"Aus Sicht der Ökonomen hat die #Vermögenssteuer einen schweren Stand", behaupten heute zwei Juristen an prominenter Stelle. Ohne Quellenverweise. Ich behaupte das Gegenteil. Mit Quellenverweisen. Ein mini-🧵 1/ www.nzz.ch/meinung/waru...

Bundesvermögenssteuer: warum der Vorschlag politisch und rechtlich problematisch ist

Finanzierung durch Vermögenssteuer: Vorteile und Nachteile im Überblick

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Independent research by Celebi, Exley, Harrs, Kivimaki, @martaserragarcia.bsky.social & @jyusof.bsky.social (2026) compares data quality across online participants, AI agents, & human subjects in the lab, with interesting platform variation. (1/4) 🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu... #AcademicSky #EconSky

Imagine 48 hours in jail. Would it change how you see prison, or criminal justice itself? A new study by researchers from the University of Zurich and @kofeth.bsky.social at @ethz.ch shows that firsthand incarceration can directly shift public opinion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo0F...

Standing in Prisonersʼ Shoes

YouTube video by UZH Department of Economics

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We are very happy to welcome @fsberger.bsky.social and @jyusof.bsky.social to our Political Economy of Global Development Lab @unistuttgart.bsky.social l 🥳💪 Stay tuned for exciting research in political economy by Felix and on inequality and fairness by Jeffrey @pegdev.bsky.social

🎉 Congratulations to @jyusof.bsky.social who has successfully defended his PhD Thesis: «Understanding Inequality and Redistribution: The Role of Perceptions and Preferences»! 🇩🇪 He will pursue a position as an assistant professor at the @unistuttgart.bsky.social

Research (n=65k in 60 countries) by @ingvildalm et al reveals a rich picture of people’s views on inequality, shaped less by the cost of redistribution than by views on fairness, which vary across countries (eg does inequality stem from merit or luck?): buff.ly/zBQZNmm

Happy to attend the @cepr.org Workshop on People’s Understanding of and Support for Economic Policies workshop at St Gallen. I ll share some thoughts on this carefully curated workshop in this thread.

Next up, we have Jeff Yusof presenting joint work with Ricardo Perez-Truglia on Billionaire Superstar: Public Image and Demand for Taxation. They use an experiment where they used luxury queues -- pictures of their luxury homes -- in an informational experiment. Again, drawing links...

The German party AfD is suspected of being right-wing extremist and anti-constitutional. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has analyzed the party and generated a detailed report. We are publishing this document in full. netzpolitik.org/2025/verdach...

Verdachtsfall Rechtsextremismus: Wir veröffentlichen das 1.000-seitige Verfassungsschutz-Gutachten zur AfD

Die Alternative für Deutschland steht im Verdacht, rechtsextrem und verfassungsfeindlich zu sein. Der Verfassungsschutz beobachtet die Partei und hat ein ausführliches Gutachten erstellt. Wir veröffen...

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Very excited to see my (first!!!) publication with @acohn.bsky.social, @rfisman.bsky.social, and Michel Maréchal in print!🎉 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Whose Preferences Matter for Redistribution? Cross-Country Evidence | Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics: Vol 3, No 1

Using cross-sectional data from 93 countries, we investigate the relationship between the desired level of redistribution among citizens from different socioeconomic backgrounds and the actual extent ...

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@belindaarch.bsky.social and I have written a letter from economists regarding PEPFAR. Please sign and share with your network. Only economist signatures right now (for more focused impact). Once signed, we will share with the administration, congress, + the media. #econsky forms.gle/C5roVX5sFF14...

PEPFAR letter

January 28th, 2025 With news that Trump’s foreign aid executive order has halted distribution of life-saving HIV medications through PEPFAR, we write as concerned economists to express how crucial it ...

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Excited to see my job market paper with Simona Sartor featured in the German news! 🔥 Read the article here (in German): faz.net/aktuell/wirt... Time for a thread with more details about the paper. ⬇️

Leistung und Glück: Wann wir Reichtum gerecht finden

Wenn jemand durch Zufall reich wird, gilt das als unfair. Wenn sich jemand sein Glück hart erarbeitet und der Wind zusätzlich günstig steht, sieht es anders aus.

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#eeca Day 14: @jyusof.bsky.social JMP with Simone Sartor: "Market Luck: Skill-Biased Inequality and Redistributive Preferences" They find more willingness to accept inequality produced by market forces (cultural differences in France and China?) drive.google.com/file/d/1vVwB... #econsky #econjmp

As I am noticing some some momentum, here is a starter pack of 40+ profiles related to the Swiss 🇨🇭 economy 📈📉 go.bsky.app/9Hv8CCy 🐄🍫🧀🏔️⌚💡

Spend 1$ on auditing >90th income percentile: get 12$ back <50th income percentile: get 5$ back

The Quarterly Journal of Economics@qjeharvard.bsky.social · 2y ago

Recently accepted by #QJE, “A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution,” by Boning, Hendren, Sprung-Keyser (@bsprungkeyser.bsky.social), and Stuart: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

📯Call for Papers! 🔹1st Berlin Micro Theory and Behavioral Economics PhD Conference 📅July 7-9, 2025 at @WZB_Berlin ✍️Submission deadline: January 20, 2025 More information, and how to apply: www.wzb.eu/en/events/1s... #EconTwitter #CfP

The gun industry launched a secret project in the late 1990s. To elect gun-friendly politicians, manufacturers gave political operatives sensitive, intimate information on their customers without their consent. The story behind the data sharing and its impact has never been revealed. Until now.

Gun Companies Gave Customers’ Sensitive Personal Information to Political Operatives

At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm o...

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