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Manuel Foerster

@manuelfoerster.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor for Microeconomics at the Center for Mathematical Economics at Bielefeld University | applied microeconomic theory and game theory Website: sites.google.com/site/sitemanuelfoe…

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
„The decline in concentration is observed in all fields except one: economics.“ Ouch!
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Manuel Foerster @manuelfoerster.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Very happy to share my NEW WP "Strategic communication of narratives: An experiment", joint w/ Gerrit Bauch and Arthur Dolgopolov. In a lab experiment, we find evidence people in complex environments take a narrator's strategic incentives into account: doi.org/10.48550/arX... #EconSky #Experiments
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Strategic communication of narratives: An experiment
We investigate the strategic communication of narratives under model uncertainty. The sender has private information about the true data-generating process of publicly observable data. The receiver is...
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Manuel Foerster @manuelfoerster.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Very happy to share my NEW WP „Job Market Signaling in the Age of Generative Al“, joint w/ Felix Klapper. We show that Al can make education cheaper, and still increase education expenditures: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn... #EconSky #formaltheory
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Job market signaling in the age of generative AI
<div> We study technological change in a Spence-type job market signaling model, <span>in which privately informed workers signal productivity through obs
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Stephan Maus @stephanmaus.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Der UK-Korrespondent der FAZ nennt Opfer sexueller Gewalt "minderjährige Gespielinnen". Vielleicht muss man Männern einfach mal 1 Jahr lang das Schreiben verbieten.
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Manuel Foerster @manuelfoerster.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
We are still using it, but I also recognized that some universities have cancelled their licenses.
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David Schindler @david-schindler.de · 21/12/2025
Utrecht University abolishes its English language bachelor's program in economics and replaces it with a Dutch one. They told staff (~30% international) the week before Christmas. Layoffs seem likely now. Unwarranted lobotomy is the only word I can find for it... dub.uu.nl/en/news/econ...
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Economics programme in shock after sudden cancellation of English-taught track
The Bachelor's programme in Economics & Business Economics will only be offered in Dutch from 2029 onwards, the Executive Board announced on Tuesday. The news came as a complete surprise to the econom...
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Rudi Bachmann @bachmannrudi.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Gratulation an Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion und Peter Howitt zum diesjährigen #Nobelpreis in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Sehr verdient. Die Kombination der Personen war für mich etwas überraschend, aber alle drei sind langjährige Kandidaten (insofern war Aghion nicht ganz
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Manuel Foerster @manuelfoerster.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Very happy to share my NEW WP "A dynamic model of authority in organizations", joint w/ my PhD student @bingbingli.bsky.social. We investigate repeated delegation of a decision to an agent with uncertain preferences: pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/3007127 #EconSky #formaltheory
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A dynamic model of authority in organizations
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Verein für Socialpolitik e.V. @vfsecon.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
📢 Our VfS chair Klaus M. Schmidt is opening this year’s VfS Annual Conference at the University of Cologne. A warm welcome to all participants – we're excited to kick things off! @WiSoKöln @UniKöln #VfS_Conf2025 #EconomicsConference #Welcome #IndustrialPolicy #EUEconomy #CleanIndustrialDeal
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Manuel Foerster @manuelfoerster.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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Research Position in the Research Training Group
<div style="text-align: justify;">The position is allocated to the newly established Research Training Group 'Coping with Uncertainty ...
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Manuel Foerster @manuelfoerster.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
📢 We are hiring! 📢 The Center for Mathematical Economics (IMW) at Universität Bielefeld is offering a postdoctoral position allocated to the Research Training Group 2865 'Coping with Uncertainty in Dynamic Economies' (CUDE). Applications can be submitted until November 15, 2025.
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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on. Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts. 1/
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Manuel Foerster @manuelfoerster.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Thanks for sharing Ben, looks super interesting!
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
He's right, and it's not just Brazil. Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.
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An Exceptional Failure of Democratic Accountability: How American Institutions Protected Power While Global Democracies Upheld Justice
How Elite Deference Eroded America's Rule of Law, Defying the Global Norm.
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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French? ➡️ New Working Paper: Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek www.nber.org/papers/w33984 A 🧵 1/12
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Manuel Foerster @manuelfoerster.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
We study a seller who sequentially offers experiments to a consumer and show by means of an encryption protocol how perfect price discrimination may be feasible despite buyers’ valuations being different. We illustrate our framework in the context of medical diagnostic testing.
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Manuel Foerster @manuelfoerster.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Very happy to share my NEW WP "Sequential Information Selling: Perfect Price Discrimination and the Role of Encryption", joint w/ Fynn Louis Närmann. pub.uni-bielefeld.de/download/300... #EconSky #formaltheory
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Manuel Foerster @manuelfoerster.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
will take place on December 15–16, 2025, at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) in Bielefeld, Germany. 🔬 🚀 Learn more here: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/... #econsky
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Manuel Foerster @manuelfoerster.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
📢 Call for Papers: 20th BiGSEM Doctoral Workshop 📢 An excellent platform for doctoral students to present and discuss their research: The 20th edition of the BiGSEM Doctoral Workshop, organized by the Bielefeld Graduate School of Economics and Management (BiGSEM),
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Manuel Foerster @manuelfoerster.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Thanks to all who helped/commented, and to my co-author Daniel Habermacher: it was a pleasure working with you! #econsky
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Manuel Foerster @manuelfoerster.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
📢 Hot off the press: 📢
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The US does not stand for freedom and democracy any more, but is sliding fast into tyranny. Harvard is punished for standing up to this. If you’re in the US and not doing something now, soon you will be unable to do anything. We know this from experience here in Germany.
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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
This is an incredibly important paper. If you're an antitrust scholar and you're getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by a dominant monopolist as expert witness in a lawsuit that's in your research area, shouldn't you disclose that work on your CV? www.nber.org/papers/w3364...
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The Conflict-of-Interest Discount in the Marketplace of Ideas
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Manuel Foerster @manuelfoerster.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
‪Very happy to share my NEW WP "Authority, communication, and internal markets", joint w/ Daniel Habermacher. We revisit the trade-off between keeping and delegating authority, and show how introducing transfers may improve efficiency: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn... #EconSky #formaltheory
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Authority, Communication, and Internal Markets
We revisit the trade-off between keeping authority and granting decision-rights to an informed agent. We introduce transfers, allowing the agent to charge a fee
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
@jacobedenhofer.bsky.social wrote another impressive thread, on dealing with the AfD. It contains lots of evidence that we _should_ learn from the past.
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Harald Oberhofer @ho2604.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Das Rätsel ist gelöst. Das prozentuelle Handelsbilanzdefizit bildet die Basis für die Zollberechnung.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Minor point but: Within the US, there has a debate for years about where to host conferences because of local policies, usually targeting red states. International conference hosts will be getting more and more pressure from attendees to not hold events in any part of the US due to safety concerns.
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Manuel Foerster @manuelfoerster.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
In addition to a social event and a joint social dinner, we are planning two separate events for female researchers (a mentoring session and a dinner). For more information, please visit: sites.google.com/view/summers... We are looking forward to receiving your applications!
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July 07- 11, 2025
The Summer School consists of four courses presenting recent aspects of managing climate uncertainty. A selected number of short presentations held by the students are also planned. The Summer Schoo...
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Manuel Foerster @manuelfoerster.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The Summer School consists of four courses presenting recent aspects of managing climate uncertainty. A selected number of short presentations held by the students is part of the scientific program: Application is open until April 30. The Acceptance of talks will be communicated until May 9.
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Manuel Foerster @manuelfoerster.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
📣 Call of Applications - #CUDE Summer School 📣 The Research Training Group #CUDE at Bielefeld University is organizing a Summer School on “Managing Uncertainty in Climate Economics“ from July 7 to 11, 2025.
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July 07- 11, 2025
The Summer School consists of four courses presenting recent aspects of managing climate uncertainty. A selected number of short presentations held by the students are also planned. The Summer Schoo...
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Stephan Lauermann @pareto-efficiency.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
We’re happy to host the 1st European Economic Theory Conference in Bonn next fall! Submissions in all areas of economic theory are welcome.
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Manuel Foerster @manuelfoerster.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
We are hiring: 10 doctoral positions within the Research Training Group 'Coping with Uncertainty in Dynamic Economies' (CUDE). Application deadline: February 15, 2025. #EconSky #PhDposition jobs.uni-bielefeld.de/job/view/388...
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Research Positions in the Research Training Group
The Center for Mathematical Economics (IMW) at Bielefeld University is offering 10 doctoral positions which are allocated to the Research Training Gro...
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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Just published on APSR First View: "The Free Movement of People and the Success of Far-Right Parties: Evidence from Switzerland’s Border Liberalization" by Ala Alrababah, Andreas Beerli, Dominik Hangartner, and Dalston Ward. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Manuel Foerster @manuelfoerster.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Great thread.
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Manuel Foerster @manuelfoerster.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Gerrit Bauch‘s and my recent work on "Strategic communication of narratives" has been featured by Bielefeld University‘s research_tv: youtu.be/f42GNrIA1fY #EconSky
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Dealing with narratives in uncertain times - research_tv Universität Bielefeld
YouTube video by Bielefeld University
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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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Manuel Foerster @manuelfoerster.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Thanks a lot! Could you add me as well?
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Lukas Mergele @lukasmergele.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
European Economic Association @eeanews.bsky.social just arrived 🇪🇺 #Econsky
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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 07/11/2024
Good folks of #EconSky, you want to have a look at this tool to find people to follow There’s approximately ~40 econ focused starter packs already, and I expect more to come
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Manuel Foerster @manuelfoerster.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
By the way: Gerrit is on the market this year! #EconJobMarket gbauch.github.io
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Gerrit Bauch
A simple, whitespace theme for academics. Based on [*folio](https://github.com/bogoli/-folio) design.
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Manuel Foerster @manuelfoerster.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
Very happy to share my NEW WP "Strategic communication of narratives", joint w/ my colleague Gerrit Bauch. We conceptualize the communication of narratives as a novel cheap-talk game under model uncertainty: doi.org/10.48550/arX... #EconSky #formaltheory
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Strategic communication of narratives
We conceptualize the communication of narratives as a cheap-talk game under model uncertainty. The sender has private information about the true data generating process of publicly observable data. Th...
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
Nature: "Trump repeatedly ignored research-informed knowledge...undermined national and global science and public-health agencies...denied climate science, lied about the federal response to hurricane forecasts...pulled the US out of the WHO in a pandemic" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The world needs a US president who respects evidence
As Kamala Harris and Donald Trump face off, the fate of US democracy, science and evidence-based policy hangs in the balance.
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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 27/10/2024
Signed it out of solidarity with our Dutch colleagues!
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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 24/10/2024
Did you know? "Homo œconomicus", i.e. the set of axioms at the core of economic theory, does **not** model an egoistic human being It’s not only feasible, but actually easy and straightforward, to model prosocial and altruistic behaviors in this framework #EconSky
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Lionel Page @lionelpage.bsky.social · 14/10/2024
Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson have transformed economics by integrating institutions, their dynamics, and their effects on economic activities into the corpus of the discipline. This recognition was expected and reflects the significance of their work.
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Manuel Foerster @manuelfoerster.bsky.social · 12/04/2024
We are hiring: Postdoctoral Position for three years at Bielefeld University within DFG-funded project “Biform Bargaining Games with Incomplete Information”. Please spread the word! #EconSky #Postdoc uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/331...
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Verein für Socialpolitik e.V. @vfsecon.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
📢 Call for Papers! Today starts the Call for Papers for the VfS Annual Meeting 2024 at TU Berlin. ✏️Submit your paper by March 1 here: express.converia.de/frontend/ind... 💡For more info on the conference, click here: socialpolitik.de/en/termin/an... We're looking forward to seeing you in Berlin!
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
Two new research summaries. #1 What if we use value-laden words like 'hero' or 'bigot' more often? #2 What do Democrats and Republicans think about each other's factual knowldge? Be a hero and find out. 👇 researchingmisunderstandings.substack.com/p/scholarly-...
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Manuel Foerster @manuelfoerster.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Hot off the press: Strategic transmission of imperfect information: why revealing evidence (without proof) is difficult doi.org/10.1007/s001... The Paper shows that soft evidence is more prone to manipulation than one might think and provides a rationale for simple grade ratings.
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