Only 4 weeks to go before the submission deadline to the EPCS conference in Madrid! www.epcsmadrid2026.es
Only 4 weeks to go before the submission deadline to the EPCS conference in Madrid! www.epcsmadrid2026.es
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π¨2 PhD positions at my Chair for Social Policy & Public Economics @ruhr-uni-bochum.de π APPLY NOW!!! β³ Deadline: 25 Oct 2025. Start date: January 2026 or later. 2x75% TV-L E13. Please share within your networks.π
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π¨2 PhD positions at my Chair for Social Policy & Public Economics @ruhr-uni-bochum.de π APPLY NOW!!! β³ Deadline: 25 Oct 2025. Start date: January 2026 or later. 2x75% TV-L E13. Please share within your networks.π
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Only 8 weeks to go before the submission deadline to the EPCS conference in Madrid!
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Looking for a motivated, organized, and detail-oriented Econ student to join our team at JFKI (@jfki-econ.bsky.social) as a Student Assistant ππΌ
Gain experience, boost your resume, and support our department!
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Thank you so much, Max. The visit at FU Berlin today was so much fun. Always a pleasure!
π₯³ Congratulations to my phd student Temurbek Khasanboev who successfully defended his phd thesis today!!!πππͺπΌ Very well done and all the best for your future, Temur! @ruhr-uni-bochum.de
π₯³ Congratulations to my phd student Temurbek Khasanboev who successfully defended his phd thesis today!!!πππͺπΌ Very well done and all the best for your future, Temur! @ruhr-uni-bochum.de
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π Feeling very lucky today that I was invited to give a seminar presentation in Istanbul today @koc-university.bsky.social . A beautiful campus and extremely nice top-of-the-line faculty! Thank you, @mustafakaba.bsky.social for the invitation. ππΌ
π Feeling very lucky today that I was invited to give a seminar presentation in Istanbul today @koc-university.bsky.social . A beautiful campus and extremely nice top-of-the-line faculty! Thank you, @mustafakaba.bsky.social for the invitation. ππΌ
π¨PhD position at my Chair for Social Policy & Public Economics @ruhr-uni-bochum.de available. APPLY NOW!!! Deadline: 08 June 2025. Start date flexible: August 2025 or later. 75% TV-L E-13. Please share within your networks.
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The 2025 conference of @theepcs.bsky.social will take place on 3-5 April, 2025 at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia and will be organized by Nicolas Gavoille @nicogavoille.bsky.social
The updated program of the European Public Choice Society conference in Riga is here!
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See you on Thursday epcs2025.sseriga.edu
Most elaborate scam-email so farβ¦ π€£π€π
The Economist: Die besten Orte fΓΌr berufstΓ€tige Frauen im Jahr 2025
βUnser Index der glΓ€sernen Decke misst die Rolle und den Einfluss von Frauen in der Arbeitsweltβ
Deutschland π©πͺ auf Platz 22 βΉοΈ
The Workshop "Immigration and Refugee Inflows: The Impact on Host Country Economies" was a great success! Thank you to all the participants for bringing all of your great ideas, presentations and discussions to FU Berlin (@fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social, @bsoeberlin.bsky.social)
See you next time!
It was a successβ¦ but most importantly it was fun!!! Max, you provided an enormous public service! ππΌ Thanks for all the work and thought you put into this.
Looking forward to a fantastic Workshop on Immigration & Refugee Inflows: The Impact on Host-Country Economies!!! @jfki-econ.bsky.social @steinhardt.bsky.social
π¨NEW PUBLICATION: βPublic Administrators as Politicians in Officeβ (joint with Timo HΓ€cker and Maximilian Thomas). @ International Tax and Public Finance trebuchet.public.springernature.app/get_content/... Congratulations on your 1st publication, @maximilian-thomas.bsky.social! ππ₯³π
We conclude that the competence of public administrator mayors only matters when they are motivated to use it, i.e. this is an example where incentives are necessary for the effects of political selection to materialize.
Mayorsβ background on average has no effect on grant receipts.
Yet, public administrator mayors do attract more grants than outsider mayors when they are ideologically aligned with the council, raising the motivation to apply for grants in the first place.
We use the example of grant receipts for visible investment projects for which mayors must submit an extensive application
to the state government. Our dataset includes 1,933 mayor elections (1993-2020) in Hesse to which we apply a sharp RD design for close mixed-background races.
Abstract:
We analyze whether mayorsβ prior occupation in the local public administration matters for their performance. In theory, mayorsβ professional background may shape their competence in bureaucratic tasks.
π¨NEW PUBLICATION: βPublic Administrators as Politicians in Officeβ (joint with Timo HΓ€cker and Maximilian Thomas). @ International Tax and Public Finance trebuchet.public.springernature.app/get_content/... Congratulations on your 1st publication, @maximilian-thomas.bsky.social! ππ₯³π
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