Economist | Head of Data Science @Eco_Austria | Affiliate Member and PhD from @LearningCCL @UT1Capitole | Lecturer @WU_Econ
Wien / Toulouse
Joined March 2014
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📢New paper in PNAS!
How rich was Vienna at the time of Mozart or Tuscany at the time of Michelangelo? Historical GDPs per capita are scarce, leaving this unanswered.
Here, we provide new estimates using machine learning to augment historical GDPs per capita. /1 🧵
Austria's demand for computing power is already 4–5 times higher than its domestic data centre capacity.
That's one of the key findings of a new study we published today.
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Our new study, commissioned by the Vienna Business Agency, examines these trade-offs and provides an evidence base for the City of Vienna's data centre strategy.
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Did you treat yourself to fine dining over the summer break, maybe even at a starred restaurant? ⭐️ Then, @joukoda and I have cooked something up for you. 🍽️
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As you can see below, ingredients that appear in the same dishes end up close to each other on one shared space, and a kitchen shows up as a constellation in that space. Every kitchen has a report card, so you can make an informed decision for your next visit. 🧐
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Have a look at starcatcher.eu. The platform is in alpha, so we are still testing and improving it, and we are still unsure where exactly it will lead us. All comments, feedback and ideas are welcome, please send it to us!
Bon appetit! 😉
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Philipp Koch retweeted
The second section begins with
"Estimating a temporally consistent measure of Economic Complexity" by Philipp Koch (EcoAustria). @LearningCCL @iibf_ytu @philippmkoch
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Developed economies are increasingly worried about losing capabilities.
This week on the FT I explore: How Economies Forget.
giftarticle.ft.com/giftartic…
(Gift link only available for a limited number of views).
Edited by @LorienKite
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📜NEW: Towards a Dynamic Theory of Economic Complexity
We develop a dynamic model of economic complexity that predicts the emergence of conditional convergence and explains the dynamics of the product space.
Let's dig into the model & the math/1 👇🧵
(arxiv.org/abs/2512.10672)
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How it started/How it's going.
The Infinite Alphabet is out today, globally on Kindle and across bookstores in the UK.
If you are curious about the history of learning curves, disruptive innovation, knowledge diffusion, and economic complexity, this book is for you.
If you are curious about the development of entrepreneurship in Beijing, how Vespa's were born from helicopters, and how a 21-year old started a manufacturing revolution in the US, this book is for you.
It took me years to collect these stories and I hope you enjoy learning from them as much as I did.
Many thanks to the excellent team at @penguinrandom to help turn years of research into a fun and dynamic book.
Get your copy, gift one to a friend, or help me spread the word :-).
I'll be posting snippets, events, and more in the coming days.
🌍 Next to value added embodied in international trade, embodied emissions are gaining increasing attention, especially in the policy space. Take carbon border adjustment mechanisms. But how have emissions and value-added embodied in trade evolved over the past decades?
Check out our paper (joint w/ @virag_bitto, Jonathan Steininger & Wolfgang Schwarzbauer) in Structural Change and Economic Dynamics for more details: doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.20…
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We also built an interactive dashboard to explore specific GVCs: sp-ecoaustria.shinyapps.io/s… (thanks to our former student assistant Simon Perschke!). Have a look 😉
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