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Sebastian Wehrle

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Economics, Energy, Environment „be original or die“

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Johannes Schmidt @joaoestrangeiro.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Interessiert, wie sich die österreichischen Emissionen im aktuellen Jahr entwickeln? Oder die Neuanmeldungen von Elektroautos? Wieviel Strom wir verbrauchen oder wieviel PV Strom gerade wert ist? Wir launchen dashboards.boku.ac.at Klickt einmal rein! 1/2
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Nick Huntington-Klein @nickchk.com · 20/06/2026
i think there are a lot of people who would find it very hard to believe that the field of economics could produce this paper. and yet! Acemoglu is like the mainstreamest and most successful economist working today. some priors could use an update. www.nber.org/papers/w35336
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Automation and Repression
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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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
1/n Verena Halsmayer giving the Blanqui lecture on the history of the Solow model, based on her wonderful book www.cambridge.org/core/books/m... #eshethes2026 Key insights:
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Climate Change Centre Austria / CCCA @ccca.ac.at · 12/03/2026
Das CCCA hat einen neuen Vorstand gewählt🌍 Am 5. März wurde turnusgemäß ein neuer Vorstand bestellt. Ziel bleibt die Bündelung der Expertise von Universitäten und außeruniversitären Forschungseinrichtungen sowie die stärkere Verschränkung von Klimawandel-, Nachhaltigkeits- & Transformationsthemen.🤝
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Sam Thorpe @samthorpe.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I’m normally on here to talk about policy, and I would love nothing more than to live in a world where that’s useful. But I don’t want to argue about top marginal tax rates while brownshirts murder people on the street. This is fucked and I’m angry and scared and I hope you are too.
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Daniel Huppmann @danielhuppmann.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
This is a thought-provoking article on reverse-centaurs, why the AI show must go on (but won’t), and how strengthening sectoral bargaining (aka labour rights) is a better antidote to the malaise of creators instead of expanded copyright… www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
When you make a job out of your hobby
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Sebastian Wehrle @sebwehrle.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
be original or die
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 26/12/2025
Really outstanding post for both CS and social science folks #linkoftheday doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-empiri...
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The Empiricism Gap in Computer Science
So far, I have argued that there is a dissonance between, on the one hand, CS’s founding myths, curricula, and self-image, and, on the other hand, the modern production of knowledge in computer scienc...
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Sebastian Wehrle @sebwehrle.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
legisvibing www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
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PV-Strom vom Dach bleibt gebührenfrei, Sozialtarif für Arbeitslose: Neues Stromgesetz steht
Grüne machen Weg frei für Reform des Energiemarktes mit den Koalitionsparteien, durch einen Kniff werden Einspeisegebühren gesetzlich fixiert und nicht von der E-Control festgelegt
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Oesterreichische Nationalbank @oenb.at · 04/12/2025
The 2023 Austrian HFCS confirms key structural features: wealth remains concentrated and driven by owner-occupied housing, debt is mainly mortgage-based, and while relative inequality is stable, absolute wealth gaps have widened. 📄 Read the full report: bit.ly/4rCUSTy
The image shows a clipboard with documents related to the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey 2023, along with a pen and a logo for the Austrian National Bank.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @florianederer.bsky.social
"Captain Gains" on Capitol Hill
Shang-Jin Wei & Yifan Zhou
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DOI 10.3386/w34524
ISSUE DATE November 2025
Using transaction-level data on US congressional stock trades, we find that lawmakers who later ascend to leadership positions perform similarly to matched peers beforehand but outperform them by 47 percentage points annually after ascension. Leaders' superior performance arises through two mechanisms. The political influence channel is reflected in higher returns when their party controls the chamber, sales of stocks preceding regulatory actions, and purchase of stocks whose firms receiving more government contracts and favorable party support on bills. The corporate access channel is reflected in stock trades that predict subsequent corporate news and greater returns on donor-owned or home-state firms.令
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Figure 2: Estimated dynamic quasi-difference-in-differences coefficient, di, of equation(3), with vertical dashed lines representing 90 percent confidence intervals. The point estimate of the year in which the lawmaker became a congressional leader (Year 0) is normalized to zero. BHAR over the 250 days following each trade is the dependent variable and calculated using the Fama-French five-factor plus momentum as the benchmark model.
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Richard Tol @richardtol.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
All is not well at Elsevier richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...
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Fraud and cover-up
Fraud and cover-up
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Sebastian Wehrle @sebwehrle.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
In meinem Team @wienenergie.bsky.social gibt’s einen einmaligen Job: Dissertiere an der @bokuvienna.bsky.social bei @joaoestrangeiro.bsky.social zur räumlichen Auflösung von Energiesystemmodellen - mit real world impact & Langfrist-Perspektive Bitte teilen! jobs.wienerstadtwerke.at/de/jobs/2599...
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Mitarbeiter*in Erneuerbare Energiesysteme - Dissertant*in
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Climate Change Centre Austria / CCCA @ccca.ac.at · 17/06/2025
Heute wurde der Klimabericht #AAR2 - der Zweite Österreichische Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel - veröffentlicht! In Kooperation & mit Begleitung des CCCA wurde der Bericht von rund 200 Wissenschaftler:innen erarbeitet. Die Vollversion & die Zusammenfassungen findet ihr hier: aar2.ccca.ac.at
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Zweiter Österreichischer Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel | AAR2
Der AAR2 ist ein umfassender, interdisziplinärer Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel in Österreich.
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Johannes Schmidt @joaoestrangeiro.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
How much hydrogen should Europe produce by 2040? Our analysis suggests that targeting around 25 Mt of hydrogen in 2040 enables a 90% emissions reduction—across a wide range of plausible future scenarios. 1/n
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BirdLife Österreich @birdlife.at · 22/05/2025
Wir haben eine ornithologische Sensibilitätskarte für Windkraftplanungen erstellt. Sie zeigt räumlich, wo #Windkraft-Ausbau mit dem Schutz gefährdeter Vogelarten in Konflikt gerät – um Konflikte bereits in der Planung bestmöglich zu vermeiden. Mehr Infos: www.birdlife.at/artikel/erne...
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Daniel Huppmann @danielhuppmann.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Schon wieder ein Klimabericht - echt jetzt? Wird der Martin Puntigam die Margreth Keiler und mich fragen, als Live-Aufnahme für den #ScienceBusters Podcast... #AAR2 #APCC #WissenSchafftKlimaschutz 🗓️ 18. Juni 2025 | 19 Uhr 📍 VHS Urania, Wien 🎟️ 7 € 🔗 sciencebusters.at/buehnenprogr...
Ankündigung Science Busters Podcast Live-Aufnahme "Schon wieder ein Klimabericht - echt jetzt?", am 18.6.2025 19:00 in der Urania, mit Martin Puntigam, Margreth Keiler und Daniel Huppmann, zum Zweiten Österreichischen Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel (AAR2), APCC 2025
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich
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Malte Kreutzfeldt @mkreutzfeldt.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Der zunehmend verzweifelte Versuch des stellvertretenden Regierungssprechers Sebastian Hille, in der BPK den Frauenmangel in Merz‘ innerem Team zu erklären, ist schon fast mitleiderregend. (Video: Deutsche Welle)
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
This story requires a great deal more attention. The Trump administration is doing everything it can to get Russian gas back into Europe. This is Washington and Moscow now in full strategic alignment via a shared vision of a fossil fuel future.
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Exclusive: US, Russia explore ways to restore Russian gas flows to Europe, sources say
With a frost covering Europe's energy relations with Russia, officials from Washington and Moscow have held discussions about the U.S. helping to revive Russian gas sales to the continent, eight sources familiar with the talks have told Reuters.
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Energy Institute at Haas @ucenergyinstitute.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
"When people put in rooftop solar, it transfers costs onto people who don't have rooftop solar. And, by and large, the people who don't have rooftop solar are poorer..." @severinborenstein.bsky.social @cbsnews.com #rooftopsolar #energygrid #electricityprices #solarincentives tinyurl.com/3p7527t2
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Daniel Huppmann @danielhuppmann.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
In zwei Monaten veröffentlichen wir den Zweiten Österreichischen Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel #AAR2 - eine Übersicht der wissenschaftlichen Literatur zum Klimawandel in Österreich 🇦🇹 und den Folgen sowie Vermeidungspotentiale, Anpassungsmöglichkeiten und Transformationspfaden. aar2.ccca.ac.at/de
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Zweiter Österreichischer Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel | AAR2
Der AAR2 ist ein umfassender, interdisziplinärer Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel in Österreich.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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Johannes Schmidt @joaoestrangeiro.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
"More Wind, Falling Efficiency: The Driving Factors of German Onshore Wind Power Generation". (doi.org/10.1002/we.7...). We find that wind generation in Germany in the last 2 decades has primarily grown due to larger rotors, and due to more turbines. 1/n
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More Wind, Falling Efficiency: The Driving Factors of German Onshore Wind Power Generation
Wind power has become the most important source of electricity generation in Germany, providing more than a quarter of its electricity consumption in 2022. The growth in wind power generation has bee...
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Sebastian Wehrle @sebwehrle.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Nach Jahren der Forschung zu den Vor- und Nachteilen der Windkraft in 🇦🇹 hätte ich einige Gedanken zu den Beiträgen der letzten Zeit. Doch in Zeiten wie diesen verschwinden die großen Linien zu oft hinter Kleinigkeiten. How Hitler dismantled democracy in 53 days www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.
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Sebastian Wehrle @sebwehrle.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy new year!
Fireworks and a weeping birch tree covered in hoarfrost
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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals. julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...
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Changes to the classification
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Daron Acemoglu @dacemoglumit.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
It is true some of this discontent is manufactured by talk shows and right-wing media and social media. But some of it is real.
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Johannes Schmidt @joaoestrangeiro.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
We are excited to announce two open postdoctoral positions in our working group on land, resources, and energy at the Institute of Sustainable Economic Development, BOKU University, Vienna. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/295535 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/295131 1/n
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Postdoctoral Research Associate / Reference Code 282
The Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Institute of Sustainable Economic Development is currently seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate.
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Niko Jaakkola @nikoecon.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
Nice, short piece arguing that stranded assets are about much more than just fossil fuel reserves -- here, for example, commercial property. And if investors hope promised policies will not be carried through, they are taking on a lot of risk.
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Mark Carney warns net zero will mean ‘significant’ stranded property assets
Real estate investors squeezed between falling valuations and pressure to upgrade energy efficiency
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AEA Information @aeainformation.bsky.social · 14/10/2024
Congratulations to Daron Acemoglu of MIT, Simon Johnson of MIT, and James A. Robinson of the University of Chicago on winning the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences! #econsky www.aeaweb.org/news/nobel-p...
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Congratulations to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson on being awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson lauded for their insights into why there are differences in prosperity between nations.
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Steve Cicala @stevecicala.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
"after insisting the gas could not flow, Energy Transfer Partners then sold it at inflated prices to the Brazos Electric Power Cooperative in San Antonio — leaving Brazos with $2.1 billion in costs and driving it into bankruptcy."
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Sebastian Wehrle @sebwehrle.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
While these results on the local social cost of wind turbines are interesting, the underlying framework should also be of interest to energy system modelers and anyone working on assessing renewable potentials. Here‘s what‘s in it for energy modelers (potential assessments in separate thread) 🔌💡
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Sebastian Wehrle @sebwehrle.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
Wind power has considerable benefits for the Austrian electricity systems but also comes with social and environmental cost. Our new paper (doi.org/10.1016/j.en...) quantifies the local social cost that policy makers attributed to wind turbines in Lower Austria's wind power zoning enacted in 2014.
A map showing the estimated local social cost of wind turbines as implied by Lower Austria's wind power zoning from 2014
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Richard Tol @richardtol.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Preferences revealed by wind turbine zoning decisions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #energysky
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Inferring local social cost from renewable zoning decisions. Evidence from Lower Austria’s wind power zoning
Large infrastructures, such as wind turbines, may adversely affect their environment, so their deployment is often regulated. These regulations are fr…
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Daniel Huppmann @danielhuppmann.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
Im ACRP-Projekt #NetZero2040 (geleitet von @joaoestrangeiro.bsky.social) von Boku, ö. Energieagentur und IIASA haben wir quantitative Szenarien entwickelt, wie Österreich bis 2040 Klimaneutralität erreichen kann. Mehr Infos auf www.netzero2040.at.
Szenarien-Matrix der Transformationspfade im Projekt NetZero2040, aufgeteilt auf die Achsen Energiebedarf x Energieimporte. Daraus ergeben sich unterschiedliche Narrative und Abwägungen auf dem Weg zur Klimaneutralität.
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