Manuel Foerster
@manuelfoerster.bsky.social
Assistant Professor for Microeconomics at the Center for Mathematical Economics at Bielefeld University | applied microeconomic theory and game theory
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/sitemanuelfoerster
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/sitemanuelfoerster
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Authority, Communication, and Internal Markets
We revisit the trade-off between keeping authority and granting decision-rights to an informed agent. We introduce transfers, allowing the agent to charge a fee
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Very happy to share my NEW WP "Authority, communication, and internal markets", joint w/ Daniel Habermacher. We revisit the trade-off between keeping and delegating authority, and show how introducing transfers may improve efficiency:
dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
#EconSky #formaltheory
dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
#EconSky #formaltheory
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Utrecht University abolishes its English language bachelor's program in economics and replaces it with a Dutch one.
They told staff (~30% international) the week before Christmas. Layoffs seem likely now. Unwarranted lobotomy is the only word I can find for it...
dub.uu.nl/en/news/econ...
They told staff (~30% international) the week before Christmas. Layoffs seem likely now. Unwarranted lobotomy is the only word I can find for it...
dub.uu.nl/en/news/econ...
Economics programme in shock after sudden cancellation of English-taught track
The Bachelor's programme in Economics & Business Economics will only be offered in Dutch from 2029 onwards, the Executive Board announced on Tuesday. The news came as a complete surprise to the econom...
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December 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Utrecht University abolishes its English language bachelor's program in economics and replaces it with a Dutch one.
They told staff (~30% international) the week before Christmas. Layoffs seem likely now. Unwarranted lobotomy is the only word I can find for it...
dub.uu.nl/en/news/econ...
They told staff (~30% international) the week before Christmas. Layoffs seem likely now. Unwarranted lobotomy is the only word I can find for it...
dub.uu.nl/en/news/econ...
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Gratulation an Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion und Peter Howitt zum diesjährigen #Nobelpreis in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Sehr verdient. Die Kombination der Personen war für mich etwas überraschend, aber alle drei sind langjährige Kandidaten (insofern war Aghion nicht ganz
October 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Gratulation an Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion und Peter Howitt zum diesjährigen #Nobelpreis in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Sehr verdient. Die Kombination der Personen war für mich etwas überraschend, aber alle drei sind langjährige Kandidaten (insofern war Aghion nicht ganz
Very happy to share my NEW WP "A dynamic model of authority in organizations", joint w/ my PhD student @bingbingli.bsky.social. We investigate repeated delegation of a decision to an agent with uncertain preferences:
pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/3007127
#EconSky #formaltheory
pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/3007127
#EconSky #formaltheory
A dynamic model of authority in organizations
pub.uni-bielefeld.de
October 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Very happy to share my NEW WP "A dynamic model of authority in organizations", joint w/ my PhD student @bingbingli.bsky.social. We investigate repeated delegation of a decision to an agent with uncertain preferences:
pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/3007127
#EconSky #formaltheory
pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/3007127
#EconSky #formaltheory
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📢 Our VfS chair Klaus M. Schmidt is opening this year’s VfS Annual Conference at the University of Cologne. A warm welcome to all participants – we're excited to kick things off!
@WiSoKöln @UniKöln
#VfS_Conf2025 #EconomicsConference #Welcome
#IndustrialPolicy #EUEconomy #CleanIndustrialDeal
@WiSoKöln @UniKöln
#VfS_Conf2025 #EconomicsConference #Welcome
#IndustrialPolicy #EUEconomy #CleanIndustrialDeal
September 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
📢 Our VfS chair Klaus M. Schmidt is opening this year’s VfS Annual Conference at the University of Cologne. A warm welcome to all participants – we're excited to kick things off!
@WiSoKöln @UniKöln
#VfS_Conf2025 #EconomicsConference #Welcome
#IndustrialPolicy #EUEconomy #CleanIndustrialDeal
@WiSoKöln @UniKöln
#VfS_Conf2025 #EconomicsConference #Welcome
#IndustrialPolicy #EUEconomy #CleanIndustrialDeal
📢 We are hiring! 📢
The Center for Mathematical Economics (IMW) at Universität Bielefeld is offering a postdoctoral position allocated to the Research Training Group 2865 'Coping with Uncertainty in Dynamic Economies' (CUDE). Applications can be submitted until November 15, 2025.
The Center for Mathematical Economics (IMW) at Universität Bielefeld is offering a postdoctoral position allocated to the Research Training Group 2865 'Coping with Uncertainty in Dynamic Economies' (CUDE). Applications can be submitted until November 15, 2025.
September 8, 2025 at 11:13 AM
📢 We are hiring! 📢
The Center for Mathematical Economics (IMW) at Universität Bielefeld is offering a postdoctoral position allocated to the Research Training Group 2865 'Coping with Uncertainty in Dynamic Economies' (CUDE). Applications can be submitted until November 15, 2025.
The Center for Mathematical Economics (IMW) at Universität Bielefeld is offering a postdoctoral position allocated to the Research Training Group 2865 'Coping with Uncertainty in Dynamic Economies' (CUDE). Applications can be submitted until November 15, 2025.
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I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on.
Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts.
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Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts.
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July 24, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on.
Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts.
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Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts.
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Thanks for sharing Ben, looks super interesting!
July 31, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Thanks for sharing Ben, looks super interesting!
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He's right, and it's not just Brazil.
Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.
Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.
July 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
He's right, and it's not just Brazil.
Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.
Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.
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❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French?
➡️ New Working Paper:
Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills
w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek
www.nber.org/papers/w33984
A 🧵 1/12
➡️ New Working Paper:
Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills
w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek
www.nber.org/papers/w33984
A 🧵 1/12
July 7, 2025 at 6:33 AM
❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French?
➡️ New Working Paper:
Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills
w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek
www.nber.org/papers/w33984
A 🧵 1/12
➡️ New Working Paper:
Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills
w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek
www.nber.org/papers/w33984
A 🧵 1/12
We study a seller who sequentially offers experiments to a consumer and show by means of an encryption protocol how perfect price discrimination may be feasible despite buyers’ valuations being different. We illustrate our framework in the context of medical diagnostic testing.
July 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM
We study a seller who sequentially offers experiments to a consumer and show by means of an encryption protocol how perfect price discrimination may be feasible despite buyers’ valuations being different. We illustrate our framework in the context of medical diagnostic testing.
Very happy to share my NEW WP "Sequential Information Selling: Perfect Price Discrimination and the Role of Encryption", joint w/ Fynn Louis Närmann.
pub.uni-bielefeld.de/download/300...
#EconSky #formaltheory
pub.uni-bielefeld.de/download/300...
#EconSky #formaltheory
pub.uni-bielefeld.de
July 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Very happy to share my NEW WP "Sequential Information Selling: Perfect Price Discrimination and the Role of Encryption", joint w/ Fynn Louis Närmann.
pub.uni-bielefeld.de/download/300...
#EconSky #formaltheory
pub.uni-bielefeld.de/download/300...
#EconSky #formaltheory
will take place on December 15–16, 2025, at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) in Bielefeld, Germany. 🔬 🚀
Learn more here: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
#econsky
Learn more here: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
#econsky
www.uni-bielefeld.de
May 27, 2025 at 9:13 AM
will take place on December 15–16, 2025, at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) in Bielefeld, Germany. 🔬 🚀
Learn more here: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
#econsky
Learn more here: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
#econsky
📢 Call for Papers: 20th BiGSEM Doctoral Workshop 📢
An excellent platform for doctoral students to present and discuss their research: The 20th edition of the BiGSEM Doctoral Workshop, organized by the Bielefeld Graduate School of Economics and Management (BiGSEM),
An excellent platform for doctoral students to present and discuss their research: The 20th edition of the BiGSEM Doctoral Workshop, organized by the Bielefeld Graduate School of Economics and Management (BiGSEM),
May 27, 2025 at 9:13 AM
📢 Call for Papers: 20th BiGSEM Doctoral Workshop 📢
An excellent platform for doctoral students to present and discuss their research: The 20th edition of the BiGSEM Doctoral Workshop, organized by the Bielefeld Graduate School of Economics and Management (BiGSEM),
An excellent platform for doctoral students to present and discuss their research: The 20th edition of the BiGSEM Doctoral Workshop, organized by the Bielefeld Graduate School of Economics and Management (BiGSEM),
📢 Hot off the press: 📢
Recently published in @jpube.bsky.social:
"Policy-advising competition and endogenous lobbies"
By @manuelfoerster.bsky.social & Daniel Habermacher
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky
"Policy-advising competition and endogenous lobbies"
By @manuelfoerster.bsky.social & Daniel Habermacher
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky
May 27, 2025 at 6:08 AM
📢 Hot off the press: 📢
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The US does not stand for freedom and democracy any more, but is sliding fast into tyranny. Harvard is punished for standing up to this.
If you’re in the US and not doing something now, soon you will be unable to do anything.
We know this from experience here in Germany.
If you’re in the US and not doing something now, soon you will be unable to do anything.
We know this from experience here in Germany.
Trump just revoked the ability for foreign students to enroll at Harvard. Every foreign student, which is in the thousands, enrolled for next year at Harvard will not be able to continue studying if this isn't challenged in court.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students
www.nytimes.com
May 23, 2025 at 4:59 AM
The US does not stand for freedom and democracy any more, but is sliding fast into tyranny. Harvard is punished for standing up to this.
If you’re in the US and not doing something now, soon you will be unable to do anything.
We know this from experience here in Germany.
If you’re in the US and not doing something now, soon you will be unable to do anything.
We know this from experience here in Germany.
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This is an incredibly important paper.
If you're an antitrust scholar and you're getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by a dominant monopolist as expert witness in a lawsuit that's in your research area, shouldn't you disclose that work on your CV?
www.nber.org/papers/w3364...
If you're an antitrust scholar and you're getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by a dominant monopolist as expert witness in a lawsuit that's in your research area, shouldn't you disclose that work on your CV?
www.nber.org/papers/w3364...
The Conflict-of-Interest Discount in the Marketplace of Ideas
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
May 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This is an incredibly important paper.
If you're an antitrust scholar and you're getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by a dominant monopolist as expert witness in a lawsuit that's in your research area, shouldn't you disclose that work on your CV?
www.nber.org/papers/w3364...
If you're an antitrust scholar and you're getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by a dominant monopolist as expert witness in a lawsuit that's in your research area, shouldn't you disclose that work on your CV?
www.nber.org/papers/w3364...
Very happy to share my NEW WP "Authority, communication, and internal markets", joint w/ Daniel Habermacher. We revisit the trade-off between keeping and delegating authority, and show how introducing transfers may improve efficiency:
dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
#EconSky #formaltheory
dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
#EconSky #formaltheory
Authority, Communication, and Internal Markets
We revisit the trade-off between keeping authority and granting decision-rights to an informed agent. We introduce transfers, allowing the agent to charge a fee
dx.doi.org
May 2, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Very happy to share my NEW WP "Authority, communication, and internal markets", joint w/ Daniel Habermacher. We revisit the trade-off between keeping and delegating authority, and show how introducing transfers may improve efficiency:
dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
#EconSky #formaltheory
dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
#EconSky #formaltheory
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@jacobedenhofer.bsky.social wrote another impressive thread, on dealing with the AfD. It contains lots of evidence that we _should_ learn from the past.
Some thoughts on the strategic rationale behind the "Brandmauer” – the cordon sanitaire vis-à-vis the AfD – and the challenges associated with maintaining it. Seems pertinent, given that senior CDU/CSU figures regularly float the idea of ditching it and exploring avenues for closer cooperation.
April 17, 2025 at 9:32 AM
@jacobedenhofer.bsky.social wrote another impressive thread, on dealing with the AfD. It contains lots of evidence that we _should_ learn from the past.
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Das Rätsel ist gelöst. Das prozentuelle Handelsbilanzdefizit bildet die Basis für die Zollberechnung.
April 3, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Das Rätsel ist gelöst. Das prozentuelle Handelsbilanzdefizit bildet die Basis für die Zollberechnung.
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Minor point but:
Within the US, there has a debate for years about where to host conferences because of local policies, usually targeting red states.
International conference hosts will be getting more and more pressure from attendees to not hold events in any part of the US due to safety concerns.
Within the US, there has a debate for years about where to host conferences because of local policies, usually targeting red states.
International conference hosts will be getting more and more pressure from attendees to not hold events in any part of the US due to safety concerns.
March 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Minor point but:
Within the US, there has a debate for years about where to host conferences because of local policies, usually targeting red states.
International conference hosts will be getting more and more pressure from attendees to not hold events in any part of the US due to safety concerns.
Within the US, there has a debate for years about where to host conferences because of local policies, usually targeting red states.
International conference hosts will be getting more and more pressure from attendees to not hold events in any part of the US due to safety concerns.
In addition to a social event and a joint social dinner, we are planning two separate events for female researchers (a mentoring session and a dinner).
For more information, please visit: sites.google.com/view/summers...
We are looking forward to receiving your applications!
For more information, please visit: sites.google.com/view/summers...
We are looking forward to receiving your applications!
July 07- 11, 2025
The Summer School consists of four courses presenting recent aspects of managing climate uncertainty. A selected number of short presentations held by the students are also planned.
The Summer Schoo...
sites.google.com
March 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
In addition to a social event and a joint social dinner, we are planning two separate events for female researchers (a mentoring session and a dinner).
For more information, please visit: sites.google.com/view/summers...
We are looking forward to receiving your applications!
For more information, please visit: sites.google.com/view/summers...
We are looking forward to receiving your applications!
The Summer School consists of four courses presenting recent aspects of managing climate uncertainty. A selected number of short presentations held by the students is part of the scientific program: Application is open until April 30. The Acceptance of talks will be communicated until May 9.
March 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The Summer School consists of four courses presenting recent aspects of managing climate uncertainty. A selected number of short presentations held by the students is part of the scientific program: Application is open until April 30. The Acceptance of talks will be communicated until May 9.
📣 Call of Applications - #CUDE Summer School 📣
The Research Training Group #CUDE at Bielefeld University is organizing a Summer School on “Managing Uncertainty in Climate Economics“ from July 7 to 11, 2025.
The Research Training Group #CUDE at Bielefeld University is organizing a Summer School on “Managing Uncertainty in Climate Economics“ from July 7 to 11, 2025.
July 07- 11, 2025
The Summer School consists of four courses presenting recent aspects of managing climate uncertainty. A selected number of short presentations held by the students are also planned.
The Summer Schoo...
sites.google.com
March 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM