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Doctoral Researcher | Conflict & Development Economics | RUB | RGS Econ | benjaminko.ch

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5/5 – PolEcCon @maxplanck.de
On conflict and redistribution with Kai A. Konrad, Dan Kovenock, and Dominic Rohner. Great space to present work and exchange ideas with peers.
#ConflictEconomics #PolEcCon #PoliticalEconomy

29.07.2025 08:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

4/5 – Panel and Spatial Panel Data @bsebarcelona.bsky.social
Taught by Badi H. Baltagi. From fixed effects to spatial dependence in panels — theory-backed and applied in Stata.
#PanelData #SpatialEconometrics #BSE

29.07.2025 08:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

3/5 – Geospatial Tools for Development @bsebarcelona.bsky.social
With @andregroeger.bsky.social. We explored satellite data, digitized maps, and spatial workflows for development research.
#GeospatialData #RStats #BSE

29.07.2025 08:52 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

2/5 – TRR 391 @tu-dortmund.bsky.social
Focused on GAMs (Fasiolo), spatio-temporal modeling (Karmakar), and epidemic modeling in R (Meyer). A compact, hands-on program bridging theory and application.
#SpatioTemporalData #GAM #SurveillancePackage #TRR391

29.07.2025 08:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Dortmund Skywalk

Dortmund Skywalk

Basílica de la Sagrada Família in Barcelona, Spain

Basílica de la Sagrada Família in Barcelona, Spain

German Bundestag

German Bundestag

1/5 – Summer Schools 2025 ✅
This year I had the chance to attend 4 summer schools on geospatial tools, spatio-temporal modeling, and the political economy of conflict. Grateful for the input, feedback, and new connections. Short recaps follow.
#SummerSchool #PhDLife

29.07.2025 08:52 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is a thread about remaking the tech sector.

06.01.2025 14:44 👍 204 🔁 78 💬 10 📌 22
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Donate to Weihnachtsmarkt Magdeburg: Hilfe für Kinder, organized by Bastian Alm English and Spanish versions below! Weihnachtsmärkte sind der Inbegriff vo… Bastian Alm needs your support for Weihnachtsmarkt Magdeburg: Hilfe für Kinder

If you like, you are welcome to donate to the victims of the attack on the #Magdeburg Christmas market. Donations collected over this fundraiser will benefit the #children affected.

gofund.me/2ac124b8

23.12.2024 11:52 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Started a working list of researchers, journalists, and practitioners working on humanitarian aid, peacebuilding/peacekeeping, and development in fragile and conflict-affected settings, please let me know if I missed you or anyone else who should be added! go.bsky.app/BWQc97A

12.11.2024 00:27 👍 156 🔁 72 💬 34 📌 4

Excited to start my new job as Doctoral Researcher in Humanitarian Economics at Ruhr Graduate School in Economics and @ruhr-uni-bochum.de where I work under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Matthias Busse at the Chair of International Economics.

01.10.2024 06:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ruhr-Universität verlässt X Immer mehr Behörden und Stiftungen verlassen den Nachfolger von Twitter. Die Ruhr-Universität macht gleichzeitig einen Neuanfang.

Mehr Infos zu den Hintergründen lest ihr im Artikel: 👇. Dort lest ihr übrigens auch, warum unser Account auf X ab heute deaktiviert wird.

11.06.2024 07:48 👍 20 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
An image with a white background showing the LGBTIQ+ rainbow colours in different shapes arranged close together. A text overlay reads: "Love knows no boundaries. We are all colours of the same love.

An image with a white background showing the LGBTIQ+ rainbow colours in different shapes arranged close together. A text overlay reads: "Love knows no boundaries. We are all colours of the same love.

We are a Union of equals.  
  
On #IDAHOBIT, we reaffirm our commitment to a #UnionOfEquality that:  
🧡 celebrates diversity 
💛 promotes inclusivity 
💚 embraces equal rights for all 
  
ℹ️ Our actions for LGBTIQ equality → europa.eu/!Dggw9g 
 
#EU4LGBTIQ

17.05.2024 05:36 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Today is #EuropeDay 🇪🇺 
 
Today, on 9 May, we celebrate our unity and solidarity, commemorating the signing of the Schuman Declaration in 1950.   
 
A month ahead of the European elections, see what Europe does for you and how you can get involved → europa.eu/!NY86gt

09.05.2024 06:01 👍 13 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
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Come work with us! We have an open PhD position
@rwi.bsky.social to do research on population & health, climate and development economics - but with a strong meta-scientific angle.
www.rwi-essen.de/fileadmin/us...

24.03.2024 14:02 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Alexei Navalny ist tot. Putin und sein Regime haben so oft versucht ihn umzubringen, einmal konnte er in Deutschland gerettet werden. Die Hoffnung auf ein anderes Russland darf nicht sterben.

16.02.2024 11:32 👍 88 🔁 20 💬 10 📌 2

Haha okay. Anyway, a really nice feature!

12.02.2024 17:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Good point! I however just meant on the actual jpeg file since they seem redundant there. Idk, probably just a matter of taste.

12.02.2024 17:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Really nice function! Maybe make the dots in the top right corner invisible on a shared image? Or any reason against it?

11.02.2024 15:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Neuer Policy Brief des @svrwirtschaft.bsky.social: Eine pragmatische Reform könnte durch Anpassung der Schuldenbremse an drei Stellen die Flexibilität der Fiskalpolitik erhöhen, ohne die Stabilität zu gefährden. www.sachverstaendigenrat-wirtschaft.de/publikatione...
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30.01.2024 07:19 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
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Robert M. Solow, Groundbreaking Economist and Nobelist, Dies at 99 His elegant work established that the main determinant of economic growth was technology, not growing capital and labor.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/business/robert-solow-dead.html

22.12.2023 12:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cost of decoupling from China for German economy severe but not devastating An abrupt halt to trade with China would cause Germany's economy to shrink by 5 percent in the short run. The slump is comparable to that following the financial crisis or the COVID crisis. This is th...

An abrupt halt to 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 would cause Germany's economy to shrink by 5% in the short run, comparable to the slum following the financial or COVID crisis. In the longer term, the loss will stabilize at around 1.5% annually. Gradual reduction would avoid the high initial costs. This is...1/2

14.12.2023 12:47 👍 12 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
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Die Schuldenbremse spaltet die Ökonomenschar Die Hälfte der Ökonomen findet die Schuldenbremse bewahrenswert, die andere Hälfte will sie reformieren oder abschaffen. Das Ökonomenpanel des Ifo-Instituts und der F.A.Z.

Gute Zusammenfassung der ökonomischen Argumente für und wider die #Schuldenbremse.

https://zeitung.faz.net/faz/wirtschaft/2023-12-08/b9d0a915852cd5fa44d6bf3b4ba0f0c5?GEPC=s9

14.12.2023 12:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Moritz Schularick on a stage in the Museum für Kommunikation Berlin with a poster saying “Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt Stiftung #SchmidtLecture“ in the background.

Moritz Schularick on a stage in the Museum für Kommunikation Berlin with a poster saying “Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt Stiftung #SchmidtLecture“ in the background.

German Reichstag building with a Christmas tree in front.

German Reichstag building with a Christmas tree in front.

Very much enjoyed yesterday’s Helmut Schmidt Lecture 2023 in Berlin held by Moritz @schularick.bsky.social (@kielinstitute.bsky.social) on Remaking Globalization. Would be interesting to see new streams of economic thought that further investigate the efficiency-security trade-off.

05.12.2023 11:31 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
What Might Man-Induced Climate Change Mean? on JSTOR Charles F. Cooper, What Might Man-Induced Climate Change Mean?, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 56, No. 3 (Apr., 1978), pp. 500-520

“In both its spatial and temporal aspects, global climatic change stands almost alone among the world's environmental problems” (Copper, 1978). Institutions haven’t yet adapted enough. Let’s see if #COP28 turns out to be “incremental” or “transformative.”

https://doi.org/10.2307/20039915

03.12.2023 12:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Google search results for “statistics energy transition” showing ads from Aramco, Barclays, and Shell

Google search results for “statistics energy transition” showing ads from Aramco, Barclays, and Shell

Questionable. Highly questionable. #energytransition

30.11.2023 11:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Antisemitismus – nur ein rechtes Problem? Die Unstatistik des Monats November ist eine Meldung verschiedener Medien, die eine deutliche Zunahme judenfeindlicher Gewalt in Deutschland und deren vorwiegend rechte Motivation thematisiert. Auf ih...

Aktuelle vom @rwi.bsky.social veröffentlichte Unstatistik zur Erfassung und Interpretation von Zahlen bzgl. #Antisemitismus hier in Deutschland.

https://www.rwi-essen.de/presse/wissenschaftskommunikation/unstatistik/detail/antisemitismus-nur-ein-rechtes-problem

30.11.2023 10:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Moritz Schularick | Helmut Schmidt Lecture 2023 Präsident des Kiel Instituts für Weltwirtschaft Moritz Schularick hält die dritte Helmut Schmidt Lecture am 4. Dezember in Berlin

Remaking Globalization! Am 4. Dezember hält @schularick.bsky.social in Berlin die diesjährige Helmut Schmidt Lecture. 👉 Globalisierung neu gestalten heißt, für mich sich auf eine andere Form der Globalisierung in einer veränderten Welt einzustellen #Geopolitik #geoeconomics

22.11.2023 09:37 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Donald Trump would gut Joe Biden’s landmark IRA climate law if elected Former president plans to scrap clean energy rules and expand drilling to boost fossil fuels, say advisers

Trump would “maximise fossil fuel production” if elected. No doubt that this is a credible threat. #IRA

https://www.ft.com/content/ed4b352b-5c06-4f8d-9df7-1b1f9fecb269

23.11.2023 21:59 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit: Armin Falk zieht sich zurück 700 Forscher wollten Armin Falkan der Spitze des IZA verhindern - und haben nun Erfolg. Doch die Frage ist: Wie soll es nun weitergehen?

Armin Falk zieht sich zurück
„Wir danken unserem internationalen Forschungsnetzwerk ausdrücklich dafür, dass es uns mit seinem kritischen Engagement die Essenz des IZA noch einmal deutlich vor Augen geführt hat.“
www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/o...

20.11.2023 15:09 👍 28 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 3
This is the main figure form our paper. It shows the marriage earnings gap: women's earnings drop by 20% after they get married. The gap is even larger (50%) when not accounting for the child penalty.

This is the main figure form our paper. It shows the marriage earnings gap: women's earnings drop by 20% after they get married. The gap is even larger (50%) when not accounting for the child penalty.

The first result is a descriptive fact: After marriage, female earnings drop by 20% (solid line, accounting for the child penalty). We combine admin and survey data from Germany here. But it’s not a German feature! We document a marriage gap for other European countries.

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17.11.2023 17:19 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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Cyprus Confidential - ICIJ A new investigation by ICIJ and 68 media partners exposes the sprawling financial industry that has powered the Putin regime as it dominates its neighbors — and undermines the West.

https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/

15.11.2023 12:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0