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Fabian Wahl @wahlfabi.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Thank you for the amazing podcast episode and for featuring @thilohuning.bsky.social and my research on the role of wine growing for long-run regional development in Baden-Württemberg (academic.oup.com/ereh/advance...) in the episode!

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Can Winegrowing Cause Rural Development? Evidence from Baden-Württemberg

Abstract. Historical winegrowing shaped modern rural development, even in areas in which its cultivation was given up after the early modern period. We pro

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Thilo N. H. Albers @thiloalbers.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

We are looking to hire post-doc interested in working on migration, citizenship, and diaspora. Come join us in Münster! Generous contract + no teaching for 2 years. Many details and link to job add here: sites.google.com/site/tnhalbe... Please PM me incase you have questions!

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Thilo N. H. Albers - Job ads

2 years postdoc with a thematic focus on Migration, Diaspora, Citizenship

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Bård Harstad @bardharstad.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

After being an editor for 6.5 years (4 REStud; 2.5 JEEA), I have accumulated a few suggestions that can help you avoid unnecessary rejections.

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Guillaume Blanc @guillaumeblanc.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Going to give this website a try - with a new profile picture! Definitely feels like an econ bubble, but I guess that’s the point. Expect a thread on my newest work, Malthusian Migrations (with @romainwacziarg.bsky.social), soon! 🚨 www.guillaumeblanc.com/files/theme/...

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Guillaume Blanc @guillaumeblanc.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

🚨 Migration as escape valve from Malthus 🚨 1) high fertility or late fertility transition -> spread of diasporas 2) Age of Mass Migration -> transition to modern growth www.nber.org/papers/w33542 @nber.org @romainwacziarg.bsky.social

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Laetitia Lenel @laetitialenel.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

*Best Paper Award Economic and Social History* Bis zum 09. März kann man sich noch mit Vorträgen, die für den kommenden 6. Kongress für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte angenommen wurden, für den Best Paper Award Economic and Social History bewerben. Alle weiteren Informationen hier: udue.de/0ifec

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Thilo Huning @thilohuning.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Can winegrowing cause rural development? @wahlfabi.bsky.social and I have just published our little piece on this in the European Historical Economics Review! academic.oup.com/ereh/advance... #econhist #economics #history

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Alexander Donges @alexanderdonges.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This is a great data source for scholars working on the economic history of the interwar period 👇

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Alexander Donges @alexanderdonges.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

For me, the most striking result of these regressions is the that the „East Germany“ effect gets insignificant when controlling for enough variables, at least in the most recent election. (Also knowing that we only see correlations.) Would be interesting to see the effect of „Home Ownership Rate“ 1/

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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

If one attempts to fit a simple regression model for the AfD's gain since 2021, other predictors appear to be more robust than the GDP per capita of a constituency. Per capita disposable income also seems to be a weak predictor and quickly becomes insignificant when control variables are added.

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Bernhard Ganglmair @ganglmair.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

ZEW Mannheim @zew.de is on the Sky now. Follow us and add us to your starter packs for economic analyses from and for Germany, Europe, and beyond! #EconSky

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Julius Koschnick @juliuskoschnick.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

🚨🚨🚨PhD summer school at the University of Southern Denmark 🚨🚨🚨What can we learn about tariffs and trade from history? Chris Meisner, our keynote speaker, is one of the most renowned experts on historical trade and policy. + Learn ML + NLP tools in a hands-on-approach. Join us 11-22 August 2025!

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Charlotte Bartels @charlottebartels.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Join my new Public Economics team at @unileipzig.bsky.social! A 100% PhD/Postdoc position with teaching and a 75% PhD position in a DFG research project on the triangle of growth, housing and voting in Germany with @sebastiankohl.bsky.social & @trgn.bsky.social. Apply until Feb 28

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Alexander Donges @alexanderdonges.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

This is one of the best recent articles on the development of AI companies and NVIDIA‘s market power (which may decrease in the near feature, raising serious doubts about its current valuation…) youtubetranscriptoptimizer.com/blog/05_the_...

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The Short Case for Nvidia Stock

All the reasons why Nvidia will have a very hard time living up to the currently lofty expectations of the market.

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Alexander Donges @alexanderdonges.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

This is a very important paper for economists analyzing spatial data 👇

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Alexander Donges @alexanderdonges.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

A larger 🧵 on the economic system of Nazi Germany (motivated by Alice Weidel’s recent claim that Germany was „communist“ under the Nazi regime and that the German industry was „nationalized“ - both claims are historically wrong): 1/

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Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

We're hiring! The School of Economics at the University of Edinburgh has a call for several AP/Lecturer positions open. Deadline 27th January, details at: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLK480/l...

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Lecturer in Economics at The University of Edinburgh

An academic position as a Lecturer in Economics is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

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gabrielmathy.bsky.social @gabrielmathy.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Economists like to say that Christmas gift giving is inefficient- I think that's wrong. A defense of Christmas from a Keynesian perspective: comments welcome! gabrielmathy.weebly.com/uploads/7/3/...

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Alexander Donges @alexanderdonges.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

As an economic historian, I would have expected to find a strong affect of the Suez Canal opening on world trade - nice that there is now a paper that quantifies the effects. I am looking forward to read it…

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Alexander Donges @alexanderdonges.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Book production was obviously crucial to the diffusion of knowledge but it took more than 300 years until we observe a steady increase in GDP per capita in Europe. Following the arguments by Mokyr & Co., the scientific knowledge (printed in books) could hardly be used economically until the IR.

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Erik Hornung @hornungerik.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

📢We are hiring 📢 We look to fill a Postdoc position in Economic History! 5-year position funded by ERC project „Entrenched: Elite Capture and Social Mobility“ jobportal.uni-koeln.de/bewerben/1964 Deadline: Jan 17, 2025 Please spread widely! @econtribute.bsky.social #EconSky

Job announcement for Postdoctoral Researcher in Economic History

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Alexander Donges @alexanderdonges.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

This is a fascinating piece of financial history 👇 www.ft.com/content/5122...

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Happy 400th birthday to the world’s oldest bond

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Alexander Donges @alexanderdonges.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This is a great paper of one of our current Econ job market candidates 👇 #EconSky

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Alexander Donges @alexanderdonges.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

If you are interested in working with historical German data, this special issue of the German Economic Review gives an overview of existing research and available dataset, including our article on patent data (co-author: Jochen Streb): www.degruyter.com/journal/key/...

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Petra Moser @pmoser.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Apply for EHA dissertation fellowships: EHA Graduate Fellowships ($10,000); EHA Fellowship for students outside traditional economics departments ($10,000); Cambridge UP Dissertation Fellowship ($10,000); Sokoloff Fellowship ($17,500). eh.net/grants-fellowships-3/ Deadline January 14

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Grants and Fellowships – EH.net

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Anna Goeddeke @annagoeddeke.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Hi #EconSky, Not sure if the Starter Pack party's over, but I've made an Econ Starter Pack of Starter Packs! 😄 It's a work in progress, so I may have missed some. Let me know if there's anything to add—DMs are open! Thanks for support @economista.bsky.social! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Alexander Donges @alexanderdonges.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

And another starter pack for those of you who are interested in German economic history, including economists and economic historians who have worked on topics related to German economic history... go.bsky.app/U3ibbB

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Magnus B Rasmussen @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I made a quick starter pack on scholars working/having worked on historical political economy (wide definition). go.bsky.app/Hz9LmgL (please make [self]suggestions to improve the starter pack)

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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Humanity’s history is a battle against infectious diseases. And for most of our history we were losing very decisively. From my article about vaccines: ourworldindata.org/microbes-bat...

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Alexander Donges @alexanderdonges.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

A new starter pack of researchers working on the economics of patents & innovation. Let me know if you’d like to be included! go.bsky.app/VDx3T9x

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Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

For the people from Twitter following my advert for this place, here are the guideposts / ‘starter packs’: Economic History Starter Packs (2) bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack... Growth & Development Starter Pack bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Dina Pomeranz @dinapomeranz.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Mein Beitrag in der heutigen NZZ. lnkd.in/dg2-B2TY

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Re-sharing the #econhist Starter Pack for new arrivals: go.bsky.app/U6KyhNv

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James Feigenbaum @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

For the ppl new to #EconSky. Also if you're an econ history ish person, reply or dm to get added to the pack. I caught @econhist-allday.bsky.social but no one else too recently

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 28/10/2024

🎧 New VoxTalks Economics #Podcast The economic effect of the Great Fire of London Philipp Ager & Paul Sharp tell Tim Phillips about contemporary records they have uncovered, and what they reveal about #London’s #economy before and after the fire cepr.org/multimedia/e... 📉📈 #EconSky

In the early hours of 2 September 1666, a spark in Thomas Farriner's bakery on Pudding Lane in the City of London ignited a blaze that would go on to consume 90% of the City’s houses. But how did economic activity and wealth rebound after the fire? Philipp Ager of the University of Mannheim and Paul Sharp of the University of Southern Denmark have used contemporary records to describe London’s uneven economic recovery. They tell Tim Phillips about the records they uncovered, and what they reveal about London’s economy before and after the fire.

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Alexander Donges @alexanderdonges.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

The Magna Carta is often mentioned in the literature on the effects institutions, in particular with regard to property rights. This column by Mark Koyama explains the development that led to the Magna Carta: open.substack.com/pub/markkoya...

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Institutional Change and Magna Carta

Amid some thoughts on the recent Nobel Prize

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Lukas Mergele @lukasmergele.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

#Econsky is further picking up steam. Time for the German-speaking world to catch up🇨🇭🇦🇹 🇩🇪 So here's a starter pack with 100+ active German (-speaking) profiles. go.bsky.app/JjMC8UM Missing someone? Pls get in touch! PS: Bluesky wont throw random content at you -> important to follow many accounts.

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Alexander Donges @alexanderdonges.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Again an excellent thread showing that the critics of AJR should have read their work in more depth (which is challenging given the pure amount of papers they produced - showing also that we should not focus too much on „Colonial Origins“ and „Reversal of Fortune”, which both have obvious flaws).

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Alexander Donges @alexanderdonges.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Great thread on the development of research on the effect of institutions on economic growth in Economics 👇

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Bernhard Ganglmair @ganglmair.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

🚨Call for papers 🚨 MaCCI Annual Conference 2025 When: March 20-21, 2025 Where: ZEW in Mannheim Submit your competition and innovation-related papers by December 1, 2024! More info at www.zew.de/macciannual2025 #EconSky

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Alexander Donges @alexanderdonges.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

Last week, I started again my Master/PhD course „Topics in Economic History“. If you want to get a brief overview of (recent) research in (or related to) Economic History: drive.google.com/file/d/1oh-w...

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VL_Topics_in_Economic_History_Syllabus.pdf

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Alexander Donges @alexanderdonges.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

🚨 New Working Paper 🚨 In „Patent Litigation in the German Empire“ (co-authors: Felix Selgert & Jochen Streb), we use new data to provide a quantitative perspective on patent litigation in Imperial Germany: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… Summary in the following 🧵👇

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Julius Koschnick @juliuskoschnick.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

I’m on the economic job market this year. My JMP investigates how teachers affected the direction of research of their students during the Scientific Revolution at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Please find my JMP and CV on my website juliuskoschnick.com Key summary:

A seventeenth century student looking at his teachers and wondering whose ideas to adopt

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Alexander Donges @alexanderdonges.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Important to repeat that the spread of market economies (I don‘t like the term „capitalism“) is associated with a massive decline in poverty across the globe… 👇

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Jared Rubin @jaredcrubin.com · 03/10/2023

**New Working Paper** Religion and Growth A new survey covering the recent social science literature connecting religion and economic growth. We structured the survey in the context of standard growth models. This literature is huge ... and growing! Comments welcome:)

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