Wednesday, 6 April 2011

When the facts change, I change my mind

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About a year ago, I illustrated the standard debt-sustainability calculations with the case of Greece . If you plug in plausible numbers for...
Thursday, 17 March 2011

finally... a radio program I have been waiting for for over a decade

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If you visit a British bookstore, you can find the European history corner by looking for a monumental collection of swastikas on the shelve...
Thursday, 10 March 2011

First UPF doctoral candidate to go on the RES tour

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The Economist recently profiled some interesting research showing that European output of scholarly articles was growing faster than that o...

Persistence over the very long run.

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I am over at Harvard for a few days, giving a talk tomorrow. Nico Voigtländer and I have a bunch of papers on the long-run consequences of t...
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...