Max W

@mvalwe.bsky.social

PhD Student //Socioeconomics // Universität Hamburg // Macroeconomics // Narrative Economics // Expectations // Inflation // Text-as-Data

„Forschung ist kein Selbstzweck. Forschung muss zu Wertschöpfung, Produktion und Innovation in Deutschland und in Europa führen“, so der @bundeskanzler. Die Wissenschaftsfreiheit, wie sie Art. 5 Abs. 3 GG und das Bundesverfassungsgericht verstehen, setzt einen anderen Maßstab. 🧵 1/n

i think there are a lot of people who would find it very hard to believe that the field of economics could produce this paper. and yet! Acemoglu is like the mainstreamest and most successful economist working today. some priors could use an update. www.nber.org/papers/w35336

Automation and Repression

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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Climate impacts will become a structural macro-fiscal problem. With low private insurance, EU governments are sleepwalking into becoming disaster insurers of last resort. Our @bruegel.org Policy Brief on mitigating rising fiscal costs of climate disasters. 🔗 www.bruegel.org/policy-brief... 🧵1/10

Planning for the rising fiscal costs of climate disasters

Low insurance coverage is turning EU governments into disaster insurers of last resort, strengthening the case for prevention and adaptation finance

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"Nur 60 Prozent der 15-Jährigen erreichen demnach die Mindestkompetenz in Lesen und Mathematik () Unter den Jugendlichen aus benachteiligten Familien erreichten nur 46 Prozent die grundlegenden Kompetenzen."

DER SPIEGEL@spiegel.de · 3mo ago

Kinder haben es hierzulande nicht leicht. Laut einer Vergleichsstudie von Unicef liegt die Bundesrepublik beim Kinderwohl unter anderem hinter Ungarn und Rumänien. »Alarmierend« sei das Abschneiden im Bereich Bildung.

📜 Some of you may have heard about the desk-rejected papers from the ACL'26/ARR Jan 2026 or October 2025 cycles because of hallucinated references. These cases were detected post-commitment. ACL Program chairs have an official statement on this: 2026.aclweb.org/acl_statement/ #ACL2026NLP #NLProc

ACL Statement on Desk Rejecting Papers with Hallucinated References

Official website for the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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This paper shows that women get fewer and smaller parental transfers, and different assets. Tax breaks favor business assets (more often inherited by men); men pay lower effective tax rates. Resulting gender tax gap (2% inheritances, 22% gifts) reinforces 🇩🇪wealth inequality

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We hear it all the time: Since the turn of the 2010s, thanks to the rise of tech, the US has pulled ahead economically. This idea is everywhere from Washington to Davos—and it's paralyzing Europe But it's simply not true! Let's look at what's really happening, with charts🧵

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The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY

Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally

The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.

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Interesting paper! When you ask people about the most important issue "facing the country," they often say immigration. But when you ask them about issues facing them personally, it doesn't crack the top 10. This indicates that voters are reacting to media narratives, not their own experience.

Immigration is the most important issue facing your countryImmigration is the 14th most important issue facing you personally
Aurelien Mondon@aurelmondon.com · 9mo ago

We have had surveys that have shown us exactly this in the UK, France, the EU etc for many years What we need to ask ourselves is why have journalists, politicians, academics etc chosen to focus on surveys that hype immigration This is what I explore here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...


'Manufactured panic': Immigration not near top of most people's concerns, poll suggests

The cost of living, health, crime, and housing are much higher on people's lists of personal worries, a YouGov survey has suggested.
Friday 31 October 2025 04:22, UK

Siegeszug eines futuristischen Überwachungswerkzeugs: Die Überwachungs-KI, die in Mannheim und Hamburg das Verhalten von Passant*innen scannt, soll jetzt auch in Berlin zum Einsatz kommen. Das bestätigte der Berliner Senat heute in einer Anhörung im Innenausschuss. netzpolitik.org/2025/neues-p...

Neues Polizeigesetz: Berliner Senat will Verhaltenscanner gegen Bevölkerung einsetzen

Siegeszug eines futuristischen Überwachungswerkzeugs: Die Überwachungs-KI, die in Mannheim und Hamburg das Verhalten von Passant*innen scannt, soll jetzt auch in Berlin zum Einsatz kommen. Das bestäti...

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