Tim Deisemann

Associate Economist at the Office of the Chief Economist, EBRD Development, Structural Transformation & the Environment

[Tim Deisemann @timdeisemann]

📣 Check out our policy brief about varietal misidentification and fertiliser use in Ethiopia! 🌽👨‍🌾

Thanks to VoxDev for giving us the opportunity to summarise the findings of our research. You can find the full paper here at https://t.co/3PcOa1xALH 🧵1/n

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

🆕 Farmers hold false beliefs about the seeds they grow – and it matters for efficiency

Today on VoxDev, Douglas Gollin @TuftsUniversity, @NilsBohr2, @timdeisemann @EBRD, Frédéric Kosmowski @CGIAR & @TravisLybbert @UCDavisARE outline their research ⤵️
https://t.co/PwgMJKul9P

[Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas]

1/ Microcredit 2.0: what will it look like?

The classic microloan is rigid: repayment starts immediately and stays flat every month. That made microcredit scalable. It's also why it fits a farmer paid after the harvest, or a craftsperson whose sales peak at a festival, badly...

[jasperanders @_asperanders]

I built .bdf to easily share html directly from my agents.

I use Claude a lot to create html slides and documents, but sharing plain html with others is annoying.

.bdf gives you a shareable link in a single prompt.

give it a try: https://t.co/bRkeBlXnId

[Tim Deisemann @timdeisemann]

Check this out! 🔥

[jasperanders @_asperanders]

I built .bdf to easily share html directly from my agents.

I use Claude a lot to create html slides and documents, but sharing plain html with others is annoying.

.bdf gives you a shareable link in a single prompt.

give it a try: https://t.co/du8Op2weov

[jasperanders @_asperanders]

I built .bdf to easily share html directly from my agents.

I use Claude a lot to create html slides and documents, but sharing plain html with others is annoying.

.bdf gives you a shareable link in a single prompt.

give it a try: https://t.co/du8Op2weov

[pablo @pablogguz_]

for decades, favourable age structures boosted output per capita growth in most of the world. that era is now over.

in our new piece for @EconObservatory, @federicacoelli and i look at how falling birth rates could reshape the global economy

https://t.co/K3QTiJkgs9

[pablo @pablogguz_]

one more week to apply! the office of the chief economist at the EBRD is hiring summer interns to work on our flagship report

we look for phd/master's students (or recent grads) in econ (or related quantitative fields), strong technical skills and experience making sense of large-scale datasets

3+ months between april-september, based in london

apply by feb 1 👇
https://t.co/THEs90GWyM

[Zsoka Koczan @ZsokaKoczan]

Our @EBRD ‘Life in Transition Survey: Getting to know the EBRD’s new countries of operation in sub-Saharan Africa’ special report is now out!

Full report: https://t.co/PC8x6GOqLb

Data: https://t.co/3vz6IfhRCH

[Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas]

🌟3rd Accelerating Growth for Women Entrepreneurs Research Conference! 🌟

Join us in London, 27-28 October, for two days of cutting-edge research on female entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Keynote: Marianne Bertrand (Chicago Booth)

Sign up 👉 https://t.co/PbwpsAVc5h !

[Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas]

🗣️We're hiring! @EBRD' Office of the Chief Economist is hiring an Associate Economist

Apply 👉 https://t.co/rSVbBG92hv

@alplekhanov @BJavorcik @cevatgirayaksoy
@helenaschweiger @federicacoelli
@michellebrock55 @timdeisemann
@anton_grahed

[Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas]

Join @EBRD's Office of the Chief Economist as one of our 5 Summer Interns! Apply👇

https://t.co/7mmuzl4nxn

@alplekhanov @BJavorcik @cevatgirayaksoy @helenaschweiger @federicacoelli @michellebrock55 @timdeisemann @anton_grahed @pablogguz_ @ZsokaKoczan @maxchupilkin @fra_loiacono

[VoxEU @voxeu]

Social mobility and digital divides in emerging economies: Evidence from the 4th wave of the Life in Transition Survey
@ralphdehaas @EBRD @LeuvenEconomics, @pablogguz_ @EBRD, @ZsokaKoczan @EBRD, Victoria Marino @EBRD
https://t.co/CNzWqi701Z

[Tim Deisemann @timdeisemann]

@thesamasher @ERC_Research @devdatalab Congrats, Sam!

[Cevat Giray Aksoy @cevatgirayaksoy]

Our latest Transition Report is out now!

“Navigating Industrial Policy”, sheds light on industrial policies across the EBRD regions and beyond, citing their mixed track record & presenting key principles for improving their success rate.

Full report: https://t.co/BZPLsaezke

[The EBRD @EBRD]

Our new Transition Report is out!

Watch back a fantastic discussion from the launch of #EBRDtr 2024-25 'Navigating Industrial Policy'
https://t.co/QjP0z5tFyH

@Columbia's @JosephEStiglitz @FT's @RanaForoohar @Bruegel_org's @jzettelmeyer @BJavorcik @richardporter

[The EBRD @EBRD]

Read @voxeu's "The visible hand of the state: Industrial policies in emerging markets" column on this year’s #EBRDtr: https://t.co/7DRfjsk7eX

This is the 1st in a series of 3 columns highlighting the findings in #EBRDtr 2024-25.

@ZsokaKoczan @alplekhanov & Victoria Marino

[Cevat Giray Aksoy @cevatgirayaksoy]

📢Call for papers!

We are organising 6th Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration on 22-23 May 2025 in Madrid!

Keynotes: Leah Boustan (Princeton) and Dean Yang (Michigan)

Submit your papers before January 26, 2025: https://t.co/oDqezqQVUS

[Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas]

📢We're hiring! @EBRD's Office of the Chief Economist seeks a Research Economist

Open to all career stages:

➡️PhD candidates
➡️Post-docs
➡️Current tenure-track/tenured faculty

https://t.co/mICnxhQI7j

https://t.co/aSglHYUl4x

[The EBRD @EBRD]

Our fourth round of the Life in Transition Survey, conducted across 37 economies provides an overview of changes in people's lives and attitudes is out.

It highlights rising inequality of opportunity and diminishing intergenerational mobility.

https://t.co/SetEkrg8UI

[Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas]

📢Join us on October 2nd at our London HQ for the launch of the 4th Life in Transition Survey (LiTS)! 📢

@essobecker, @fhgferreira , @IvailoIzvorski, @mnebiler
, Ambar Narayan , @EBRD, @ZsokaKoczan,
@pablogguz_, @kseniayakustidi

Register here 👇

https://t.co/z8lcEYZ8u7

[Tim Deisemann @timdeisemann]

• Some farmers use less fertilizer than they would with correct information.
• Others appear to use more fertilizer than they would with correct information.
• This leads to substantial misallocation of fertilizer across the country. (3/n)

[Tim Deisemann @timdeisemann]

📣 Check out our policy brief about varietal misidentification and fertiliser use in Ethiopia! 🌽👨‍🌾

Thanks to VoxDev for giving us the opportunity to summarise the findings of our research. You can find the full paper here at https://t.co/3PcOa1xALH 🧵1/n

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

🆕 Farmers hold false beliefs about the seeds they grow – and it matters for efficiency

Today on VoxDev, Douglas Gollin @TuftsUniversity, @NilsBohr2, @timdeisemann @EBRD, Frédéric Kosmowski @CGIAR & @TravisLybbert @UCDavisARE outline their research ⤵️
https://t.co/PwgMJKul9P