Thiemo Fetzer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 - same handle elsewhere
@trfetzer.com
Accidental Economist. Prof at Universities of Warwick & Bonn . Visiting Prof Grantham, Visiting Fellow STICERD @ LSE. ERC STG. Fellow @ CEPR & Associate Editor Economic Journal.
A statistic that I keep reiterating is the following: BYD in China has a 50% cost advantage making EVs relative to Tesla in China. Context: https://x.com/i/status/2108494559621582977
Shanu Mathew (@ShanuMathew93) on X
Why are Euro auto brands losing to China? Well... let's look at costs, productivity, employee output, etc. Hard to compete with this. "Using VW’s auto plants as a proxy, labor costs, labor productivi...
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Informational boundaries of the state anyone?
This is another major development building on the recent changes and advances in payment infrastructure in Europe. Expansion of pan-European solutions under a common regulatory umbrella can effectively redefine market for information traces and help its localization.
https://x.com/fetzert/status/1833933896251060454?s=20
TThiemo Fetzer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 - same handle elsewhere@trfetzer.com · 2w ago
I want to be far from being alarmist but the German drafting suggestions for Irish presidency will effectively kill GDPR. This effectively is a rent transfer to firms that, in the past, illegitimately collected data without consent or not purpose bound that are now allowed...
I want to be far from being alarmist but the German drafting suggestions for Irish presidency will effectively kill GDPR. This effectively is a rent transfer to firms that, in the past, illegitimately collected data without consent or not purpose bound that are now allowed...
Agreed! I've said this before, but thinking about the joint distribution of descriptive and better identified estimates is central. Context: https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2101751449508094072
We need to invest in more reliable and better quality national statistics Context: https://x.com/annastansbury/status/2103939141423841528
Most unfortunate typo...@harrypickard !
TThiemo Fetzer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 - same handle elsewhere@trfetzer.com · 3w ago
Harry Prickard is presenting work "Exposure to Populism and Zero-Sum Thinking". Essentially, they ask to what extent experience of populism growing up shapes zero-sum thinking. This effectively takes the work on zero sum thinking further into the cultural programming domain,...
Very happy to participate at the British Academy-Leverhulme Trust funded Workshop on "Diversity and the Political Economy of Social Cohesion" over the next two days. Its an excellent workshop in sunny Uxbridge, I will be sharing the papers across the workshop.
Now there is significant developments in Europe. On 21 September, the European Central Bank launched Pontes. The ECB’s new infrastructure for settling tokenised assets in central-bank money is explicitly framed around monetary sovereignty and reducing dependence on dollar stablecoins. The
Want to understand why journalists and politicians get so excited about AI doomsday predictions but mostly ignore climate change? It's called *information pollution.* Thank you to @amywestervelt.bsky.social for coining this important new term and writing a book about it, and explaining it to me!
Artificial insanity
A conversation with investigative journalist Amy Westervelt that is NOT about AI killing us all.
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With @ashwinl, I visited Ukraine earlier this year. What is remarkable is that many of the issues that my research on NATO highlighted are being "solved" in Ukraine. Ashin and I are hosting an event where we discuss and share our observations from the field. Link in next post.
TThiemo Fetzer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 - same handle elsewhere@trfetzer.com · 4w ago
Late as usual, but still relevant: 25 years ago, 9/11 led NATO to invoke Article 5 for the first time in its history. Afghanistan would become NATO’s longest mission. Over the years, in one strand of my research, we studied how coalition warfare works... or didnt! 1/N
Late as usual, but still relevant: 25 years ago, 9/11 led NATO to invoke Article 5 for the first time in its history. Afghanistan would become NATO’s longest mission. Over the years, in one strand of my research, we studied how coalition warfare works... or didnt! 1/N
Worry not. Oh Office 2001 Your legacy lives on.
Interesting correlation on speculations about US vehicle market openness’s, bond market turmoil and elevated oil prices… the European working group may yet come in handy
English canals see more and more algae blooms due to climate change and excess nutrient run-off. Without oxygenating the water, there are significant risks to wildlife. Unless the electricity grid is greened, such feeble adaptation attempts will make matters worse.
I keep going back to the question if societies with civil law or common law based legal tradition are better placed to navigate how societies may fare as AI gets increasingly incorporated into day-to-day life. I am worried that common law based societies may have MUCH broader attack surface for
Clues in data suggesting turnout engineering are a stable pattern across more than 1000 UK polls as @EleAla our paper from 2024 suggests. Differential partisan mobilization may be key. If polls are paid for by outside money to benefit a party, of course, it is interference!
It seems like this was quite accurate. The UK but also Switzerland are now in an awkward position vis-a-vis market access to the US. This creates potential for demands for stronger EU market integration that businesses may favor owing to the perceived improved predictability...
#IIPF2026 Congress at ISEG Lisbon, today's program starting with Thiemo Fetzer's @trfetzer.com keynote with the title "Are the Informational Boundaries of the State Being Redrawn"; introduced by Scientific Co-Chair Naomi Feldman. @dforemny.bsky.social @theiiiman.bsky.social
Response to a request for information under Freedom of Information Act, Britain, 2023.
