Christian Traxler

📢 Call for papers

9th Economics of Media Bias Workshop
Keynotes: Ruben Durante (NUS) and Pinar Yildrim (Wharton)

🗓️ May 28th-29th 2026
📍 Berlin, Germany
⏰ Deadline: January 31st 2026

Full CfP and information on how to submit: tinyurl.com/2s3f6tar

Please circulate!

Tagging the author, @mirafischer.bsky.social

The #IIPF2026 Call for Papers is out!
👉 www.iipf.org/papers/Call%...
Submit your public finance paper by Feb. 15, 2026.

Further information on the congress at www.iseg.ulisboa.pt/en/event/iipf/

Organizers at ISEG 👇 and Scientific Chairs Naomi Feldman and @dforemny.bsky.social

#EconConf #EconSky

📣 Call for Papers

Join us for the 2nd Berlin PhD Conference in Economics on July 6-8, 2026.

🗓 July 6-8, 2026
⏰ Application deadline: 25 January 2026

🔗 Learn more & apply: berlinschoolofeconomics.de/event-detail...

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PhD at the Hertie School | Hertie School

Hertie offers 2 PhD stipends in Media & Behavioral Economics, to work w/ my wonderful colleagues @ariannaornaghi.bsky.social & Egon Tripodi. #EconSky

Details: www.hertie-school.org/en/phd/apply...

Apply by Jan 15 via @bsoeberlin.bsky.social ▶️ berlinschoolofeconomics.de/phd-program/...

📢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...

Looking fwd to our Polit Econ Lunch Seminar tomorrow, where @aalrababah.bsky.social will present co-authored work on the Political Consequences of the Tour de France🚴‍♂️

Drop (or cycle) by, if you're in town!

Paper👉 osf.io/preprints/so...

PELS program👉 www.hertie-school.org/fileadmin/2_...

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨
@cunef.bsky.social is hiring Assistant Professors in Economics and related fields.

Application deadline: November 15 ⏰
More info: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

Apply to join one of Europe’s most dynamic Economics departments!

Congrats, @pnicolaides.bsky.social, great to see this published. Still recall when we discussed this figure for the first time;)

This was fun👇 #twec2025

Exactly, no (quasi-)experiment in here.

Later this week, @annabindler.bsky.social & I will host the 16th Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime #TWEC2025 in Berlin @diw.de

We are very much looking forward to many exciting papers, discussions, and keynotes by Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard & Paolo Pinotti.

📯 On October 8, join our yearly Welcome Event with a lecture on the Economics of Women’s Rights✨

📍 The event will be hosted by the @hertieschool.bsky.social, one of the founding members

More details & Register👉 www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...

@humboldtuni.bsky.social
#welcome #newmembers

📢 Opening of the Berlin School of Economics Academic Year at the Hertie School!

As a founding member, we're honoured to host the opening of the BSoE's new academic year on 8 October.

👉You can find more information here: bit.ly/42s8BBC

🚨NEW RESULTS (w/ Slattery & Nober)
- When gov't engineers retire, highway projects cost more: the engineers pay for themselves 6 times over
- Improving gov’t engineer quality from the 25th to 75th percentile reduces costs by 14%, equal to 3x avg. engineer pay

Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

We're looking forward to hosting the opening of @bsoeberlin.bsky.social' acadmic year @hertieschool.bsky.social on October 8. To join us at this event, which includes (among others) a keynote by Michèle Tertilt on 'The Economics of Women’s Rights', register via👇
www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...

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If you watch closely, you'll also see Wallace & Gromit harvesting cheese #Mondfinsternis #eclipselunar

Very much looking forward to the Public Economics workshop @cunef.bsky.social in Madrid #MadPub2025

Many thx @cmtneztt.bsky.social @miguelalmunia.bsky.social @dforemny.bsky.social for putting together a great program 👉 madpub.eu

Excellent performance by the inimitable Felix Gall 🚴‍♂️& strong 4th in this surprisingly explosive stage. Looking fwd to week 2+3 of #LaVuelta25 and hoping for Top3 GC🤞

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CC seems like bsky didn't get your handle, @libordusekeu.bsky.social sry

.@hertieschool.bsky.social & IfW Kiel are jointly 🚨 recruiting a Professor of International Economics🚨 (Associate/Full).

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Great opportunity to join Berlin's thriving econ community. No kings here.

Deadline: Sep 30, 2025

Please share widely! #EconSky

Learning from Law Enforcement This paper studies how punishment affects future compliance behavior and isolates deterrence effects mediated by learning. Using administrative data from speed cameras that capture the full driving hi

PS: In related work (same setting), we do NOT find clear evidence that higher #fines would amplify (specific) #deterrence effects – it’s about getting a ticket (or not), which makes drivers slow down... low/high fines seem 2nd order 👇

ideas.repec.org/a/oup/jeurec...

(5/5)

Given that (non-)compliance responses are small, the elasticity of revenues wrt fines is high (~0.9): a 100CZK increase in fines translates into ~60CZK higher revenues collected (within 15 days).

Might explain why "revenue motivated" authorities find fines attractive.

(4/5)

Higher Taxes, More Evasion? Evidence from Border Differentia This paper studies the evasion of TV license fees in Austria. We exploit border differentials to identify the effect of fees on evasion. Comparing municipalities at the low- and high-fee side of state

A 10% increase in the fine (= payment obligation) results in a 1pp drop in timely payments (timely = within 15 days after receiving a speeding ticket).

The semi-elasticity is close to what we found in earlier work in the context of TV license fees 👇
ideas.repec.org/p/ces/ceswps...

(3/5)

We explore (a) discontinuous increases in #speeding #fines at speed cutoffs (see figure) and (b) reforms affecting these discontinuities, to estimate the effect on non-compliance and revenues.

Our results indicate relatively small payment responses...

(2/5)

Fines, nonpayment, and revenues: evidence from speeding tickets Abstract. We estimate the effect of the level of fines on payment compliance and revenues collected from speeding tickets. Exploiting discontinuous increas

Great to (finally) see this in print:

"Fines, nonpayment, and revenues"
joint w/@libordusekeu.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/jleo/article...

Haven't thread-posted on research in a while (and missing this type of content on bsky!), so let me tell you a bit more about this paper (1/5)

#EconSky

Can a 5 minute chat save democracy? YouTube video by Hertie School

@hertieschool.bsky.social comms team did a fun #July4 video summarizing Egon Tripodi's great work on "Talking Across the Aisle" in a polarized world (joint w/ Luca Braghieri & Peter Schwardmann)👇

www.youtube.com/shorts/VlN4S...

We are looking for PhD students! More information at www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/fachbereich/...