Inaugural Workshop of the Standing Committee for Political Economy of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik e.V.), @vfsecon.bsky.social
Call for Papers below! Maik T. Schneider, @steinhardt.bsky.social @theocharisgr.bsky.social
and I hope to see you in Berlin, March 26-27!
Happy to see Berliner Zeitung covering our research on pastor networks and their role in the 1989 revolution.
www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gese...
📆 Join us on November 19 at our economics research seminar with Johannes Buggle (@jcbuggle.bsky.social), who will present "Henry Ford and Antisemitism."
CfP🗣️: 7th edition of the Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration. 28-29 May 2026, in Rome!
Organised by CEPR/King's College/EBRD/Sapienza
Keynotes are Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi) and Vicky Fouka (Stanford).
Submit your papers: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Deadline 23 Jan.
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Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org
The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
Conclusions:
Our findings illustrate how political identity shapes consumption.
After Musk’s endorsement of the AfD, buying a Tesla meant something different as before and this is reflected in consumption choices.
📄 Link to paper: tinyurl.com/teslaafd
Other EV brands showed no comparable change, confirming the response was unique to Tesla and driven by Musk’s political endorsement rather than market-wide factors.
📈 Key finding:
Tesla registrations increased by up to 30% in regions with strong AfD support but declined where Green Party support was higher. This increase corresponds to roughly two additional cars per month in AfD-strong areas.
We use district-level vehicle registration data and an event study design to measure how Tesla sales evolved before and after Musk’s endorsement in German regions with different political ideologies.
🚨New working paper #econsky
🚗🇩🇪 What happens when CEOs express political ideology?
In our new paper, Sebastian and I investigate how Elon #Musk’s endorsement of Germany’s far-right #AfD in Dec 2024 polarized #Tesla sales across political lines.
🚨 #CallForPapers We invite submissions to the RFBerlin Migration Forum.
🗓️ Deadline: 2 Nov 2025.
Submit your work now and share with colleagues! #MigrationForum2026 app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79526...
Inkl. Anschaffungskosten des Druckers?
View from the office!
Don't forget to apply / share:
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What happened when the U.S. forcibly sent 400,000 Mexican workers back to Mexico in the 1930s?
The employment rate of native workers *went down* noticeably as a direct result. (You read that correctly)
Why?
Forced repatriation destroyed low-skill markets.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We are hiring! We are seeking expressions of interest for appointment as Full Professor in the Department of Economics at Monash University. DM me if you have questions.
econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
We are opening three full professor positions in beautiful Innsbruck!
We are opening three full professor positions in beautiful Innsbruck!
👋Hi Bluesky!
We are the Faculty of Economics and Statistics at the University of Innsbruck and we‘re excited to be here!
is claude better than chatgpt for coding?
We analyze data on over 1,600 pastors -looking at their education and job histories- to map out social ties between cities.
Cities connected by a pastor were 46–63% more likely to have protests in a given week.
This highlights how local leaders and their networks can enable collective action.
How do social movements spread under authoritarian regimes?
We have a new short paper that examines the 1989 East German revolution. We show that networks of Protestant pastors which were key local leaders facilitated the spatial diffusion of protests.
@bohnigerwachmacher.bsky.social
Our dept/faculty @uniinnsbruck@social.uibk.ac.at is looking for a senior scientist
- to coordinate a new master program
- to teach statistics & data science in that master (and beyond)
German skills needed. Further details & online application at:
lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/karri...
"Nichts gehört der Vergangenheit an. Alles ist Gegenwart und kann wieder Zukunft werden."
- Fritz Bauer, hessischer Generalstaatsanwalt und Ankläger im Auschwitz-Prozess
#NieWiederIstJetzt, heute.
Austrian politicians should (have) read:
#EconSky 📈📉 We are now accepting applications for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professorship in Econometrics. Join our young and vibrant faculty at the University of Innsbruck. Apply by 14 Dec 2023!
lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/karri...
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OK, wow. Das Hauptstadtstudio des Deutschlandfunks zieht sich anscheinend bei Twitter / X zurück.
The fact that you provide childcare is awesome!
