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27.02.2026 09:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Feedback welcome -- thank you!
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🎙️ Guest lectures by the amazing Andreases: Kostøl and Moxnes.
📝 Assessment: a 2000–3000 word research proposal.
External candidates can apply here: lnkd.in/en92M4cf
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We’ll build a practical toolbox for linking modern labor-market theory to data—covering skill-biased change, task-based models, self-selection/reallocation, Ricardo–Roy trade frameworks, and immigration supply–demand interactions (with some Matlab-based model exercises).
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There's been a bit of fuss recently about technology, trade & migration shocks.
Well, I'm looking forward to teaching a short PhD course on how these shocks affect labor market inequality.
📍 May 18–22, 2026 at BI (Oslo)
⏱️ Format: 18 hours
Syllabus: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/95d63...
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Europe should do both: integrate more where feasible (India, Mercosur, Trans-Pacific,...), while simultaneously preparing to strike back hard against malevolent actors.
No need for panic, but neither for naivety.
Meanwhile destroying any lingering hope of maintaining a solid Western alliance.
22.01.2026 08:36 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The European Council / Entmoot seems to be changing course.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzug...
One option is retaliation.
Another option is to ignore this bluff/BS and send as many exports as possible through non-tariffed EU/EEA members. (Sorry, Brexiteers.)
Clearly, Dear Leader spent more time writing this post than thinking through the policy implications.
A related view:
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-stupid...
The French Army just announced that it will be part of the military force that goes to Greenland
Germany is also part of it, on top of Sweden
If the US invades Greenland, it means that two NATO nuclear powers will be fighting against each other
What is currently happening is an escalation management plan
The goal is to deter the United States from attacking, in the same way that stationing troops in the eastern flank of NATO is aimed at deterring Russia
Europe and Canada forces are not amassing troops to repel an US invasion
European tripwire forces make a military land grab of Greenland drastically more costly to the Trump admin:
Harming European forces will force Europe to strongly retaliate economically and destroy any defense cooperation.
In turn, this may trigger a backlash both in Congress and in the US military
The second China shock
14.01.2026 07:14 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1Some people in the Trump administration may benefit from a clear visualization of what "Nothing" means.
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Today is one of those days when I should have taken my own advice. Flooded with rage tweets on the other platform. Garbage way to communicate that only brings out the worst in people. All dunks, no conversation. Complete waste of time trying to engage there www.gelliottmorris.com/p/you-should...
13.11.2025 20:15 — 👍 341 🔁 62 💬 25 📌 7
Market statistics from EconJobMarket.org.
Good thing there's Europe.
This paper shows: the 2022 energy crisis led to record global profits for fossil fuel companies. The US gained the most, with claims on US$301 billion, exceeding its US$267 billion investment in low-carbon energy. Half of profits went to the top1%, mainly through stock ownership
03.11.2025 06:44 — 👍 72 🔁 31 💬 2 📌 3
BI is hiring PhD candidates in economics.
We offer:
- a friendly and collegial department
- strong faculty support during your PhD
- access to very rich Norwegian microdata
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an experience I think about a lot: I was visiting a class in DC Jail shortly after Kim Kardashian visited and had brought in her camera team. I relayed critiques of her "performative", "virtue signalling" acts I had heard on the outside. the response was somewhere between a shrug and an eye roll
11.10.2025 18:11 — 👍 726 🔁 88 💬 13 📌 3
De #Nobelprijs #Economie ligt onder vuur. Critici stellen dat de prijs een misleidende autoriteit verleent aan een discipline die vaak ideologisch gekleurd is.
Lees het antwoord van prof. @simongalle.bsky.social (BI Norwegian Business School).
👉 www.tijdschriftkarakter.be/de-nobelprij...
One obvious part of Europe's Trump handling is not to give too much weight to each individual utterance, but to stop the US going completely off the rails. In the absence of a domestic version, arguably even "the adults in the room"
24.09.2025 08:07 — 👍 72 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 1
Extremely useful resource.
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BI is hiring PhD candidates in economics.
We offer:
- a friendly and collegial department
- strong faculty support during your PhD
- access to very rich Norwegian microdata
- a competitive salary
- a strong track record in PhD placements.
Please share #EconSky 🙏🙏
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This matter-of-fact letter is straightforward and non-partisan.
It is more informative on the "Trump vs. Cook" case than most of the press coverage I have seen about it.
"Researcher who has distorted voter data appointed to Homeland Security election integrity role" www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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#NumbersDay
qz.com/moodys-chief...
There is little precedent: no Fed governor has been dismissed for cause before
26.08.2025 09:05 — 👍 23 🔁 6 💬 6 📌 1
"Dag na dag ontvouwt zich in Gaza een van de grootste en grofste misdaden tegen de menselijkheid van onze tijd...
De waarheid is dat Europa wel degelijk hefbomen heeft om Israël onder druk te zetten om dit bloedvergieten te stoppen en zijn doelstellingen aan de onderhandelingstafel te bereiken."
I was already an adult when I first heard that the French and the British continued their blockade of Germany after the armistice of 11 November 1918 until the Treaty of Versailles was signed, and that this lead to hundreds of thousands of death from starvation. I remained convinced that this /
15.08.2025 07:10 — 👍 27 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1