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Thomas Koch
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For folks with on the market or for folks with folks on the market. We are looking to hire this year. Feel free to reach out with questions about the job (good), research opportunities (really good) or other aspects of being in DC (lots of different ways to live here).
The Federal Trade Commission is hiring PhD Economists (very late, because shutdown)!

Please repost/quote so JMCs can see.

- no experience: www.usajobs.gov/job/851497400
- some experience: www.usajobs.gov/job/851497300
- much experience: www.usajobs.gov/job/851496000

#Economics #EconSky
December 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Translated into economics: Taking sabbatical at TSE
October 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
If they make DeBoer a Senator do they have to pay the buy-out?
@edsbs.bsky.social @celebrityhottub.bsky.social I think y’all should see these questions I got after opting into a Republican survey in Alabama.
September 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
New work out using data collected via the Physician and Facility merger 6b. We find 2,000 mergers, across different specialties. There are a number of serial acquirers (some made more than 20 acquisitions); we also document health system involvement (about 40 percent of the mergers). t.co/EWSlOFP9ew
https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/competition-matters/2025/06/first-research-published-physician-6b-study
t.co
June 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Anyone in the NYC area (or willing to go there), here’s a great way to spend a day. If you’ve seen the paper before, I promise you at least one (1) new result.
NYC Health Econ Day is coming May 9 @ NYU Wagner! We'll have 6 great papers + lots of time to chat. Folks in the greater NYC area are invited!

RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
More info: www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-s...

Organizers: @ambond.bsky.social, Mike Dickstein, Jessica Van Parys + me
April 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
A life in economics as interpreted through Iron Chef, a thread.

“… However, I don’t think there is enough of a contribution for a general interest journal.”
March 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Does this make him more iconic in your eyes? @economeager.bsky.social
Timothee Chalamet really does know ball.

(via landryfields / Twitter)
December 10, 2024 at 11:39 AM
Reality is indistinguishable from parody
December 5, 2024 at 11:24 PM
Me, when I try to do Warrior Pose for the first time in a while.
November 30, 2024 at 1:23 AM
I need someone to explain the monetary economics behind Wicked before I consider seeing it in a theatre.
November 26, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Gentzkow, Shapiro and Sinkinson (2014)
If I take a step back and think about it, it actually makes perfect sense we would end up with a right coded social media platform and a left coded one.
November 23, 2024 at 4:32 PM