Who else could watch this for hours? Defragmenting Drive C in Windows 95
Farzad Saidi
@farzado.bsky.social
Full-time economist & full-time dad // Professor @ University of Bonn.
New Institute working paper looks at the chain from credit to firms to workers. From @economoser.bsky.social, @farzado.bsky.social, Benjamin Wirth, and Stefanie Wolter: https://bit.ly/4u2yCT0
To operate, firms often rely on external financing, so firms’ access to credit may affect workers’ wages + employment. In new paper, @economoser.bsky.social, @farzado.bsky.social, Wirth, & Wolter examine heterogeneous effects of credit supply on workers w/ in & between firms https://bit.ly/4u2yCT0
Hoffentlich ist das Desaster, das die CDU mit ihrem "starken Mann" und "einem aus der Wirtschaft" erlebt, ihr ein für allemal eine Lehre, sich nicht nochmal übermäßig von schneidigen, anklagenden Reden beeindrucken zu lassen. Opposition können viele, Regieren sehr wenige. #Merz
Good times. No Claude, no social media — just the anxiety over an unstable modem connection, Notepad, and eventually the revelation of WYSIWYG in the form of Microsoft FrontPage.
WebDesignMuseum@webdesignmuseum.org · last wk.Web designer's desktop in 1996 #WebDesignHistory
Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe
The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.
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„Das AfD-Regierungsprogramm für Sachsen-Anhalt lasse „ein Wissenschaftsverständnis erkennen, das mit den Grundprinzipien unserer Verfassung unvereinbar ist“, erklärte die DFG-Präsidentin“. „In Kürze“ sollen „Handlungsoptionen für Akteure“ folgen.
In today's blog, @brucewydick.bsky.social discusses what factors you should consider when aggregating variables into an index - and how to use indices to measure abstract concepts like aspirations, empowerment, and social cohesion blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
Measuring What Matters: Some Guidelines for Index Creation - Guest Post by Bruce Wydick
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Looking forward to what is intended as a starting point for embracing European financial leverage and resilience of its financial architecture.
Centre for Economic Policy Research@cepr.org · 2mo agoCEPR and @kiel.institute host the online launch of a new Kiel Report - Shorting America: Europe’s Financial Leverage over the United States 📅23 June 2026 at 15:00 CEST 🗣️Christoph Trebesch, @farzado.bsky.social, Kristy Jansen, @veron.bsky.social Register: cepr.org/events/short... #EconSky
Wir sollten wirklich anfangen den Begriff "Brandmauer" zu vermeiden. Er hat in der Brandmauer-Diskussion ein diffuses Eigenleben angenommen als unklare Chiffre. Es lässt sich so leicht gegen die Brandmauer argumentieren, weil man nicht sagen muss was man aktiv will: Zusammenarbeit mit Rechtsextremen
New Institute working paper looks at the chain from credit to firms to workers. From Christian Moser (@economoser.bsky.social), Farzad Saidi (@farzado.bsky.social), Benjamin Wirth, and Stefanie Wolter: https://bit.ly/4u2yCT0
Germany is the epicentre of the China Shock 2.0 reverberating in global markets In a new joint paper, CFR's Brad Setser and I show the shock is a key driver of Germany’s economic malaise. And it's accelerating Berlin needs to stop admiring the problem, and join efforts to fight back 1/many
"We have reached a point where the decisions Europe must take can no longer be contained within the institutional framework we have inherited." In the speech he gave on the occasion of receiving the Charlemagne prize, Mario #Draghi endorses variable geometry. geopolitique.eu/en/2026/05/1...
Mario Draghi: Europe Can Again Turn Crisis Into Union - Groupe d'études géopolitiques
I will not pretend that what lies ahead for Europe is easy. The strain upon our continent is profound and growing heavier by the month. But this is not only a moment of danger. It is also a moment of ...
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The rise of the American corporate gerontocracy ft.trib.al/dgGKnqr
The rise of the American corporate gerontocracy
No country for young CEOs
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Average CEO age at appointment has risen sharply over recent decades. Rising uncertainty & economic complexity increase demand for generalist human capital, prompting firms to prioritise accumulated experience. @vkecht.bsky.social, A Lizzeri, @farzado.bsky.social cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky
Monopsony power makes productive firms decide to stay small, hurting aggregate productivity. More strongly size-dependent wages in East Germany explain a third of the difference to the West. New paper by Bachmann, Bayer, Stüber, and Wellschmied www.restud.com/monopsony-ma...
Why has CEO age increased so much? Thank you also to Bloomberg for covering our paper: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
CEOs in Their 60s Are New Norm With Companies Picking Older Bosses
Apple Inc.’s new chief executive officer joined the iPhone maker 25 years ago and was tapped for the top job at age 50. While that would have been a common trajectory for CEOs a generation ago, the ty...
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NBER@nber.org · 3mo agoCEOs have become much older since 2000, especially in smaller firms, as rising uncertainty and complexity increase demand for generalist skills acquired over longer careers, from Valentin Kecht, Alessandro Lizzeri, and Farzad Saidi www.nber.org/papers/w35089
Given the obvious returns, one would think that the German government is passionately discussing investments in childcare and early education. The bitter reality is that they don’t, even in the face of stagnation.
Lisa-Marie Duletzki@lisadu.bsky.social · 4mo agoI’m very happy to share that my first paper has been accepted for publication 🎉 Together with my great co-author Nayeon Lim we look at early public childcare in Germany. More details and the paper link below 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Warum ändert selbst gutgemeinte Politik so wenig an der Arbeitsteilung? @manongarcia.bsky.social liefert die Antwort: Soziale Normen machen Unterwerfung zur rationalen Entscheidung -- und sie beugen sich keinem politischen Instrumentarium. www.zeit.de/familie/2026...
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I use em-dashes and Oxford commas. And I will continue to do so long after LLMs have stopped because vendors trained them away from these constructions so they sound less like AI
Eize Basa@eizebasa.baby · 4mo ago“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”
In April 1991, Gopher system was created at the University of Minnesota as a text-based system that used the hierarchical menu structure for navigation. #InternetHistory
That might have been a valid running hypothesis before incel TikTokers became the delegated asset managers of the the manosphere’s bitcoin portfolio…
Rachel Cunliffe@rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 4mo ago"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...
The best and brightest young people from around the world are getting the message: Reconsider investing your talents in the United States. Cumulative issuance of F-1 student visas by calendar month, down circa 32% as of September (latest available) Source: travel.state.gov/content/trav...
