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Monday, 17 April 2017

Trump and Hitler III - Jack Goldstone update

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It's not often that one gets emails from the famous out of the blue, but I got a kind note from Jack Goldstone the other day. He had co...

When markets love the bad boys

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First it was Trump; now it's Erdogan. Something "bad" happens in terms of future governance, in a democracy -- either the e...
Thursday, 22 December 2016

Ego trips to the grave: Status competition among German fighter pilots during World War II

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Philipp Ager, Leonardo Bursztyn and I have a new working paper , called "Killer Incentives: Status Competition and Pilot Performance d...
Tuesday, 15 November 2016

For once...

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I was just handling a submission at the EJ. All 3 reports were in after 54 days. Two said r+r, one said accept with revisions. Accepted con...
Monday, 14 November 2016

German Cronyism and State Banks

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Some 15 years ago, Ron McKinnon asked me why German state banks were not a source of major corruption, as they were in Brazil. I told him I...
Thursday, 10 November 2016

Trump and Hitler - Part II -- The Shadows of 1933

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Continuing my earlier post... after being asked by many friends and acquaintances about this, here is my attempt to think through the tr...
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Trump and Hitler - Part II -- The Shadows of 1933

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Continuing my earlier post... after being asked by many friends and acquaintances about this, here is my attempt to thi...
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Joachim Voth
Zurich, Switzerland
I hold the UBS Chair in Macroeconomics and Financial Markets. My blog contains updates on research findings, observations on economic policy, and thoughts on research.
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