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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

From a draft, are we gonna write submission adjecent version in 8 (work) days if we work together half a day each and present it on 6th - with @koren.mk? It has theory and regressions and simulation. Lets see. Day 1. We started.

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Little bit off my usual topics. Sadest research. In villages where Roma people were killed by far right murderers, well, far right support *grew* more (than in comparable places). @psrm.bsky.social @ceu-economics.bsky.social @weareceu.bsky.social @attilagaspar.bsky.social

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Gabriel M Ahlfeldt @ahlfeldt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

1/2 New Applied Econometrics lecture slides are online: github.com/Ahlfeldt/Lec... Topics 13–24 follow Békés & Kézdi’s excellent, applied and case-based textbook. I highly recommend it. Thanks @gaborbekes.bsky.social for sharing slides, data & code.

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GitHub - Ahlfeldt/Lectures-AppliedEconometrics: Humboldt University Applied Econometrics lecture slides

Humboldt University Applied Econometrics lecture slides - Ahlfeldt/Lectures-AppliedEconometrics

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Podcast by @earino.bsky.social the smooth voiced sage. podcasts.ceu.edu/content/teac...

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Thanks @samlearner.bsky.social for covering us along with awesome work by colleague and friend @johanneswachs.bsky.social. btw, Budapest/Vienna oss/ai research community rulez. Yes, coolest artwork, too. Kudos

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Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · 15/07/2026

CEPR Fellows Miklós Koren & @gaborbekes.bsky.social explore their CEPR Discussion Paper "Vibe Coding Kills Open Source" for the FT Magazine. The paper was also featured on the Practical AI podcast practicalai.show/351 and in The Register earlier this year: www.theregister.com/software/202....

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The new government took over the propaganda TV. they replaced stream with a message apologizing for lying in the past and promising a fresh start. Pure text in html.

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

USA wins the world cup and Russel Crowe plays Pochettino in the biopic. #worldcup26 #usmnt

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

We've been running an unprecedented natural experiment running for a decade and half. 30 states have raised their minimum wages. 20 have not. What happened to pay? What happened to jobs? The good news is that it's pretty easy to figure out now. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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A Minimum Wage Natural Experiment Has Been Running for Over a Decade

When 30 States Raised Minimum Wages, What Happened to Pay and Jobs?

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Hungary is not at the world cup. I support Austria. I just found my new fav: Bosnia. How can you not love this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmX0...

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Dubioza Kolektiv - I Am from Bosnia - Take Me to America (Official video)

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

As Arsenal fan, watched a bit of Toffees vs City. Just the second half to get me sleep. No luck. I mean...

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

4. We were incredibly lucky. A dozen things could have gone wrong. If tisza IT 19yo Gundalf hadn’t been there, if old oppo weren’t so clueless. If we didn’t have a 2/3 majority. But: fortune favors the brave. Managed democracy isn’t a dictatorship—it’s just incredibly hard to defeat. 2/2

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

This was a post back in 2024 March. hungarianmuse.substack.com/p/magyar-pet... Had a list of what expected of new leader. Then Magyar commented that he will have it in office. As PM elect he referenced it on Monday as a list he keeps.

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

If Orbán was an autocratic dictator, how was it possible to defeat him? Because 1. He’s not Lukashenko. Big difference. It’s not a dictatorship, w journalists killed. 2. People pay more attention when the economy is bad. 3. Magyar isn’t a political necessity, but a unicorn. Rare talent. 1/2

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

So maybe you are wondering how i feel seening Magyar win after 16 years of Orbán, 8 of which uprooted my life, sent me to therapy, destroyed some friends career, tanked healthcare, and more. Randomly sobbing.

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Do you think it was easy? To kick out Orban, we min needed: 1. really bad policy x bad international environment 2. Extreme bravery of same people 3. Failure of Fidesz hacking of Tisza IT in early 25 4. Survival of indep media by donations 5. EU finally saying no 6. Random ex-Fidesz guy getting mad

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 13/04/2026

First pass at a website that keeps track of the data availability status of various published papers: paulgp.com/replication-... Very much in Alpha mode, so data will be updated soon.

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

This looks pretty interesting. Hot takes for non devs? @earino.bsky.social

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

ICYMI. Hungarian FM talking to Lavrov. 12 days to elections. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPk7...

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Hotline z Kremlem / Hotline with the Kremlin

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

So yeah, already fourth iteration of my Data Analysis with AI course. gabors-data-analysis.com/ai-course/ All open source. I have an intro overview of AI and its use in data. gabors-data-analysis.com/courses/da-w...

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Whatever is vibe coding, nice to be there. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_co... arxiv.org/html/2601.15... @koren.mk @julianhi.nz @aaron-lohmann.bsky.social

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Lionel Fontagné @lionel-fontagne.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The PSE Trade Summer School 2026 will focus on Trade Policy and will feature @meredith-crowley.bsky.social @julianhi.nz @mathieupar.bsky.social Roberta Piermartini and myself. www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/summer-sc...

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

when you taught till the evening, it's already 11.20pm CET and you hear about opus 4.6 dropping, you... (wrong answers, only)

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ArXiv Paperboy (Stat.ME+Econ.EM) @paperposterbot.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

arXiv📈🤖 Fast and user-friendly econometrics estimations: The R package fixest By Berg\'e, Butts, McDermott

fixest is an R package for fast and flexible econometric estimation, providing a comprehensive toolkit for applied researchers. The package particularly excels at fixed-effects estimation, supported by a novel fixed-point acceleration algorithm implemented in C++. This algorithm achieves rapid convergence across a broad class of data contexts and further enables estimation of complex models, including those with varying slopes, in a highly efficient manner. Beyond computational speed, fixest provides a unified syntax for a wide variety of models: ordinary least squares, instrumental variables, generalized linear models, maximum likelihood, and difference-in-differences estimators. An expressive formula interface enables multiple estimations, stepwise regressions, and variable interpolation in a single call, while users can make on-the-fly inference adjustments using a variety of built-in robust standard errors. Finally, fixest provides methods for publication-ready regression tables and coefficient plots. Benchmarks against leading alternatives in R, Python, and Julia demonstrate best-in-class performance, and the paper includes many worked examples illustrating the core functionality.

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

My first GitHub Action deployed. Finally, I have grown up. #age_is_just_a_number

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Christoph Kronenberg @ckronenberg.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

For absolutely no reason, let me remind people of this banger of a paper by @caroartc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...

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Grant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

ICYMI with a quick screenshot as sales pitch. Simply feed your estimation a bunch of .parquet files on disk and run it as normal. This example takes 180m rows of NYC taxi data and computes the model in < 1 second. On a laptop.

dbreg example showing how to estimate a model against a large dataset, comprising parquet files on disk. The model takes < 1 to run, including the time needed to read the data from disk.

dbreg(
tip_amount ~ fare_amount + passenger_count | month + vendor_name,
path = "read_parquet('nyc-taxi/**/*.parquet')",
vcov = ~month, # clustered SEs
strategy = "compress" # skip auto strategy overhead
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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 28/01/2026

No project has gotten more traction in such a short time than Clawd bot (now: Molt bot) by @steipete.me. But how is he building it? Watch or listen: • YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lF7... • Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5Ie6... • Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 28/01/2026

We can debate the magnitude but I don't see how you can say vibe coding does not weaken user engagement. If Claude (etc) selects and imports a library instead of a human user, how is that user engaged with the developer / user community of the library?

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Grant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Things are grim. But in more frivolous news... @jamesbrandecon.bsky.social and I have been chipping away at `dbreg`, a 📦 for running big regression models on database backends. For the right kinds of problems, the speed-ups are near magical. Website: grantmcdermott.com/dbreg/ #rstats [1/2]

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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 26/01/2026

Our paper with @gaborbekes.bsky.social @julianhinz.bsky.social and Aaron Lohmann is/was on top of HN. 15 minutes, I guess.

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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

This night Russia bombed a chocolate factory in Kyiv. A chocolate factory . During so called ‘peace talks’, Russia bombed a place where Ukrainians make cakes and chocolate bars. The. Fck

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Gábor Békés @gaborbekes.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Vibe coding kills open source. Our most direct title yet. @koren.mk @julianhi.nz @aaron-lohmann.bsky.social Theory paper with numbers and policy recs. First at arxiv.org/abs/2601.15494 Comments welcome. @ceu-economics.bsky.social @kiel.institute

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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 24/01/2026

It’s not click bait if it’s true. The only condition needed is that ai-assisted usage and direct usage of the *same* software package are closer substitutes than different packages. We are sure this holds (though plan to do more data work to confirm), that’s why we opted for the strong title.

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