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Georg Weizsäcker
@georgweizsaecker.bsky.social
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Microeconomist, Behavioral Economist, Author of "Misunderstandings: False Beliefs in Communication"

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Georg Heinrich von Weizsäcker is a German economist and currently the Professor for Microeconomic Theory and Applications at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His research interests include microeconomics, experimental economics, financial decision making, game theory and decision theory. In 2017, Weizsäcker's contributions to a better understanding of expectations formation and decisions under uncertainty were awarded the Gossen Prize. .. more

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 30m
Bend it like China
janrosenow.bsky.social Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1h
Good news: more than 50% of the world’s economies have seen carbon emissions from fossil fuel power generation peaking. And with the speed of change in the electricity sector many more will join this growing list in coming years.

Reposted by Georg Weizsäcker

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1h
Good news: more than 50% of the world’s economies have seen carbon emissions from fossil fuel power generation peaking. And with the speed of change in the electricity sector many more will join this growing list in coming years.

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 17h
👏🏼

And with many thanks to this great crowd for all the interactions in our Berlin-Munich research center @rationalitycrc.bsky.social.
econmunich.bsky.social Economics LMU Munich @econmunich.bsky.social · 7d
📢 Meet Our 2025 Job Market Candidates! 🚀

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Learn more: www.econ.lmu.de/en/faculty/m...

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Job Market Candidates
Interested institutions will find MGSE PhD candidates who are available for employment presented below. Past placements are listed in placement record.
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 19h
As you can tell from the paper's number (531), the research center's webpage👇🏼is already loaded with results. The weekly posts will be, I guess, about new or very recent content.

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CRC 190 Rationality and Competition
The Collabrative Research Center TRR 190 Rationality and Competition focuses on the study of competitive behavior of individuals with bounded rationality.
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 20h
Btw this discussion paper post is the first instance of the new CRC TRR 190 Coffee Break, where the office of our research center will post new research results every week. 👇🏼

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rationalitycrc.bsky.social CRC Rationality & Competition @rationalitycrc.bsky.social · 23h
We are super excited about the launch of our new research blog! Did you ever complain about an unproductive food coma after lunch? No more! The CRC TRR 190 Coffee Break has your back with gold nuggets of research each Monday. And this week, we will post every day!

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 20h
A new discussion paper shows a surprisingly big effect of "Most Supportive Employee" awards.
rationalitycrc.bsky.social CRC Rationality & Competition @rationalitycrc.bsky.social · 20h
How to incentivise cooperation when monetary incentives are costly or ineffective? Our experiment shows a public recognition award increases employee willingness to help by 21%, leveraging social image towards peers and management-related reputation.
How Public Recognition Drives Cooperation Among Knowledge Workers
Discussion Paper No. 531
190researchblog.substack.com

Reposted by Georg Weizsäcker

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CRC Rationality & Competition @rationalitycrc.bsky.social · 20h
How to incentivise cooperation when monetary incentives are costly or ineffective? Our experiment shows a public recognition award increases employee willingness to help by 21%, leveraging social image towards peers and management-related reputation.
How Public Recognition Drives Cooperation Among Knowledge Workers
Discussion Paper No. 531
190researchblog.substack.com

Reposted by Jan Marcus, Georg Weizsäcker

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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · 22h
If Difference-in-Differences has been on your “to-learn” list, now is your chance to dig in. Our #GESISworkshop with @janmarcus.de takes you from DiD basics to advanced topics like triple differences, synthetic control, and modern estimators — all in R and Stata.

➡️ t1p.de/dif_in_dif_26
GESIS Workshop Foundations and Advances in Difference-in-Differences 03 to 04 February 2026 | Online Jan Marcus (Freie Universität Berlin)

Reposted by Georg Weizsäcker

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CRC Rationality & Competition @rationalitycrc.bsky.social · 23h
We are super excited about the launch of our new research blog! Did you ever complain about an unproductive food coma after lunch? No more! The CRC TRR 190 Coffee Break has your back with gold nuggets of research each Monday. And this week, we will post every day!

Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Aaron Sojourner

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 1d
🚨Very Strong Job Market Candidates

#EconSky

The Berlin School of Economics is a unique cooperation of 9 institutions - together we do research and train PhDs/Postdocs.

This year: fantastic people in applied micro, behavioral/experimental, and macro. 👇🏻

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Job Market Candidates
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 1d
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 1d
Remembrance at my university

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humboldtuni.bsky.social humboldtuni.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social · 1d
Heute jährt sich die Reichspogromnacht zum 87. Mal. Die #HumboldtUni gedenkt der Opfer des NS-Terrors, um ein Zeichen gegen Antisemitismus und jede Form von Diskriminierung und für ein friedliches Miteinander zu setzen. Mehr Hintergründe zum Projekt Stolpersteine 👉 www.hu-berlin.de/de/ueberblic...
Mitglieder des Präsidiums der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin knien auf einem öffentlichen Platz vor dem Hauptgebäude und reinigen Stolpersteine. Sie tragen Handschuhe und nutzen Schwämme und Putzmittel. Die Szene findet bei Tageslicht statt und zeigt ein gemeinsames Gedenken an die Opfer der nationalsozialistischen Verfolgung. Foto: Stefan Klenke.

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humboldtuni.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social · 1d
Heute jährt sich die Reichspogromnacht zum 87. Mal. Die #HumboldtUni gedenkt der Opfer des NS-Terrors, um ein Zeichen gegen Antisemitismus und jede Form von Diskriminierung und für ein friedliches Miteinander zu setzen. Mehr Hintergründe zum Projekt Stolpersteine 👉 www.hu-berlin.de/de/ueberblic...
Mitglieder des Präsidiums der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin knien auf einem öffentlichen Platz vor dem Hauptgebäude und reinigen Stolpersteine. Sie tragen Handschuhe und nutzen Schwämme und Putzmittel. Die Szene findet bei Tageslicht statt und zeigt ein gemeinsames Gedenken an die Opfer der nationalsozialistischen Verfolgung. Foto: Stefan Klenke.

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 1d
The Germanest of days

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ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk @ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social · 3d
1/Sonntag, 9. November 2025, 16.00-18.15 Uhr:
Der 9. November: Aufbrüche, Abgründe und die Fragilität der Demokratie
Am 9. November jähren sich mehrere Schlüsselereignisse der deutschen Geschichte. Er steht für den Aufbruch in die Demokratie, aber auch für deren Fragilität.

Reposted by Georg Weizsäcker

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Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk @ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social · 3d
1/Sonntag, 9. November 2025, 16.00-18.15 Uhr:
Der 9. November: Aufbrüche, Abgründe und die Fragilität der Demokratie
Am 9. November jähren sich mehrere Schlüsselereignisse der deutschen Geschichte. Er steht für den Aufbruch in die Demokratie, aber auch für deren Fragilität.

Reposted by Steve Carver, Georg Weizsäcker, Kathleen Kennedy

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 4d
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓

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We might have to have a lie-down.
A map of part of Britiain and northern europe showing loads and loads of roman roads, picked out in red.

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 4d
Very nice interview with a clear statement against joint taxation.

Also with a clear statement against upper limits for work hours, btw.

(Recall, we Germans have an „autumn of reforms“ for which we may use some ideas…)
rfberlin.bsky.social ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin @rfberlin.bsky.social · 4d
📰 Süddeutsche Zeitung features Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin (@harvard.edu, @rfberlin.bsky.social Fellow) on gender equality, work, and family policy.

She argues that men and women should be taxed separately, as joint taxation discourages women’s full-time employment.
Claudia Goldin on Gender Equality, Work, and Family Policy
Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin, Professor of Economics at Harvard University and Fellow of the RFBerlin Network, was featured in Süddeutsche Zeitung, one of Germany’s leading daily newspapers. In the i...
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ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin @rfberlin.bsky.social · 4d
📰 Süddeutsche Zeitung features Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin (@harvard.edu, @rfberlin.bsky.social Fellow) on gender equality, work, and family policy.

She argues that men and women should be taxed separately, as joint taxation discourages women’s full-time employment.
Claudia Goldin on Gender Equality, Work, and Family Policy
Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin, Professor of Economics at Harvard University and Fellow of the RFBerlin Network, was featured in Süddeutsche Zeitung, one of Germany’s leading daily newspapers. In the i...
www.rfberlin.com

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 5d
Nice use of the economic policy uncertainty index 👇🏼

(which, btw, is a variable that you find at: fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USEPU...)
mchinn.bsky.social Menzie Chinn @mchinn.bsky.social · 5d
High interest rates vs. policy uncertainty and the downturn in residential investment #EconSky

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 5d
We teach it as ‚monotonic preferences‘ - some people can‘t get enough

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Menzie Chinn @mchinn.bsky.social · 5d
High interest rates vs. policy uncertainty and the downturn in residential investment #EconSky

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 5d
the first what now
Trump ally Infantino to award first Fifa Peace Prize at World Cup draw in DC
Fifa unveils a new Peace Prize to be awarded at the 2026 World Cup draw in Washington, citing a mission to honor efforts to end conflict
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Takanori Adachi, Trevon D. Logan, Georg Weizsäcker

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Tim Bresnahan @timobres.bsky.social · 5d
www.cmfdata.org Great data drop! @rickhornbeck.bsky.social
Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata - Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 6d
Ah, democracy - not quite dead yet

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 6d
This needs a full investigation 👇🏼 - the @tagesspiegel.de finds possible abuse of funds in Berlin‘s city government. Potentially extra embarrassing as the funds were given under the label ‚fight against antisemitism‘.

www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/rekon...
Rekonstruktion einer Affäre: So sollen CDU-Politiker in Berlin illegal Millionen verteilt haben
Ex-Kultursenator Joe Chialo soll willkürlich mehrere Millionen Euro für die Antisemitismusbekämpfung vergeben haben, nachdem er von Abgeordneten unter Druck gesetzt wurde. Eine Rekonstruktion.
www.tagesspiegel.de

Reposted by Michael A. Clemens

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 6d
I don't remember seeing our big lecture room so room so full, or hearing such long 👏🏼at the end.

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 6d
I happen to know these people, and 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
econmunich.bsky.social 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

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 7d
Germany and UK not doing great on this, either.

Yet, for current political discussions here, the most important info is probably that life expectancy still grows, at roughly its pre-Covid pace.
rebeccasear.bsky.social Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 10d
This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”"

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Graph showing life expectancy trends in 23 higher income countries between 1980 and 2024. Life expectancy increased over time in all countries. In 1980, the US is in the middle of the pack, but their life expectancy gains were slower than that of other countries, and by around 2002, the US had the lowest life expectancy of all countries. Over the next 20 years, US life expectancy increasingly tracks away from the trajectories of other countries, as their life expectancy stalls while other countries life expectancy continues to climb

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 7d
Danke

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 7d
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Equation changes for international STEM scholars deciding whether to come to US
Even as funding cuts, visa issues, border fears, and other hurdles detract from US attractiveness, some scholars still come.
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