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postdoc @ETH_en | PhD @PSEinfo | political economy, applied game theory | green transition, accountability & lobbying | on the academic JM | minions enthusiast

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Benjamin Blumenthal

1 month

🤓New paper! In "Environmental Policymaking with Political Learning", I provide an explanation for the implementation of suboptimal environmental policies (e.g. lax emission standards) by politicians, with a model that combines electoral accountability and policy experimentation.

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Benjamin Blumenthal

3 years

What can game theory tell us about the war in Ukraine? In this essay, I shall use basic concepts of game theory erroneously, pretend that everything is a prisonner’s dilemma, and misinterpret rationality repeatedly (1/456).

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Benjamin Blumenthal

4 months

"Policymaking under Influence" is now accepted at The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization! 🤓🥳 Ungated version here:

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Benjamin Blumenthal

10 months

the Job Market is a soul crushing experience. I'm not sure the well meaning claims by TT or tenured folks that rejections have nothing to do with us or our work (it's about fit!) help. Of course it's about our work in the end and how people in the profession value it.

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

I successfully defended my PhD this afternoon! 🥳 I’m immensely grateful to my jury ( @pierrecboyer , @GalinaZudenkova , @MaceAntonin and Twitterless S. Wolton and J. Fox), to my supervisor T. Verdier, to my friends, and above all, to my family ☺️

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Benjamin Blumenthal

11 months

📣I'm on the Econ Job Market this year, and it's JMP time! 🤓 My JMP "Voter Information and Distributive Politics" is available here () More details on my work can be found on my website:

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

So, I wrote a little something… ☺️🤓

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2 years

@ShengwuLi is it this one?

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

Delighted to share that in October I'll be moving to Zurich to join @bartonelee2 and his newly established chair of Political Economy and eDemocracy ( @ETH_en @d_mtec ) as a postdoc!

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Benjamin Blumenthal

10 months

Wondering what to read in 2024? I’ve got you covered! I just posted an updated version of my JMP, Voter Information and Distributive Politics. Available here:

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Benjamin Blumenthal

3 years

📢I’m absolutely delighted to share that my (1st!) paper "Political Agency and Implementation Subsidies with Imperfect Monitoring" has been accepted for publication at the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO)! A🧵about it follows:

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Benjamin Blumenthal

5 months

conditional acceptance 🥳

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

Happy to share a new and improved version of "Policymaking under Influence" 😊😊 Comments are more than welcome and appreciated! Link: Abstract:

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

📣Happy to be finally sharing publicly "Voter Information and Distributive Politics", available here () 🤓

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Benjamin Blumenthal

6 months

📣 New paper! Excited to share Informational Lobbying and Implementation Standards:

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Benjamin Blumenthal

10 months

Happening later this week: the Bocconi/CCA/Cornell PE Workshop! I'll present my JMP "Voter Information and Distributive Politics". The (amazing) list of presenters include @sdellavi , @FrancescoSquin2 , @g_caprini , G. Tabellini, S. Wolton, A. Casella, J. Snyder...

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

📣New paper! 🤓 Excited to share "Policymaking under Influence" ()

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

Excited to be presenting "Policymaking under Influence" at the Virtual @FormalTheory Workshop on Monday! First time presenting it to an outside audience, looking forward to receiving useful feedback! 🤓

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Benjamin Blumenthal

11 months

i’m a JMC who just bungled his JMP thread by using a link that doesn’t work, ama.

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Benjamin Blumenthal

4 months

lots of cool papers studying models where voters have behavioural biases, not enough papers studying models where politicians are batshit crazy.

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

My paper "Political Agency and Implementation Subsidies with Imperfect Monitoring" is now available on the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO) website! (). (1/4)

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Benjamin Blumenthal

3 years

getting a first r&r: ✅🥳

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Benjamin Blumenthal

4 months

Kicking off our 7th ETH/CEPR Workshop on Democracy with @PeterBuisseret presenting some new work with @richvanweelden on "Inequality, Polarization, and Culture Wars"

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Benjamin Blumenthal

1 year

Excited to share a new version of "Voter Information and Distributive Politics" ():

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

@instrumenthull what if we're interested in the average weight in the US? should we take the heighted average?

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Benjamin Blumenthal

1 year

@_AlvinChristian theory is even wilder: you just go from a random thought you had in the shower to an all-encompassing theory of human behaviour

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

What a difference a few months make: here's the new abstract for my JMP! It should be available publicly in a couple of weeks/months, but you (yes, you!) can read it early if you send me an email.

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Benjamin Blumenthal

3 years

ah, perhaps I should add the paper’s title: Is More Information Good for Voters? and an abstract:

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Benjamin Blumenthal

9 months

One year ago today! 🤓

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

I successfully defended my PhD this afternoon! 🥳 I’m immensely grateful to my jury ( @pierrecboyer , @GalinaZudenkova , @MaceAntonin and Twitterless S. Wolton and J. Fox), to my supervisor T. Verdier, to my friends, and above all, to my family ☺️

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Benjamin Blumenthal

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the fact that you *can* run an experiment doesn't mean you *should*, especially when the treatment is plausibly expected to have (huge) unequal consequences on your sample.

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Benjamin Blumenthal

7 months

Had a wonderful time presenting "Informational Lobbying and Implementation Standards" (for the first time!) at UniCatt. Thanks @IcoTrombetta et al. for having me! Public draft coming soon! 🤓

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Benjamin Blumenthal

1 year

Thrilled to see my paper "Political Agency and Implementation Subsidies with Imperfect Monitoring" in the November issue of the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization ()

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Benjamin Blumenthal

3 years

Having your work rejected from journals or conferences in academia is normal, don't take it personally. Don't ask me how not to take it personally, though -- every rejection makes me question everything I've ever done and will ever do.

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Benjamin Blumenthal

11 months

I had a wonderful time presenting my JMP "Voter Information and Distributive Politics" at the 1st Junior Workshop of @ENSdeLyon . Thanks to the @InfoCERGIC , @MatCoutt , @Sophie_Hatte , @mg_elisa & J. Goupille-Lebret for hosting this! Pic: Notre-Dame de Fourvière 🤩

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Benjamin Blumenthal

5 months

@VSET_contact best notes in the business

Lecture Notes | Annie Liang

www.anniehliang.com

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Benjamin Blumenthal

3 years

@gregsasso now that the paper’s been accepted I can say that it was desk rejected at the APSR with the suggestion to submit it to a subfield journal like the Journal of Political Economy, which is (imo) even funnier haha.

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Benjamin Blumenthal

8 months

Just posted a substantially revised version of Policymaking under Influence (). The revision includes a bunch of real-life examples, a brand new section on comparative statics, and a *lot* of quotes. Comments are more than welcome!

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Benjamin Blumenthal

4 months

We begin the second day of the 7th ETH/CEPR Workshop on Democracy with a presentation by @GalinaZudenkova on "Information and Communication Technologies, Protests, and Censorship" (joint with @maximananyev , M. Petrova, and D. Xefteris)

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

I am once again begging everyone to stop tweeting nonsense about what economic theory is or does.

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

Have we only gone downhill in terms of figures in formal theory papers since this gem from Banks & Duggan, QJPS, 2006? ()

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Benjamin Blumenthal

1 year

Wonderful experience at the Workshop on the Political Economy of Polarization and Policymaking @ the EUI! Very interesting presentations and super useful feedback. Thanks to @parthparihar and @DANG2718 for organising and including my paper in the programme!

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

internal seminars are very nice and (imo) underrated. just presented twice my latest paper "Policymaking under Influence" at PSE and received lots of useful comments. looking forward to sharing a draft soon!

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Benjamin Blumenthal

8 months

@VenturiniMiri I used soul-crushing () to describe it, but brutal works too 🙃 Hang in there!

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Benjamin Blumenthal

10 months

the Job Market is a soul crushing experience. I'm not sure the well meaning claims by TT or tenured folks that rejections have nothing to do with us or our work (it's about fit!) help. Of course it's about our work in the end and how people in the profession value it.

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Benjamin Blumenthal

1 year

I had a wonderful time participating in the 2nd @cbsMiP Money in Politics Conference. Got to see cool papers, receive useful feedback, and meet lots of new people! Bonus: I saw Copenhagen’s "Execution of the Emperor Maximilian" by Manet. Only 3/5 left to see irl!

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Benjamin Blumenthal

1 year

Lots of very interesting presentations at @EEANews for political economy people: Tomorrow at 6PM, in the "Political Economy of Non-Democratic Regimes" session, don’t miss @AntoineZerbini ’s presentation on censorship in authoritarian settings.

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

So, who will be @europsa in Prague next week?

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

80 years ago, 13 152 Jews were arrested by French police forces in Paris. The overwhelming majority of them was subsequently deported to Auschwitz, where they were murdered. My grandmother should have been one of them. I'm thankful she and her mother escaped this fate.

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

starting the year with a rejection: ✅

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Benjamin Blumenthal

1 year

tired: receiving a paper rejection wired: receiving a paper rejection calling you a Professor 😎

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Benjamin Blumenthal

5 months

@ben_golub by the same token increasing search frictions by introducing uninformative signals billed as informative ones might have had the exact opposite effect, though.

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Benjamin Blumenthal

8 months

Friday's reading recommendation: Strategic Legislative Subsidies: Informational Lobbying and the Cost of Policy, by @tgrollecon and C. J. Ellis (). The idea is simple: policymaking and information gathering are costly activities which IGs might subsidise.

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2 years

@GGenicot this () by @JacksonmMatt or this () by @soashworth , Chris Berry, and @ethanbdm .

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

. @LeroutierM uses cutting-edge econometric methods and high quality data to investigate some of the most important topics there are. If you're looking for a great environmental economist -- hire her!

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Marion Leroutier JMP: "The Cost of Air Pollution for Workers and Firms" Website:

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Benjamin Blumenthal

3 months

once again a great week for people who seem to forget, deliberately or not, that parties' vote shares and campaign strategies are endogenous outcomes of the electoral system (among other factors).

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Benjamin Blumenthal

3 years

@CaltechEconThry Depetris-Chauvin, Durante, Campante AER 2020 show that the reverse can be true, in a slightly different context (football in Africa).

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

Reading @cblatts book on my way to #PET2022 , where I’ll present my paper "Is More Information Good for Voters". Looking forward to three days of presentations and exchanges!

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Benjamin Blumenthal

1 year

Next up in this ETH/CEPR Workshop on Democracy, Mostapha Diss with a presentation on Diversity and Excellence in Multiwinner Elections

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1 year

ETH Workshop on Democracy on its way! We start with local hero @bnjmnblmnthl

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

@adelaigue un débat a eu lieu sur @AOC_media l’année dernière : (la critique des historiens)

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Les simplifications, voire les inexactitudes, à propos des guerres mondiales sont monnaie courante dans l’espace public. Et il appartient aux historiens de les corriger, comme le font ici plusieurs...

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Benjamin Blumenthal

3 years

📢 i’ve posted a substantially revised version of "Political Agency and Implementation Subsidies with Imperfect Monitoring" here: Check it out! (only if you want to)

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1 year

Currently working on a revised version of "Voter Information and Distributive Politics". Some new interpretations, new topics discussed, a cleaner exposition... Stay tuned! 😎

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

gotta love the emotional roller coaster that writing a paper is (especially a JMP): "yay, my paper starts looking interesting!"… "wait no, it’s complete trash" … "but maybe i can save something" … "oh things are not so bad??" "yeah not really"

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Benjamin Blumenthal

4 years

Excited to be sharing a new (my first! 🤭) working paper entitled "Political Agency and Legislative Subsidies with Imperfect Monitoring"; a short thread:

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Benjamin Blumenthal

3 years

happening tomorrow! an amazing line-up, and also, me. register and come see what’s the latest cutting-edge research on interest groups!

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3 years

Join us for a workshop on interest groups that will take place on Nov. 9 and 10 from 10 am to 2 pm EST via Zoom. Info and free registration at @tgrollecon @ColumbiaSIPA @CSDC_CECD @esg_uqam

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

Nothing like revising a paper to find out that what you thought was crystal-clear language is, in fact, verbose and obscure.

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Benjamin Blumenthal

3 years

On Monday at 12PM EST, I will be presenting "Is More Information Good for Voters?" at the first 2022 session of the Virtual @FormalTheory Workshop. Tune in! (DM for the Zoom link). Also, Peter Schram will present a paper written with @BrentonKenkel .

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Benjamin Blumenthal

4 months

@ElliotLip Doing my part for theory by not publishing there ✊

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

There are conferences and then there’s the IOEA. Wonderful setting, amazing group of participants. Extremely lucky to be participating this year!

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1 year

@KevinZollman no we've just become collectively much more insightful and funny in our tweets, I think.

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

I’ve been thinking lately more and more about what it is we try to do as (applied) game theorist/formal theorist. Two pieces I found useful are this one by @scottatyson and @jackpaine_prof

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

📣Updated version of "Voter Information and Distributive Politics" now available here ()

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📣Happy to be finally sharing publicly "Voter Information and Distributive Politics", available here () 🤓

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Benjamin Blumenthal

4 months

Next up: @MicaelCasta with joint work with G. P. Mariani on "Do Public Goods Actually Reduce Inequality?"

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

i never feel more like an (applied) theorist than when i spend three hours repeatedly solving the same equation because i make mistakes at every possible step.

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1 year

@itaisher good way to cure us from our addiction though!

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

@soashworth Getting a NYT article the day the paper is out is kind of a big red flag 🚩🚩

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

Today is World Mental Health Day. Life in grad school/academia can be hard. If you’re a PhD student, PhD candidate, postdoc, AP�� struggling, hang in there. You’re not alone and it can get better.

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Benjamin Blumenthal

1 year

Fantastic presentation @ EEA-ESEM by @MaceAntonin on "Repeated Majority Voting" (with R. Treibich): majority voting in repeated games can lead to an implicit logroll and (observed) consensus among voters.

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10 months

@ecmaEditors @ben_golub 20! would have definitely been an excess profit.

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Benjamin Blumenthal

1 year

and for the final talk of this first morning, @laurent_bouton talks about his work on gerrymandering with differential turnout rates (with @GGenicot , @MicaelCasta , and A. Stashko)

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3 years

@instrumenthull @KhoaVuUmn It’s like microeconomics, but where there’s one person in the world instead of two

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Benjamin Blumenthal

3 years

Today's the first year anniversary of the idea behind my first paper 🥳 Unsurprisingly, a good share of the intuitions I first wrote down a year ago were wrong. Applied theory is hard! (at least for me 😎)

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Benjamin Blumenthal

3 years

New version of my paper ()! with, among other things, (1) a new title! "Political Agency and Implementation Subsidies with Imperfect Monitoring" (2) better graphs! 📈

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6 months

@ben_golub it's a good thing econ journals are so well run then!

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Benjamin Blumenthal

1 year

Last day at SAET; lots of super interesting presentations and discussions with fellow participants. Bonus: I got to come back to Paris, which is always a pleasure!

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3 years

@ElliotLip as always, comparative advantage.

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

@SNageebAli A solid contender for someone working on accountability and policymaking like me ()

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Benjamin Blumenthal

8 months

Today's suggested reading: "Accountability and Political Competition", by B. Camargo and A. Degan () The key insight of the paper: there are two effects of more competition on electoral accountability: (1) it is more risky for an incumbent to get a bad

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

@economeager this is what thousands of economists trying desperately to produce BibTeX files does

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Benjamin Blumenthal

3 months

The NYT editorial board takes a clear stance: elections are a tool to select good types, not sanction poor performances.

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Benjamin Blumenthal

4 months

Followed by @WiolaDziuda presenting her work with @ethanbdm on Partisan Traps

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Benjamin Blumenthal

1 year

The "electoral accountability is about interactions between voters and politicians" discourse will continue until the literature improves. cc @ianRturner @ethanbdm @soashworth

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Benjamin Blumenthal

1 year

for the first presentation of the afternoon, @grattonecon presented Drain the Swamp: A Theory of Anti-Elite Populism (joint work with @bartonelee2 )

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

An interesting choice among the possible social activities at the EPCS meeting 2023:

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2 years

@SNageebAli Anything by Bob Powell, really. This one is excellent for instance.

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Benjamin Blumenthal

3 years

. @sschneiderstraw is an extremely creative and productive researcher, working on some of the world’s most pressing issues. She’s passionate and dedicated, and the best colleague one can hope for: any department would be lucky to have her!

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Paris School of Economics

3 years

🔎Meet @sschneiderstraw ( @PSEinfo - @SorbonneParis1 ), a candidate presented by the Paris School of Economics on the international Job Market @ASSAMeeting @EEANews Read her JM paper, download her CV and visit her personal website: 📌

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Benjamin Blumenthal

3 years

happy to report a small achievement for me in the french higher ed system: i recently managed to get paid for last year’s tutorial I gave, after only 8 emails and a bit more than 11 months after the class ended 🥳

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Benjamin Blumenthal

7 months

@Undercoverhist but it’s been a long-standing area of research for him, and compared to other economists he is relatively open to other fields in his work (with an emphasis on psychology, admittedly). We might quibble about the importance of the work, but it’s not a pivot.

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

Enjoying a peaceful summer as an upcoming JMC: frantically re-reading and making changes to a JMP I've already read 798 times.

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Benjamin Blumenthal

3 years

New version of my paper ()! with, among other things, (1) a new title! "Political Agency and Implementation Subsidies with Imperfect Monitoring" (2) better graphs! 📈

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

. @anthlittle before his PhD: I don't know. @anthlittle after his PhD: I Don't Know, APSR (2020).

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Saahir Shafi, PhD

2 years

Before a PhD: I don’t know. After a PhD: That is outside the scope of my current knowledge.

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Benjamin Blumenthal

1 year

Recently stumbled across Cho's wonderful "Retrospective Voting and Political Representation" (AJPS, 2009) in which he tackles the question of electoral accountability in a legislature ()

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Benjamin Blumenthal

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Benjamin Blumenthal

2 years

Just finished reading "A Model Discipline: Political Science and the Logic of Representations" (). An absolutely brilliant book, relevant for empiricists and theorists alike. Strongly recommending it to pretty much anyone.

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