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Dept of #Economics at the @unisouthampton.bsky.social | Part of ESPS | 93% research world‑leading/int’l excellent ( #REF 2021) | Research‑led teaching & policy impact

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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
New in #IREE : Jana Sadeh and co-authors explore economics students' academic mindsets across 8 countries and show the benefits of active learning. Supported by the #EENE. 🔗 tinyurl.com/9xssd22z #econtwitter #EENE #IREE #EconomicsEducation #ActiveLearning
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🎉 New Publication Alert T. Gall, E Lotti, and P. Giannarakis have published "Academic Performance, Background and Pre-existing Quantitative Skills of Economics Starters: Mind the Gap!" in #IREE. Read more: tinyurl.com/z38dmvr3 #econtwitter #EconomicsEducation #Research
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🎓 “What advice would you give your younger self?” Jana Sadeh put this question to our graduating students on #graduation day. Their answers capture some of the key lessons from their time at university. Congratulations to our graduates! #ClassOf2026 Video : tinyurl.com/3spyp78a
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
📱 Same behaviour. Different context. Different judgment? New #WP by aforesta.bsky.social , V. Tonei and M Vecchi finds that #SexualHarassment is perceived as less serious #online than #inperson, even when the behaviour is identical. 📄 tinyurl.com/5fpt2ynf #econtwitter #econsky
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We're delighted to share our latest #NSS results for Economics #Uos. Students highlighted the strength of our teaching, academic support and learning environment. Thank you to everyone who took part and helped us improve the student experience. 🔗 tinyurl.com/pb4a4dv7 #econtwitter #econsky
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National Student Survey data: provider-level dashboard - Office for Students
This page contains the latest provider-level data from the National Student Survey (NSS).
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Great work from our colleague Tobias Werner! Delighted to see this research on #LLM pollution in online behavioural experiments published in Nature Communications. A timely contribution to understanding #AI's impact on research. Article: tinyurl.com/435xyj4k #econtwitter #econsky
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Recognising and mitigating LLM Pollution in online behavioural research - Nature Communications
Online behavioural research faces a growing methodological and epistemic threat as participants increasingly rely on large language models: LLM Pollution. Amid accumulating empirical evidence of contamination, we introduce a conceptual framework that distinguishes three variants — Partial LLM Mediation, Full LLM Delegation, and LLM Spillover. Their interaction distorts samples, biases inferences, and fuels an escalating methodological arms race. We outline mitigation strategies spanning researcher practices, platform accountability, and community adaptation.
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Understanding Society @usociety.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
New blog: Derrick Xu at @unisouthampton.bsky.social @sotonecon.bsky.social used our data to look at the highly local effects of extreme weather on people’s pro-environmental behaviour
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Only in my backyard - Understanding Society
People two percentage points more likely to donate to environmental charities after flood in their postcode The very local effects of flooding on environmental behaviour
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
🎉Our PhD candidate Rupali Vashisht has received the University of Southampton Doctoral College Director’s Award for Public Engagement & Outreach and Knowledge Exchange (FSS). A well-deserved recognition of her impactful work beyond academia. 👏 #ResearchImpact #econsky #econtwitter
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Great #Seminar this week! @aggraziano.bsky.social (Nottigham) presented “Trade Policy Meets Digital Technologies: How #Digitalisation of #Trade Procedures Affects Firms’ Exports.”Evidence from #CostaRica highlights strong gains in exports, notably for small & rural firms. #econtwitter #econsky
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Great discussion at our internal #seminar this week! Derrick presented “Do Crises Increase #Parochial Behaviour?”, showing that #COVIDー19 led to a shift toward local giving, especially in highly affected areas, highlighting how crises strengthen in-group preferences. #econtwitter #econsky
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
📢 Reminder: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship – Expressions of Interest open 2-year funded #postdoc in Economics @UniofSouthampton Fields: #micro #macro #development #IO #applied #econometrics (not limited) 🗓 Apply by 15 June 2026 📄 tinyurl.com/fyxscrxu #MSCA #econtwitter
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
📢 New @voxdev.bsky.social article on conflict & food supply chains Based on forthcoming #AER research (“Spatial Spillovers of #Conflict in #Somalia”), co-authored by Marco Alfano. Conflict shocks travel beyond war zones via supply chains, raising prices in distant markets. #econsky #FoodSecurity
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How conflict shocks travel along food supply chains
Conflict disrupting transport routes in Somalia raises food prices and worsens household welfare in distant, peaceful markets, showing that the economic costs of violence travel far beyond the front l...
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
📢 Call for Expressions of Interest – #MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2-year funded #postdoc. Topics include #micro, #macro, #development, #IO, ##applied and econometrics (not limited to these). 📷 Apply by 15 June 2026 through this form: tinyurl.com/fyxscrxu #econtwitter #econsky
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Yesterday, we hosted @gspyros.bsky.social ( @durham.ac.uk ) on "Information Aggregation with AI Agents". Can #AI learn from markets like humans do? Fascinating insights on limits and potential. #econtwitter #seminar #economics #econsky
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Today we hosted David Gill ( #Purdue ) for a talk on "Dynamic Investment in Teamwork Skill: Theory and Experimental Evidence", joint with Prowse & Reddinger. Insightful take on how incentives and team design shape #collaboration. #econtwitter #BehavioralEconomics #Teamwork
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The 5th edition of ASPEC — the Annual Southern PhD Economics Conference — was a huge success! 🎓 PhD students from across the region gathered in Southampton for a day of brilliant research, lively debate, and genuine intellectual energy. 🧵 Programme here: tinyurl.com/yc2xhycu
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Today we hosted Prof. Paula Onuchic (LSE) on "Separating the Wheat from the Chaff" (w/ Hörner, TSE). How do we tell experts from quacks when both compete for our trust? Theory can have surprising results! #Economics #GameTheory #InformationEconomics
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Today we hosted @florianederer.bsky.social (Boston University) for a #seminar on "Disclosure and the Pace of Drug Development", joint with Cunningham, Hodgson & Wang. More transparency, faster innovation? Think again: policy design can have surprising results! #econtwitter #Pharmaceuticals
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Today we welcomed @johannarickne.bsky.social (@stockholm-uni.bsky.social) on Stories about Sexual Harassment: Information Rejection and Recall - why people fail to recognise it as wrongful and implications for prevention. Thanks to @gain-centre.bsky.social for supporting this event. #GenderEconomics
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Should employers ban smartphones at work? Adrian Chadi’s research (with Mechtel & Mertins) has been featured in the @financialtimes.com , #MSN & #CanadianHRReporter . A simple, non‑enforced request to put phones away can boost effort by ~10%—with no loss of trust. #econtwitter #econsky Thread 👇
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
🚨 Econ Job Market Spotlight: Amruta Bagwe 📷 PhD ’26 | JMP: From Gaps to Gains: Empowering Indian Youth Workforce with Skill Development #econjobmarket #EconTwitter #JobMarket2026 #Development #Labour #India 📷 Website: tinyurl.com/yu8bwek7
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Today, we were pleased to host Herve Moulin ( @uofgsocsci.bsky.social ) for our #Department #Seminar, who presented joint work titled “Compromises in Collective Choice: the Veto Solution”, enhancing the theory of collective choice. #econsky #EconomicTheory #GameTheory #CollectiveChoice
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Happy to have our colleagues @mvlass.bsky.social and @corradogiulietti.bsky.social presenting their paper, “Ethnic Enclaves and the Dynamic Returns to Schooling,” in our internal #seminar series today, examining how #ethnicity and #networks shape returns to #education. #econtwitter #Migration
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Today, we were delighted to host @paulaaureo.bsky.social ( @ucl.ac.uk ). He presented joint work called “Production Function Estimation Using Subjective Expectations Data”. The talk presented a new method for estimating production functions with fewer assumptions. #Econometrics #econsky
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Today, our #PhD #student, Yan Yin, presented “Parental Leave and Intrahousehold Bargaining”. The talk examined how #parental leave policies—focusing on reforms in #Germany — affect bargaining power within households. #econtwitter #FamilyEconomics #ParentalLeave #PhDResearch
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Last week, we hosted a #EconomicTheory #Seminar, organised by @maxkwiek.bsky.social . Alexander Teytelboym ( University of #Oxford ) presented the joint work “Efficiency and Collusion‑Proofness in Dynamic Mechanism Design”. Thank you to the speaker and colleagues who attended. #econtwitter #econsky
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Great to host Pamela Giustinelli from Università di Padova for our #DepartmentSeminar. She presented “Getting In and Getting Through: Ex Ante Beliefs and Counterfactual Outcomes in Centralised College Admissions” (with E. Leuven). Thanks to all who joined! #econtwitter #Beliefs #Norway #econsky
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
How does conflict spill across space and markets? New #AER work by our colleague Marco Alfano and Cornelissen (@universityofessex.bsky.social) shows #violence along transport routes in #Somalia raises food prices far away, harming welfare. Securing routes matters! #ConflictEconomics #econsky
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Spatial Spillovers of Conflict in Somalia
(Forthcoming Article) - Conflict along transportation routes during Somalia’s al-Shabaab insurgency significantly increases maize prices at distant locations, decreasing food security, health, and edu...
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Can a documentary change interethnic relations? New @qjeharvard.bsky.social evidence from @absidd.bsky.social (Royal Holloway University), @mvlass.bsky.social (@sotonecon.bsky.social), and @yveszenou.bsky.social (@monashuniversity.bsky.social) suggests yes—especially through #socialnetworks.#econsky
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Leveraging Virtual Contact and Social Networks to Foster Interethnic Harmony*
Abstract. This article investigates whether virtual contact, initiated through a documentary film, can promote interethnic harmony. We carried out a cluste
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
👏 Great seminar this past Wednesday by Paola Manzini ( @bristoluni.bsky.social ) on "Self‑Confirming Opportunity Costs", joint with Mariotti ( @qmul.bsky.social ) and Ülkü (ITAM), offering novel perspectives on choice behaviour beyond standard frameworks. #econtwitter #EconomicTheory #Choice
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UoS Engagement @uosengagement.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
@cpc-cg.bsky.social @publicpolicyuos.bsky.social @sotonpolitics.bsky.social @sspcatsoton.bsky.social @sotonecon.bsky.social @corradogiulietti.bsky.social @uoseducation.bsky.social @uoseducation.bsky.social @uoschep.bsky.social
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
We were delighted to host a seminar by Vipra Jain from our #IndiaCampus last Friday. Her paper “Salience of ‘us versus them’ in coloured jerseys: ODI #cricket as a natural experiment” sparked a lively discussion. Many thanks for a great talk. #Economics #ResearchSeminar
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
🚨New Paper 🚨 Proud that @monicabeeder.bsky.social contributed to a major reproducibility project in economics & political science, now published in Nature. A key step toward more robust, trustworthy social science. #Reproducibility #EconTwitter #PoliSci #Econsky Link: tinyurl.com/3b9x344u
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
🎓 Great internal seminar this week with our colleague Adrian Chadi, who presented “ #Television and the #LaborMarket: Evidence from Natural Experiments in West and East #Germany.” Insightful discussion on media exposure and labour outcomes. #econtwitter #LaborMarket #applied #econsky
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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
For further reading, please see the @rfberlin.bsky.social Discussion Paper 'Host country language and school integration of immigrant students' by Yu Qin, @mvlass.bsky.social and Jackie Wahba @sotonecon.bsky.social: www.rfberlin.com/network-pape... @eapsmigranthealth.bsky.social
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Host Country Language and School Integration of Immigrant Students
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Great seminar yesterday by Roger Farmer ( @warwickecon.bsky.social & UCLA) on “Overlapping Generations with Complete Markets”. Fascinating insights on incorporating realistic demographic structure into macroeconomic policy analysis in #OLG models. #econtwitter #macro #ResearchSeminar #econsky
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
📢 Great seminar today! Our #PhD student Libo Chen presented his #JMP, “Artificial Intelligence and Worker Reallocation: Evidence from Linked Patent and Microdata in the US.” A sharp look at how #AI shapes labour demand and worker mobility. #LaborEconomics #econtwitter #EJM
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Great presentation yesterday by our colleague Foivos Savva on “Mutual Support and the Implementation of Collective Decisions”, joint with M. Lombardi ( @liverpooluni.bsky.social ). Fascinating insights into the role of #BergeEquilibrium in #CollectiveDecisionMaking. #econtwitter #econsky #economics
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Monica Beeder @monicabeeder.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Excited to be co‑teaching the C‑BEAR Interdisciplinary Summer School at the University of Southampton!A great opportunity for researchers who want a practical introduction to experimentation in the social sciences — no prior experience required. 📅 29 June–3 July 🔗 www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/sho...
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Training course: C-BEAR SUMMER SCHOOL: Introduction to Experiments in Social Science
This five-day summer school introduces experimental methods in the Social Sciences, covering lab, field, and survey experiments. Participants will gain a solid foundation in experimental methodology
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
📢 Great seminar today! We were delighted to welcome back Christos Ioannou ( @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social ) for his talk “Non‑Parametric Strategy Inference in Repeated Games,” co‑authored with L. Mathevet, J. Romero, and H. Zhang. #GameTheory #econtwitter #ExperimentalEconomics
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
📢 Great seminar today! Our colleague João Ferreira presented “When Does Mediation Work? Evidence from the Lab”—a sharp experimental investigation into the impact and effectiveness of third‑party mediation. #ExperimentalEconomics #ConflictResolution #EconResearch #econtwitter
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
📢We were delighted to host today @aledinola.bsky.social ( @unibirmingham.bsky.social ), presenting “Wealth Tax, Entrepreneurship and the Legal Form of Business Organisation”. A fascinating talk on tax policy and the entrepreneurial landscape. #econsky #Entrepreneurship #TaxPolicy #Macroeconomics
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
📢 Great seminar today! Our colleague David Kreitmeir presented “The Political Economy of Socioenvironmental Conflict: Evidence from #Peru”. Insightful discussion on resources, protest, and accountability. #PoliticalEconomy #EnvironmentalEconomics #ConflictStudies #econtwitter #econsky
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
📢 Great seminar this week by Xavier Mateos‑Planas ( @qmul.bsky.social ) on “Trade Credit Default.”A very insightful talk on how trade‑credit defaults shape macroeconomic shocks. Plenty of thought‑provoking ideas! #Research #AcademicTalks #econtwitter #FinancialFriction #TradeCredit
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
📢 Great seminar this week by our Jiekai Zhang on "Optimal Retail Pharmaceutical Pricing Policy", joint with Markku Siikanen and Mikko Vanhala. Insightful look at how pharmacy incentives affect pricing and patient costs in #Finland. #econtwitter #econsky #HealthEconomics #PharmaceuticalMarkets
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
📢Great seminar last Thursday with Santiago Oliveros ( @bristoluni.bsky.social ) on "Active Product Development".The work examines how an intrinsically motivated developer improves a product and decides when to launch, balancing progress, setbacks, and timing. #EconTwitter #EconomicTheory #EconSky
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Great seminar yesterday with @astridkunze.bsky.social ( @nhhnor.bsky.social ) on "Boss Effects in the Labor Market" with N. Agikyan & @gathmannch.bsky.social Key insights: 💼 Able bosses raise wages 🚀 Boost promotions — but also turnover 🎓 Strongest effects in high‑skill roles #EconTwitter #EconSky
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
New piece by our @monicabeeder.bsky.social in @uk.theconversation.com. How safety concerns shape working women’s everyday choices in Ethiopia, including why some adapt how they present their ethnic identity when entering employment. Link: tinyurl.com/37aedb2p #Ethiopia #Gender #Work #econsky
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Ethiopian women and safety: why some switch their ethnic identity when they start working
Ethnicity can be consciously adjusted in response to the risks women face in public spaces.
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Thanks to Prof. Andrew Ellis ( @lsepress.bsky.social ) for a great seminar on “Equilibrium Effects of Machine Learning” (with Michele Piccione and Shengxing Zhang). Clear insights on how ML can shape information aggregation in markets. #Economics #MachineLearning #Research #EconTwitter #Econsky
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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
✨ Econ Job Market Spotlight: Xuefeng Yang (Univ. of Southampton) 📷 PhD ’25 | JMP: Time-varying Probability Weighting in Non-Expected Utility Models and Investor Sentiment Toward Tails. #econjobmarket #EconTwitter #JobMarket2026 #macro #Finance 📷 Website tinyurl.com/xuefengyangjmc
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