Markus Rieger-Fels

@riegerfels.bsky.social

Economist @ Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn, Research on topics concerning the German Mittelstand, risk, and insurance.

For Bluesky-Curious Econ Lovers, a Quick Start guide to plugging into the economics community here. It aims to lower the costs & boost the benefits for folks to engage here. If it seems useful, please share it here & especially on X. 📉📈 #️⃣#️⃣ aaronsojourner.org/for-bluesky-...

For Bluesky-Curious Econ Lovers - Aaron Sojourner

This Quick Start guide aims to help econ lovers easily join Bluesky’s growing economics community. The Bluesky User FAQ covers generic basics, like how to start an account. This guide orients you to e...

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In economics, editors, referees, and authors often behave as if a published paper should reflect some kind of authoritative consensus. As a result, valuable debate happens in secret, and the resulting paper is an opaque compromise with anonymous co-authors called referees. 1/

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An empirical econ paper needs two things: 738 robustness checks concluding we can’t really ever fully be sure of internal validity in the appendix, and one (1) wild back of the envelope calculation indicating that the result is world-changing in the discussion section

Saloni@scientificdiscovery.dev · 2y ago

Now I've come across several instances of people writing, essentially: 'Let me provide a very rough estimate. Don't take this number literally, because it has several flaws.' And then their number becomes cited as the canonical figure on the topic.

#Econsky 📈📉 We need more women econ professors, and we increase demand for them via measures like implicit quotas or encouragements to apply. But we will succeed _only if_ we increase supply: train them. To colleagues in PhD admission: some of these numbers 👇are encouraging, but let's do more.

Laura K Gee@laurakgee.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thanks to Monica Essig Aberg (who I can’t find on here) posted the gender stats for new Econ PhD Cohorts. You can see who is more balanced vs less and live updates on this google doc #econsky 📈📉 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

On Tuesday, 36 US ports will be shut down by the largest shipping strike in living memory. This could recreate the chaotic supply chain crisis of 2021-2022. Are we ready? a 🧵 on the new economics of supply chains 1/