1/ New paper out: Nicolas Say, Lucie Vrbová, and I tested whether a very simple nudge can improve the forecasting performance of business students. The prompt asked students to consider multiple future scenarios and credible evidence sources before making predictions.
Hannah Illing from
Uni Bonn presents her exciting research at our research seminar in Prague. Check rsse.vse.cz for upcoming seminars.
1/N After 5 years in the making, this paper is finally out. “How to React in the Case of Powerful Transgressors: Kill Them With Kindness or Punishment?” We study situations in which a superior acts unethically and what actually follows from punishing, forgiving, or avoiding them.
Did a series of videos with Markus Brunnermeier on Claude Code (more to come)
Video 1: Getting Started with CC
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ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/clanek/svet/... tohle provést je můj sen, měl bych aspoň tak na týden dost čokolády.
Prorektor nebo proděkan?
🚨Forthcoming paper, @aeajournals.bsky.social 🚨#econsky
A thread 🧵 on "The Economics of Age at School Entry: Insights from Evidence and Methods". Humbled to work w/ @mariagraziacavallo.bsky.social, @bdhuey.bsky.social, Levi Halewyck & Simon ter Meulen 1/9
I've built a new tool!
You can upload your pre-analysis plan or registered report, pre-submission to a registry or journal, and it will screen it for completeness, clarity, and consistency. 1/ 🧵
Simon's Cat is in the mood for some lovin...
U zápisu se zeptala paní učitelka naší nejstarší: jakou máš nejoblíbenější hračku? Ona odpověděla: asi žádnou. Nejradši si hraju s bráchou. Až jsem byl z toho naměkko.
@tomasvilimec.bsky.social na TW:
K televiznímu Mrazíkovi patří jedině autentické ruské koledy!
(1/) The final panel at the Stone Center launch event last month centered around pro-worker AI: what it is, and how to achieve it. Key takeaways from the panelists below 🧵👇
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "How Effective Are R&D Tax Incentives? Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence" by Silvia Appelt, Matěj Bajgar, Chiara Criscuolo, and Fernando Galindo-Rueda. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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My paper with @EleonoraPatacc2, @guiso_luigi, and @chiaralac, “Tax Professionals and Tax Evasion,” is finally out.
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If you are interested in social networks and fiscal policy, this one is for you. 🧵
I don’t know why the first thing I buy after a Christmas party are painkillers.
Good job!
We got a new paper out on Ukrainian #refugee entrepreneurs in Poland, with Cevat Giray Aksoy and Piotr Lewandowski. Check it out here: cevatgirayaksoy.com/wp-content/u... and see below for a THREAD!!! 👇 #EconTwitter
Jose Grisolia from University of Las Palmas is presenting his research in our research seminar in Prague. Join online, link at rsse.vse.cz!
Trvalo mi 3 dny a 18 restartů, než jsem to vyřešil.
I'm excited to share access to a video of the conversation @angeladuckworth.bsky.social & I hosted at Wharton w/ our brilliant friends @rthaler.bsky.social & @aleximas.bsky.social about their new book THE WINNER'S CURSE & how behavioral econ has evolved in the last 30 years. youtu.be/hH8UgQb-x4A?...
Upgrade to Windows 11 they say. It will be good they say.
Same in Prague, Czechia.
So, why is it darn high?
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year.
A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision.
A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year.
The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:
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Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
#EconJobMarket💼
Meet Charlotte Cordes, JM-candidate @econmunich.bsky.social
🎓JMP: Motivated memory and favoritism
🔍Research topics: Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics
🌐 Website: sites.google.com/view/charlot...
Odposlechnuto na hřišti:
M: Bobíku, proč si nehraješ s dětmi?
B: Nuda.
M: Tak si hrajte třeba na schovku?
B: No tak jo.
Za 2 minuty:
M: BOBÍKŮŮŮ! KDÉ SÍ! Tady jsi. A mazej do auta, máš zaracha, měl jsi vždycky být tam, kde tě uvidím!
I am looking for a post-doc working on behavioral/environmental/urban/energy economics to join my group at the University of Copenhagen. Position is 2 years (possibly 3), good salary, free health insurance, one of the most livable cities in the world. Apply here: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
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