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Wednesday, 23 February 2011
I should be more careful what I work on...
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you see, first I worked on (historical) bubbles, and then NASDAQ blew up... then I did research on the sovereign debt defaults, and Greece i...
Tuesday, 22 February 2011
ITFD => Yale PhD program
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One of our graduates, Moritz Lenel (ITFD 2010) just got admitted to the Ph.D. program at the Yale Economics Department. All the faculty in o...
Monday, 14 February 2011
After you, please (it's only a matter of life and death)
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Bruno Frey and friends have written a wonderful piece in the Journal of Economic Perspectives on who survived on the Titanic . They argue th...
Sunday, 13 February 2011
Inflation and diplomacy - Axel Weber edition
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Axel Weber, the current President of the Bundesbank, is resigning in May of this year. He also won't seek office as head of the ECB. The...
Monday, 7 February 2011
Ryanair, Max Weber, and the social basis of capitalism
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BBC news brings us a story of a Ryanair flight from the Canary Islands which saw a "student rebellion". Apparently, some students...
Thursday, 3 February 2011
what's in a slide?
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Jeff Ely, from the econ department at Northwestern, uses a slide from UPF doctoral candidate Peter Koudijs ' job market talk to show how...
Inflation watch...
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Who issues currency? Well, of course, governments and central banks do. But if you think about it, up to a point, airlines do, too. The mile...
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