🎉Thrilled to share my #JMP🎉 It provides a missing piece to understand how people react to income taxation. Tldr: By changing tax pre-payments governments can - with almost no costs - increase perceived work incentives of secondary earners. Thread👇🧵 #EconTwitter

Gender norms are extremely persistent and constrain women's life opportunities, especially so in poor countries. In my Job Market Paper, I show that grassroots media are an effective policy instrument to address gender norms at scale. #EconJMP #econtwitter

Informal institutions, like local networks and informal bargaining, play a crucial role in governance in lower income countries. But how do these informal institutions shape tax compliance? My job market paper explores this question. #EconJMP #EconTwitter

If you are in the Mannheim area, drop by: uni-mannheim.de/gbpanel/anmeld… It is going to be fun!

I will be presenting my poster on "Taxes and Pay without Performance: Evidence from Executives" at #CEPRParis2024 today at 12.30. Make sure to check it out!

It is our pleasure to introduce the full line up of speakers for the 2025 Oceania Stata Conference, featuring Chuck Huber (@ChuckHuber8), John Kane (John V. Kane), Davud Rostam-Afschar (Davud Rostam-Afschar), Jan Kabatek (Jan Kabátek 🇺🇦 Bsky: @jankabatek.com) and David White (David White) to just name a

📢New WP! How do firms perceive the competitiveness of their business location and how does that shape their investment decisions? In a project with Sebastian Blesse, F. Buhlmann and Davud Rostam-Afschar we study these questions in a firm survey experiment. Check out the thread👇

What is behind tax elasticities? Often we think firms move when taxes increase. Asked directly, they indeed complain but experimental evidence shows they will not act. Instead tax cuts attract investments. Tax policy works like a ratchet due to home bias: shorturl.at/PkfCC

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Very pleased to have joined Davud Rostam-Afschar and Ian Sheldon over at The GEOSTRATA to have discussed the international economic and trade policies of the Trump administration. This was recorded prior to the President's Middle East trip but helps put the deals in context. 1/

New evidence on what moves price-setting 👇

📢Postdoc position in Macroeconomics📢 The position is a full-time position for a period of three years starting September 1, 2026, at the University of Mannheim. 🔗Apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/11691 📅Application deadline: November 16, 2025.

Excellent workshop, great discussions, and a fantastic venue! I presented new work (in progress) with Eckhard Janeba, Felix Köhler and Paul Steger on what the city of Mainz did with its excess tax revenue of 3.3 billion € or about 12,600 per capita due to a business breakthrough

My paper "Which Macroeconomic News Matters for Price-Setting?" (w/ Davud Rostam-Afschar) is available as CESifo WP: shorturl.at/1xJBe. I also presented it at CEPR MEF Annual Symposium, ifo Institut survey conference & the Deutsche Bundesbank real time data conference.