Excellent piece in @bundesbank’s latest Monthly Report on how geopolitics is reshaping Germany’s external assets. (Yes, I’m biased.)
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https://t.co/yRQ3WS8MId
Rising geopolitics ≠ fragmented investment.
German foreign direct investment stayed global (2002-22), with no shift toward geopolitical allies once gravity factors are controlled for.
New paper w/ @sgoldbach in Economics Letters.
https://t.co/XvSyWkgAw6
Huge thanks to Gabriel @Ahlfeldt for taking the initiative! The seminar offers an excellent research environment. Super inspiring and truly motivating, even on a Friday afternoon. 😃
What a fabulous 2025 https://t.co/ziW9wvXDlf seminar season it has been! Thanks to all the co-organizers, our manager @immanuelfeld, all speakers, guests, and locals! You have been a fantastic spatial community! https://t.co/iWFsQTLUdX
Happy to announce that our paper "Cryptocurrencies and capital flows: evidence from El Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin" (together with @nitschv) is forthcoming in Applied Economics Letters.
https://t.co/OYsrhN2Nyj
Happy to announce that our paper "Retained Earnings, Foreign Portfolio Ownership, and the German Current Account: A Firm-Level Approach" (together with Philipp Harms, Axel Jochem, @nitschv and @AlfonsJ64) is forthcoming in German Economic Review.
https://t.co/7I7PL6M5Z5
Where to look for the analysis of economic sanctions?
Here is a special issue in the Review of Inernational Economics.
It also covers a great article by my colleague @sgoldbach on the effect of financial sanctions on trade in goods and services.
https://t.co/b66umKRGW9
Happy to announce that our paper "The effects of sanctions on Russian banks in TARGET2 transactions data" (together with Constantin Drott and @nitschv) is forthcoming in Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization.
https://t.co/AmB5ltbvMo
After years of Covid, #UNGA is back as the largest diplomatic gathering in the world. But does face-to-face diplomacy really matter?
@fp21org's Sanjana Patel weighs in with a survey of the available research: https://t.co/gBYGVjmoo5
Happy to announce that our paper "Smart or smash? The effect of financial sanctions on trade in goods and services" (together with @TBesedes and
@nitschv) is forthcoming in Review of International Economics.
https://t.co/iUieoRorAS
New WP on German current account: missing correction for retained corp earnings attributable to foreign portfolio investors overestimated surplus by some 5% in 2012-2020 period. @nitschv@SAFE_FRANKFURT@GFelbermayr https://t.co/NXx8emB1AL @MartinBraml https://t.co/Ud27BfhyA8