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Mergers are followed by large and persistent increases in lobbying activity, both by individual firms and by industry trade associations, suggesting that firms with market power will also attempt to gain political power.

“Yine de, bu çoklu krizden devlet kapitalizmiyle çıkma fikrinin uzun vadede başarı şansı oldukça düşük.” Ekim Arbatlı - Merakla Beklenen Yeni Oyun: Trump’ın İkinci Döneminde Amerikan Dış Politikası ayrim.org/guncel/merakla…

Forthcoming in EJ: ‘Score Disclosure’ by Levent Celik, Mikhail Drugov doi.org/10.1093/ej/uea… Levent Celik Mikhail Drugov Royal Economic Society Oxford Journals #EconTwitter

This new paper is so cool! It shows that the media use language structures—such as passive voice, nominalizations, and intransitive verbs—that obscure responsibility more often in cases of police killings than in cases of civilian killings. Then, in an experiment, it shows

The main effect of tariff insanity: Uncertainty poisoning supply networks, degrading a lot of relationships at once. That scar tissue will linger for a long time. 1/

Economic inequality has not always been a feature of market economies. I show using new data from pre-industrial Japan, 1637-1872, that the Japanese had managed to keep inequality low for centuries without massive state intervention. How did they do it? 1/n

Saraçhane eylemlerinde gözaltına alındıktan sonra polisin çıplak aramasına, cinsel şiddetine ve tacizine maruz kalan kadınlar için ses çıkarmak üzere bir araya gelen feministlerin açıklamasını sizlerle paylaşıyoruz. catlakzemin.com/feminist-itira…

Politik Katılımın Önünün Kesilmesi Bilinçli bir ihmal mi yoksa ? Söz konusu olan sadece “siyasi temsilde az sayıda engelli bireyin olması” değil; daha derin bir mesele: Engelli bireylerin, siyasal karar alma süreçlerine katılımının sistematik olarak engellenmesi. Bakalım;

Different rules of the game would have radically changed history. Our counterfactual simulations show that without colonial transfers, Europe would have been a debtor — and South Asia or Latin America could have become global creditors. [5/9]

Happy to see Thomas Piketty engaging with North-South uneven development. This is a short thread of appreciation to highlight how important the topic is, followed by a bit of reflection based on my own work on the matter. 1/8

Interesting graphic in today’s Observer.

Providing homeless people with housing: - reduces crime - increases employment - improves health - does not increase reliance on social benefits. 80% of costs are offset by the benefits in the first 18 months. Evidence from the US

Just published in Journal of Public Economics: "Fallen women: Recessions and the supply of sex work" By Grant Goehring sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #econtwitter #publiceconomics #publicfinance

📄 Yeni Yazı: Türkiye’nin İklim Kanunu Meselesi: Hepimize geçmiş (mi) olsun? SEFiA Direktörü Bengisu Özenç 🦋bengisuoezenc.bsky.social ’ın kaleme aldığı yazı, 2 Temmuz’da TBMM’de kabul edilen #İklimKanunu’nun, iklim krizine karşı etkili ve kapsayıcı bir mücadele için yeterli olup olmadığını sorguluyor. 💸

"State schools aimed to secularize Indonesia, but religious schools adapted, competing for students and strengthening Islamic identity instead." Recently accepted to #REStud, from @samuelbazzi, Hilmy and Benjamin Marx: restud.com/religion-educa… #EconTwitter

🧵İstek Üzerine, İktisat Üzerine Kitap ve Makale Önerileri (Flood): Önemli Not: Öneri, iktisadın 12 alanından oluşuyor. Burada sadece benim hoşuma giden ve daha önce okumuş olduğum çalışmaları öneriyorum. Başka çalışmalar da olabilir, yorumdan siz de kendi beğendiklerinizi

Baltimore mayor Brandon Scott has reduced his city's homicide rate by 62%. It hasn't been this low since 1978. How did he do it? 🧵

Could a highly desirable agent accept a partner that a less desirable agent would reject? When matching requires search in time-changing environments, this paper proves this impossible only where more desirable agents are more patient and less risk-averse. econometricsociety.org/publications/e…