Thomas Drechsel

@tdecon.bsky.social

German macroeconomist. Assistant professor at the University of Maryland. PhD from the London School of Economics. https://thomas-drechsel.com

What a nice surprise - I received the AEJ-Macro Best Paper Award for my paper “Earnings-Based Borrowing Constraints and Macroeconomic Fluctuations” The full paper can be found here: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... Thank you to everyone who helped me write it back in the day 😊

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AEA Information@aeainformation.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 AEJ Best Paper Awards! Check out the winning papers here: aeaweb.org/news/2025-ae... #econsky

Come and see Amy Handlan present her research on 'text shocks and monetary surprises' this Friday I am looking forward to moderating the event

Juri Marcucci@jurimarcucci.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 AMLEDS Webinar – Friday, April 18 🕚 11 AM EDT / 5 PM CEST 💬 Can the #Fed move markets with #words alone? Find out in this groundbreaking #webinar with Amy Handlan (Brown) presenting "#Text #Shocks and #Monetary #Surprises," moderated by @tdecon.bsky.social #EconTwitter #EconSky #AI #ML #NLP

We just completed a first, preliminary draft of a new paper: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐄𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐄𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡-𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡 Joint with Ko Miura econweb.umd.edu/~drechsel/pa...

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Looking forward to this online seminar! I will present my research on the economic consequences of political pressure on the Federal Reserve: econweb.umd.edu/~drechsel/pa...

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Centre for Economic Policy Research@cepr.org · last yr.

26 Feb @17:00 CET The International Macro History Online Seminar Series #IMHOS 🗣️ @tdecon.bsky.social (University of Maryland) presents 'Estimating the effects of political pressure on the #FED: a narrative approach with new data' Chair: Olivier Accominotti (LSE) ✍️ cepr.org/events/inter...

A promotional graphic for the upcoming International Macro History Online Seminar Series session. Title: Estimating the effects of political pressure on the FED: a narrative approach with new data. Presentation by: Thomas Drechsel of the University of Maryland. Chaired by: Olivier Accominotti of LSE. Date: 26 February at 17:00 CET.

Key figure from my #ASSA2025 talk below How often did US Presidents meet with Federal Reserve officials? Figure shows large variation, e.g. Clinton: 6x Nixon: 160x In the paper, I combine this new data with a narrative approach to gauge the economic effects of political pressure on the Fed

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Thomas Drechsel@tdecon.bsky.social · 2y ago

At the AEA meetings in San Francisco? Check out this nice session on Friday morning: "Identifying Monetary Policy" With presentations by Amy Handlan @michaeldbauer.bsky.social @kronerniklas.bsky.social myself and Philippe Andrade Thank you Philippe for organizing! #ASSA2025

Happy to see my work mentioned in the Financial Times In the paper, I estimate the effects of political pressure on the Fed through time, using new data Link to the full paper here: econweb.umd.edu/~drechsel/pa...

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Davide Romelli@davideromelli.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excited to discuss the challenges to Fed independence with @joelsuss.bsky.social and to see my central bank independence index featured in the @financialtimes.com! Honoured to be mentioned alongside the great work of Francesco Bianchi, Carola Binder, and @tdecon.bsky.social. Article 👇

New NBER working paper, joint with Sebastian Doerr and Donggyu Lee We show that higher income inequality tightens financing conditions for bank-dependent firms compared to those accessing stock/bond markets The reason is that high income households tend to save in stocks/bonds instead of deposits

NBER@nber.org · 2y ago

Higher inequality tightens financing conditions of bank-dependent relative to other firms. This has consequences for the macroeconomy and the effects of redistributive policies, from Sebastian K. Doerr, Thomas Drechsel, and Donggyu Lee https://www.nber.org/papers/w33137