Holger Herz
@herzholger.bsky.social
Professor of Economics at the University of Fribourg. Organizational Economics, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics
Looking for a new colleague! We have an open professorship in applied microeconomics at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Important: Fluency in French is required for this position. www.unifr.ch/ecopol/de/ne... Feel free to reach out if you have questions!
26 people died in swimming accidents this weekend in Germany. All of them male. Across all age ranges. Is this all explained by behavioral gender differences, or is there another reason? www.spiegel.de/panorama/dlr...
Hitze in Deutschland: Mindestens 26 Männer und Jungen sterben bei Badeunfällen
Ein 84-Jähriger kam im Starnberger See ums Leben, in der Talsperre Pöhl wird nach zwei Männern gesucht, ein Vater konnte seinen Sohn in Oberfranken retten: Am Wochenende hat es zahlreiche Unglücksfäll...
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A letter from mainstream economists to the 🇩🇪 government, with a simple message: Renew and Electrify, to counter the energy crisis. www.bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de/Redaktion/DE... 1/n
Pakistan's solar revolution: from 0% to 25% in a decade. 2021: 4% 2022: 7% 2023: 10% 2024: 14% 2025: 25% Solar is now Pakistan's #1 electricity source. Not driven by policy — driven by consumers.
Can the US release more of its strategic oil reserves? "The SPR has a practical operational floor near 150–160 mb that must remain in place to preserve cavern stability." Given Trumps concern for negative long-run consequences, I guess the SPR will be fully depleted... www.ft.com/content/2b00...
Could the US really release more of its strategic oil reserves?
Desperation, thy name is Scott Bessent
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bsky.app/profile/conr... The US and Canada on opposite ends here is quite something. Contrast Effects?
Conrad Hackett@conradhackett.bsky.social · 5mo agoSay people in their own country are morally bad US 53% Turkey 49% Brazil 48% Greece 44% France 43% S Africa 36% Israel 27% UK 17% Japan 16% India 9% Canada 7% https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2026/03/05/in-25-country-survey-americans-especially-likely-to-view-fellow-citizens-as-morally-bad/
Wie gut, dass Eric Gujer die Zukunft immer so klar (anders) vorhersehen kann
📢 The Call for Papers for the 𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗶𝗳𝗼 𝗔𝗿𝗲𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀, organized by @klaus-m-schmidt.bsky.social & Ernst Fehr is now open! Keynotes: Supreet Kaur & @philippstrack.bsky.social 📆 𝟮𝟯 - 𝟮𝟰 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 ℹ️https://www.ifo.de/cesifo/f9G In cooperation with @rationalitycrc.bsky.social
Would‘t it be nice if people simply refused to go? www.kicker.ch/auch-fuer-df...
Auch für DFB-Fans werden WM-Tickets richtig teuer: FIFA ruft "horrende Preise" auf
Die FIFA hat die nächste Verkaufsphase zum Erwerb von WM-Tickets eingeläutet - jetzt kann man sich auch explizit auf die Spiele der eigenen Mannschaft bewerben. Fans der DFB-Elf werden dabei besonders...
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Hard to find myself in agreement with Trump. But given his obsession with renaming stuff, this seems like a sensible one. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8mo agoTrump: "When you look at football in the US, soccer -- we seem to never call it that, because we have a little bit of a conflict with another thing that's called football. But when you think about it, shouldn't it really be called football? We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff."
A senior academic using mentoring as leverage to obtain sex is a contemptible abuser of power.
Prof Dynarski@dynarski.bsky.social · 9mo agoSummers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09) The grad is from China Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril" Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package bit.ly/3LHpin8
📢The #Fribourg #WinterSchool in #DataAnalytics & #MachineLearning is coming up (Feb 2–13, 2026)! On site at @unifr.bsky.social or online - covering data analytics, predictive & causal machine learning, and deep learning using Python, R, Julia & Knime. Register now: www.unifr.ch/appecon/en/w...
New Substack post: the Nobel Prize goes to an economic historian and two economists of growth trying to answer the question, where do new technologies come from? someunpleasant.substack.com/p/growing-th...
Growing the Field
What is the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics about?
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"This year's Nobel Peace Prize goes to a champion of peace. To a WOMAN..." was a great way to introduce the prize before giving out the name!
Wow! Congratulations, @econ.uzh.ch bsky.app/profile/flor...
Florian Scheuer@florianscheuer.bsky.social · 10mo agoI am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics. 🧵 1/7
Trump: Where do women keep Tylenol? Staffer: I guess kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanities and associated products.
We have an opening for a professorship in Heidelberg in labor economics, political economy, or more generally in applied micro. Please share!
Full Professorship (W3) in “Labor Markets / New Political Economy” (f/m/d) | INOMICS
The position is to be filled by the Winter Semester 2026/27 at the Alfred-Weber-Institute for Economics of Heidelberg University.The successful candidate will have an outstanding and internationally v...
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I just ordered a copy of @causalhuber.bsky.social's brand new book, and I'm excited to have a look at it! mitpress.mit.edu/978026255292...
🎉 Seems like the release of "Impact Evaluation in Firms and Organizations" is off to a great start! Huge thanks to everyone who's been reading, sharing, and supporting my book! mitpress.mit.edu/978026255292...
So Trump is saying that the investment promises within the trade "deals" are "like a signing bonus in baseball", and that its "our money to invest as we like". (starting around 2:45). Specifically mentions 550b from Japan and 650b from the EU that are his to spend. www.cnbc.com/video/2025/0...
President Trump: Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent 'does not want' to be Fed chair, but 4 others in running
President Donald Trump joins 'Squawk Box' via phone to discuss who will lead the Federal Reserve next, the idea of dividends around tariff policy, and much more.
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This is the First Time I regret I am no longer on Twitter. But luckily there is almost instantaneous Cross-posting 🙂
THREE full professorships in Data Science, Microeconomics & Behavioral Econ — great colleagues, excellent research conditions and a spectacular setting in the Alps. Please share! 📈📉
Achim Zeileis@zeileis.org · last yr.📢 Come work with us! 🏛️ Faculty of Economics & Statistics, UIBK @econstatuibk.bsky.social @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social ‼️ Three job openings for Full Professor positions - Data Science - Microeconomics - Behavioral Economics Please share! #datascience #economics www.uibk.ac.at/de/info-beru...
Stellar health economists who want to build a world-class lab in Zurich, see here 👉
Barton Lee@bartonelee2.bsky.social · last yr.Come join me in Zurich! We’re hiring a Professor of Health Economics (deadline April 30). DM me if you have any questions about our department, ETH 🏫, or Switzerland🇨🇭 ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z...
So pauschal wie die USA die Zölle festgelegt haben frage ich mich dann doch, ob sich die offizielle Schweiz nicht zu früh "freut" in der Annahme, dass die Pharmabranche von den Zöllen ausgeschlossen sei. Dass Trump sich für irgendwelche WTO-Abkommen interessiert wage ich zumindest zu bezweifeln.
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
