Matthias Kehrig

Duke economics professor. Answering macro questions with micro data. Productivity, firm dynamics, economics of uncertainty. Open mind, asking for the same.

[Matthias Kehrig @MacroMatthias]

@NobelPrize Exciting news coming out of Stockholm today! Was fortunate enough to have a teacher as intellectually stimulating as inspiring as Joel Mokyr. Thanks to the economic history requirement at @NorthwesternU econ 😉

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Mokyr “for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress” and the other half jointly to Aghion and Howitt “for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction.”

#NobelPrize

[Gustavo Ventura @King_ofSweden]

Today is a very, very sad day. My colleague Ed Prescott died this morning.

Needless to say, he was one of the great minds of modern economics. Ed influenced many of us in multiple ways. He will be missed greatly.

[Matthias Kehrig @MacroMatthias]

Wow! What a caliber appointment for Germany!

[Matthias Kehrig @MacroMatthias]

SVR-Mitglied Malmendier: Neue Wirtschaftsweise sieht sich in „patriotischer Mission“ via @faznet https://t.co/1HSd6zkKnI

[Matthias Kehrig @MacroMatthias]

@BachmannRudi der Freien und Mutigen 😉

[SED Meeting @SEDmeeting]

📢📢Our Program Chairs for #SED_2023 are Anmol Bhandari and Paulina-Restrepo Echaverria @paures12 📢📢

[Benjamin Born @bornecon]

Call for Papers: 4th European Midwest Micro/Macro Conference (#EM3C). Date: Frankfurt, December 2-3, 2022. Deadline: 30 June 2022. Conference will focus on role of microdata for macroeconomics. Both broadly defined, so please apply and retweet! Details: https://t.co/Kky4RFrvbk

[Matthias Kehrig @MacroMatthias]

@stroebel_econ Congratulations!!

[Matthias Kehrig @MacroMatthias]

@ThomasPHI2 Also, time variation in g could make model G fit the facts better, no?

[Matthias Kehrig @MacroMatthias]

@ThomasPHI2 Are we just jumping between the 2 models, model G for general purpose technologies (electricity, internet, AI, …), model D for incremental improvements?

[Matthias Kehrig @MacroMatthias]

Welcome to @DukeEcon - we are thrilled to have you!

[PILoSSopher @pilossopher]

Some personal news : I’ll be joining @DukeEcon in the fall as AP with my husband (he’s a Twitter lurker, no handle). Sad to leave so many awesome colleagues but excited to meet new ones . T-2 months to bring inflation to 2% 😂😂

[Matthias Kehrig @MacroMatthias]

@ufukakcigit @kielinstitute @UChi_Economics @UChicago Congrats!!

[Matthias Kehrig @MacroMatthias]

@isaacbaley @ERC_Research @bse_barcelona @econ_empresaUPF @CREIResearch Congrats!

[AEA Information @AEAInformation]

Congratulations to @itskhoki of @UCLA, winner of the 2022 John Bates Clark Medal! https://t.co/ryK2lyScCC

[Matthias Kehrig @MacroMatthias]

@BachmannRudi Unerträglich.

[Matthias Kehrig @MacroMatthias]

Putin's invasion of Ukraine could be the death knell of the entire world order as we know it. But it can be saved, write John Micklethwait and @adwooldridge https://t.co/Isghe1Z9GQ via @bopinion

[Sergei Guriev @sguriev]

Energie-Embargo gegen Putin: Das wären die Folgen laut russischen Professoren (mit Oleg @itskhoki )
https://t.co/bzDpV6Hlk7

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

This week's paper is "How to Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time", an essay from Hal Varian. While the essay is meant for economics graduate students conducting original research, it contains wisdom that can apply to anyone seeking ideas.

📝 https://t.co/KEtw1yQAF0

[Matthias Kehrig @MacroMatthias]

@OxfordFrom 1hr of work yielded 6 baguettes (or 0.6€) in 1970 and 11.5 baguettes (or 10.38€) in 2021. That’s almost 6% annual nominal wage growth, which seems a lot. Avge U.S. nominal wages grew just over 4% annually.