Economics Unboxed ◦ Researcher University of Zurich ◦ Tweets on Political Economics, Finance, Social Sciences, and Leadership.
Frankfurt am Main
Joined February 2009
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Thomas Mosk retweeted
📚 Explore the intricate link between social media and politics in a new CEPR eBook, "The Political Economy of Social Media," edited by SEF faculty member @tesei_andrea! cepr.org/about/news/press-re…
What is the connection between a letter addressed to two American Senators in 2018 📬 and the precipitous downfall of Silicon Valley Bank? 🏦💥
Find out in my latest contribution with @Renee_B_Adams on @ProMarket_org.
promarket.org/2023/03/23/let…
#svbcollapse #lobbying
📢 Research Internship Opportunity Alert 🚨 for UK UG students. Apply for the @oxforduniq programme and join my new project: "Diagnosing discrimination: When hospital boards put diversity on the agenda" @Renee_B_Adams, @eleanorjmurray, Ken Okamura. Info: tinyurl.com/2rn2f722
Thomas Mosk retweeted
Discussed WFH with Delphine Strauss at the FT
ft.com/content/c3ada896-c7df…
What could we learn from cows🐄about poverty?
👇Read this paper.
As dutchman 🇳🇱🧀, I love the methodology 😊.
Clare Balboni, @orianabandiera, Robin Burgess, @maitreesh, Anton Heil, Why Do People Stay Poor?, @QJEHarvard, 2021
#econtwitter #developmenteconomics #coolresearch
Do green households make green financial decisions 🌱 📈?
Surprising survey results by @andersason and @robinson_fuqua, forthcoming in the Review of Finance.
👇 Here is my take.
#econtwitter
Four economists examined the stories people tell to explain inflation. 👇 Here is my take.
@ptr_andre, @Ingar30, @cp_roth, @JoWohlfart, 2021, Inflation Narratives
#econtwitter #inflation #storytelling
Should you implement your own idea 💡?
@Justin_M_Berg and Alisa Yu show that handing off mature projects reduces creativity. 👇
Which sectors invest 💰 the most in artificial intelligence🤖?
Tania Babina, Anastassia Fedyk, Alex He and James Hodson develop a new measure of AI investments based on based on worker resume and job postings data.
👇Here is what they find!
#econtwitter #ai #growth
Does foreign aid end up in the pockets of corrupt politicians 💸?
Here is the smoking gun👇.
Jørgen Andersen, Niels Johannesen, Bob Rijkers, 2021, Elite Capture of Foreign Aid. Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts, forthcoming JPE
Could you spot the greenwashing 🌱🧺 hedge funds 🧐?
Hao Liang, Lin Sun, and Melvyn Teo show that greenwashing hedge funds:
👉 underperform 📉
👉 trigger more regulatory violations 👮
👉 report more suspicious returns 🦹♂️.
#greenwashing #hedgefunds #esginvesting #econtwitter
Thomas Mosk retweeted
@Propublica’s extraordinary analysis of @EPA TRI data gives a sense of real cancer risk from nation’s most toxic air polluters projects.propublica.org/toxm…
Merger completed 🥂, workers depressed 😔. A new study by @laurent_bach, Ramin Baghai, @MariekeJBos, and Rui Silva shows the disastrous effects of mergers on worker #mentalhealth.
👇 This is one of their main results.
The US monitors air pollution 🏭 1 day in every 6 days. Satellite data 🌎 now reveals what happens in the other 5 days…😠.
Eric Zou, 2021, Unwatched Pollution: The Effect of Intermittent Monitoring on Air Quality, American Economic Review, 111 (7), 2101-26.
In between all #sustainablefinance and #esg tweets, here a painting of our world before it all happened...
Part of the >>Earth Beats<< exhibition, an artists’ plea to preserve the Earth.
Robert Zünd, Waldrand mit Schafherde, 1896-1897, Kunsthaus Zürich.
Do algorithms discriminate or prevent human discrimination?
This question is at the center of today's NYU conference on "Discrimination in Consumer Lending Markets: The Role of Fintech", by @stroebel_econ and Theresa Kuchler.
👇My take on one of the papers on the program 👇
What is your song of the day🎵? It may predict the stock markets!📈
@aedmans, and co-authors Dr. Adrian Fernandez Perez and Ivan Indriawan found that the positivity of music played predicts stock returns.