Economics Unboxed ◦ Researcher University of Zurich ◦ Tweets on Political Economics, Finance, Social Sciences, and Leadership.
Frankfurt am Main
Joined February 2009
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📚 Explore the intricate link between social media and politics in a new CEPR eBook, "The Political Economy of Social Media," edited by SEF faculty member @tesei_andrea! cepr.org/about/news/press-re…
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Discussed WFH with Delphine Strauss at the FT
ft.com/content/c3ada896-c7df…
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@Propublica’s extraordinary analysis of @EPA TRI data gives a sense of real cancer risk from nation’s most toxic air polluters projects.propublica.org/toxm…
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Recoveries from recessions concentrated in services and non-durables will tend to be weaker than from recessions biased towards durables, as the recovery is hampered by weaker pent up demand, from @MartinBeraja and @ChristianKWolf nber.org/papers/w29304
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Recently accepted by #QJE, “Flexible Wages, Bargaining, and the Gender Gap,” by Biasi (@BarbaraBiasi) and Sarsons: doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjab026
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Imagine the banking world like a hurdle race 🏦🏃. But, do all banks play by the same rules? Watch this video! 👇
Steven Ongena and @ThomasMosk and their co-authors show that national authorities assist banks to pass stricter supranational requirements.
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The Olympics start tomorrow. Hurdle races not only exist in sports but also in the financial world. Check out this cool video based on a paper on supranational banking rules by @ReintGropp, @ThomasMosk, S. Ongena, C. Wix & I. Simac
vimeo.com/577937006
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Temperature change directly affects agricultural production 🌡️ 🌎, but how does it affect non-agricultural sectors 📈?
A recent study by Cláudia Custódio, Miguel Ferreira , @GAppendini , and Adrian Lam investigates the effect on the firms supplying to the same client.
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Another reason impact factors need to be taken with caution:
High citation rates of papers in top journals are in part driven by strategic motives (to appeal to reviewers, editors). Study finds that after a scientific journal stopped, the citations to its papers dropped by 20%.
New paper paper in the JPE on citing behavior in economics & how the high impact of top journals is self-referential. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
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#POLFIN Day 1 👇🏻
• Do congressmen favour their friends’ firms?
• Can foreign firms be discriminated against via anti-bribery enforcement?
• Does political partisanship matter for financial flows across borders?
• Can private banks collude with the politicians?
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The #Equation: How to #identify #research that can sway #policy makers
"Given a scarcity of journal space, what is the optimal rule for whether an empirical finding should be published?"
via @chicagoboothrev @maxkasy
review.chicagobooth.edu/econ…
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The top 1 percent’s savings buried the middle class in debt
There's a close connection between rising income inequality and "financialization" / dependence on credit
When rich try to save more, but investment doesn't rise: debt must! 👇🏽👇🏽
review.chicagobooth.edu/econ…
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AI analysis of corporate financial information, qualitative disclosure, and macroeconomic indicators can beat the majority of human analysts in stock price forecasts and generate excess returns, from Sean Cao, Wei Jiang, Junbo L. Wang, and Baozhong Yang nber.org/papers/w28800
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Thrilled that my joint paper with Sarah Moshary @ChicagoBooth is conditionally accepted at Marketing Science @INFORMS. We study manufacturers' responses to food packaging and advertising regulations. So happy that I passed my rite of passage as an IO economist: we study cereals!
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SUPER important RCT in Rohingya refugee camps showing that gainful employment confers psychosocial benefits over and above an equally well-paid direct cash transfer
(couldn't find authors on twitter, if you know where they are pls tag them below)
hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Fi…
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Analysis of new data to compare the British and French Shanghai concessions of 1845-1936 demonstrate the financial development advantages of British common law, from Ross Levine, Chen Lin, Chicheng Ma, and Yuchen Xu nber.org/papers/w28794
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New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP16150
Airbnb and Rental Markets: Evidence from Berlin
@tomaso_duso @DIW_Berlin @DIW_Berlin_en @TUBerlin @BSE_Berlin, @ClausMichelsen @DIW_Berlin, @maxPschaefer @UniboMagazine, @KDBTran @BristolUni @BristolUniEcon
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#CEPR_IO
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Firms with specialized M&A staff make better acquisitions, as measured by stock price reactions to announcements, long-run stock returns, operating performance, divestitures, and analyst earnings forecasts, from Sinan Gokkaya, Xi Liu, and René M. Stulz nber.org/papers/w28778
