Lukas Mergele
Policy consultant @ BSS Economic Consultants, Basel | Economist: Public Sector, Labor Markets, Education | Dad of 3 | German-Swiss musings | trains.
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- Reposted by Lukas MergeleThe difference between Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his predecessor cannot be stronger. He has been in office for merely 4 days, but already acts like a pro. German responsibility and leadership is back.
- Germany is back 🙏
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- Reposted by Lukas Mergele🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵
- Reposted by Lukas Mergelewww.sciencealert.com/teaching-chi... #Teaching #Children #Philosophy #P4C #Semantics #Perception #WordsAreUnitsOfBrainFunction
- Reposted by Lukas MergeleNew (first! 🥳) Publication 🚨 High-street retail vacancies, capturing economic decline, are linked to increased support of UK's populist party, UKIP (now Reform).
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- Why fact checks cannot resolve debates 💡 ➡️ Fact checkers are not politically neutral themselves. Esp. when elections are ahead Great research on fact-checking by major French 🇫🇷 news outlets 👇 cc @simonschmid.pro @patrick-bernau.de @schreibermeike.bsky.social @patrickgensing.bsky.social
- Reposted by Lukas MergeleBluesky is collegial and interesting, the way Twitter used to be. Bonus: most people can spell.
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- Reposted by Lukas MergeleThe free speech website where the owner (who believes in free speech) will throttle your access if you criticize him - even if you support all the far-right conspiracy theories and bigotry he supports. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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- Share of organically farmed land 🚜, by district. Finally, a map of 🇩🇪 without obvious East-West differences, @essobecker.bsky.social @woessmann.bsky.social
- Reposted by Lukas Mergele🚨 New #Publication: We tracked how policy and parenthood reshaped gender inequality in Germany from the 1960s to today. In early decades, only 14% of the gender gap was due to kids—now it's 64%. How did children become the biggest factor? Thread🧵 🧑🤝🧑 with Hansen, @dominiksachs.bsky.social & Lüthen
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- Reposted by Lukas MergeleCDU/CSU and SPD have agreed on the coalition agreement. The Europe chapter is not visionary but leaves sufficient openings for negotiations on important topics in Brussels in the coming years: www.spd.de/fileadmin/Do... Thread on the institutional aspects:
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- Reposted by Lukas MergeleAfter being an editor for 6.5 years (4 REStud; 2.5 JEEA), I have accumulated a few suggestions that can help you avoid unnecessary rejections.
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- Reposted by Lukas Mergele“I am not willing to go public yet but I will say this: I don’t know if I would be this worried about what will happen to the economy if Bernie fucking Sanders were president,” one big Trump/GOP donor says. “That’s how bad this is… www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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- The madness continues. Tariffs on pharmaceuticals to be added soon... www.swissinfo.ch/eng/multinat...
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- Reposted by Lukas MergeleOur forecast of the Canadian election is live 📈🇨🇦 We give the Liberal Party an 83% chance of winning the most seats on 28th April www.economist.com/interactive/...
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- Reposted by Lukas MergeleThe 7 largest Dow Jones drops in American history: 1. Trump, 3/16/20 -2,997.10 2. Trump, 3/12/20 -2,352.60 3. Trump, 3/9/20 -2,013.76 4. Trump, 6/11/20 -1,861.82 5. Trump, 4/3/25 -1,679.39 6. Trump, 3/11/20 -1,464.94 7. Trump, 03/18/20 -1,338.46 Tired of winning yet?
- Reposted by Lukas MergeleFor no particular reason, it might be a good time to repost my Starter pack of academic economists who study international trade go.bsky.app/G3dqAYgat://did:plc:5lx3dcofejsk5zdkqrd5rzmn/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3l2jll7uuaw2e
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- Trump hit Switzerland 🇨🇭 with a 32% "reciprocal" tariff 📉📈 💡 BUT: Effective tariff is only 18% as some goods were exempted. In particular, pharmaceuticals 💊 They are making up about one fourth of Swiss exports to US. Global Trade Alert computed effective tariff rates w/ exceptions 👇
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- Die wichtigste deutsche Regionalzeitung für das Dreiländereck D-CH-FR
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- Reposted by Lukas MergeleA very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels. Q: But you’re foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
