behavioral
@berkeley
! Professor of Economics & Finance at UC Berkeley, Co-Director of the Initiative for Behavioral Economics & Finance, Member of 🇩🇪
@GCEE_en
Freue mich auf die Zusammenarbeit
@SVR_Wirtschaft
. Gerade jetzt. Ich hoffe, zu einer erfolgreichen Politikberatung beizutragen.
Excited to join
@SVR_Wirtschaft
& contribute to economic policy-making in Germany. I hope my expertise and international perspective will be helpful.
Incredibly bad news for Economics in Germany. It was such a coup to attract a young superstar to run one of our leading research institutes away from MIT. I can’t believe we are losing him and all the potential he brought to IZA.
Beben in Bonn:
@simon_jaeger
verlässt
@iza_bonn
. Das
@briq_institute
wird mit dem IZA zwangsfusioniert, denn die Finanzierung wird drastisch gekürzt. Neuer Chef des fusionierten Instituts wird Armin Falk.
Weitere Hintergründe
@handelsblatt
Incredibly grateful for the generous endowment, and excited to help support the next generation of behavioral economics research: making economics truly about humans and integrating insights from medicine, neuropsychiatry, cognitive science, biology and more. 1/2
A major new center devoted to next-generation behavioral
#economics
research has launched at the university where the field was born. Announcing the O'Donnell Center for Behavioral Economics, led by Prof.
@umalmend
:
@UCBerkeley
Celebrating Janet Yellen at Berkeley!! So much excitement, happiness, and the truth why she still comes to visit us. (Spoiler: It's mostly red, and in season June-September.)
Calling all bright young minds with expertise in behavioral econ, who are currently on the econ/finance job market and/or graduate in 2023: Apply for a postdoc with us at
@UCBerkeley
and spend 1-2 years with an amazing community of researchers.
Very exciting news for the Paris School of Economics & economics in Europe. If there is a person who can help to further even out the US-tilt in economics and let all the amazing talent and incredible researchers in Paris and Europe shine, it’s Esther. Congrats, Esther and PSE!
For non-Germans who have been wondering what’s up with German fiscal policy and the Federal Constitutional Court, we wrote a policy brief explaining it all & how to fix it. Here is the English press release: . Translation of policy brief coming shortly.
Your financial decisions are heavily swayed by your past experiences... like it or not. Listen to behavioral economist Ulrike Malmendier
@umalmend
@berkeleyHaas
in the latest
@imf_podcast
The *scientific council* was dissolved on 9/30/2023. But I don’t think we (Janet Currie, Jim Heckman, and I) would have been involved in merger / leadership transition. Vorstand + Kuratorium? Would have loved help find a better solution. (Still do.)
It was great to host
@Bundesbank
President Joachim Nagel at
@BerkeleyHaas
. We had inspiring exchanges with Germans at
@sffed
, macroeconomists at
@UCBerkeley
, the research department
@SFFed
, and German FinTechs in the Bay Area — about the importance of top notch researchers…
Hope you can join me for the AEA/AFA Joint Lecture at 2:30pm ET at the ASSA. (Livestreamed at .) Planning to leave my (finance) comfort zone in the last part of the talk and suggest a role for "experience effects" in other fields, including gender and race.
Interesting Christmas read: The Economist about „The great inflation of the 1500s“.
„No matter the cause, societies which let inflation set in should expect more than just their living standards to be debased.“
Stimme Bäte zwar zu (Inflation 🇺🇸 vs. 🇩🇪), aber starker Anstieg 🇩🇪 Kerninflation schon vor dem Krieg. Lieferketten & Geldpolitik daher schon wichtig. Absolut richtig, die anderen mittelfristigen Entwicklungen nicht zu vergessen, während wir alle gerade zu Energieexperten werden😉
Auswertung von EY mit bedenklichem Resultat:
„🇩🇪 nicht mehr in Top 100 der wertvollsten Börsenunternehmen.“ Wir könnten mit einer gut konzipierten Kapitalmarktunion so viel besser dastehen – in Deutschland wie in Europa.
@c_lindner
@vonderleyen
For all my German friends who also need a smile today - enjoy! I only wish this level of (largely data-driven) differentiation in quarantine rules would be comedy material here in the US. Sigh.
Freue mich, dass unser JG so viele Köpfe in Politik & Öffentlichkeit zum Nachdenken & Reagieren veranlasst. In der Wissenschaft führt genau dieser Prozess zum besten Ergebnis. Auch in Politikberatung? 🫰 Nicht Vergessen: eigentl. Anliegen war, dass ...1/3
Wir haben auch schon hervorragende Doktoranden aus dem In- und Ausland gehabt - auf der Suche nach einem Thema für eines der Papers in der Diss (and helping to save the German economy while doing so). Come and join us!
Interesse an einem Praktikum beim
@SVR_Wirtschaft
im Frühjahr/Sommer 2024? Bei uns sind spannende Einblicke sind garantiert! Studierende im fortgeschrittenen Bachelor- oder im Masterstudium können sich bis zum 30. November 2023 bewerben. Weitere Infos 👉
Habemus cancellarium! Our wonderful colleague and former Haas Dean Rich Lyons will be leading UC Berkeley. Great news for our great university. Thank you, Rich.
Great experience working with our French colleagues. I learned a lot. Also hope that the intersection of our views, which are not always identical, helps clarify what is really needed right now - expand supply of renewable energy ever faster, rather than argue about subsidies.
Gemeinsame Stellungnahme
@SVR_Wirtschaft
mit 🇫🇷
@CAEinfo
untersucht Folgen des IRA auf die 🇪🇺: Die EU sollte nicht mit breit angelegten Subventionen reagieren, sondern ihre industriepolitische Strategie überarbeiten und Energiekosten deutlich senken
(1/2)
#Industriestrompreis
Ich würde mir wünschen, dass sich die Politik bei diesen Konzepten künftig mehr bemüht, unabhängige Ökonomen zurate zu ziehen. „To be in the room“ – das kann bei der Einbindung von Experten in Deutschland noch besser werden.
Hat viel Spaß gemacht - tolle Fragen von den Teilnehmern, und über den Dank des jüngeren Publikums für meine „Ode an den Kapitalmarkt“ habe ich mich besonders gefreut 😉
Entlastungen nicht zielgenau sind. Wir sorgen uns um Inflation und Schuldenquote, und wollen, dass 🇩🇪 auch für die nächste Krise gewappnet ist. Die eigentliche Tragödie ist, dass wir in der Digitalisierung und Verknüpfung von Daten so hinterherhinken, dass ... 2/3
…(with a heart for policy) in central banks, the need of a VC culture in Germany, the Capital Markets Union and much more. Thanks to everybody for joining us!
Thanks for a great and inspiring day at IMF with MD Georgieva and the fantastic members of various teams and desks. I am excited to continue discussing & working together on several topics of shared interest, incl. the Capital Market Union, which the EU needs more than ever.
I welcomed
@umalmend
of the German Council of Economic Experts to the IMF and congratulated her on the
@GCEE_en
's well-crafted annual report on the 🇩🇪 economy - essential reading for anyone wanting to better understand key issues facing the 🇩🇪 economy and ways to address them.
@R_Thaler
@Econ_4_Everyone
@CFCamerer
@ToreEllingsen1
@sdellavi
Wow — if even the *announcement* of our new O’Donnell center gets luminaries like Colin, Richard, Tore and John talking about the reach & breadth & scope of Behavioral Econ, what will the center be able to do? 🥳 (Great anecdotes also.)
Just back from a great discussion
@UniBonn
@iza_bonn
about the Annual Report
@SVR_Wirtschaft
& how 🇩🇪 has to develop leading tech &
#AI
to stay competitive (cf. energy prices). And my inbox is full of messages like this. Whose industry is disrupted now? 😉
Sehr spannend, von eher optimistischen Wirtschaftsakteuren zu hören, wie es weitergehen soll. Konstruktive Vorschläge mit positiver Grundstimmung brauchen wir genauso wie das „Mahnen”, das die mittel/langfristigen Aussichten (schwach) neue Wege erfordern.
#Kapitalmarkt
#GermanVC
Zum Start des
@SZ
-Wirtschaftsgipfels in Berlin:
@lisakatharina
diskutiert mit Stefan Hartung (Bosch),
@umalmend
(Wirtschaftsweise) und weiteren Experten über Wege aus der Wirtschaftskrise.
Join us tomorrow, 2/14 at 12:30-1:30pm PT (21:30-22:30h CET) in person or via when Dean Harrison will interview Catherine Wolfram about her experience as an energy economist at
@USTreasury
and grill me about what's up with Germany.
Join us 2/14 to hear from 3 top women economists on advising world leaders. The conversation will touch on the state of the U.S. and global economies & their work for sustainable economic and energy policies. Register:
@umalmend
@berkeleyecon
#EconTwitter
@PJakiela
In case you are looking for a middle ground: February 2nd in Germany - a Marian holiday, Mariae Lichtmess (“candlemass”/“purification” of Mary 40 days after giving birth following Jewish tradition). Rest as in the Polish comments - bonfire ideal :-)
#Inflation
im Nov < Okt, aber noch 2stellig. Geldpolitik muss daran arbeiten, langfristiges „scarring“ zu vermeiden, Fiskal-/Sozialpolitik die Verteilungseffekte der Inflation angehen, ohne Inflationsbekämpfung zu erschweren. Froh, dass
@bundesbank
-Präs. Nagel das auch so sieht!
„Die Coronawelle hat
#China
nun voll erfasst. In Sachen Inflation und Lieferketten müssen wir jetzt auf der Hut sein. Und in Sachen Abhängigkeit — 🇩🇪 Firmen brauchen Alternativen zu (Vor-) Produkten aus China.“
@HansGruener
I hope we can leverage more what other sciences tell us about our mind & body to improve our predictive power. Say, how stress, sleep, trauma, food scarcity but also social inclusion, social interaction affect beliefs, choices, outlook on the world. Less robot, more human.
It's been a long endeavor but a cool research project w/
@SeanKHiggins
,
@paul_gertler
&
@umalmend
is coming along!
As part of it, we're collecting predictions through
@socscipredict
on how firms decide to adopt profitable business practices
LINK:
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Congratulations to Nemat (Minouche) Shafik -- and to
@Columbia
for attracting an outstanding leader and economist to steer the university through these
tumultuous times.
via
@nytimes
@m_maggiori
Auguri & Congratulations, Matteo!! Well-deserved. And, of course, I like Frank Schilbach’s mention where the seeds were planted. Go
@berkeleyecon
and
@BerkeleyHaas
😄
@FlyBehaviour
Watch jazz performed live. Seeing the musicians get into it, their bodies, their faces, their movements makes you feel it so differently.
Wir freuen uns auf unseren diesjährigen Selten Salon mit einem spannenden öffentlichen Vortrag von
@umalmend
@SVR_Wirtschaft
mit anschließender Diskussion und Empfang am 22. Februar in Bonn!
Anmeldung erforderlich. Mehr zum Selten Salon:
“Offenhalten” sinnvoll; für “We-did-it!”-Party aber zu früh. Erholung auf Energiemärkten & Entlastungen helfen; aber mit 9,2% immer noch >> 2%; wg. time lag zw. EZB-Maßnahmen & Inflationsanpassung noch unklar, welche Effekte
#Leitzinserh
öhungen hatten.
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Jonathan Levin, a distinguished economist and Stanford alumnus who has led the Stanford Graduate School of Business as dean for the last eight years, has been appointed the next president of Stanford University, the Board of Trustees announced today.
Join us tomorrow for Falling Walls Breakthrough Day at From earthquakes to democratized AI, from decarbonization to What inflation does to your brain (by yours truly). And lots of science entrepreneurs! I hope the VC funders are ready
#GermanVC
#GermanCEE
@BrianDeeseNEC
Great to see the Biden administration and economists at NEC and beyond translate the insights of behavioral economics into policy. Our very first behavioral paper “Contact Design & Self-Control” w/
@sdellavi
singled out those high late fees. So glad it’s being resolved.
@TDeryugina
Iota because too small/easy to miss; omikron bcs looks like a little O or 0 (zero); alpha if there are also a’s floating around (too similar; lost against co-authors on that one). Unpopular opinion: love xi and zeta because nicely distinctive :-)
@IvanWerning
So sorry to hear about your mother, and so glad she is better. Yes, let’s not lose the sense of urgency or let down the guard bow, as hard as it is.