Policy consultant @ BSS Economic Consultants, Basel | Economist: Public Sector, Labor Markets, Education | Dad of 3 | German-Swiss musings | trains.
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Lukas Mergele
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God I feel for him. It’s me at the disco when I was 17.
"Your doner is so awful, you better feed it to the cats."
A 1* Google review for a doner place in Berlin. Their reaction is phenomenal. 😁
Using the footage of the burning refinery in Moscow for promoting their products as the Ukrainian defense contractor Firepoint is doing at the Eurosatory, is god-tier trolling I have only rarely seen.
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How did China extract tech from Western companies?
In this week's episode of The Economics Show I spoke to John Minnich about his research looking into the lessons from the successes (and failures) of China's tech transfer policies.
This paper finds that economists whose job market papers report (marginally) statistically significant results are more likely to secure academic jobs. Hiring committees prefer statistical significance; this creates incentives for researchers to p-hack.
Can anyone suggest any reasonably reliable AI detection software? Ideally free😬
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The frame Europe is “starting“ a trade war with China is strange.
China has been waging trade and industrial policy battle against Europe, sector after sector.
EU diplos asked for change nicely for years. Now the EU wants to do something about it and it’s the aggressor?
Aha.
On EU–China, this is an incredibly disappointing outcome.
Washington's reaction should be equal parts alarm and self-reflection. If the DC response is schadenfreude, we've failed to grasp the economic force of China's scale.
73 years ago today, brave people in Eastern Germany, rised up against the socialist regime in the GDR - their demands for free elections and the end of the socialist regime were brutally suppressed by Soviet forces and East German police.
www.deutschlandmuseum.de/en/history/c...
