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Thursday, 23 December 2010

Application season...

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Every year, we see a similar pattern - applications to the ITFD program start slow in November, and then pick up from December onwards. Comp...
Saturday, 18 December 2010

Just how great is the euro for Germany?

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I am at a conference in Berlin on sovereign debt. Last night, at one of the many pleasant restaurants serving remarkably good food at reason...

world heritage

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The best buildings by Lluís Domènech i Montaner in Barcelona have just been designated a World Heritage Site. I always had a weak spot for h...
Friday, 10 December 2010

'tis the season ... for peddling PhDs

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What does faculty do all day? I know it's a question many students wonder about. In addition to running ITFD, the department made me pla...
Saturday, 4 December 2010

Spain believes in education...

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it pays its professors in a year what it pays its air traffic controllers in two weeks. And boy do they deliver service.
Wednesday, 1 December 2010

Investment bankers discover solution to the Euro debt problems

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The solutions spells M-O-N-E-Y. German money. Lots of it. The American journalist H.L. Mencken once joked that for every difficult problem, ...
Sunday, 28 November 2010

The bright side of the Irish crisis

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These days, it is easy to remember why economics used to be known as the "dismal science". The EU finance ministers are meeting to...
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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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