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🚀 CIDER Cohort V is now open for applications! ✨ Could the College for Interdisciplinary Educational Research (CIDER) be the right opportunity for you? Apply by 18 October 2026 Find out more and apply: www.leibniz-bildung.de/wp-content/u... #CIDER #EducationalResearch #EarlyCareerResearchers #LERN

“Experience Effects and Central Banking — Inflation Expectations, Anchoring, and Policy Rates” — thank you, Ulrike Malmendier, for a thought-provoking keynote! It is an honor to have you with us in Innsbruck! @UCBerkeley @UniInnsbruck #VfSConf_2026 #EconTwitter #BehavioralEconomics

Thank you to everyone who made #VfSConf_2026 in Innsbruck such a memorable Annual Conference — organizers, keynote speakers, panelists, presenters, partners and participants! Congratulations to all award winners and our new honorary members. 👏

🏆 Der Hermann-Heinrich-Gossen-Preis 2026 geht an Christopher Roth! Der Verein für Socialpolitik zeichnet ihn für seine innovative Forschung an den Schnittstellen von #Verhaltensökonomik, #Makroökonomik, Politischer Ökonomie & Psychologie aus. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 🎉

🎓 A highlight of #VfS_Conf2026: yesterday’s Johann Heinrich von Thünen Lecture by Philipp Strack on „(Mis-)Understanding Quotas. Thank you for an inspiring lecture and stimulating insights“! 👏 @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social #VfS_Conf2026 #EconTwitter #ThünenLecture

🏆 Der Carl-Menger-Preis 2026 geht an Benjamin Born! Der VfS zeichnet den Bonner Makroökonomen für seine herausragende Forschung zu Konjunkturzyklen sowie Geld- und Fiskalpolitik aus. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 🎉 Danke an SNB, @oenb und @DeutscheBundesbank. #VfSConf_2026

🔍 Open Access: What do current transformations in academic publishing mean for economics? Join Juliane Finger, Anne Lipp, Kurt Schmidheiny and Klaus M. Schmidt for the VfS Panel. #VfS_Conf2026 #OpenAccess #EconTwitter @ZBW @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social

🎓 Warum treffen Menschen Entscheidungen, die klassische ökonomische Modelle nur schwer erklären können? Matthew Rabin (Harvard) zeigt in seiner Keynote auf der #VfSConf_2026, wie Fairness, die Absichten anderer und unser Umgang mit Gewinnen und Verlusten Entscheidungen prägen.

Thank you, Ernst Fehr, for an inspiring first keynote on social preferences, behavioral heterogeneity and predictive power. 👏 What a great start to the core conference! @UZH_en @UniInnsbruck #VfS_Conf2026 #EconTwitter #BehavioralEconomics

🏆 The 2026 Reinhard Selten Prize goes to David Gstrein (@ZEW)! His research shows that it matters whether we tax business wealth or profits: Lower wealth taxation can lead to higher investment and wages. Congratulations! 🎉 #VfS_Conf2026 #PublicFinance #TaxPolicy

#VfS_Conf2026 starts today in Innsbruck! 🎉 We’re kicking off with workshops and tonight’s Welcome Reception — including the Reinhard Selten Award Ceremony. We wish all participants a great start to the conference! #VfS_Conf2026 #EconTwitter

Über Replizierbarkeit und Politikberatung diskutiere ich mit @monika-schnitzer.com @jrgptrs.bsky.social und @apeichl.bsky.social beim #ZBW Panel der Jahrestagung @vfsecon.bsky.social am 15.9. um 14:00 an der @uniinnsbruck.social.uibk.ac.at.ap.brid.gy. Ich freue mich auf eine spannende Debatte! 2/2

📢 Early-career economists, take note! #VfS_Conf2026 offers a Jobmarket Preparation Seminar, a Mentoring Workshop for Women, a Bundesbank career workshop and a workshop for First Generation Academics. #VfS_Conf2026 #EconTwitter #VfS_Nachwuchsförderung @UniInnsbruck

Mark your calendars! This year’s Johann Heinrich von Thünen Lecture will be given by Philipp Strack. Join us for one of the traditional highlights of the VfS Annual Conference. 🗓️ 14/09 | 🕡 18:45–19:45 #VfS_Conf2026 #ThünenLecture #EconTwitter @UniInnsbruck

www.deutschlandfunk.de/europaeische... Wie fest sind Inflationserwartungen eigentlich verankert? Genau hier setzt Ulrike Malmendier in ihrer Keynote auf der #VfS_Conf2026 an und zeigt, wie persönliche Inflationserfahrungen unsere Erwartungen und damit auch die Geldpolitik prägen. 📅 16.09. | 🕛 12 Uhr

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Already excited about this year’s VfS awards? At #VfS_Conf2026 we will honor the recipients of the Reinhard Selten, Carl Menger, Hermann Heinrich Gossen and Gustav Stolper Awards — and welcome three new honorary members of the VfS. @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social

We are looking forward to Ulrike Malmendier’s keynote on “Experience Effects and Central Banking — Inflation Expectations, Anchoring, and Policy Rates”. 🗓️16/09 | 🕛12:00 #VfS_Conf2026 #BehavioralEco #EconTwitter @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social nsbruck

At the VfS Annual Conference 2026, don’t miss Matthew Rabin’s keynote: 🗣 “Risky Living” 🗓️ 14/09 | 🕑 14:00 A keynote on risk attitudes, loss aversion and everyday consumption decisions. #VfS_Conf2026 #EconTwitter #BehavioralEconomics @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social

Behavioral economics in action: How can insights from behavioral economics inform policymakers, firms and consumers? Join Ernst Fehr, Martin Kocher and Ulrike Malmendier for the Core Conference Panel. 🗓️ 15/09 | 🕔 17:00–18:00 #VfS_Conf2026 #EconTwitter #BehavioralEconomics

Less than two weeks to go: VfS Chair Klaus M. Schmidt opens the VfS Annual Conference on 14/09 at 11:00. 🎤 The opening will be followed by Ernst Fehr’s keynote “The Fundamental Properties, Stability and Predictive Power of Social Preferences”.

www.ubscenter.uzh.ch/en/news_even... Looking forward to hearing more from her as a keynote speaker at this year’s VfS Annual Conference! #VfS2026 #Keynote3