What I thought was a joke is real: you can now bet on German train delays. bahn.bet
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What I thought was a joke is real: you can now bet on German train delays. bahn.bet
FAZ and the council are traditionally the home of German ordoliberal orthodoxy. So far, so expected on c).
But that she is from the US and offers an international perspective was *the point*, and is still needed. Germany's economic weakness in part comes from its insular economic debates.
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This long-term thread will collect stories about Germany's absurd, over-lawyered and court-heavy bureaucracy following my Free Exchange column this week. www.economist.com/finance-and-...
New WP: “University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization”
Debates on international students often focus on capacity constraints, funding, or competition.
In the paper, I show that the main effects of internationalization on natives are not academic or economic, but social.
Our department co-hosted the Dutch Development Economics (DuDE) PhD Workshop at the Tinbergen Institute on Friday, 31st October 2025.
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A few facts I wish more Dutch voters knew:
Can public attention shape justice?
In a forthcoming paper in the American Economic Review: Insights, our colleague @nadineketel.bsky.social (together with Olivier Marie and Kyra Hanemaaijer) explores how sudden surges in media attention, “salience shocks”, influence judicial decision-making.
"De Brexit is enorm meegevallen in economische zin!”
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One of my favorite traditions is now underway: for the 15th straight year, the Development Impact blog launches a call for PhD students in development economics to blog their job market paper - submissions due 8pm EST on Wednesday November 5: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
Why don't firms publish pay in their job adverts?
We present the first experimental evidence on how (not) posting wages changes the applicant pool, and whether that gives firms a reason to hide wage info.
Great short thread by my co-author Lukas + link to the full paper👇
The return of the Puma Speedcat really shocked me...
🚨🚨New WP Alert (tinyurl.com/4sesthst)%F0...
@marcjosefwitte.bsky.social , @balgovamaria.bsky.social , Tsegay Tekleselassie, and I have a new working paper using a field experiment to study the causal impact of pay information in job adverts on application numbers and applicant skills. A🧵
@basvdklaauw.bsky.social -- is this something @economics-vu.bsky.social might consider?
Wouldn't even call them side alleys anymore, it's so blatantly obvious when looking at it from a certain distance
A) Hormuz?
D) Panama canal?
C) looks like Gibraltar
Ah, sorry: as a German it takes me 3-4 business days to process jokes, and certainly not on the weekend
But the article says that these buildings do have air conditioning:
"[...] they rely on energy-intensive air conditioning and heating systems to maintain a liveable internal temperature. [...] 'it is very quickly dramatic' if for any reason the air conditioning switches off".
@ingoisphording.bsky.social this last one goes out to you explicitly
Climate models since the 1970s nailed it—most predicted global warming almost exactly as it happened.
@askitas.bsky.social
on.ft.com/4nWM7Sy „Britain and Europe need to get serious about air conditioning“
This is surprising to hear -- I wonder if it varies so much on a local level? Here in Rotterdam, everything is communicated very clearly, well in advance, and documented both digitally and on paper. And it works very well in English (I don't speak Dutch either)
For vaccination to be effective, over 90% of kids need to be vaccinated (so diseases can’t spread). The Netherlands doesn’t hit this level for *any* childhood vaccine - and uptake is falling year on year.
In my experience the program is laughably bad. Next government should fix it!
nos.nl/l/2571726
Perfect set-up for a big house-cooling party?