Gábor Békés

@gaborbekes.bsky.social

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Economics Associate Prof, CEU Vienna.
Trade, applied IO, organisations. sites.google.com/site/bekesg
Author, "Data Analysis for Business, Economics, and Policy" (Cambridge UP) https://gabors-data-analysis.com/
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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Jan 22

Cultural homophily is persistent, pervasive, and consequential, even in superstar multinational teams of high-skill people with common objectives, doing well defined, interactive, not particularly culture intensive tasks.
pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Oh, we use football data. #EconSky

Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 3h

Thanks!

Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 1d

Since we (mostly Matyas) collected tons of data from archives. Our hunch 14ys ago was right: there is plenty. Of course I vastly underestimated the workload...

The era is fascinating. Many policies.

More people to join. More data. More AI.
#IP-KuK, here we go.

9/N ENDS

Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 1d

The final push was the arrival of @mmatyas.bsky.social . Phd student who is interested in economics + history + speaks Hungarian and German.
cepr.org/multimedia/n...
So we had a gap in lit, personal interest, a small team and hope for data.
The first intro email goes back to 3 October 2023.

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The next generation: Paris ‘24

Recorded at the CEPR Paris Symposium. Whenever economists gather, you will find many of tomorrow’s best economists too. They get a rare chance to present their research, and traditionally we like to ask three of them to talk to us about it too. In this episode, Tim Phillips talks to three more young researchers about their work – and about how economics can do better. Matyas Molnar of Central European University describes his paper “International exhibitions as trade promotion”. Laura Arnemann of the University of Mannheim investigated “Taxes and Pay without Performance: Evidence from Executives”. And Gustavo García Bernal of Sciences Po speaks about “From Parent to Child: Intergenerational Wealth Dynamics and Inequalities.”

cepr.org

Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 1d

Then a year after we met again. Her train stopped for hours and started to look for data.
This was the time she worked with @rjuhasz.bsky.social on historical industrial policy. They realized we know so little outside a few countries. So there is a gap.

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 1d

A few years ago, i was at @cepr.org #ERWIT and heard @csteinwender.bsky.social present her work using Chinese patents data from about same time. I was amazed, and we started to chat a little.

Then nothing happened for a year ...

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing happened for a decade.

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 1d

I always thought, this is a super interesting period. First wave of globalization. Starting in 1867 Hungarian Kingdom is becoming more independent. Fast growth, Budapest becoming the city it is now. National champions. + AT-HU is custom and currency union + small fiscal + multi ethnic. See?

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 1d

It started 14 years ago. With my then Phd student, Peter Harasztosi (now at EIB) we were asked to use a historical IV (I'm not proud of it). In the process he found text on firm level exports in the Hungarian National Library from the 1880s-1890s.

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 1d

First some info. This a joint project with
@csteinwender.bsky.social of @lmumuenchen.bsky.social and our @ceu-economics.bsky.social student @mmatyas.bsky.social . (Pic is at LMU history books)
Money comes from @fwf-at.bsky.social and @dfg.de . Cheers!
We start in January. 3years.

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 1d

So. I have won a grant by @fwf-at.bsky.social on studying globalization and industrial policy in Austria-Hungary in 1880-1910. gaborbekes.com/ipkuk
I have worked on globalization. Never on IP. Never on historical data. What the heck?

🧵
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NEW research project supported by FWF-DFG

Personal website of Gábor Békés. Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Business of Central European University and Senior Research Fellow at the KRTK Institute of Economics. This site...

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Angelica Shalagina🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 3d

Morning from Ukraine🫂🫂

It was a hard, sleepless night.
Ballistic missiles and shaheds rained down -
Not on soldiers, but on our warmth,
Our light, our life.

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Economics LMU Munich @econmunich.bsky.social · 5d

🚀 In a new project “𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆: 𝗘𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼-𝗛𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝘆 (𝗜𝗣-𝗞𝘂𝗞)” @gaborbekes.bsky.social (@weareceu.bsky.social) & 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗻𝘄𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 (@econmunich.bsky.social) will study how 19th–20th c. trade policies shaped firms & innovation👏

lmy.de/NTZXf

New Research Project on Industrial Policy in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in collaboration with Central European University (CEU)

A new three-year research collaboration between the CEU and LMU will explore how industrial policies shaped Central Europe’s economic development in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

lmy.de

Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 6d

We have been conducting a similar exercise in @ceu-economics.bsky.social in Vienna.
Happy to report strong external validity to your results.

Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 6d

How did industrial policies shape the development of Central Europe? With @csteinwender.bsky.social
will study Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, 1870-1910! Archival data to RDD, here we come. gaborbekes.com/ipkuk/
Thanks @fwf-at.bsky.social @dfg.de
@ceu-economics.bsky.social
@lmumuenchen.bsky.social

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Economics LMU Munich @econmunich.bsky.social · 21d

🚨JOB ALERT🚨

We are hiring assistant professors in Economics (any field)
@lmumuenchen.bsky.social @econmunich.bsky.social

Target date for applications: November 24!

More info at: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

#EconSky #EconJobMarket #EJME

Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Oct 8

We can still do it.
But maybe not in US.
Vienna?

Reposted by Gabriel Felbermayr, Harald Oberhofer, Gábor Békés

Harald Fadinger @hfadinger.bsky.social · Oct 8

Yesterday, we had a great start of the Vienna International Economics (VIES) seminar series with a talk by @banudemir.bsky.social on Plastic Turkey. For more information: sites.google.com/view/viennai...
@gaborbekes.bsky.social @gfelbermayr.bsky.social @robertstehrer.bsky.social @ho2604.bsky.social

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Peter Hull @instrumenthull.bsky.social · Sep 26

My coauthors and I are hiring a project coordinator for new research on an innovative jail-based rehabilitation paper (IGNITE), building on our recent QJE

Apply at careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/project...

Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Sep 3

Metrics class? From tidy tables to ML and event studies.
gabors-data-analysis.com/getting-star...

Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 31

Oh massive!
Thx

Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 24

Budapest 🤝🇺🇦

(Via bp major)

Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 21

This us awesome !

Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 18

One of the methods I try these years to avoid early academic year stress is to have a week in August when I catch up.
Finish referee reports.
Do syllabi for all year.
Put stuff on websites.
Look thru unanswered mails.
Install python again.

Will it work this time?

Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 18

The ROI of helping Trump to WH looks very high for Russia. ROI on Orbán, Le Pen, AfD etc also high.

Sad.

Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 17

#COYG
#MUNARS

Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 16

Vive la resistance !

Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 16

I came light. Just found myself in a conda v. UV v. Pixi fight.

And i thought i saw it all w r vs python vs stata, or jekyll vs hugo. Or tidyverse vs data.table or pandas v polars. Or logit vs lpm.

Alex @s3alfisc.bsky.social · Aug 15

For pyfixest's development, we've been using pixi for a while, which I really enjoy. More or less it is the conda-forge (free & open source) equivalent to uv (it actually runs uv for PyPi dependency resolution). Really fast both for PyPi & conda-forge dependency resolution.

Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · Aug 16

It seems neat.

One priority for us (ie education) is to provide stg
* widely used, tested
* has been and will be around for a while

Ie it does not have to be the best just very good and widespread

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Alex @s3alfisc.bsky.social · Aug 15

In contrast to uv, it is cross-language and also allows to pin down non-python dependencies in the same env (R, Julia, etc). And it also has nice "pixi run command" options (you can even define tasks as in justfiles, which I personally use a lot). pixi.sh/latest/

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Alex @s3alfisc.bsky.social · Aug 15

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