One chapter of rani_spiegler's upcoming book "The Curious Culture of Economic Theory" is available on his website. I found it equal parts educational, entertaining and disconcerting. In other words, I can't wait for the book to come out. PDF👇 ranspiegler.sites.tau.ac.il/_files/ugd/487…

The CfP for our 10th Workshop is out! We will meet on Sep 2/3 in Linz (Austria) JKU Department of Economics, the local organizer is Matthias Fahn. Submit your papers until April 30th to [email protected]! This year, submissions related to behavioral econ are particularly welcome.

Our annual meeting, on Sep 5-6, 2024, will be hosted by JKU Department of Economics, the local organizer is Matthias Fahn. Before our meeting, on Sep 4-5, the bi-annual "Lectures on the Economics of Organizations and Human Resources", (LEOH) will be given by Namrata Kala (MIT Sloan School of Management).

Super excited to share new work with Gerald Pruckner and Katrin Zocher (zocherin)! The paper is called: “When women take over: Physician gender and health care provision” Let’s go on an adventure: a thread 🧵

There is one week left (until May 15) to sign up for the LEOH summer school with Namrata Kala and the annual meeting of the German speaking OrgEcon committee (September 4-6 JKU Department of Economics): docs.google.com/forms/d/11AfSq… Reach out if you still need a hotel room, we have reserved contingents

Even if you don't wanna work with admin (or any) data but with great colleagues, you should apply ;)

This was a lot of fun, thanks for organizing Florian Englmaier

This paper by Matthias Fahn and Takeshi Murooka considers Relational Contracts in a setting with labor market frictions. Their model generates some interesting insights on the consequences of higher labor supply or the role of minimum wages to combat discrimination.

Last week we met for our annual meeting, hosted by Matthias Fahn JKU Department of Economics. We had a number of fantastic presentations and many inspiring conversations in a beautiful setting (the program can be found here: onedrive.live.com/edit?id=9162ED…)

The Verein für Socialpolitik (Association of German-speaking economists) is currently meeting in Berlin for its annual meeting. We are happy to have contributed a session on "Organizing Work": express.converia.de/frontend/index…

Angela Merkel's memoirs are out next month. This week's Charlemagne revisits her legacy. She led Germany - and thus Europe - as if in a make-believe world, letting it enjoy an extended geopolitical and economic nap from which it still needs to wake up. economist.com/europe/2024/10…

Open Position: I am looking for a 6 year Postdoc in Micro, preferably Theory at Freie Universität Berlin! fu-berlin.de/universitaet/b… Please apply through the Berlin School of Economics, berlinschoolofeconomics.de/programs/resea… Berlin offers a vibrant, fun and super collegial community! Join us!

You have 6 more days to submit your paper for the first Asian Conference on Organizational Economics, taking place on March 13/14 in Hong Kong. This will be a great event, let me know if you have any question :) docs.google.com/document/d/1e4…

Week 9: The theory paper in focus this week is the seminal paper on the theory of the firm by Grossman and Hart published in the JPE in 1986. The voyage starts with a remarkable observation by Coase: Why does a firm exist or differently why is the entire economy not a firm?

Latin American economic populists have embraced fiscal discipline and central bank independence after painful economic experimentation. What lessons for Europe? Read my post today (link below).

Please submit your papers for our 11th edition of the Workshop! This year, we will meet on Sep 19/20 in Chicago Becker Friedman Institute for Economics The University of Chicago (the local organizer is Lisa bernstein). Please, submit to [email protected] by April 30th Matthias Fahn Marta Troya Martinez Daniel Barron

Ein paar Bemerkungen zum so genannten EU-US Zolldeal: (1/10) Ein trauriger Tag für den Freihandel: 15% Zoll auf EU-Waren in den USA ist besser als 20 oder 30%, keine Frage. Aber der „Deal“ ist teuer erkauft. Vielleicht zu teuer.