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Thomas Mosk @ThomasMosk

Economics Unboxed ◦ Researcher University of Zurich ◦ Tweets on Political Economics, Finance, Social Sciences, and Leadership.

Joined February 2009
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📚 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…

Press Release: The Political Economy of Social Media

The rise of social media has profoundly transformed society, reshaping communication and information consumption. Its widespread use has placed unprecedented pressure on norms and institutions,...

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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

Letters that Matter: How Interest Groups Shape Financial Legislation - ProMarket

Members of Congress are inundated with an avalanche of correspondence on a daily basis. But what persuades them to heed the call? Recent research conducted by Renée Adams and Thomas Mosk has revealed...

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Terrible Maps
@TerribleMaps
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Europe but if Europe colonised it
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📢 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

UNIQplus

UNIQplus is our flagship graduate access programme aimed at talented undergraduates who would find continuing into postgraduate study a challenge for reasons other than their academic ability.

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Nick Bloom@I_Am_NickBloom
22 Dec 2021
Discussed WFH with Delphine Strauss at the FT ft.com/content/c3ada896-c7df…

Nick Bloom: ‘It is becoming pretty clear now that hybrid working is here to stay’

The Stanford professor argues that the revolution in homeworking could usher in a new era of globalisation in services

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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
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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
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Should you implement your own idea 💡? @Justin_M_Berg and Alisa Yu show that handing off mature projects reduces creativity. 👇
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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
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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
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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
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Abrahm Lustgarten@AbrahmL
2 Nov 2021
Replying to @propublica
@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…

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 👇
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The Economist
@TheEconomist
20 Oct 2021
Beef emits 31 times more CO₂ per calorie of food than tofu does

By cooking so many cows, humans are cooking themselves, too

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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.
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Alex Edmans, Adrian Fernandez-Perez, Alexandre Garel Ivan Indriawan , 2021, Music Sentiment and Stock Returns Around the World, Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming Footage by Pavel Danilyuk and Tima Miroshnichenko from Pexels
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