🎉A big thank you to everyone who participated in the PhD Workshop in Labor and Behavioral Economics 2026, hosted at @CEBI_UCPH, University of Copenhagen! The workshop brought together amazing researchers for talks and discussions - and we couldn't have asked for a better crowd.

And a special thanks to my fantastic co-organizers - Simon Cordes, Ida Maria Hartmann, and @VKecht - for making it all come together. Looking forward to the next edition!

Read the full paper here: nber.org/papers/w35089

Weitere Coverage zu unserem Paper, diesmal aus Deutschland, wo das Alter bei Ernennung der CEOs von 44 auf 52 Jahre angestiegen ist. Wie nachhaltig und zukunftsgerichtet ist die gestiegene Nachfrage nach generalistischen Skills, die das Altern in der Chefetage antreibt?

Understanding the rise in CEO age Valentin Kecht @UniBonn, Alessandro Lizzeri @PrincetonEcon @Princeton, Farzad Saidi @farzado @UniBonn ow.ly/rk0Q50YVnZi

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP21397 Aging at the Very Top Valentin Kecht @UniBonn, Alessandro Lizzeri @PrincetonEcon @Princeton, Farzad Saidi @farzado @UniBonn ow.ly/lrff50YOVJB #CEPR_LE #CEPR_OE #CEPR_BCF #EconTwitter

American CEOs are getting older trib.al/Q78WOxx

Posted: What Explains the Rise in CEO Age?, corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2026… #corpgov

This is a wonderful paper Valentin Kecht, Alessandro Lizzeri, and Farzad Saidi. The analysis makes a persuasive argument that long and diverse career paths are increasingly valued. As such, the model speaks to issues ranging from the right tail of executive compensation to meaning of meritocratic matching in firms. The paper complements arguments made by Michelle Jackson @mivich in her brilliant book The Division of Rationalized Labor on increasing job complexity in the modern economy.

In which we study how firms' use of big data shapes the transmission of macroeconomic shocks to investment, with data-intensive firms responding more strongly to monetary policy shocks while their data intensity exhibits a non-linear relationship with investment cyclicality.

Why has CEO age increased so much? Thank you also to @bizboyle for covering our paper for Bloomberg: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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📢 PhD Workshop in Labor and Behavioral Economics 2026 📢 The next edition will take place at @CEBI_UCPH , Copenhagen (June 8–9, 2026). Keynote speakers: Ingar Haaland (NHH) & Benjamin Schoefer (UC Berkeley). Call for Papers: sites.google.com/view/behavi… Deadline: Jan 31, 2026

Join us @UniBonn! The finance group within the economics department is looking to hire an assistant professor (tenure track): econjobmarket.org/positions/…

The NBER Economics of Executive Compensation Conference will be held next week (October 9-10) in Cambridge, MA. We have nine great papers and discussants. The meeting will be livestreamed on the NBER's YouTube channel. Links to both are in the first reply. Please tune in!

I have leftover funding for a PhD student for one year (ideally Sept '25 - Sept '26). Might be a good fit for someone wanting to delay going on the market. Please send interested students my way!

You do research in macroeconomics, broadly related to the topics of finance and inequality? You have an upcoming sabbatical or summer time off? Have a look at this opportunity to become a visiting fellow of at our @dfg_public sponsored center CASFI at @UniBonn for 3 to 6 months.

Could not agree more with this! A huge thanks to the organizers @warwickecon @cage_warwick