Christian Matthes
@cmatthes_econ
@nd_econ Economics Professor. @goetheuni / @nyuniversity alumnus.
Connor Brennan, Maggie Jacobson, Todd Walker, and I have now made the shock series we created for our “Monetary Policy Shocks: Data or Methods?” paper public. Any comments are greatly appreciated! Data: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/MQ… Paper: cm1518.github.io/files/BMW.pdf
Slight correction: ONE OF Germany’s Russia-puppet parties.
Germany's Russia-puppet party had to expel a guy for standing up for Western Civilization
🎓 Today I delivered the final lecture of @Penn_Exchange’s Foundations of Economic Thought summer course by focusing on the evolution of macroeconomics from 1970 to 2000: 🔗 sites.google.com/view/foundatio… 🧠 Unsurprisingly, @UMN_Econ features prominently in the story (although…
Macht einen großen Unterschied, ob man die Flasche in Deutschland oder den USA kauft
Mein Kiel Report "Quo vadis, USA?" ist da (Link im naechsten Tweet). Ich bin @kielinstitute und @MSchularick sehr dankbar, dass ich mal etwas ausfuehrlicher meine Gedanken zur aktuellen politischen, gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Situation in den USA aufschreiben konnte.
Always a pleasure to hear @George_J_Hall talk about fiscal policy!
New episode! George Hall on the Fiscal Consequences of the US War on COVID George (@George_J_Hall) and @DavidBeckworth explain how the US has handled primary deficits like the French instead of like the British since the year 2000.
“Expected data revisions”. If you expect data revisions to have a non zero mean you should really improve your data collection/imputation
...soft for the rest of 2025" 3) labor market weaker than it looks: "once we account for expected data revisions, private-sector payroll growth is near stall speed" All fair points, but I'd push back on 1 & 3 (agree on 2). On 1, prob right but too soon to tell. Agree w Powell...
Well, if you want to talk to a German academic, you should be able to speak German.
An important paper. Congrats @ALashkaripour and Farid!
We study how trade policy can reduce global emissions. Unilateral carbon border taxes have limited efficacy at cutting foreign emissions. By contrast, coordinated trade penalties under a climate club prove highly effective. econometricsociety.org/publications/e…
Just checked the Palmeiras lineup for the game against Chelsea, and, to be frank, I think it’s a huge missed opportunity that Everton never signed Brazilian goalie Weverton.
Mehr Bild geht nicht - ein Highlight des deutschen Journalismus! m.bild.de/politik/inland…
A great data source. The ECB Area-Wide Model Database was discontinued for a some time. EABCN took the job over. Let your macroeconomist friends know that the updated data (and, as a bonus, measures of output gap) are here: eabcn.org/data/area-wide…