Manuel Foerster

Gratulation an Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion und Peter Howitt zum diesjährigen #Nobelpreis in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Sehr verdient. Die Kombination der Personen war für mich etwas überraschend, aber alle drei sind langjährige Kandidaten (insofern war Aghion nicht ganz

Very happy to share my NEW WP "A dynamic model of authority in organizations", joint w/ my PhD student @bingbingli.bsky.social. We investigate repeated delegation of a decision to an agent with uncertain preferences:
pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/3007127
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📢 Our VfS chair Klaus M. Schmidt is opening this year’s VfS Annual Conference at the University of Cologne. A warm welcome to all participants – we're excited to kick things off!
@WiSoKöln @UniKöln
#VfS_Conf2025 #EconomicsConference #Welcome
#IndustrialPolicy #EUEconomy #CleanIndustrialDeal

Research Position in the Research Training Group <div style="text-align: justify;">The position is allocated to the newly established Research Training Group 'Coping with Uncertainty ...

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📢 We are hiring! 📢

The Center for Mathematical Economics (IMW) at Universität Bielefeld is offering a postdoctoral position allocated to the Research Training Group 2865 'Coping with Uncertainty in Dynamic Economies' (CUDE). Applications can be submitted until November 15, 2025.

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Thanks for sharing Ben, looks super interesting!

He's right, and it's not just Brazil.

Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.

❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French?

➡️ New Working Paper:

Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills
w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek

www.nber.org/papers/w33984

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We study a seller who sequentially offers experiments to a consumer and show by means of an encryption protocol how perfect price discrimination may be feasible despite buyers’ valuations being different. We illustrate our framework in the context of medical diagnostic testing.

Very happy to share my NEW WP "Sequential Information Selling: Perfect Price Discrimination and the Role of Encryption", joint w/ Fynn Louis Närmann.
pub.uni-bielefeld.de/download/300...
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will take place on December 15–16, 2025, at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) in Bielefeld, Germany. 🔬 🚀

Learn more here: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...

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📢 Call for Papers: 20th BiGSEM Doctoral Workshop 📢

An excellent platform for doctoral students to present and discuss their research: The 20th edition of the BiGSEM Doctoral Workshop, organized by the Bielefeld Graduate School of Economics and Management (BiGSEM),

Thanks to all who helped/commented, and to my co-author Daniel Habermacher: it was a pleasure working with you!

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📢 Hot off the press: 📢

The US does not stand for freedom and democracy any more, but is sliding fast into tyranny. Harvard is punished for standing up to this.
If you’re in the US and not doing something now, soon you will be unable to do anything.
We know this from experience here in Germany.

The Conflict-of-Interest Discount in the Marketplace of Ideas Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

This is an incredibly important paper.

If you're an antitrust scholar and you're getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by a dominant monopolist as expert witness in a lawsuit that's in your research area, shouldn't you disclose that work on your CV?

www.nber.org/papers/w3364...

‪Very happy to share my NEW WP "Authority, communication, and internal markets", joint w/ Daniel Habermacher. We revisit the trade-off between keeping and delegating authority, and show how introducing transfers may improve efficiency:
dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
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@jacobedenhofer.bsky.social wrote another impressive thread, on dealing with the AfD. It contains lots of evidence that we _should_ learn from the past.

Das Rätsel ist gelöst. Das prozentuelle Handelsbilanzdefizit bildet die Basis für die Zollberechnung.

Minor point but:
Within the US, there has a debate for years about where to host conferences because of local policies, usually targeting red states.
International conference hosts will be getting more and more pressure from attendees to not hold events in any part of the US due to safety concerns.

July 07- 11, 2025 The Summer School consists of four courses presenting recent aspects of managing climate uncertainty. A selected number of short presentations held by the students are also planned. The Summer Schoo...

In addition to a social event and a joint social dinner, we are planning two separate events for female researchers (a mentoring session and a dinner).

For more information, please visit: sites.google.com/view/summers...

We are looking forward to receiving your applications!

The Summer School consists of four courses presenting recent aspects of managing climate uncertainty. A selected number of short presentations held by the students is part of the scientific program: Application is open until April 30. The Acceptance of talks will be communicated until May 9.

July 07- 11, 2025 The Summer School consists of four courses presenting recent aspects of managing climate uncertainty. A selected number of short presentations held by the students are also planned. The Summer Schoo...

📣 Call of Applications - #CUDE Summer School 📣

The Research Training Group #CUDE at Bielefeld University is organizing a Summer School on “Managing Uncertainty in Climate Economics“ from July 7 to 11, 2025.

We’re happy to host the 1st European Economic Theory Conference in Bonn next fall! Submissions in all areas of economic theory are welcome.

Research Positions in the Research Training Group The Center for Mathematical Economics (IMW) at Bielefeld University is offering 10 doctoral positions which are allocated to the Research Training Gro...

We are hiring: 10 doctoral positions within the Research Training Group 'Coping with Uncertainty in Dynamic Economies' (CUDE). Application deadline: February 15, 2025.
#EconSky #PhDposition

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Just published on APSR First View: "The Free Movement of People and the Success of Far-Right Parties: Evidence from Switzerland’s Border Liberalization" by Ala Alrababah, Andreas Beerli, Dominik Hangartner, and Dalston Ward. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Great thread.

YouTube video by Bielefeld University Dealing with narratives in uncertain times - research_tv Universität Bielefeld

Gerrit Bauch‘s and my recent work on "Strategic communication of narratives" has been featured by Bielefeld University‘s research_tv:

youtu.be/f42GNrIA1fY

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