Leo Kaas

@leokaas.bsky.social

Professor of Economics, European University Institute https://sites.google.com/site/leojkaas/ macroeconomics, labor, housing, heterogeneous firms and households #econsky

Only 3 days left to submit your paper to the Annual Macro Meeting of the VfS (May 7-8 at Heidelberg University)! CFP: macroeconomics.committee.socialpolitik.de/sites/defaul...

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Leo Kaas@leokaas.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Annual Macro Meeting of the @vfsecon.bsky.social @uniheidelberg.bsky.social, May 7-8, 2026 Call for Papers: macroeconomics.committee.socialpolitik.de/sites/defaul... We welcome submissions in all areas of macroeconomics and from researchers at all career stages.

Trump may well achieve his goal of reducing the US trade deficit, but via the worst possible way: engineering recession at home and removing America’s and USD’s status as trusted safe haven. It would be a poorer, hostile nation but with trade surplus. Sort of like Russia. Some win.

Austrian Socio-Economic Panel (ASEP) - Austria has started a long-term household panel survey like the GSOEP. The first wave of wave data is already available (here: aussda.at/en/news-deta...). A special feature of ASEP is that it is register(!!) based. This has two nice features, see below

New and exlusively available at AUSSDA: Austrian Socio-Economic Panel (ASEP) Data

We are pleased to announce that a new, Austria-wide survey programme is now available at AUSSDA.

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