Mark Hallerberg
Professor, Hertie School in Berlin.
- This data should not be overlooked even if it confirms your priors.
- Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter (1/2) How one year of ‘America First’ has left workers behind: as.ft.com/r/888fc154-4...
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- 79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
- Many congrats to Joel Mokyr for being selected as one of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics. His work on technology and economic growth inspired me some years ago as a grad student. He is one of the shining lights working in Economic History.
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- German Finance Minister Klingbeil speaks at the Jacques Delors Centre at Hertie concerning Germany‘s role in Europe. He said the right things about the need for what would amount to a capital markets union.
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- Interesting article, but something is missing here. German breads are more complex, often having little to no wheat in them. A bakery near us replaced all wheat with spelt. More generally white bread is rare. This may also explain the difference with the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
- Welcome @epssnet.bsky.social ! I plan to be in Belfast at the first conference next year.
- 🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵
- The DFG Excellence Cluster @scripts-berlin.eu is hiring a key member of staff, our Managing Director. This person will work with a great group of academics across Berlin, including with me. Note that one needs both German and English. More here: www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...
- Berlusconi appointed himself as Treasury Minister. He even attended an ECOFIN meeting in this role. Why not an American President as Fed Chair? Especially one who has a lot of parallels to Berlusconi? (Just to be clear—I do NOT think this is a good idea. But Trump‘s comment does not surprise me.)
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- 📢 Come work with us! 🏛️ Faculty of Economics & Statistics, UIBK @econstatuibk.bsky.social @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social ‼️ Three job openings for Full Professor positions - Data Science - Microeconomics - Behavioral Economics Please share! #datascience #economics www.uibk.ac.at/de/info-beru...
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- This makes me so angry. You don’t call in the National Guard on a peaceful protest. A protest the THE POLICE say is a peaceful protest.
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- Great speech at the #HertieSchool from Christine Lagarde on what it would take for the euro to overtake the dollar as the world’s main reserve currency
- Good news!
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- Tech is where Europe is most vulnerable. Initiatives like this one are a good start.
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- This is very cool. I hope others copy this excellent work, and that we all learn from greater data transparency
- This agreement on the citizenship laws is a big deal, and the right decision. It is also against what Merz said on the campaign.
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- Excellent piece from @andrearoemmele.bsky.social in @spiegel.de today. Indeed, time to change the status quo in Germany’s democracy
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- „Germany and Europe need to become more independent from other continents. Also in the field of health“ —Berlins Mayor Kai Wegner at the New Year Reception at Charité in Berlin
- This is an important point. If this all morphs into a financial crisis the nature of the game is different, and more dangerous. The question is whether Trump can calm markets. The response might have to come from the Fed.
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- I wonder why…
- This is indeed the best way forward—a free trade coalition of the willing, to include the UK , EU, Japan, Canada, and (he notes) even China. I would add that the domestic politics to do this are tough. I would still encourage the leaders of these countries to try. www.thetimes.com/article/06e1...
- I have been hearing the Chinese perspective on the US too. It is that the US is having its Mao Moment, it’s Cultural Revolution. Consistent in both is deep skepticism of academics. Friedman goes through the geopolitical consequences and why this time is a lot worse for the rest of the world.
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- This is an intriguing piece that argues how US policy will hurt American tech, and American factories. Just when China moves ahead in some tech fields the US cracks down on researchers at home and makes inputs from abroad more expensive. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...
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- Anyone who plans to fly into the US should check the advice from the ACLU on what types of actions against you are legal. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
- Something in common in these stories is that one’s phone is checked. As university leadership we have an obligation to protect our people. European universities routinely make burner phones available for staff going to China. One should consider this for staff headed to the US as well.
- This is the fourth story I have seen about different Germans with seemingly correct paperwork either being sent back or detained this week. I have heard two personal stories. It is getting to the point where it is hard to recommend to German friends to go to the US. www.spiegel.de/panorama/cel...
- This is the fourth story I have seen about different Germans with seemingly correct paperwork either being sent back or detained this week. I have heard two personal stories. It is getting to the point where it is hard to recommend to German friends to go to the US. www.spiegel.de/panorama/cel...
- This is where EVs need to go. I hope the claim is true, and that this becomes standard for all EVs in the coming years.
- Indeed. This is one reason why a Masters in Data Science for Public Policy literally pays off. And you do work that benefits the public.
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- There was a time when the Germans would have been front and center as well. Lame duck Chancellor? This time it is about security? Germans wouldn’t be expected to contribute troops on the ground in any peace deal?
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- Reposted by Mark HallerbergI got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org
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- I understand more defense spending. But the cut to development spending is a bad decision. A Tory-Lib Dem government in 2010 made big cuts in most areas but kept aid spending at .7 percent of GDP. A Labour government with now drop spending to less than half that. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- 84 percent turnout. Decent jump for Germany. Huge difference to what one sees in the US.
- The German polls are closed. The big question is whether the FDP and BSW manage 5 percent and get in after all. But no denying a big slap to the SPD, and the rise of the AfD especially in the East.
- So even the far right in Europe thinks Trump is too far right
- So much winning
- Why German intercity trains are even worse than Britain’s www.thetimes.com/article/a09d...
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- Reposted by Mark HallerbergIf you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
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- There is a saying about “an own goal.” Closing USAID is about throwing away any attempt to compete at all, in any season, in much of the world.
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- „if a North American trade war persists, it will qualify as one of the dumbest in history.“ From a Murdoch paper no less
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- Trump has made clear through his appointments he cares about loyalty, not competence. It is pretty rich to blame previous administrations for selective hires. He has shown no interest in competence to date. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...
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- This is pretty astounding. Would think that the lack of turnover through elections at most levels of government is a key reason.
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- There are obvious parallels to the Tories in the UK, who seemed to have all sorts of scandals after Johnson became PM (and some before). I am not sure, though, that the American public will care.
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- Reposted by Mark HallerbergThe usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s
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- Trump‘s victory represents a huge challenge to Europe. Europe needs a confident Germany. #Scholz is right to call new elections, but they should be called now. To have the campaign start in Germany mid-January when Trump enters office is too late. #neuwahlen #EuropeanUnion
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