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Sascha O. Becker
@essobecker.bsky.social
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Economist @MonashWarwick
Project Leader @RF_Berlin
BWV227
Editor @EJ_RES
Associate Editor @QJEHarvard
First gen high school grad
Classical music and jazz enthusiast

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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · Aug 22
Excited to have been elected as Fellow of the Econometric Society. Official Certificate Ceremony today at the World Congress in Seoul 🇰🇷 (handshake with Larry Samuelson) @econometric.bsky.social

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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 2d
Coventry Canal Basin covered in ice ❄️

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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 4d
Ideally by field 😎

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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 4d
Different estimators. Will do a proper series of posts soon(ish).
Now 💤

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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 4d
🧵 (7/N) Simulations have been running for several months and further constellations are running on the server as we speak.

We are also working on re-estimations of published papers (including our own).

Working paper coming soon 🤞

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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 4d
🧵 (6/N) We look at power.

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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 4d
🧵 (5/N) We look at size.

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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 4d
🧵 (4/N) We look at (small-sample) bias.

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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 4d
🧵 (3/N) The correction methods

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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 4d
🧵 (2/N) Our simulations

Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Kai Gehring

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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 4d
We presented results on spatial unit roots etc at ASSA 2026 in Philadelphia.
Joint work with @pdavidboll.bsky.social and @jvoth.bsky.social

Short 🧵 (1/N)

cc @andreamatranga.bsky.social @paulgp.com

Reposted by Mark Harrison, Sascha O. Becker

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CAGE Research Centre @cagewarwick.bsky.social · 5d
How have economic warfare and sanctions been applied in modern history? New book by @mark4harrison.bsky.social and Stephen Broadberry looks across three centuries of global history for clues to how economic sanctions and warfare worked and why their effects often came as a surprise.
buff.ly/2vOcWIl

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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 5d
Given the increasing geopolitical interest in the Arctic, here is some classical music to match: the stunningly beautiful "Cantus arcticus" by Einojuhani Rautavaara ❤️

open.spotify.com/track/5gyMOu...
Cantus arcticus, Op. 61, "Concerto for Birds and Orchestra": I. The Bog
open.spotify.com

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Applied Young Economist Webinar @ayew.bsky.social · 6d
🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨

Hey #EconTwitter!

We are now accepting submissions for Season 12 of the Applied Young Economist Webinar!

Deadline: Sunday, 25 January 2026

Submission: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
(Email us your paper if you cannot access it)

Details below⬇️

Reposted by Sascha O. Becker, William Myers, François Heisbourg

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Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · 6d
Incredible how little attention this is getting outside Germany. "In its third full day, a ... power failure in Berlin resulting from an arson attack...tens of thousands...making do without heat, electricity, cellphone service & warm food or drinks." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/w...
Thousands in Berlin Go Days Without Power and Cell Service After Cables Are Set on Fire
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Sascha O. Becker

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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 9d
The #QJE received 2,212 new submissions during 2024:Q4 – 2025:Q3. 1,524 (69%) submissions were desk rejected and 688 were sent to referees. If sent to referees, median days to first decision = 34.5, mean days = 39, max days = 98. Thank you for your submissions, and to our referees!

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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 10d
This is quite funny 🤣 @assameeting.bsky.social

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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 10d
@warwickecon.bsky.social
@cagewarwick.bsky.social
@sodalabs.bsky.social
@rfberlin.bsky.social
@fabricolella.bsky.social

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Scott Gehlbach @sgehlbach.bsky.social · 10d
These are great panels! Please join us if you can.

The autocracy panel features papers by

1. Liu, @luozhaotian.bsky.social, Qiu, & @shuyiyu.bsky.social

2. @jackpaine.bsky.social

3. @fantinity.bsky.social, Ritter, & Shadmehr

4. Zhaotian (again), @spantoja.bsky.social, & me
essobecker.bsky.social Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 10d
Three SIOE @sioecon.bsky.social sessions on Sat 3rd Jan 2026 at @assameeting.bsky.social Philadelphia

0800-1000: Education, Immigration, and Knowledge Diffusion

1015-1215: Econometric Issues in Comparative Economics

1430-1630: Models of Autocracy

See you there!

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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 10d
@paulinegrosjean.bsky.social
@sgehlbach.bsky.social
@pdavidboll.bsky.social

Reposted by Scott Gehlbach, Aaron Sojourner

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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 10d
Three SIOE @sioecon.bsky.social sessions on Sat 3rd Jan 2026 at @assameeting.bsky.social Philadelphia

0800-1000: Education, Immigration, and Knowledge Diffusion

1015-1215: Econometric Issues in Comparative Economics

1430-1630: Models of Autocracy

See you there!

Reposted by Ben H. Ansell, Sascha O. Becker, John Mullahy , and 1 more

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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 19d
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
www.bbc.com

Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Kim L. Scheppele, Richard S.J. Tol , and 17 more

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 29d
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

Reposted by Will Jennings, Steve Peers, Sascha O. Becker , and 7 more

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 29d
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.

They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
An interview with Twitter's Chief Product Officer title "X Wants Its Haters Back"

Reposted by Sascha O. Becker, Simon Wren‐Lewis

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Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · Dec 14
Heroic bystander, Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim man who put his own life on the line, and saved so many Jews. True safety in solidarity in action

Reposted by Sascha O. Becker

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Thijs van Rens @tvanrens.bsky.social · Dec 12
QS ranking requests are going out. If you need reminding about how awesome Warwick is, have a look at this website: warwick.ac.uk/about/excell...
Excellence at the University of Warwick
Whether it’s teaching, research or collaboration, Warwick offers a vibrant, forward-looking environment where anything feels possible.
warwick.ac.uk

Reposted by Sascha O. Becker, Alistair Munro, John D. Turner , and 4 more

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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · Dec 11
The Economic History Review has published a virtual issue collecting the contributions of 2025 Nobel Laureate Joel Mokyr in the journal. I had the privilege of writing the introductory essay. You can read it here, together with Joel's articles and reviews.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Click on the title to browse this issue
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Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics @aasle-econ.bsky.social · Dec 10
AASLE is happy to announce that #AASLE2026 will be organised by @pku1898.bsky.social in Beijing, China 10-12 December 2026. More details will follow soon and the call for papers will be announced in April 2026; stay tuned! #EconSky

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Department of Economics and Statistics, Linnaeus University @linnaeus-econ.bsky.social · Dec 9
This week we're very honored to have @essobecker.bsky.social from @warwickecon.bsky.social and @monashuniversity.bsky.social visiting us! 🤩 On Thursday, Sascha will give a seminar on "Colonialism Inc.: The Private Interests Behind Germany's Imperial Ambitions". Welcome to Växjö! www.sobecker.de

Reposted by Du Toit, Steve Peers, Sascha O. Becker , and 7 more

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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · Dec 7
After the little Musk-Sikorski spat this, and Musk's statement to abolish the EU (after the Commission fined X), let's ask ourselves simply:

HOW ARE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONERS USING X NOW?

In this 🧵 I'll document it, Commissioner by Commissioner. When did they last post? How often do they post?
The Musk - Sikorski Twitter spat

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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · Dec 7
Over the course of several Saturdays, I ran (alone) or walked (with family/colleagues) the full length of the a 78-mile (126 km) Oxford Canal, from Hawkesbury Junction (north of Coventry) to Oxford via Rugby and Banbury. Beautiful countryside ❤️

👉 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_...