Volatility and Resilience of Democratic Public-Good Provision | Hans Gersbach Fikri Pitsuwan and Giovanni Valvassori Bolgè
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'We are Liverpool. We went through harder things together. And you went through harder things before me. And let's make a strength of it. That would be really cool. Let's squeeze everything out of this season and have another thing to smile about when we look back in the future.'

I always keep this in mind when writing an exam: 'A good exam squeezes out of you every little drop of what you didn't know you knew.'

(I came across this during my college years and have since forgotten its source. A Google search attributes it to Nathan Keyes.)

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP18529
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Hans Gersbach Hans Gersbach Chair of Macroeconomics: Innovation and Policy ETH Zurich KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Akaki Mamageishvili Akaki Mamageishvili🇺🇦 Offchain Labs, Fikri Pitsuwan Fikri Pitsuwan ETH Zurich D-MTEC ETH Zurich
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For people who are teaching formal theory/ political economy, or might be interested in learning the content, I've posted all the lecture notes from the graduate course I taught at Rochester Political Science online. It's a topics course on dynamic models in PE. parthparihar.com/teaching-mater…

My PhD students over the years (those I supervised as chair or co-chair):
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Our paper with Hans Gersbach and Fikri Pitsuwan on economic design of bug bounty is online. We develop a contest model with an arbitrary number of agents who decide whether to engage in a costly search for bugs or not. Search costs are assumed to be a private information.

#LINOecon

Giessbachfälle October 2021

Joël Matip is all of us watching Thiago's finish 😱

This is the story of the 20th century’s foremost forgotten intellectual, a man who was in his day as well-known as Einstein—and considered smarter. Sixty-five years after his death, the impact of von Neumann’s ideas on contemporary life are...without parallel 2/

Your daily Bellman tweet.

Today in Broadstreet, Jared Rubin discusses Religion and Political Economy in History (Part III). broadstreet.blog/2021/10/27/rel…

An econ student wrote me today: '....a couple of years ago I read your advice for lost graduate students - and oddly it inspired me to try applying to graduate schools. Reread it again today (with my mom, who also enjoyed it a lot!).' So here it is again: arielrubinstein.tau.ac.il/papers/10QA.pdf

Just out, my @newbooksnetwork interview with Hans Gersbach Chair of Macroeconomics: Innovation and Policy ETH Zurich 'Redesigning Democracy: More Ideas for Better Rules' (@springerpub). Among his ideas to discipline politicians are 'history-bound re-elections' forcing outperformance for safe US/UK incumbents ...

Excerpt from my new book, Policymaker’s Journal, in Scroll.in. The story of how I ended up at the World Bank in Washington.
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My column on the global vaccine market. There are many unknowns and there is a lot that is beyond us, but there is also much that we can do if we do not abandon our moral compass.
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The Ph.D. Origins of Economics Faculty: edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/… by @ToddRJones and Arielle Sloan

Least diverse: Harvard and MIT, where 60% of faculty holds a PhD from Harvard or MIT

More diverse: Yale and Chicago, where more than a third comes from programs outside of the top