Peter Zorn
@peterzorn.de
Really looking forward to spending the next two weeks at NYU Econ!
March 31, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Really looking forward to spending the next two weeks at NYU Econ!
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The 2015 Swiss franc appreciation showed that a stronger currency does not fully translate into proportionate reductions in consumer prices, either at short or medium horizons.
@raphauer.bsky.social @arielburst.bsky.social @leinsarah.bsky.social
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@raphauer.bsky.social @arielburst.bsky.social @leinsarah.bsky.social
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January 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The 2015 Swiss franc appreciation showed that a stronger currency does not fully translate into proportionate reductions in consumer prices, either at short or medium horizons.
@raphauer.bsky.social @arielburst.bsky.social @leinsarah.bsky.social
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
@raphauer.bsky.social @arielburst.bsky.social @leinsarah.bsky.social
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
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New year, new ideas, new platform! 🦋
Welcome to the official BlueSky page of the Department of Economics at LMU Munich! 🎓
#Research #Universities #Economics #Academia #LMUMunich #ECONM #EconSky
Welcome to the official BlueSky page of the Department of Economics at LMU Munich! 🎓
#Research #Universities #Economics #Academia #LMUMunich #ECONM #EconSky
January 7, 2025 at 8:24 AM
New year, new ideas, new platform! 🦋
Welcome to the official BlueSky page of the Department of Economics at LMU Munich! 🎓
#Research #Universities #Economics #Academia #LMUMunich #ECONM #EconSky
Welcome to the official BlueSky page of the Department of Economics at LMU Munich! 🎓
#Research #Universities #Economics #Academia #LMUMunich #ECONM #EconSky
Q for Macro Theory Exam: Why does consumption party harder after a temporary (i.e., one-off) productivity shock in RBC models with GHH preferences, but stay sober under standard preferences?
December 13, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Q for Macro Theory Exam: Why does consumption party harder after a temporary (i.e., one-off) productivity shock in RBC models with GHH preferences, but stay sober under standard preferences?
New demand instrument for Lego just dropped
December 11, 2024 at 3:25 PM
New demand instrument for Lego just dropped
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Ein hervorragendes Interview in der @faznet.bsky.social von @jopennekamp.bsky.social mit @dacemoglumit.bsky.social, der heute den Nobelpreis erhält. Spannende Einschätzungen zur Zukunft liberaler Demokratien und zum 🇩🇪 Modell, z.B. zur Mitbestimmung. www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
Daron Acemoglu erhält am Dienstag den Wirtschaftsnobelpreis: Ein Interview
Die liberalen Demokratien haben in ihrer jetzigen Verfassung keine Zukunft, sagt Daron Acemoğlu, der heute den Wirtschaftsnobelpreis erhält. Er warnt vor Trump, einem Kryptocrash – und hat für Deutsch...
www.faz.net
December 10, 2024 at 11:24 AM
Ein hervorragendes Interview in der @faznet.bsky.social von @jopennekamp.bsky.social mit @dacemoglumit.bsky.social, der heute den Nobelpreis erhält. Spannende Einschätzungen zur Zukunft liberaler Demokratien und zum 🇩🇪 Modell, z.B. zur Mitbestimmung. www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
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German industrial production via Marginal Revolution
November 29, 2024 at 1:14 PM
German industrial production via Marginal Revolution
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Powerful map illustrating 100 years of economic change in West Germany, from this paper by Paul Berbée, @sebastiantbraun.bsky.social and Richard Franke: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
November 29, 2024 at 7:06 AM
Powerful map illustrating 100 years of economic change in West Germany, from this paper by Paul Berbée, @sebastiantbraun.bsky.social and Richard Franke: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Glad to see folks here talking about the recent surge in entrepreneurship. While much is still unknown, we already have a lot of color on this striking development. Short thread of joint work w/ @jchaltiwangerum.bsky.social
November 25, 2024 at 2:24 AM
Glad to see folks here talking about the recent surge in entrepreneurship. While much is still unknown, we already have a lot of color on this striking development. Short thread of joint work w/ @jchaltiwangerum.bsky.social
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🚨 New paper for #EconSky 🚨
Do you rethink your entire consumption-saving strategy every time your income fluctuates? Or do you prefer …
Quick-Fixing: Near-Rationality in Consumption Savings Behavior, w/ Joel Flynn, George Nikalakoudis, and Karthik Sastry
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
🧵 below.
Do you rethink your entire consumption-saving strategy every time your income fluctuates? Or do you prefer …
Quick-Fixing: Near-Rationality in Consumption Savings Behavior, w/ Joel Flynn, George Nikalakoudis, and Karthik Sastry
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
🧵 below.
November 15, 2024 at 4:31 PM
🚨 New paper for #EconSky 🚨
Do you rethink your entire consumption-saving strategy every time your income fluctuates? Or do you prefer …
Quick-Fixing: Near-Rationality in Consumption Savings Behavior, w/ Joel Flynn, George Nikalakoudis, and Karthik Sastry
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
🧵 below.
Do you rethink your entire consumption-saving strategy every time your income fluctuates? Or do you prefer …
Quick-Fixing: Near-Rationality in Consumption Savings Behavior, w/ Joel Flynn, George Nikalakoudis, and Karthik Sastry
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
🧵 below.
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#econsky #econjmp #econ #jmp
I am on the #econjobmarket this year!
My JMP focuses specifically on second-generation migrant girls. How does education policy impact them as they grow up in a highly egalitarian society, yet within families that have migrated from more gender-traditional origins?
🧵👇
I am on the #econjobmarket this year!
My JMP focuses specifically on second-generation migrant girls. How does education policy impact them as they grow up in a highly egalitarian society, yet within families that have migrated from more gender-traditional origins?
🧵👇
November 19, 2024 at 9:41 AM
#econsky #econjmp #econ #jmp
I am on the #econjobmarket this year!
My JMP focuses specifically on second-generation migrant girls. How does education policy impact them as they grow up in a highly egalitarian society, yet within families that have migrated from more gender-traditional origins?
🧵👇
I am on the #econjobmarket this year!
My JMP focuses specifically on second-generation migrant girls. How does education policy impact them as they grow up in a highly egalitarian society, yet within families that have migrated from more gender-traditional origins?
🧵👇
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The incidence of #farm subsidies is very hard to pin down empirically.
A while back I had a look at some of the research in the EU context. 🧵
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
A while back I had a look at some of the research in the EU context. 🧵
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
EU handouts have long been wasteful. Now they must be fixed
New research highlights their failures
www.economist.com
November 19, 2024 at 9:57 AM
The incidence of #farm subsidies is very hard to pin down empirically.
A while back I had a look at some of the research in the EU context. 🧵
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
A while back I had a look at some of the research in the EU context. 🧵
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
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I put together a starter pack of all the academic macroeconomists I could find on the platform.
It's short. Please message me if you would like to be added.
go.bsky.app/RYnjd8k
#econsky etc.
It's short. Please message me if you would like to be added.
go.bsky.app/RYnjd8k
#econsky etc.
November 16, 2024 at 5:11 PM
I put together a starter pack of all the academic macroeconomists I could find on the platform.
It's short. Please message me if you would like to be added.
go.bsky.app/RYnjd8k
#econsky etc.
It's short. Please message me if you would like to be added.
go.bsky.app/RYnjd8k
#econsky etc.
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📢 I am on the academic job market
🌐 sites.google.com/view/manuelm...
In my JMP, I study firms’ beliefs about macroeconomic tail risk and their role in investment decisions.
JMP thread below👇
🌐 sites.google.com/view/manuelm...
In my JMP, I study firms’ beliefs about macroeconomic tail risk and their role in investment decisions.
JMP thread below👇
Manuel Menkhoff
Hi! I am Manuel Menkhoff, a PhD candidate in Economics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) and ifo Institute in Munich. In winter 2023, I was a visiting Ph.D. student at Stanford University.
Rese...
sites.google.com
November 11, 2024 at 4:33 PM
📢 I am on the academic job market
🌐 sites.google.com/view/manuelm...
In my JMP, I study firms’ beliefs about macroeconomic tail risk and their role in investment decisions.
JMP thread below👇
🌐 sites.google.com/view/manuelm...
In my JMP, I study firms’ beliefs about macroeconomic tail risk and their role in investment decisions.
JMP thread below👇
Grant proposal approved. Nice start into the weekend.
October 12, 2024 at 10:51 AM
Grant proposal approved. Nice start into the weekend.
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Armin Falk zieht sich zurück
„Wir danken unserem internationalen Forschungsnetzwerk ausdrücklich dafür, dass es uns mit seinem kritischen Engagement die Essenz des IZA noch einmal deutlich vor Augen geführt hat.“
www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/o...
„Wir danken unserem internationalen Forschungsnetzwerk ausdrücklich dafür, dass es uns mit seinem kritischen Engagement die Essenz des IZA noch einmal deutlich vor Augen geführt hat.“
www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/o...
Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit: Armin Falk zieht sich zurück
700 Forscher wollten Armin Falkan der Spitze des IZA verhindern - und haben nun Erfolg. Doch die Frage ist: Wie soll es nun weitergehen?
www.sueddeutsche.de
November 20, 2023 at 3:09 PM
Armin Falk zieht sich zurück
„Wir danken unserem internationalen Forschungsnetzwerk ausdrücklich dafür, dass es uns mit seinem kritischen Engagement die Essenz des IZA noch einmal deutlich vor Augen geführt hat.“
www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/o...
„Wir danken unserem internationalen Forschungsnetzwerk ausdrücklich dafür, dass es uns mit seinem kritischen Engagement die Essenz des IZA noch einmal deutlich vor Augen geführt hat.“
www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/o...
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The open letter from 400+ IZA fellows to the Deutsche Post Foundation in response to the new leadership announcement at IZA is online: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
November 14, 2023 at 1:14 PM
The open letter from 400+ IZA fellows to the Deutsche Post Foundation in response to the new leadership announcement at IZA is online: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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This IZA change is really unexpected, right? www.deutsche-post-stiftung.org/wc/files/IZA...
Huge loss for IZA that Simon is leaving, and Armin brings a lot of baggage, to put it mildly.
Huge loss for IZA that Simon is leaving, and Armin brings a lot of baggage, to put it mildly.
November 10, 2023 at 2:28 PM
This IZA change is really unexpected, right? www.deutsche-post-stiftung.org/wc/files/IZA...
Huge loss for IZA that Simon is leaving, and Armin brings a lot of baggage, to put it mildly.
Huge loss for IZA that Simon is leaving, and Armin brings a lot of baggage, to put it mildly.
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New call for papers. Conference on:
"Structural Changes and the Implications for Inflation"
Eltville (near Frankfurt), 7-8 May 2024.
PDF of call: matthias-rottner.github.io/Files/Confer...
Submission link: www.conftool.pro/business-cyc...
Please submit!
"Structural Changes and the Implications for Inflation"
Eltville (near Frankfurt), 7-8 May 2024.
PDF of call: matthias-rottner.github.io/Files/Confer...
Submission link: www.conftool.pro/business-cyc...
Please submit!
October 28, 2023 at 10:51 PM
New call for papers. Conference on:
"Structural Changes and the Implications for Inflation"
Eltville (near Frankfurt), 7-8 May 2024.
PDF of call: matthias-rottner.github.io/Files/Confer...
Submission link: www.conftool.pro/business-cyc...
Please submit!
"Structural Changes and the Implications for Inflation"
Eltville (near Frankfurt), 7-8 May 2024.
PDF of call: matthias-rottner.github.io/Files/Confer...
Submission link: www.conftool.pro/business-cyc...
Please submit!
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LMU is hiring this year! Remember to apply if you are on the market this year!
👇👇👇
econjobmarket.org/positions/9905
👇👇👇
econjobmarket.org/positions/9905
October 24, 2023 at 9:14 AM
LMU is hiring this year! Remember to apply if you are on the market this year!
👇👇👇
econjobmarket.org/positions/9905
👇👇👇
econjobmarket.org/positions/9905
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Wow just read the best freaking post by @economeager.bsky.social
This is literally the most important advice. This should be framed and posted in every department. The hammer hits people into the anvil too often.
rachaelmeager.substack.com/p/finish-you...
This is literally the most important advice. This should be framed and posted in every department. The hammer hits people into the anvil too often.
rachaelmeager.substack.com/p/finish-you...
September 21, 2023 at 11:39 AM
Wow just read the best freaking post by @economeager.bsky.social
This is literally the most important advice. This should be framed and posted in every department. The hammer hits people into the anvil too often.
rachaelmeager.substack.com/p/finish-you...
This is literally the most important advice. This should be framed and posted in every department. The hammer hits people into the anvil too often.
rachaelmeager.substack.com/p/finish-you...
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This week (Wednesday) Christopher Busch
@LMU_Muenchen (chrisbusch.eu) will present in our *internal* brown bag seminar:
"Stage-Based Identification of Policy Effects"
12-1 ULee 303.
@LMU_Muenchen (chrisbusch.eu) will present in our *internal* brown bag seminar:
"Stage-Based Identification of Policy Effects"
12-1 ULee 303.
October 17, 2023 at 2:19 PM
This week (Wednesday) Christopher Busch
@LMU_Muenchen (chrisbusch.eu) will present in our *internal* brown bag seminar:
"Stage-Based Identification of Policy Effects"
12-1 ULee 303.
@LMU_Muenchen (chrisbusch.eu) will present in our *internal* brown bag seminar:
"Stage-Based Identification of Policy Effects"
12-1 ULee 303.
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We're hiring an assistant prof in macroeconomics @ Hertie in Berlin, together with the IfW Kiel 👉 apply.interfolio.com/133002
October 6, 2023 at 10:00 AM
We're hiring an assistant prof in macroeconomics @ Hertie in Berlin, together with the IfW Kiel 👉 apply.interfolio.com/133002
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1/3 In 1984, Stanford economists 📉📈 tried to hire someone in "feminist studies", by which they in fact meant "gender economics." The search committee concluded that "two names came to the top of the list"
October 11, 2023 at 9:09 PM
1/3 In 1984, Stanford economists 📉📈 tried to hire someone in "feminist studies", by which they in fact meant "gender economics." The search committee concluded that "two names came to the top of the list"