Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Wow, this is so cool! So much information laid out so clearly...! Excess mortality for young women 100 years is maternal mortality? And then you can see young men suddenly doing risky behavior risky post WWII? 130
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 18/05/2026I samme gate: Hvis du ikke har lest den anbefaler jeg den relativt nye biografien om Erik Brofoss av Helge Røed 110
Reposted by Eirik Eylands BrandsaasJoe Fish @sadbusdriver.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Okay, some meta-commentary on this, which I think has troubling implications for good science 1. it's good this criticism happened 2. criticism was possible because Stacy Et Al were unusually good w/ disclosing data 3. criticism is probs bad for stacy et al 4. thus, incentives are to not share data 1323
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Takk - la oss si 65🇳🇴-35🇮🇸! *Jeg er nok lavt nok på hiarkiet og rangstigen til at jobben (heldigvis) ikke er for spennende. 010
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Jeg skal ikke blande meg inn i debatten (det ville neppe vært populært på jobb...) men jeg vil bare si takk til deg og @torodin.bsky.social for at dere tar den! Jeg lærer noe nytt i nesten hver melding! 110
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Hey Joey, you may like this paper I wrote on data center investment: see the animated forecast evolution below. Paper: www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds... Updated results: github.com/eirikbrandsa... 041
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 18/04/2026High-five Joanna! I just got an R&R on my JMP, a long path indeed. Just six years after we became JMCs... 100
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Also, Why so little effort connecting the good spots? Greenbrier's beautiful but isolated trail (better connection to R29 overpass trail coming this fall). Why not link it and the Rivanna Trail to the Butterfly Greenway via the rail culvert? And why does that trail dead-end at McIntire recycling? 010
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 06/04/2026I thought the movie was pretty good! Though judging by the wikipedia picture the stylist did Gösta dirty en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6... 010
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Grattis! Likte alltid dette paperet og viser ofte til det når jeg diskuterer leiemarkedet med medforfattere! 110
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 29/12/2025And another link to the paper, if you're still here: www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds... (4/4)federalreserve.govEstimating Aggregate Data Center Investment with Project-level DataThe Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC. 050
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 29/12/2025In the end, if you have data on plans, estimates for typical times from plan to start, start to completion, and crucially the abandonment rate of projects, you can quite easily estimate, nowcast, and forecast magnitudes and timing of investment. (3/4) 110
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 29/12/2025What we tried to do with this paper was to minimize the role of judgement or researcher degrees of freedom. Most forecasts/discussion of data centers and AI depends on whether the writer is bearish or bullish on AI. (2/4) 100
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Are you sick of reading about data centers? If not: In a new paper, we developed a simple method to forecast data center investment using project-level microdata on $1.3 TRILLION in announced plans. www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds... 152
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 01/11/2025That is incredibly cool! I wonder how often this spurs a new paper or influences which outcomes a paper reports. 110
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Haha, me too! I'm all ears if you have ideas on how to test the theory empirically! 000
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Moreover, getting the money for the down payment is just half the game, as I show in my paper on the bank if mom and dad papers.eebrandsaas.com/Homeownershi... Likely another well-meant housing policy that chiefly benefits wealthier of children of wealthier households.papers.eebrandsaas.com 010
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Flytta til Charlottesville fra DC forrige uke pga. konas jobb på sykehuset der. (Tenkte at dette var enda en dårlig norsk amerika-kritikk fra noen som aldri har bodd her, men da så jeg at du har bodd i USA noen år!) 210
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Stilig! Gleder meg til å lese den når den kommer frem til... Charlottesville, VA! 100
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 04/04/2025What do you mean allowed? From work? Partner? Kids? I have a self-imposed limit of five work trips per year. 100
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Hot take: The best new Haven style pizza is One6Three in East Rock. Their sweet and salami is so good. They're more consistent than the old school places. Also their Caesar salad is amazing. (And mashed potato pie is bad) 110
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Realizing how happy this beer made me led me into a minor existential crisis 🍻 010
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Greit poeng det! Fikk foresten "Pabbi" i julegave, gleder meg veldig til å lese den! 010
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Hvor lenge er i lengden? Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Gates, osv. Er vel ikke så mye mer grotesk ulikhet i dag enn det var for 10, 50, 100, og 200 år siden? 200
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Honorary mention: Partial Ownership: A Quantitative Analysis by Brandsaas and Kvaerner. www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds... Why? I’m self-centered (😎) and I just find the contract—that allows you to choose how much to own and how much to rent—interesting!federalreserve.gov 010
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 31/12/2024The Value of Heterogeneous Mortgage Contracts by Boutros, Clara, and Kartashova michaelboutros.com @mi First(?) paper properly including a choice between adjustable or fixed-rate mortgages, nicely illustrates how contract “details” benefit different households, and implications for monetary policy.michaelboutros.comMichael BoutrosResearch Website for Michael Boutros 100
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Credit Card Borrowing in Heterogeneous-Agent Models: Reconciling Theory and Data by Maxted and Lee petermaxted.com Again, challenging conventional wisdom, it’s striking how many have revolving credit card debt, and great use of model and data to speak on an important topic.petermaxted.comPeter MaxtedUse this space to add a brief description of your project. 100
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Beyond the Status Quo: A Critical Assessment of Lifecycle Investment Advice by Anarkulova, Cederburg, and O’Doherty. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Changed my portfolio choices(!), we should have more papers challenging conventional wisdom, and the use of multi-country asset returns is important.papers.ssrn.comBeyond the Status Quo: A Critical Assessment of Lifecycle Investment Advice<div> We challenge two tenets of lifecycle investing: (i) diversify across stocks and bonds and (ii) <span>reduce equity allocations with age. An op 100
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 31/12/2024My 2024 “top 3” of interesting papers and presentations: 130
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Klasseforskjell. Beklager Pål, men det blir som å sammenligne New York Rangers med Storhamar Dragons. Jeg overdriver litt, men ikke mye. 020
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 04/12/2024I get that feeling sometimes. "Who gives a shit about how people invest in stocks or own homes, there are real problems out there." It must be tough beeing and seeing things first hand. I tell myself that any new knowledge pushes the frontier and opens paths for growth and development. 030
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Er kanskje ikke i Norge, men er jo fra Norge? 110
Reposted by Eirik Eylands BrandsaasDr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 26/11/2024as a junior woman academic, it's hard to figure out how to get invited for opportunities. my go-to strategy is to just ask and take the no's on the chin. so i'm asking: does anyone w/an econ/social science/policy podcast need a guest about DV, welfare, crime, incarceration, or public health? 57024
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 22/11/2024That must have been scary, but way to set an example! We all have errors in our code, but few own up to it the way you did here🍻 0170
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Great list, i already followed half but so many I missed! Could you also add me? Thanks! 100
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 17/10/2024Using social media as a commitment device: I will not touch a single paper until I finish writing up this one. 030
Reposted by Eirik Eylands BrandsaasBrigitte Roth Tran @brothtran.bsky.social · 24/09/2024Can anyone recommend resources on using Git specifically for academic research papers/projects? Seems like best practices differ from those for developing an app or a project with A LOT of collaborators. Looking for tips on branches, comments, when to commit, etc. #econsky 94011
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 19/09/2024You should have seen the number of footnotes before the last rewrite! Aside: your trick of changing margins and then editing away runt/orphan lines has become my favorite way of tightening the writing. 020
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 18/09/2024TFW you just submitted a paper to the JFE with enough footnotes a plenty and references to online appendices 😅🤦♂️ 190
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 18/09/2024Hope you have a great trip! Don't forget to go to a public pool, eat something with licorice (my favs: meat marinade, chocolate, or brauð & co's cinnamon bun), try sweet rye bread with butter or shrimp salad, and Kjarvals, and you will love Amma Don bar 130
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 31/08/2024And wait til they add the extra story arc about the crown princess' son habitually using cocaine and prolific domestic abuse.. 🇳🇴 000
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 28/12/2023I should mention that Ella Getz Wold is the first author, and that the paper is written with Knut Are Aastveit, Ragnar Juelsrud, Gisle Natvik, and yours truly. Also, the views expressed are ours and not necessarily those of Norges Bank or the Federal Reserve System 110
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 28/12/2023For example, we show that if households expects lower price growth the housing channel falls or that stricter mortgage regulation increases the housing channel of wealth persistence (e.g., stricter loan-to-value requirements) 10/10 110
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 28/12/2023We then include parental transfer in an off-the-shelf life-cycle model of housing. With a standard calibration we recover our reduced-form estimates, corroborating our empirical results. Finally, we show how policy potentially amplifies the housing channel of wealth persistence 100
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 28/12/2023Result 4: We can use data to understand how parents support their kids. Unsurprisingly, most of it comes from transfers but we also document co-purchasing and intra-family sales (at an eye-popping average discount of $80,000) as important mechanisms 8/10 100
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 28/12/2023Result 3: What drives wealth persistence? Housing is important, and accounts for 27%! Households with richer parents are two percentage points (12%) more likely to be wealthy *due* to the impact of parental wealth on housing 7/10 100
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 28/12/2023Result 2: Having parents in the top 50% of wealth increases the probability that you will be in the top 50% by 15 percentage points. This is our benchmark measure for intergenerational wealth persistence. 6/10 100
Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 28/12/2023Result 1: We use Norwegian register data and find that parental wealth improves housing outcomes. We use mediation analysis and exogenous variation in parental wealth (stock returns), we find that parental wealth accounts for half of the homeownership gap by parental wealth 100