Florian Ederer
@florianederer.bsky.social
Austrian 🇦🇹 Economist 📈 Not an Austrian Economist Allen & Kelli Questrom Professor BU Questrom, NBER, ECGI & NBER https://florianederer.github.io/
Excited to share a new working paper with Vincent Abraham and Catarina Marvão: Using the population of legal cartels in Sweden, we provide the first empirical evidence that common ownership can facilitate explicit collusion. www.nber.org/papers/w35565
Common Ownership and Collusion
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An Austrian and an Indian walk into the World Cup… a quick post-final look at what the last weeks have shown us, with @florianederer.bsky.social and Dhruv Kapoor www.buzzsprout.com/2052670/epis...
An Austrian and an Indian Walk into the World Cup... - The Assistant Professor of Football: Soccer, Culture, History.
... or: an Economist and a Tactics Nerd on what the last 6 weeks tell us about where the game is going. A spontaneous and incomplete post-final reaction.HELPFUL LINKS FOR THIS EPISODE:The recent CNN p...
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Delighted to see Lisa Kahn and Isaac Sorkin taking over as co-directors of the NBER Labor Studies Program. Two outstanding economists and thoughtful leaders. Congratulations to both, and especially to Lisa, who has been a wonderful friend and colleague for many years.
I apologize to my co-authors, but it's a little difficult for me right now to focus on doing my part of the paper revisions.
Austrian soccer highlights: It used to be: “I wer narrisch,” as of yesterday: “bist. Du. deppart.”
Nuffield College is selling signed books from Nobel Laureate Sir James Mirrlees's personal collection. True to form, the sales mechanism is a sophisticated auction based on Paul Klemperer's product-mix auction. mirrlees-auction.nuff.ox.ac.uk
Respectfully here to note there is a 2014 paper from my soccer-obsessed friends showing that, even for the South Africa WC in 2010, the US, Brazil, and Mexico were 3 of the top 4 non-African travelers. No surprise that this may be even more so w/US & Mexico hosting. academic.oup.com/jae/article-...
Tourism and the 2010 World Cup: Lessons for Developing Countries
Abstract. Over recent years the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) nations have secured the right to host several major international sp
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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · last mo.The 2026 World Cup has shattered one of soccer's favorite myths. The biggest draws aren't England, France, Germany, Spain or the young stars. They're Mexico, the USA, Argentina, Brazil, and Messi (39) & Ronaldo (41). GOATs, immigration, and geography matter much more than FIFA rankings.
The 2026 World Cup has shattered one of soccer's favorite myths. The biggest draws aren't England, France, Germany, Spain or the young stars. They're Mexico, the USA, Argentina, Brazil, and Messi (39) & Ronaldo (41). GOATs, immigration, and geography matter much more than FIFA rankings.
CEPR Competition Policy RPN Webinar - Straight Talk: Draft New Merger Guidelines vs “Competitiveness” Mission 📆1 July at 5PM CEST 📍Online 🗣️ @tomvalletti.bsky.social @tomasoduso.bsky.social @florianederer.bsky.social @sandertordoir.bsky.social @cristinacaffarra.bsky.social Register: ow.ly/amBZ50ZbMWy
Außerdem: @florianederer.bsky.social hat sich die Ticketpreise der #FIFA bei der #WM einmal angesehen. Hat der Weltfußballverband ein Eigentor geschossen? Und: #Schweinezyklus für Juristen. @hhu.de #Kartellrecht #Monopol #Wirtschaftspolitik open.spotify.com/episode/7M4J...
Der Tankrabatt, die FIFA und andere Marktversagen
Bei Anruf Wettbewerb · Episode
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For @foreignpolicy.com, @filipecampante.bsky.social, @florianederer.bsky.social, and I look at what World Cup ticket prices can tell us about what fans care about: foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/22/w...
The Strange Logic of World Cup Ticket Prices
Aging stars and local fans dominate as Europeans stay home.
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Zumindest für einige Spielen der WM gibt es wenig Nachfrage und immer noch viele Tickets. Die FIFA könnte sich bei diesen Spielen verzockt haben, glaubt ein Ökonom. Erste Freikartenaktionen sind zu beobachten - und einige Verkaufstricks. www.sportschau.de/fussball/fif...
WM 2026: Verzockt? Die Probleme der FIFA beim Kartenverkauf
Die Preise der Tickets und deren Verkauf sind das Reizthema für Fans bei dieser WM. Kurz vor Turnierbeginn könnte sich die FIFA bei einigen Spielen mit den Preisen verzockt haben.
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I talked to NBC about FIFA clandestinely dumping World Cup tickets for low-demand games onto resale platforms. This World Cup will be the ultimate K-shaped tournament for ticket prices. Some low-demand games will be almost free, but most games will be very expensive. youtu.be/pYR5Tb3D6SM?...
Economics professor suspects quiet World Cup ticket ‘dumping'
YouTube video by NBC10 Boston
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Absolutely stunning climbing performances and incredible consistency over 3 weeks🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️. Kudos Felix #Gall. First 🇦🇹 to finish a grand tour GC at #2! #GirodItalia www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/gall...
Great arguments explaining why the court got the wrong answer in the antitrust case against Meta.
Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 2mo agoSteve Salop, Allan Collard-Wexler, Marty Gaynor, Nancy Rose, Larry White, and I joined an amicus brief supporting reversal in FTC v. Meta. The district court's market-definition analysis departs from basic economics and risks weakening Section 2 enforcement in digital markets.
Steve Salop, Allan Collard-Wexler, Marty Gaynor, Nancy Rose, Larry White, and I joined an amicus brief supporting reversal in FTC v. Meta. The district court's market-definition analysis departs from basic economics and risks weakening Section 2 enforcement in digital markets.
The range of conflicts of interests (journal editorships, self-owned consulting LLC, children working at the ASSA meeting) disclosed in the latest AEA executive committee meeting is super interesting. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Today we hosted @florianederer.bsky.social (Boston University) for a #seminar on "Disclosure and the Pace of Drug Development", joint with Cunningham, Hodgson & Wang. More transparency, faster innovation? Think again: policy design can have surprising results! #econtwitter #Pharmaceuticals
The case for (high) minimum wages and collective agreements. Great op-ed introducing Arin Dube‘s fantastic new book „The Wage Standard“.
Arin Dube@arindube.bsky.social · 3mo agoMy op-ed in the Boston Globe today. Gifted link below:
Nobody is better at restoring the public's trust in universities than a NY Times columnist lecturing students on "how to fall in love with someone" ... ... or "how to divorce your wife of 27 years for your much younger research assistant"? We are not serious institutions.
“We’ve established that this self-preferencing is real and it gives an advantage to the platforms themselves. Whether that’s good or bad for consumers is much less well-established.” www.politico.com/newsletters/...
The BASED Act’s big question mark
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I like conferences in general, but I can't remember one that I enjoyed and where I learned as much as the Arnold Ventures BRIDGE event on online harassment and stalking. So inspiring to meet researchers and practitioners in this field! @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social
A new antitrust case against Vail and Alterra takes aim at Epic and Ikon pass pricing. Core issue: bundling + ecosystem power Cheap season passes, but very high day tickets → steering demand, locking in consumers, and squeezing independents dicellolevitt.com/dicello-levi...
DiCello Levitt, Co-Counsel File First Antitrust Class Action Against Vail Resorts and Alterra Over Epic and Ikon Ski Pass Pricing
DiCello Levitt, co‑counsel file first antitrust class action against Vail Resorts and Alterra, alleging inflated prices.
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Excited to announce that our paper "Bayesian Persuasion with Lie Detection" is forthcoming in the Journal of Law & Economics ... ... with special thanks to the man who provided countless perfect examples for our analysis florianederer.github.io/lies.pdf
George Serafeim didn't disclose that he was collaborating with green investors while publishing (now discredited) research on the returns to such investments. HBS did nothing and even promoted his research. At the same time Ben Edelman disclosed his COIs and HBS still fired him.
The WSJ finally officially reports what we've known since early December. NBER cuts ties with Larry Summers.
Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 8mo agoThe NBER had already placed him on leave, though I don't know when that happened: www.nber.org/people/lawre... Snapshot from October: web.archive.org/web/20251006...
To give you a sense of how big a deal this is: Summers’ PhD advisor made NBER what it is today
Prof Dynarski@dynarski.bsky.social · 5mo ago
