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Professor, Oslo Metropolitan University. Economics, economic history https://modals.li
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Academic position open! Oslo Business School at Oslo Metropolitan University (@oslomet.bsky.social) has a position as Associate Professor in Economics open, application deadline 2 February. More info here: www.oslomet.no/en/work/job-...

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Academic position open! Oslo Business School at Oslo Metropolitan University (@oslomet.bsky.social) has a position as Associate Professor in Economics open, application deadline 2 February. More info here: www.oslomet.no/en/work/job-...

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Great workshop on historical microdata at CES/LMU today! Look forward to the rest of it tomorrow. Image from lunch at Munich's Englisher Garten. Presentations included, among others: @mreiske.bsky.social @christianvedel.bsky.social @jvoth.bsky.social @cathrinmohr.bsky.social

submitted 87 days ago • 3 comments

New working paper! How Business Income Measures Affect Income Inequality and the Tax Burden, with Aaberge, Francesconi and Vestad. Using Norwegian administrative data, we show that income inequality is much higher than commonly measured. Measurement matters! www.iza.org/publications...

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

I made a starting pack with colleagues at Oslo Business School / Handelshøyskolen OsloMet go.bsky.app/Qth1ydg @oslomet.bsky.social

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Made a starter pack on Economists (and related) in Norway: go.bsky.app/SaEqpCs Let me know if you want to be added to the list. Inspired by @jansauermann.bsky.social and @hhsievertsen.bsky.social with the Swedish and Danish lists and the thread by @ginapieters.bsky.social #EconSky 📉📈

submitted 104 days ago • 12 comments

We’re going to hear lots of stories about which people, policies and rhetoric are to blame for the Democrats’ defeat. Some of those stories may even be true! But an underrated factor is that 2024 was an absolutely horrendous year for incumbents around the world 👇 

submitted 109 days ago • 65 comments

💥 Call for Papers: 3rd Norwegian 🇳🇴 Winter Games in Economic History 💥 BI-Norwegian Business School 📅 31 January 2025 📄 CfP deadline: 18 October *John Williams intensifies* #econhist #EconSky #skystorians

submitted 168 days ago • 0 comments

A log Galton board can give an intuition about the drivers of the skewed shape of income distributions. Every success can offer people subsequent opportunities to gain much more while early failures shrink future opportunities Excellent animation by @babeheim.bsky.social

submitted 152 days ago • 6 comments

Starter pack for #econhist: go.bsky.app/U6KyhNv I'm sure I missed some people, so let me know if that's you—or get in touch if I wrongly accused you of being one of us!

submitted 174 days ago • 7 comments

🚨Call for Papers🚨 2nd Norwegian 🇳🇴 Winter Games in Economic History Organized by the Norsk Økonomisk Historisk Forening and hosted by Universitetet i Oslo Send your abstract to 📩 [email protected] by 16 October!

submitted 502 days ago • 0 comments