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Peter Bayer
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I like game theory. Assistant Prof at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. https://sites.google.com/view/peterbayer
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For your consideration:
October 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Lund University Department of Economics is hiring in Microeconomic Theory! The department combines high academic standards with a very friendly atmosphere. Lund is a lovely university town with excellent links to the rest of the world. Six year tenture track: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
EJM - Econ Job Market
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September 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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My favorite conversations are when people invoke market failures and it turns out that it's true, except that the failure was created by government policy.
September 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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@safety.bsky.app
You have suspended a prominent Ukrainian account, one of the very few that is covering daily russian attacks, as a result of report bombing.

Please unban Mira of Kyiv @reshetz.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I don't usually post but I'll make an exception for this. (Why) are economics curricula outdated?

Reflecting on this... writing.
www.ft.com/content/9aab...
July 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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🚨New article in Proc B:
"Reciprocity evolves more readily in competitive than cooperative socio-ecologies"

Using agent-based evolutionary models, we show that reciprocity emerges more reliably in competitive environments with high exploitation risk.

🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Reciprocity evolves more readily in competitive than cooperative socio-ecologies | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Tracking what others did and matching other’s expected actions is seen across a range of biological systems. As reciprocal matching rewards and reinforces cooperators and punishes and discourages non-...
royalsocietypublishing.org
July 9, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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I see a higher order mistake more often — attributing to economists a straw man version of economics that is not representative of the field.
Of course the set of economists I interact with isn’t representative but I’ve never heard anyone express this opinion 🤷‍♂️
December 23, 2024 at 9:56 PM
TIL that the People's Republic of Hungary was supplying the US with drugs for decades, sparked a methaqualone epidemic that killed tens of thousands, and my granddad helped put an end to it.
A nagy titkosszolgálati drogjátszma – amikor a magyar Chinoin látta el kábítószerrel Amerikát | Válasz Online
www.valaszonline.hu
March 13, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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At least once a year, someone reaches to me about constructing "better" metrics to rank academics. Please stop. xkcd.com/2899
Goodhart's Law
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February 26, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Interview week of EconJobMarket be like...
December 14, 2023 at 6:02 PM
One of the most French things that keeps happening to me is receive an email from an administrator that requires my "urgent attention", I reply in *one minute* only to receive an autoreply saying that the person is on holiday for the next two weeks.
November 9, 2023 at 5:01 PM
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They did this cos a "fascist, hitlerite uprising financed by the west" broke out.

Imagine using such a bullshit excuse in the 21st century.

Imagine Hungary being run by a man sympathetic to us
November 4, 2023 at 10:15 AM
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OTD in 1956 several armored Soviet humanitarian divisions, with equipment bought from a shop, went on a "special military operation" to Hungary to liberate the locals from themselves.
November 4, 2023 at 10:14 AM
TSE job market candidates. Spot the game theorist.
October 31, 2023 at 3:34 PM
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Write a four-word horror story:

"How is this economics?"
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Revise and resubmit, again.
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More comment than question?
October 25, 2023 at 3:49 AM