What do employers think about AI? Who benefits from AI? How are the labor market and qualification requirements adapting? Check out our new discussion paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.21959

Beliefs about Bots: How Employers Plan for AI in White-Collar Work

We provide experimental evidence on how employers adjust expectations to automation risk in high-skill, white-collar work. Using a randomized information intervention among tax advisors in Germany, we...

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Accounting for Transparency@trr266.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Statt Personal abzubauen, setzen Unternehmen auf Umstrukturierung von Arbeitsinhalten und Qualifizierung. Weitere Details im neuesten #trr266 Blog: buff.ly/OXPnMzn

Excellent workshop, great discussions, and a fantastic venue! I presented new work (in progress) with Eckhard Janeba, Felix Köhler and Paul Steger on what the city of Mainz did with its excess tax revenue of 3.3 billion € or about 12,600 per capita due to the breakthrough of its superstar firm.

USI Institute of Economics (IdEP)@usiidep.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Chair: Mario Jametti @usiidep.bsky.social Speakers: @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social @heclausanne.bsky.social @lea-fri.bsky.social @unisg.ch @almostsurely.bsky.social @econunimannheim.bsky.social 2/3

State of the tech job market halfway through 2025? Still stagnant, still not much better than the last 2.5 yrs. Tech employment has dropped modestly from its Dec 2022 peak, falling 1.9%, or 76,000 jobs, with no improvement in 2025, despite the hype around AI + data center investment. 1/

Unternehmer in Deutschland sind zwar skeptisch und unzufrieden, aber die positiven Erwartungen auf das kurz- und mittelfristige Wirtschaftswachstum drücken doch einen gesunden Optimismus aus. Oder bin ich zu pessimistisch? Mehr Einschätzungen 👇

Accounting for Transparency@trr266.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Alle Details im neuesten GBP-Monitor und in der Pressemitteilung: www.accounting-for-transparency.de/news/gbp-umf... #Wirtschaftspolitik #Handelskonflikt #MerzRegierung

Zölle sind immer noch aktuell...und aus US Sicht ist die Handelspolitik eher systematisch als erratisch.

Accounting for Transparency@trr266.bsky.social · last yr.

Im ARD-Magazin Plusminus spricht TRR 266-Mitglied @almostsurely.bsky.social (Uni Mannheim) über Trumps US-Zollpolitik & den sinkenden Dollar-Kurs. Sein Punkt: Die erratische Handelspolitik untergräbt das Vertrauen in den Dollar – mit spürbaren Folgen. 🔗 Beitrag: www.ardmediathek.de/video/plusmi...

What is behind tax elasticities? Often we think firms move when taxes increase. Asked directly, they indeed complain but experimental evidence shows they will not act. Instead tax cuts attract investments. Tax policy works like a ratchet due to home bias: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

If you do not have money for a student assistant but need an overview of relevant literature, try the Paper Search tool by @eduardbruell.bsky.social👇 I find myself using this quite often. One of the best AI/LLM tools for research. Thanks, Eddy!

Eduard Brüll @eduardbruell.bsky.social · last yr.

Paste your abstract. Get semantically similar economic papers—instantly. No keyword tweaking, no guessing jargon. This is my new RePEc semantic search engine in action. Try it now → econpapers.eduard-bruell.de #EconSky #RePEc

Dear #Econsky and #TeachEcon, I promise, I’ll be annoying you with this over the next few weeks! The @eeanews.bsky.social is once again awarding its two Teaching Awards. (1/2)

EEA@eeanews.bsky.social · last yr.

📢EEA's Education Committee opens 4th edition of TEACHING AWARDS for academic economists who make a significant contribution to spreading knowledge on economics through their teaching ℹ️https://eeassoc.org/news/eea-education-committee-2025-awards-teaching-economics Nomination deadline: April 30

Fabulous! Oceania Stata Conference 2025 Melbourne @statacorp.bsky.social surveydesign.com.au Earning while learning: How to run batched bandit experiments Davud Rosam-Afschar University of Mannheim rostam-afschar.de/bbandits/bba...

See @almostsurely.bsky.social For an excellent presentation

Written while waiting for an appointment...

IZA@LISER@iza.org · 2y ago

✨ #IZAdventCalendar 1️⃣8️⃣ 🎁 Today's insight: The mere threat of competition can improve the service quality of general practitioners. ⚕️ Read this summary of a new study by @eduardbruell.bsky.social, @almostsurely.bsky.social, and @schlenkeroli.bsky.social: newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/r...

The Berlin School of Economics (@bseberlin.bsky.social) invites applications for several Research Associate positions for fixed-term appointments between 3 to 6 year. We're excited to see your application!

Berlin School of Economics@bsoeberlin.bsky.social · 2y ago

📯Call for Applications: 2025 Research Associates Program We support postdoctoral researchers and junior professors in economics! More details or apply👇 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/programs/res... @humboldtuni.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @unipotsdamwater.bsky.social @wzb.bsky.social

Check out @essobecker.bsky.social's list of fun titles 😂 One of my favorite: Children Crying at Birthday Parties. Why? doi.org/10.1007/s001...

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

Time to move my thread with my favorite paper >titles< to bsky.app 1/N The Pope and the Price of Fish Frederick W. Bell The American Economic Review Vol. 58, No. 5 (Dec., 1968), pp. 1346-1350 jstor.org/stable/1814033

New working paper "Understanding Firm Dynamics with Daily Data" with Lukas Hack We construct survey-based daily time series on 🔹 sales prices 🔹 dividends 🔹 fixed cost 🔹 R&D investments 🔹 firm survival 🔹 revenue 🔹 investment 🔹 policy satisfaction 🔹 profit 🔹 employment

Honored and excited to give the NZ Treasury guest lecture next week. Thanks for inviting me! www.treasury.govt.nz/news-and-eve...

Sydneysiders and Wollongongers: I will be coming to town on 21 and 23 March to share some new research. Let me know if you'd like to catch up!

Davud Rostam-Afschar @almostsurely.bsky.social · 2y ago

I will be presenting some new research in Melbourne at MI. If you are around and would like to meet up, let's get in touch!

I will be presenting some new research in Melbourne at MI. If you are around and would like to meet up, let's get in touch!

Short guides with tricks and tips to understand and apply econometrics. Covering the classics: Probability, Distributions, OLS, Maximum Likelihood, Generalized Method of Moments. Based on my course at the university of Mannheim: rostam-afschar.de/metricks/met... Hope you find them useful!

Had a great time at ZEW. Thanks for having me! Stay tuned for some News results www.zew.de/en/events-an...