Next on the agenda, we have project leader Andrea Weber of @ceu-economics.bsky.social presenting: "The Returns to International Migration in a Free Mobility Setting: Evidence from Austria to Germany"
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Vibe coding kills open source. Our most direct title yet. @koren.mk @julianhi.nz @aaron-lohmann.bsky.social Theory paper with numbers and policy recs. First at arxiv.org/abs/2601.15494 Comments welcome. @ceu-economics.bsky.social @kiel.institute
Many thanks to Andrea Weber @ceu-economics.bsky.social for 4 years of outstanding service on the JEEA Editorial team🫂
In December, @ceu-economics.bsky.social hosted the 2nd Vienna Data Analytics Jamboree, organized with Vienna Data Science Group (VDSG). 150 participants ranging from industry leaders, CEU faculty, students and alumni, and more. Nice write up. www.ceu.edu/news/2026-01...
🎁 ECONM Advent Calendar – Day 22! 🎁 Congratulations to the research team of @gaborbekes.bsky.social & 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗻𝘄𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 on their outstanding European research collaboration in the project “Globalization and Industrial Policy: Evidence from the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (IP-KuK)”!👏
Massive day tomorrow 2nd Data Analytics Jamboree 5 december. Last session streamed. events.ceu.edu/2025-12-05/2...
2nd CEU Vienna Data Analytics Jamboree
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First some info. This a joint project with @csteinwender.bsky.social of @lmumuenchen.bsky.social and our @ceu-economics.bsky.social student @mmatyas.bsky.social . (Pic is at LMU history books) Money comes from @fwf-at.bsky.social and @dfg.de . Cheers! We start in January. 3years. 2/N
So. I have won a grant by @fwf-at.bsky.social on studying globalization and industrial policy in Austria-Hungary in 1880-1910. gaborbekes.com/ipkuk I have worked on globalization. Never on IP. Never on historical data. What the heck? 🧵 1/N
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Personal website of Gábor Békés. Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Business of Central European University and Senior Research Fellow at the KRTK Institute of Economics. This site...
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How did industrial policies shape the development of Central Europe? With @csteinwender.bsky.social will study Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, 1870-1910! Archival data to RDD, here we come. gaborbekes.com/ipkuk/ Thanks @fwf-at.bsky.social @dfg.de @ceu-economics.bsky.social @lmumuenchen.bsky.social
Now at #EPSA2025 Madrid: Ádám Reiff (@ceu-economics.bsky.social) presents a conjoint experiment with 100s of journalists in Italy. Co-authored by @krisztiszabo.bsky.social, @scopelliti.bsky.social & me. Yet another study of our #ERC Consolidator Grant project. @epsanet.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
All good things come in pairs. Or threes? My 3rd paper using football data. This time a labor question. draft! Comments welcome papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
@julianhi.nz is presenting our paper (w/ @koren.mk @aaron-lohmann.bsky.social ) in Vienna on 18 June afternoon at WU @wuvienna.bsky.social. Software, teams. Optimal and equilibrium kudos sharing. Should be fun.
New open-access course: Doing Data Analysis with AI gabors-data-analysis.com/ai-course/ Use #AI to assist creating graphs, data discovery, wrangling, reporting, sentiment analysis. Based on my BA and MA #DataAnalysis courses. Use to teach or study.
Reopened applications our Economics PhD program! Eligibility = candidates who have already been admitted to an economics PhD program in the US but would rather come to the EU. 📢The position is fully funded for 4 years! economics.ceu.edu/program/doct...
Reopened applications our Economics PhD program! Eligibility = candidates who have already been admitted to an economics PhD program in the US but would rather come to the EU. 📢The position is fully funded for 4 years! economics.ceu.edu/program/doct...
#EconSky I'm looking for a published paper using *doubly robust estimator* with 1. Real word xsec data (econ, business, finance, health) 2. Data and code available 3. Results ARE different when using it vs ols / matching 4. N>1000 Ideas? Thanks
Modern day Coding. Running (watching) a 400 line code we wrote with Claude (show 500 lines of data, preferences, exhibits the model requires) @koren.mk @julianhi.nz @aaron-lohmann.bsky.social Music: Bach English Suites
It was lovely and lively! to have @rjuhasz.bsky.social over for a talk on industrial policies. Cheers Réka. @weareceu.bsky.social
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Réka Juhász is the foremost expert in new industrial policy. Join her public lecture 20 May @weareceu.bsky.social events.ceu.edu/2025-05-20/p... @wuvienna.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @wifo.bsky.social @gfelbermayr.bsky.social @ho2604.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @oenb.at
Is there a conference on "what is the purpose of education when we've entered a time where coal can be turned into an approximation of thought and all of human knowledge can be compressed into a blob that fits onto a cellphone"? quote via Eduardo de la Rubia @ceu-economics.bsky.social
To close we had @csteinwender.bsky.social on draughts, bankruptcy and development @hfadinger.bsky.social on rare earth and innovation.
Very nice international trade workshop in Vienna. Here with Helpman @hfadinger.bsky.social @koren.mk Szeidl, @mmatyas.bsky.social @csteinwender.bsky.social Cunat as well as Weber, Barany, @molnartl.bsky.social Landesmann and more @ceu-economics.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @wuvienna.bsky.social
In the afternoon 3 @ceu-economics.bsky.social phd students: @mmatyas.bsky.social on trade show from 1900, Abdurazzakova on awereness experiment, @philipphilmbauer.bsky.social pointing on observations of his Vienna study
It is great to have Elhanan Helpman, one of my economist idols (former advisor to colleagues Szeidl and @koren.mk ) at @ceu-economics.bsky.social this week. On Friday great workshop! events.ceu.edu/2025-05-09/t...
Réka Juhász is the foremost expert in new industrial policy. Join her public lecture 20 May @weareceu.bsky.social events.ceu.edu/2025-05-20/p... @wuvienna.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @wifo.bsky.social @gfelbermayr.bsky.social @ho2604.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @oenb.at
Public Lecture by Reka Juhasz: The New Economics of Industrial Policy
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Réka Juhász is the foremost expert in new industrial policy. Join her public lecture 20 May @weareceu.bsky.social events.ceu.edu/2025-05-20/p... @wuvienna.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @wifo.bsky.social @gfelbermayr.bsky.social @ho2604.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @oenb.at
Public Lecture by Reka Juhasz: The New Economics of Industrial Policy
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For an MA thesis we are looking for #airbnb data on #Vienna and ideally also Salzburg, Linz and Graz for 2023. Maybe someone downloaded it from insideairbnb.com/get-the-data/? @insideairbnb.bsky.social #EconSky Thanks!