FAZ is endorsing the end of Ulrike Malmendier's term in the German council of economic experts because
a) she was too far away (Berkeley)
b) her research is not as relevant anymore
c) behavioural economists tend towards paternalistic solution.
Sigh.
Cover of “The Technocratic International” (OUP) featuring a satellite image of the Suez Canal
My book “The Technocratic International” now has a cover — out this summer!
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Can't wait!
Excellent summary of the large body of work @steffenmurau.bsky.social and colleagues have done on the Offshore (US) Dollar Syatem
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru...
@phenomenalworld.bsky.social
Look here for the bigger body of work:
steffenmurau.com/portfolio/in...
That's right, the finance summer school is coming to Europe! June 4-5 at the LSE – applications are open until March 1.
Even included a reference to the SOMC ✨️
Did Congress forget the Fed controls inflation, or was forgetting the point?
My paper in New Political Economy shows Congress engaged in strategic repoliticisation, where political conflict serves electoral interests and preserves the Fed's technocratic autonomy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Spread the word.
Œconomia launches a new type of publication: Data & Quantitative Methods in the History/Philosophy of Economics
The goal: give space to reflections often sidelined in traditional articles where transparency & discussion of methods get cut for “results.”
journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...
The SNB is levelling up its visitor centre. Probably no rival to Citéco Paris but it does look very nice!
www.moneyverse.ch
Day three at new job in Frankfurt @mpilhlt.bsky.social. Nice to be finally on the ground and able to attend the myriad of CB-related events on offer. First up: IMFS/Frankfurt School of Finance book presentation.
Ever asked yourself how to detect and extract social groups from texts with computational social science? @haukelicht.bsky.social and me have a solution for you out at @bjpols.bsky.social. You can also find the pre-trained models on huggingface!
In Frankfurt today to attend the ECB Legal Conference. Over the past years, I've spent a lot of time with economists working on the ECB/monetary policy. Curious to see these topics discussed from a legal perspective.
www.ecb.europa.eu/press/confer...
Looking forward to this discussion on Wednesday!
I reported this week's Money Talks podcast from the mountain, lake and lodge at Jackson Hole. Featuring Kristin Forbes, @jonsteinsson.bsky.social , Barry Eichengreen and - at 10,000ft - @laura-veldkamp.bsky.social
Listen to my Jackson Hole audio diary:
www.economist.com/podcasts/202...
Very pleased to announce the full programme for this year's Finance and Society conference, which will take place on 11-12 September at Copenhagen Business School. Registration now open to the public. Come join us!
@finandsoc.bsky.social financeandsocietynetwork.org/prog-finands...
Things that are totally normal in Cologne: 4,000 fans of 1. FC Köln attending a special mess in the cathedral at the start of the season.
Organ plays the club‘s hymn (the Scottish folk song Loch Lomond, with a German text) priest sings along (from 1h19m).
Masterarbeitsthema gesucht? Wir suchen eine:n Masterstudent:in, um die #Elastizitäten von Bundesausgaben zu analysieren. Wenn du dich für #Makroökonomie begeisterst und mit deiner Forschung Impact erzielen willst, bewirb dich jetzt! dezernat-zukunft.jobs.personio.de/job/2282660?...
Foto of the graduates with their certificates. Maximilian Kiecker, Tobias Arbogast, Marco Oberti, Muhammad Osama Iqbal, Jeremiah Nollenberger, Anna Hehenberger, Stephan Gruber, Hanna Doose, Camilla Locatelli, Valentin Rottensteiner, Ceren Çevik and Zarah Westrich
🎓 Yesterday, at the graduation ceremony of the International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE), we had the great pleasure of honoring @tobiasarbogast.bsky.social, @cerencevik.bsky.social, @hadoose.bsky.social, ...
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My new book on 'The Power of Rankings in Economics and Research Organizations.
Contributions to the Social Studies of Economics' with Stephan Pühringer and Jens Maesse is out!! You can dowload the whole book in open access below:
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
Off for some holidays, catch you on the other side for more of this ⬇️
Cool new @dezernatzukunft.bsky.social project. Dashboard for supply side inflationary pressures. ⬇️
dezernatzukunft.org/supply-side-...
🚨Job-Alert: Wir suchen eine:n #PolicyAnalyst / #Economist (w/m/d) für nachhaltige Finanzmärkte.
Du kennst dich mit Klimapolitik aus und möchtest handfeste Vorschläge entwickeln?
Dann komm in unser Team! dezernat-zukunft.jobs.personio.de/job/2151256?...
#Job #Hiring #Klima #Finanzen #ThinkTank
I had the pleasure of co-hosting our Money Talks podcast on the German economy, Merz and the fiscal bazooka, feat. @monika-schnitzer.com and @philippasigl.bsky.social. www.economist.com/podcasts/202...
A wonderful memory of Stan Fischer being warmly greeted by his disciple and friend Mario Draghi at the @ecb.europa.eu Central Banking Forum in Sintra. Central-bank watcher watching at the back
Well done!!😊
Article: Redefining scientization: Central banks between science and politics This article introduces a new conceptual framework for examining the transformation of central banks’ activities at the intersection of science and politics. It builds on the results of the contributions gathered in this special section on the scientization of central banking, to which this article also provides an introduction. We start with an analysis of Martin Marcussen’s concept of ‘scientization’, originally formulated to describe the changes within central banks since the 2000s. After highlighting how Marcussen’s concept has raised different interpretations, we broaden our scope to examine how ‘scientization’ is applied in the wider social sciences, extending beyond the study of central banks. This brings to the fore two ideas: scientization as ‘boundary work’ (redrawing the line between ‘science’ and ‘non-science’) happening both in the public-facing (‘frontstage’) and internal (‘backstage’) activities of organizations. Finally, we suggest how these two ideas can be used to reinterpret ‘scientization’ of central banks as the emergence of central banks as ‘boundary organizations’. This reframing allows us to untangle and clarify the phenomena previously conflated under the original concept of scientization, offering a more coherent framework for ongoing research on central banks.
🎉 All the contributions to @finandsoc.bsky.social special section on the “Scientization of Central Banks” are now online!
👉 shorturl.at/Izq9r
In the intro with Francesco Sergi, we refine the concept of scientization along 3 key dimensions
🔹 Policymaking
🔹 Contributory
🔹 Legitimizing
For my first Bluesky publication, I am happy to share that my first single authored article is out in Comparative European Politics and open access! The article aims to explain the concept of moral hazard's domination of the EU's policy response to the Great Recession
rdcu.be/embpS
Interesting read.
