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konradburchardi.bsky.social
Professor of Economics at IIES, Stockholm
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What happens to companies who get more powerful institutional shareholders? CEO pay falls by a cumulative 60% over 5 years Top execs by 40% Striking endorsement of the view that strong shareholders help solve the principal agent problem Paper by Falato, Kim & von Wachter

submitted 48 days ago • 6 comments

I am so happy that my friend and colleague Arash Nekoei managed to secure the generous ERC support for his fantastically interesting work! 🥳🇪🇺

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Hello world! The Association of Swedish Development Economists - ASWEDE - is finally on Bluesky. Stay tuned for the latest news among development economists active in Sweden.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Agneta Berge, @agnetaberge.bsky.social, is by now probably Sweden's leading expert on the role of labour unions for the economy, with an exciting research agenda covering a broad range of important macroeconomic questions. Interested in those topics? Make sure to get to know her!

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Should we subsidise the care for elderly people? Patrizia blends elegant theoretical with excellent empirical work to show that an increase of the subsidy in fact paid for itself. She is an enormously promising researcher. Check out her work!

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

I have a massive conflict of interest here, but I cannot recommend IIES highly enough. Outstanding, curious colleagues, flat hierarchies, plenty of research time, vibrant atmosphere. And Stockholm is wonderful any time of the year. Apply!

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

16 years ago. How wrong we were.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

I just attended the annual meeting of the editorial board of the Review of Economic Studies. One message from the editors: REStud is interested in publishing the best work, no matter how short the articles are! If you have very good short papers, you might want to try REStud first.

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My colleagues Mitch Downey and Ferenc Szucs are looking for a full time RA, who will be supporting exciting projects on political polarisation, conspiracy theories in politics, and democratic accountability. #EconSky #RAjobs #EconRA www.su.se/english/abou...

submitted 166 days ago • 0 comments

I asked the students to work in groups for some minutes, and when standing in the class room to listen in, there was a guy sitting right in front of me playing a game on his phone. The fact that I was standing next to him did not bother him at all. What do you think is an appropriate reaction?

submitted 166 days ago • 2 comments

True story. Needless to say I am very excited and honoured the ERC decided to support my research agenda. Thank you so much to everybody who helped me along the way!

submitted 458 days ago • 4 comments

Incredibly bad news for Economics in Germany. It was such a coup to attract a young superstar (from MIT!) to run one of our leading research institutes. I can’t believe we are losing him and all the potential he brought to IZA.

submitted 471 days ago • 0 comments

I understand the Deutsche Post Foundation has to scale down its financial support. That said, it is very hard to see much value in how they managing that process.

submitted 472 days ago • 0 comments

I cannot believe what I'm reading here... The current CEO of IZA, Simon Jäger, has decided to depart from his leadership role at IZA by the end of 2023 [...] Effective January 1, 2024, Armin Falk, the current CEO of briq Institute, will take over the leadership of IZA www.iza.org/wc/files/pre...

submitted 472 days ago • 1 comment

I find it almost always unhelpful to report effect sizes in terms of "a one standard deviation change" of the explanatory variable.

submitted 495 days ago • 1 comment

My understanding of the blockchain technology and its potential is very much incomplete. So maybe this is completely off, but I'll ask anyway: Could it be helpful to ensure that information (text, images, videos, whatever) comes from a trusted source? @trfetzer.com

submitted 501 days ago • 1 comment

Three quick thoughts on today's Nobel Prize! First, it's such a wonderful, well deserved choice, honouring a person who shed light on an immensely important issue with curiousity and perseverance, and paved the path for others to join her in the endeavour.

submitted 503 days ago • 1 comment

The EU is spending about 55 billion Euros a year (or 0.3% of GDP) on its agricultural policies, motivated in large part by the need to ensure food security in the event of crises. Should we maybe also be able to quickly scale up the production of weapons in the event of crises?

submitted 505 days ago • 2 comments