📢Call for papers
The European Winter Meeting 2022 of the
@econometricsoc
will be hosted by
@BSE_Berlin
on 16-18 December at
@HumboldtUni
, Berlin.
Paper submission deadline: September 16, 2022
💥The Berlin School of Economics is welcoming applications for the new cohort of its
#PhD
Program starting in October 2024.
#EconTwitter
#phdlife
✍️Apply via our application portal until February 11, 2024!
ℹ️More information on the official website
👉
📣BSE is hiring!
The BSE invites applications for several Research Associate positions for fixed-term appointments for a maximum of 6 years!
Deadline: November 20th
More information here👇
How to improve the culture in academic institutions to face and prevent all different forms of sexual harassment & power abuse? The BSE INSIGHTS panel provided a lively discussion on measures and structural problems. Common agreement: there is a need to act asap!
🚨The Berlin School of Economics is welcoming applications for an intake into BSE PhD Program in October 2023. 🚨
Apply via BSE Application Portal until February 12, 2023! More information on the application on the BSE website. ⬇️
📢Fellowships for policymakers and practitioners!
Would you like to visit one of the BSE institutes and collaborate with researchers?
Positions are up to 12 weeks with a monthly wage of 3500€.
More information👇
@unipotsdam
@BCCPBerlin
@thehertieschool
Happy birthday BSE🎂🥳🎉! Last year on today, we launched BSE in a kick-off event with great keynote speech by
@JeanTirole
.
We thank our associates from all Berlin institutes. It was a productive year albeit the pandemic.
We organized our first hybrid event! BSE PhD candidates from cohorts 2018 and 2019 presented their works in the BSE Summer Workshop 2021. A lively discussion occurred among on-site and online participants.
We are excited to start Economic INSIGHTS funded by the
@LeibnizWGL
today. With INSIGHTS we support science-based communication of junior researchers from Berlin.
Join the Berlin School of Economics: Our Call for Applications to the BSE PhD Program is open until Feb 15
#EconTwitter
#phdpositions
. More information:
Congratulations to BSE member
@Strausz
(
@HumboldtUni
) for receiving the highly competitive ERC Advanced Grant! 🙌🥳
Due to the grant, his research project "PRIVDIMA – Data Privacy in Digital Markets" got funding of 1,8 million euros.
👉
BSE institutes are offering several post-doc and assistant professorship positions this year. We will share the calls in the following weeks. Meanwhile, you can familiarize yourselves with BSE:
🗞️What can we learn from
#Marx
about inequality?
@CharlyBartels
, F. Kersting & N. Wolf (both
@HumboldtUni
) study the dynamics of capital accumulation, income inequality, capital concentration & voting up to 1914 in their new INSIGHTS piece.
#EconTwitter
BSE introduces BSE Insights! BSE Insights aims to build a bridge between academia, policy makers and the wider public. The most recent research findings of BSE researchers are summarized in BSE Insights for the benefit of everyone.
🚨Join our workshop on "Effectiveness and Distributional Impacts of Environmental Policy." The exciting 2-day programme is taking place at
@DIW_Berlin
and online on April 6 & 7. Please register here to join us online:
@PeterHaan8
@alekszaklan
@Max_Franks_
🥳Congratulations to Dr. Pauline Vorjohann who defended her thesis.
Pauline is a micro theorist / behavioral economist and now holds a tenure-track position at the University of Exeter.
@HumboldtUni
@UofEBusiness
@steffenhuck
@RationalityCRC
⏰Reminder to apply for the BSE PhD intake 2023⏰
The PhD Program starts in October 2023. Please apply via the BSE Application Portal.
🚨Deadline: February 12, 2023!
More information on the application on the BSE website! ⬇️
Despite the pandemic, our job market candidates have been hired by leading institutions 👏👏.
You can find a selected list of placements in the link below.
Review of Economic Design announces the establishment of a Young Scholar Prize in memory of Nedim Okan.
Nedim Okan was a brilliant PhD student
@WZB_Berlin
who passed away much too early in 2021.
More information:
New Publication
When refugees arrive, which factors influence the formation of discriminatory preferences in children? A forthcoming study in
@restatjournal
investigates this Q in the context of Jordan.
#EconTwitter
@eeg_mpi
@WZB_Berlin
@EBRD
(1/5)
It is a great pleasure for us to introduce Economic INSIGHTS, the new Berlin wide transfer project financed by the
@LeibnizWGL
INSIGHTS webpage is online now:
🚨Open positions at the BSE
The BSE invites applications for several Research Associate positions for fixed-term appointments for a maximum of 6 years. Please visit BSE webpage for more information:
.
@ShanHuang_ec
writes about why comparing
#Covid19
case numbers across regions and time can be misleading. Without data on testing, variation in cases reflects prevalence AND differences in costs, capacity, preferences, or diagnostic ability.
#COVID2019
In today's
@DIEZEIT
the initiators of the INSIGHTS project at BSE
@DorotheaKuebler
&
@PeterHaan8
underline the importance of professional guidance for researchers to improve science communication, exploit its potential and put it on broader footing. (in🇩🇪)
We congratulate Clara Schaeper (
@schaeper_clara
) and Vanessa Schmidt for their appointment as new student representatives of BSE and DIW GC (
@DIW_GradCenter
)!
We are also grateful for previous representatives Dennis Gaus and Jana Hamdan (
@JS_Hamdan
) for the work they have done.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch,
@DorotheaKuebler
! Die Direktorin der WZB-Abteilung Verhalten auf Märkten erhält am 18.10. den
@bbaw_de
-Preis, gestiftet von der
@CoBaStiftung
, für herausragende wissenschaftliche Leistungen. Wir freuen uns!
Imagine a dinner party where you explain the research that you are enthusiastic about without losing your crowd after 2min: That’s a good exercise for communicating in an interesting and understandable way. -
@MonikaSchnitzer
on science communication at the INSIGHTS kick-off.
"A new strong partner for economic research in Berlin: The ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin Institute for the Economy and the Future of Work. We look forward to many collaborations!"
We are pleased to announce establishment of The ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin Institute for the Economy and the Future of Work (RFBerlin), funded by
@RockwoolFonden
. Follow to keep up to date with our research.
Poverty does not lead to cheating for money.
🚨New Publication🚨 by
@SupareeB
,
@agnekaj
and
@meier_steph
.
The experiment was conducted with Thai rice farmers and the study is summarized at BSE-Insights:
Appointments for vaccinations – restoring fairness and avoiding black markets
@DorotheaKuebler
and R. Hakimov (w/ P. Heller and M. Kurino) summarizes their study (conditionally accepted at American Economic Review):
Full paper:
🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨
Submit your paper for the conference at
@zew_en
on "The German Labor Market in a Globalized World: Trade, Technology, and Demographics" until April 28! Keynotes by Eve Caroli, Christian Dustmann, Klarita Gërxhani & Albrecht Glitz.
@ZEW
@dfg_public
@LeibnizWGL
Peter Haan discusses overall positive health effects of recessions, but negative effects on mental health referencing
@christopherruhm
2016 article in Health Economics. In
#COVID19
crisis, policy makers should support measures to improve mental health.
📆For all BSE PhDs & post-docs: Receive a hands-on training on basic Twitter skills, how to develop and implement a personalized strategy for your channel, and how to deal with pitfalls such as critical discussions and comments. Information & registration:
To help the new cohort start into
#PhDlife
, the student reps of
@BSE_Berlin
and
@DIW_GradCenter
launched the
#BuddyPhotoCompetition
, in which incoming students submitted fun pictures from a meeting with their buddies from an earlier cohort. Here are the winners of 2020:
Risk aversion increases with age. But how does it develop over a lifetime, and are there differences in the domains of finance, occupation, leisure, health, and trust? Neil Murray,
@LeventNeyse
& Carsten Schröder investigated these questions.
#econtwitter
ESMT Berlin has named Raji Jayaraman, ESMT associate professor of economics and a sustainable development expert, the academic director of FUTURE Institute for Sustainable Transformation.
#esmtberlin
#sustainabletransformation
Would you like to visit one of the BSE institutes and collaborate with researchers?
📢BSE INSIGHTS offers fellowships for policymakers and practitioners for up to 12 weeks.
#EconTwitter
Info & application👇
@alekszaklan
@PeterHaan8
@DorotheaKuebler
Panel Discussion: UKRAINE’S RECONSTRUCTION: ECONOMIC PRIORITIES
@RationalityCRC
(funded by
@dfg_public
) in cooperation with
@BSE_Berlin
organizes a panel discussion on June 13th, 6:00 - 7:30 pm. It is open to the public and will take place at
@HumboldtUni
.
(1/2)
📺
@JuliusStoll
investigated a legal reform in Germany, which aims to lower commission rates of real estate agents by raising the cost salience of sellers. In his INSIGHTS interview with Max Peukert (
@WZB_Berlin
), he explains why the reform has backfired.
Die Mehrheit der systemrelavanten Beschäftigungen werden von Frauen ausgeübt, aber wir diskutieren über Hilfe für die männlich dominierte Autoindustrie: Jutta Allmendinger bei
@AnneWillTalk
.
#Econtwitter
@WZB_Berlin
@HumboldtUni
Job Announcement!
Join us in BSE!
@HumboldtUni
has an open position for Full Professorship in Econometrics. Details are in the link below.
(Please spread the news 🗣)
🗞️Reding tip: BSE member
@schaeper_clara
collected ideas to counteract power abuse and sexual misconduct in
#academia
. In her article, she highlights three areas for action to start the conversation for institutional change.
#EconTwitter
#EconMeToo
👉
We want to thank the
@LeibnizWGL
for funding BERA (). BERA has supported the young researchers of BSE for years and it will continue as an integral part of the Berlin School of Economics.
The third edition of the "Women in Macro, Finance, and Economic History Workshop" brought together 30 female economists in May. Co-organizers
@PiaHuettl
& Josefin Meyer wrote an INSIGHTS piece about the workshop and their takeaways.
#EconTwitter
#Equality