Ich habe es auch so in Erinnerung, dass das Wort in der "linken Szene" (soweit man bei Teenagern davon reden kann) zu der Zeit üblich war. Auch Leute, die es selber getragen haben, haben eher Pali oder PLO Tuch statt Kufiya gesagt.
There are few old-fashioned customs that give me the ick as much as people referring to things as "finding them vulgar"
How does competitive pressure fail to protect buyers in information markets? Our new model of "portfolio competition" shows that when signals are complements, sellers leverage the buyer's desire for the joint portfolio to extract the full social surplus.
Why can boosting product quality actually reduce a manufacturer's profits? Our findings show that when retailers control pricing, increasing demand strengthens the retailer's power, compelling manufacturers to give up more profit and optimally limit product quality.
Join us for the 2nd Berlin PhD Conference in Economics on July 6-8, 2026!
EWMES in Nicosia 🇨🇾
That's pretty much the opposite of what I had in mind.
I am visiting Cyprus for EWMES and it's raining with a storm coming up. I feel cheated. Nobody has it as hard as me.
Congrats!
Update on the state of the job market courtesy of a nudge by @gottliebecon.bsky.social
It's bad!
paulgp.com/2025/11/24/j...
It's also obvious to me, but I guess the problem is that most people lack the will to say it.
Very interesting study with a dataset constructed from news articles!
Have a look at our paper on centralized school-choice mechanisms!
Today, the blog posts about my office mate Willy's research! Tomorrow, it's about my research! Stay tuned!
Pre-registration has become mainstream, yet trade-offs persist: Our new survey finds that researchers assign a credibility premium to significant results from pre-registered tests, but a significant proportion expects a negative impact on research creativity and volume.
Is China a "Paper Tiger" when it comes to scientific quality? Our investigation into citation home bias reveals China exhibits the largest bias globally, demonstrating that its apparent rise in citation rankings is overstated.
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I will present at the ES Winter Meeting, and I couldn't search and find my name on the program. I was about to message the organizers. The reason I didn't find me is that I went through all theory sessions, but in fact I am presenting in "Experimental Economics II." Still getting used to this...
How much does out-of-school learning influence foreign-language acquisition? Our new analysis shows that historical national decisions to subtitle imported TV content systematically result in a large positive effect on English-language skills.
open.substack.com/pu...
How to incentivise cooperation when monetary incentives are costly or ineffective? Our experiment shows a public recognition award increases employee willingness to help by 21%, leveraging social image towards peers and management-related reputation.
Apologies in advance, I will share every single one of these posts next week! One of them will also be about my research!
The song is inspired by a woman the singer met in London in the 80s, and the funniest rumor is that this woman later married the Greek economist and former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis. It's probably not true, but he fueled the rumor himself 🙃
Dass falsche Sprache sich nicht widerstandslos ausbreitet, ist auch das einzigste, was einem dieser Tage Hoffnung macht.
Nee, Dürrenmatt, glaube ich :P
Aber ich sehe da auch einen Punkt drin, der ganz unabhängig von AI hält.
Die Arbeit am Text ist Arbeit am Gedanken!
"The proof is omitted"
Recycling my prediction.
Power move 😲
The semester is about to start and today I was asked if I am a freshman. That's a clear sign that I don't work enough.
I feel like I have missed out on promoting our most recent school-choice experiment here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I am happy to say that now, 3 days after the conference and 3 days before I fly back, my body has adjusted to the Korean time zone.
