Thank you for the amazing podcast episode and for featuring @thilohuning.bsky.social and my research on the role of wine growing for long-run regional development in Baden-Württemberg (academic.oup.com/ereh/advance...) in the episode!

Can Winegrowing Cause Rural Development? Evidence from Baden-Württemberg

Abstract. Historical winegrowing shaped modern rural development, even in areas in which its cultivation was given up after the early modern period. We pro

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History of the Germans Podcast@hotgpod.bsky.social · last yr.

The counts of Württemberg had risen to the top by winning the genetic lottery. Their eldest sons were competent, their wives brought in dowries and they each ruled for long enough that the next generation took over when they were ready. But all that nearly fell apart in the 15th century......(1/3)

We are looking to hire post-doc interested in working on migration, citizenship, and diaspora. Come join us in Münster! Generous contract + no teaching for 2 years. Many details and link to job add here: sites.google.com/site/tnhalbe... Please PM me incase you have questions!

After being an editor for 6.5 years (4 REStud; 2.5 JEEA), I have accumulated a few suggestions that can help you avoid unnecessary rejections.

Going to give this website a try - with a new profile picture! Definitely feels like an econ bubble, but I guess that’s the point. Expect a thread on my newest work, Malthusian Migrations (with @romainwacziarg.bsky.social), soon! 🚨 www.guillaumeblanc.com/files/theme/...

🚨 Migration as escape valve from Malthus 🚨 1) high fertility or late fertility transition -> spread of diasporas 2) Age of Mass Migration -> transition to modern growth www.nber.org/papers/w33542 @nber.org @romainwacziarg.bsky.social

*Best Paper Award Economic and Social History* Bis zum 09. März kann man sich noch mit Vorträgen, die für den kommenden 6. Kongress für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte angenommen wurden, für den Best Paper Award Economic and Social History bewerben. Alle weiteren Informationen hier: udue.de/0ifec

Can winegrowing cause rural development? @wahlfabi.bsky.social and I have just published our little piece on this in the European Historical Economics Review! academic.oup.com/ereh/advance... #econhist #economics #history

This is a great data source for scholars working on the economic history of the interwar period 👇

Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke@kevinhorourke.eurosky.social · last yr.

Raymond Hicks (@arpie71.bsky.social) has just posted a vast amount of "raw" interwar trade data; it is available at github.com/arpie71/inte... #econhist

For me, the most striking result of these regressions is the that the „East Germany“ effect gets insignificant when controlling for enough variables, at least in the most recent election. (Also knowing that we only see correlations.) Would be interesting to see the effect of „Home Ownership Rate“ 1/

Julius Kölzer@juliusk.bsky.social · last yr.

If one attempts to fit a simple regression model for the AfD's gain since 2021, other predictors appear to be more robust than the GDP per capita of a constituency. Per capita disposable income also seems to be a weak predictor and quickly becomes insignificant when control variables are added.

If one attempts to fit a simple regression model for the AfD's gain since 2021, other predictors appear to be more robust than the GDP per capita of a constituency. Per capita disposable income also seems to be a weak predictor and quickly becomes insignificant when control variables are added.

Isabella M. Weber@isabellamweber.bsky.social · last yr.

The big reversal in Germany’s election Extreme right (AfD) gained every where but particularly in the poorest regions. Social Democrats (SPD) lost everywhere but particularly in the poorest region.

ZEW Mannheim @zew.de is on the Sky now. Follow us and add us to your starter packs for economic analyses from and for Germany, Europe, and beyond! #EconSky

🚨🚨🚨PhD summer school at the University of Southern Denmark 🚨🚨🚨What can we learn about tariffs and trade from history? Chris Meisner, our keynote speaker, is one of the most renowned experts on historical trade and policy. + Learn ML + NLP tools in a hands-on-approach. Join us 11-22 August 2025!

Join my new Public Economics team at @unileipzig.bsky.social! A 100% PhD/Postdoc position with teaching and a 75% PhD position in a DFG research project on the triangle of growth, housing and voting in Germany with @sebastiankohl.bsky.social & @trgn.bsky.social. Apply until Feb 28

This is one of the best recent articles on the development of AI companies and NVIDIA‘s market power (which may decrease in the near feature, raising serious doubts about its current valuation…) youtubetranscriptoptimizer.com/blog/05_the_...

The Short Case for Nvidia Stock

All the reasons why Nvidia will have a very hard time living up to the currently lofty expectations of the market.

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This is a very important paper for economists analyzing spatial data 👇

Sascha O. Becker@essobecker.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 New Working Paper 🚨 w/ @pdavidboll.bsky.social and @jvoth.bsky.social Do you run regressions on spatial data? Then keep reading! We present a guide and Stata package for methods by Müller and Watson (2024 ECTA) to deal with Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions. Link in 🧵 (1/n)

A larger 🧵 on the economic system of Nazi Germany (motivated by Alice Weidel’s recent claim that Germany was „communist“ under the Nazi regime and that the German industry was „nationalized“ - both claims are historically wrong): 1/

We're hiring! The School of Economics at the University of Edinburgh has a call for several AP/Lecturer positions open. Deadline 27th January, details at: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLK480/l...

Lecturer in Economics at The University of Edinburgh

An academic position as a Lecturer in Economics is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

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Economists like to say that Christmas gift giving is inefficient- I think that's wrong. A defense of Christmas from a Keynesian perspective: comments welcome! gabrielmathy.weebly.com/uploads/7/3/...

As an economic historian, I would have expected to find a strong affect of the Suez Canal opening on world trade - nice that there is now a paper that quantifies the effects. I am looking forward to read it…

NBER@nber.org · 2y ago

The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 led to a 72 percent relative increase in bilateral exports for affected country pairs and a likely permanent increase in world trade, from David S. Jacks, Christopher M. Meissner, and Nikolaus Wolf https://www.nber.org/papers/w33250

Book production was obviously crucial to the diffusion of knowledge but it took more than 300 years until we observe a steady increase in GDP per capita in Europe. Following the arguments by Mokyr & Co., the scientific knowledge (printed in books) could hardly be used economically until the IR.

Our World in Data@ourworldindata.org · 2y ago

What can the history of book production teach us about economic growth?

📢We are hiring 📢 We look to fill a Postdoc position in Economic History! 5-year position funded by ERC project „Entrenched: Elite Capture and Social Mobility“ jobportal.uni-koeln.de/bewerben/1964 Deadline: Jan 17, 2025 Please spread widely! @econtribute.bsky.social #EconSky

This is a fascinating piece of financial history 👇 www.ft.com/content/5122...

Happy 400th birthday to the world’s oldest bond

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This is a great paper of one of our current Econ job market candidates 👇 #EconSky

Felix Rusche@felixrusche.bsky.social · 2y ago

Gender norms are extremely persistent and constrain women's life opportunities, especially so in poor countries. In my Job Market Paper, I show that grassroots media are an effective policy instrument to address gender norms at scale. #EconJMP #EconSky

If you are interested in working with historical German data, this special issue of the German Economic Review gives an overview of existing research and available dataset, including our article on patent data (co-author: Jochen Streb): www.degruyter.com/journal/key/...

Apply for EHA dissertation fellowships: EHA Graduate Fellowships ($10,000); EHA Fellowship for students outside traditional economics departments ($10,000); Cambridge UP Dissertation Fellowship ($10,000); Sokoloff Fellowship ($17,500). eh.net/grants-fellowships-3/ Deadline January 14

Hi #EconSky, Not sure if the Starter Pack party's over, but I've made an Econ Starter Pack of Starter Packs! 😄 It's a work in progress, so I may have missed some. Let me know if there's anything to add—DMs are open! Thanks for support @economista.bsky.social! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

And another starter pack for those of you who are interested in German economic history, including economists and economic historians who have worked on topics related to German economic history... go.bsky.app/U3ibbB

I made a quick starter pack on scholars working/having worked on historical political economy (wide definition). go.bsky.app/Hz9LmgL (please make [self]suggestions to improve the starter pack)

Humanity’s history is a battle against infectious diseases. And for most of our history we were losing very decisively. From my article about vaccines: ourworldindata.org/microbes-bat...

A new starter pack of researchers working on the economics of patents & innovation. Let me know if you’d like to be included! go.bsky.app/VDx3T9x