperation. How can we not get this right?!

Join us @unibonn.bsky.social! The finance group within the economics department is looking to hire an assistant professor (tenure track): econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

Euro zone manufacturing expanded for first time since early 2022 in August, PMI shows Euro zone manufacturing activity expanded in August for the first time since mid-2022 due to a surge in domestic demand and output, raising optimism around future production, a survey showed.

Euro zone manufacturing expanded for first time since early 2022 in August, PMI shows reut.rs/3UVp11o

Graph showing a strong negative correlation between GDP per capita and unequal gender role norms. While economists have extensively studied gender norms affecting women, masculinity norms – the informal rules that guide and constrain the behaviours of boys and men – remain underexplored. This column reviews how such norms can shape economic outcomes in labour markets, health, education, households, and politics. Drawing on new survey data from 87,000 individuals across 70 countries, the authors show that adherence to masculinity norms strongly predicts men's labour supply, risk-taking, health behaviours, and support for authoritarian leadership.

@vicbar.bsky.social @ralphdehaas.bsky.social @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social & I Matavelli show that adherence to masculinity norms strongly predicts men's labour supply, risk-taking, health behaviours, and support for authoritarian leadership.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky

@florianederer.bsky.social

Paper with Alessandro Lizzeri and @vkecht.bsky.social can be found here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3sje7...

Our explanation: they are generalists, and that skill set is in high demand given high industry uncertainty. Generalists are good at curbing volatility, but tend to be old unless they come from a consulting background. Consultant CEOs‘ young age may thus be a contributing factor to firm growth.

Läuft ja super mit der Bekämpfung der AfD durch die "Migrationswende", die ja angeblich die "Mutter aller Probleme" anpackt.

Credit supply, housing demand, and rising home prices | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis A change in veteran home loans can help explain home price dynamics

Homebuyers and economists alike closely watch indicators for changes in home prices. How do policies that expand access to credit affect those prices? Our article from Ken Cowles explores the research from @mokuhn.bsky.social, @farzado.bsky.social, and Tobias Herbst:  bit.ly/4czY9vR

.@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

Very pleased that our local projections dif-in-dif paper is now out in the Journal of Applied Econometrics. Joint with @dgirardi.bsky.social, Jorda, and Taylor.

It's a tool that we think many applied economists will find useful (indeed many already have).

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So wahr! Cancel Culture hat herzlich wenig mit Kultur zu tun, sondern ist im Kern anti-intellektuell. Nach links wird auf Tinder geswiped, nicht in Debatten mit Mitmenschen.

The West Is Strong—and in Sequins Eurovision has never been a bigger party—or more political.

Eurovision is over, but this is still a good read:
“In the end, even as Eurovision is officially a nonpolitical event, everyone knows it’s really geopolitics in drag.”

foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/23/e...

Congrats to our esteemed colleagues from Lake Constance!

…sense of camaradery across university borders and disciplines. Looking forward to reaping the highest possible return on this investment, for which our recruiting objectives will play a key role.

Our Cluster of Excellence secured a second funding period today. As one of the PIs, in magnificent company, I am extremely happy that our efforts especially towards the final stage of the reapplication process paid off. Numerous meetings, retreats, and flights taken have contributed to a unique…

A collage with symbolic images of all eight clusters of excellence. A man working on a machine, an observatory, two people in a field, a woman writing something on a piece of paper, a woman in front of a device, a man writing something on a blackboard, an exhibition, a woman looking through a telescope.

A landmark success! The University of Bonn secured funding for all six existing Clusters of Excellence and both new initiatives – more than any other German university. More: www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/095-...

© G. Hübl, V. Lannert, M. Thürbach/ECONtribute, J. F. Saba/UKB, S. Wegener/ML4Q; N. Wietrich

This is bleak reading

Credit supply, housing demand, and rising home prices | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis A change in veteran home loans can help explain home price dynamics

New article from Kenneth Cowles explores research from @mokuhn.bsky.social, @farzado.bsky.social, and Tobias Herbst that explains how an expansion of credit in the form of expanded eligibility for VA loans contributed to increases in home prices. bit.ly/4czY9vR

"I'm going to govern in econometrics" is a winning campaign slogan for the ages.

📢 Save the date! The 4th Kiel-CEPR Conference on Geoeconomics takes place this October—this time in Paris 🇫🇷.
Thanks to #ScPoEcon @sciencespo.bsky.social for hosting—it’s going to be another great one!
📜 Call for papers coming soon. Stay tuned for more info 👉 www.ifw-kiel.de/institute/ev...

Zwischen Christdemokratie und Rechtspopulismus Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenfördes Diktum „Der freiheitliche, säkularisierte Staat lebt von Voraussetzungen, die er selbst nicht garantieren kann“, lässt sich auch auf Parteien anwenden. Die Besetzung der Pa...

„Merz und Söder trieben durch geschürte Empörung ganz bewusst die Leute gegen die Ampelregierung auf die Bäume – und bekommen sie nun, da in den Koalitionsverhandlungen doch wieder schwierige Kompromisse gefragt waren, nicht mehr herunter.“
(@puettmann.bsky.social)

www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...

Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy “I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020

NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy www.science.org/content/arti...

Credit supply, housing demand, and rising home prices | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis A change in veteran home loans can help explain home price dynamics

Homebuyers and economists alike closely watch indicators for changes in home prices. How do policies that expand access to credit affect those prices? New article from Ken Cowles explores the research from @mokuhn.bsky.social, @farzado.bsky.social, and Tobias Herbst:  bit.ly/4czY9vR