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SSRN @ssrn.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Strategic Bot Activity in Financial #SocialMedia This paper examines whether automated social media accounts ("bots") target stocks strategically or randomly. Authors: Mahnaz Paydarzarnaghi, David A. Rakowski Read More: spkl.io/63324As1g4 @rakowskidr.bsky.social

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 05/01/2024

NEW: analysis of millions of books published over the centuries suggests western society is shifting away from a culture of progress, and towards one of caution, worry and risk-aversion. I think this is one of the most important challenges facing us today.

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

#EconSky Andrew Chen: @achenfinance #ASSA2024 / #AFA2024, I'll be talking about the most shocking research that I've worked on. It makes me wonder if everything I've been taught about asset prices is wrong. Theis Jensen (discussant) +@SBryzgalova. arxiv.org/abs/2212.10317

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

#EconSky @nberpubs Using new data on flows across many asset classes to study the rebalancing behavior of US households, including high-net-worth individuals, in response to market fluctuations, from @xgabaix, @rkoijen , Federico Mainardi, @plausiblyexog , and @motoyogo nber.org/papers/w32001

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Ash Khayami @ashkhayami4.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

“A key difference, Pacheco says, is between Border Patrol agents who roam the desert, and customs officers, or CBPOs, who work the official crossings. A corrupt customs officer takes less risk yet has the opportunity to make more money.” t.co/THsM3q80U5

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How Cartels Infiltrate The Border Patrol

Rotten cops aren't only south of the Rio Grande. Cartels use cash, sex and blackmail to recruit "narco migra."

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

#EconSky Paolo Crosetto @PaoloCrosetto Economists applying lexicographic order to journals, yet again 🤔

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

#EconSky Romain Espinosa @EspinosaRomain I'm not sure economists are familiar with this APSR paper. The authors test whether the experimenter demand effects (EDEs) are large by blankly telling participants the hypothesis they aim to test. They don't find evidence for EDEs. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Romesh Vaitilingam @econromesh #EconSky Where Christianity arrived late to Germany, the Church never developed deep roots; in this spiritual vacuum, the Nazi message as a quasi-religious cult could flourish; indicators of ‘shallow Christianity’ are strong predictors of local Nazi support, @voxeu

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Sanctifying evil: The Nazi Party as a political religion

Hitler’s ascent to power constitutes an enduring puzzle: a transition from democracy to autocracy underpinned by popular support. This column attributes the Nazi Party’s success to its status as a...

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 02/01/2024

So the answer is: it’s the share of immigrants within the population Next week, I’ll publish a popularization article about an econ paper that investigates a possible fix for this informational discrepancy Don’t miss it by subscribing to my newsletter: skepticalecon.wordpress.com

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The Skeptical Economist - By Olivier Simard-Casanova

Economics explained, one scientific paper at a time

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 03/01/2024

Thanks to your feedback (as well as on Threads, Mastodon and The Bad Place), I will probably settle on the following theme, minus some minor adjustments The light theme won mostly because I want to keep this pink color, and the dark theme doesn’t have enough contrast

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

#EconSKy Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm The cover of @jpmorgan ’s 2024 outlook written by Michael Cembalest. #economy #markets

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

#EconSky: Still expecting rate cuts? Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm This morning's JOLTS data, job vacancies fell from 8.85 million in Oct to 8.79 million in Nov. Lowest level in more than two years and below the consensus of 8.82%. Ratio of openings to unemployed unchanged at 1.4. bls.gov/jlt/

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

#EconSky NBER @nberpubs The random assignment of female-sounding names to online sales agents in sub-Saharan Africa led to 50 percent fewer purchases by customers, from Erin M. Kelley, Gregory V. Lane, Matthew Pecenco, and @edrubin nber.org/papers/w31998

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

#EconSky Andrew Chen @achenfinance Why do finance professors get paid more? Clerier, Vallee, and Vasilenko provide some fascinating charts. aeaweb.org/conference/2...

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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

the dynasties and periods of China as Simpsons Quotes

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

#EconSky Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social Senator, you asked for a chart illustrating the present scale of immigration. twitter.com/JDVance1/statu…

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

#EconSKy Albert J. Menkveld @albertjmenkveld blog post on Reproducible Science. Is posting your code and your data enough to ensure that your results can be reproduced? Please find the post here: albertjmenkveld.com/blog/2023-06...

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

#EconSky @JournalFQA Gao, He, and Wu find that firms engage in CSR/ESG activities to signal their financial strength when they are under non-fundamental-driven negative price pressure. jfqa.org/2022/08/01/s...

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Standing Out from the Crowd via CSR Engagement: Evidence from Non-Fundamental-Driven Price Pressure ...

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

#EconSky Ryan Israelsen @israelsen.bsky.social Ultra transparent gas prices. How often did they have to repaint the sign? Quote John Lounsbury @jlounsbury59 Explaining the high cost of gasoline in 1955

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

Organizing my reading for the new year: #EconSky @nberpubs The fall in the debt/GDP ratio over 1946–74 is explained primarily by budget surpluses and distortions in interest rates from Fed policy and inflation, not by economic growth, from @AcalinJulien and Laurence M. Ball nber.org/papers/w31577

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

#EconSky @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social We look forward to receiving your submissions to the 3rd #WEFIDEV @cepr_org workshop in #Finance and #Development. Super excited for the Milan "chapter" of our in-person gathering! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

#EconSky Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600 We need much smaller parcels of land to produce the same amount of food. Progress! Source: buff.ly/3RoP0Mu

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

#EconSky @ssrn.bsky.social This paper examines the relationship between #carbonemissions & future #stock returns in Hong Kong and Singapore #stockmarkets. Read More: spkl.io/60114s2sN Subscribe for Free: spkl.io/60124s2s4 @SPGlobal #FinanceTwitter #ESG

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

#EconSky Martin Schmalz reposted Helaine Olen @helaineolen.bsky.social Um, I am as big a fan of indexing and pensions as they come, but there is definitely something to Sanders’ critique. There’s lots of scholarship on it. If you want to critique it do so, but don’t just assume it doesn’t exist.

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

#EconSKy NBER @nberpubs West African villages that were more exposed to forced labor historically have lower desired and realized fertility today, from @DupasPascaline , Camille Falezan, Marie Christelle Mabeu, and Pauline Rossi nber.org/papers/w31993

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

#EconSky Kyla Scanlon reposted Mike L @AdvisorMikeL Forever Stamps have outperformed the US bond market since inception

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

#EconSky CEPR @cepr_org #2023inReview - CEPR Discussion Paper - DP18245 'Tordesillas, Slavery and the Origins of Brazilian Inequality' Humberto Laudares @humlaudares (@unige_en, @gvagradlibrary.bsky.social ), Felipe Valencia Caicedo @felipev84 (@ubcVSE @UBC) ow.ly/7NQw50P38EV

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

IMF @IMFNews Fossil-fuel subsidies surged to a record $7 trillion last year. Amid world temperatures also rising to unprecedented levels, subsidies should be scaled back to help slow climate change. bit.ly/3P9oeYr

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

#EconSky Pendulum Flow @PendulumFlow RIP High Energy German Industrial Production

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

#EconSky Piroska Nagy Mohacsi @NagyMohacsi Very well said - and w intellectual honesty @GautiEggertsson To insist that inflation has been “temporary” for 3 years of which 2 years with steep monetary tightening makes zero sense. Gauti Eggertsson @GautiEggertsson

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

#EconSky International Energy Agency @IEA For the first time, peaks in global demand for coal, oil & natural gas are all visible this decade, based on today’s policy settings Fossil fuels' share of global energy supply – stuck for decades around 80% – is set to decline to 73% by 2030 iea.li/3v1mOHR

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

#EconSky Brent Toderian @BrentToderian This ranks ways we get around cities, using average carbon emissions by transport type in grams per pkm. It breaks emissions down by operation, manufacture etc. Feet & bikes win. Lots of ways beat electric cars, & everything beats gas cars. HT @copenhenken

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

#EconSky Rob @ekomoderna Nuclear was the largest source of electricity in Europe in 2023. nuclear - 649 TWh wind - 545 hydro - 505 fossil gas (natural gas) - 451 coal - 346 solar - 210 bioenergy - 89

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

#EconSky Theo Nash @theo_nash Great questions in Ancient History: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

#EconsSky Alexander Berger @albrgr doi.org/10.1162/rest...

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

#EconSky Joris van Dorp @EnergyJvd Europe still requires enormous amounts of all of the basic chemicals and materials that these European industries used to make. But thanks to antinuclear "green" energy and climate policies, Europeans will be importing now, at great cost to our economy and society.

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

#EconSky Informal Economy @EconomyInformal Change in Child Income Poverty Rates (%) Poland: -38 Slovenia: -31 Latvia: -31 Lithuania: -31 Korea: -29 Estonia: -23 Canada: -23 Romania: -22 Portugal: -22 Croatia: -22 Japan: -19 Ireland: -19 Malta: -18 Greece: -17 Belgium: -17 Czechia: -14 New… Show more

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

#EconSky Volkan Özçelik @linkibol » We use tautologic clocks in our distributed systems. « You mean “monotonic”, right? » No, tautologic.

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

#EconSky Matthias Collischon @mcollischon.bsky.social I found this chart by the @FT super interesting

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Ethan Mollick @emollick #EconSky The issue with considering the environmental impacts of AI is the point of comparison: AI completions emit much more carbon than a Google search: sloanreview.mit.edu/article/tack... But they emit much less carbon than a human doing a similar task on a computer

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David Rakowski @rakowskidr.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Levi @levikul09 R² is a widely used measure of fit, but for many analysts, it is just a number. They believe high R² Good predictions. This is not always true! Now I will clarify. #EconSky

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