In this week’s @TheEconomist, I take a closer look at the economic costs of sexual harassment. They are huge. economist.com/finance-and-ec…
My starting point is the second #MeToo moment in economics itself, where new and old cases have emerged, and female academics simply had enough.
But I was also intrigued by the economic research on sexual harassment, looking at costs (huge), labour market effects (awful), internal firm dynamics (somewhat encouraging) etc.
I am also very grateful to Anna (not her real name) for sharing her story with me. It takes a lot of courage to do that, and helped me (and hopefully our readers) to appreciate the viciousness of sexual harassment.
Here are the papers. @johannarickne and @OlleFolke on whether victims of sexual harassment leave the workplace and what they are willing to give up to be free of it. (And lots more, it's 3 papers in 1.) drive.google.com/file/d/1Ma0U6i…
Another paper on the compensating wage differential of sexual harassment. It adds up to a whopping $9.3m per filed case (in today's $) in the US. By @Joni_Hersch. law.vanderbilt.edu/phd/faculty/jo…
A paper using shockingly good data on employment and police reports, to uncover patters of abuse and their consequences, including what female bosses do differently, by @EmilyNix100, @abicadams, @KristiinaHuttu2 and @ningzhang0927. drive.google.com/file/d/1Lt96KM…
@EmilyNix100 @abicadams @KristiinaHuttu2 @ningzhang0927 What happens to sexual harassment reporting during recession, ie when victims do not have as many outside options? This paper, Gordon Dahl and Matt Knepper, is really good. And depressing. docs.iza.org/dp14740.pdf
A job market paper by @Caro_cly (w/ @BatutCyprien and @sschneiderstraw) on #MeToo, whether women simply have had enough and if they are leaving places with high risk of sexual harassment. dropbox.com/s/mcd49hi469a9…
A paper, slightly tangential to sexual harassment: how do bosses react to #misconduct? Do men tolerate male misconduct more than women do? Mark Egan, Gregor Matvos and Amit Seru have the answer. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
Bonus paper: @EmilyNix100, @MarttiKaila & @kristariukula on labour market shocks and intergenerational mobility. (It's used in my piece to compare the labour shock from harassment). The paper is pretty cool. marttikaila.com/assets/docs/Ea…
Bonus article: @AnnieLowrey on #MeToo in economics and how it affects everyone, feat. @BetseyStevenson. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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Was curious whether #hydro power in Europe will make a comeback in 2023 (after a bad 2022), so I wrote a little explainer. economist.com/the-economist-…
European #water reservoir levels in 2022 were very low. They are slowly recovering, in part because policy forced a refill. ImageImage
The shortfall of #hydro power is remarkable, 112 TWh less to date in 2022 than in 2021. And this is largely a flexible source of generation that often drives out marginal plants like #gas. Image
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Oct 3
The EU is responding to Germany's €200bn package with a @ThierryBreton / @PaoloGentiloni op-ed in FAZ.

In short: let's fund furlough schemes SURE-style at the European level, because national bazookas are unfair. faz.net/aktuell/wirtsc…
@ThierryBreton @PaoloGentiloni Very much enjoyed their subtle subtweeting of Germany's track record on carbon emissions (terrible) and energy policy (godawful). Nominal debt, they argue, is just one measure.
"Nominal debt excludes that each state has made decisions in the past on whether and how to pursue goals of common European interests [👋Nordstream], that then led to an uneven burden on budgets."
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Germany's consumption of around 1000 TWh of #gas per year just got a lot more expensive.

We used to pay <1% of GDP for gas. At €300, it will be ... 8.4% of GDP. Eightpointfourpercent.
Any chance for a friendly discount, @Norway?
So the idea that Germany can continue to cultivate its national neurosis on #nuclear power and #fracking is clearly incompatible with the gas futures market.
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Germany is currently producing 47% of its power from #solar.

Imagine how much that would be, had #Merkel's governments not, mostly for fiscal reasons, killed the solar roll-out after 2012?
(And the chart is in MW, not €. It is *a lot* cheaper now to build 10GW solar than it was a decade ago.)
Had Germany kep the pace of 8 GW per year since 2012, its solar capacity would be almost twice as large now (106 GW vs. the 58 GW today).

During sunny days like today, renewables would probably generate 100% of our power.
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That Annalena #Baerbock has a 74% approval rating for her handling of the #Ukraine war (it’s a war, @ZDF, not a crisis) is remarkable, esp compared to #Scholz’ dismal 50%. Image
Germans’ support for “heavy weapons like tanks” deliveries to #Ukraine continues to be high, though I would have hoped this to be north of 60%. SPD scaremongering has a price. Image
Support for Ukraine’s #EU membership, however, is surprisingly high, at 62%. The German public, IIRC, was never a big fan of enlargement. Enlargement to Ukraine would be a big deal for the EU. Image
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Our cover this week. Image
The briefing to go with that food crisis cover is of course a must-read: brilliantly written, very comprehensive. economist.com/briefing/2022/…
"Welcome to the era of climate change." Our leader on the food crisis lays out the policy options. economist.com/leaders/2022/0…
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