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Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Portugal

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In all the bruhaha about Greece's approaching credit event, people have taken their eyes of Portugal. The country is going down the Gree...
Saturday, 14 January 2012

what students really think

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Bryan Caplan over at the Library of Economics and Liberty has some clever applications of Kahnemann's ideas to economic matters , as ill...
Wednesday, 11 January 2012

more pay

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equals lower quality. There is a lesson for how to balance the budgets of European countries in this interesting paper by Raymond Fisman, Ni...

Vatican appoints Catholics as cardinals

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Apparently, the Vatican cribbed the cv's of the 22 new cardinals from their wikipedia entries.... Via BBC : One clue was that many new c...

another year...

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another job market, and I am in charge of placement. So far, our 7 candidates had 129 interviews; two   three  five days after the Chicago A...
Wednesday, 4 January 2012

Another day at the fiscal dentist... without anaesthesia

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What's the effect of fiscal policy during a downturn? Somewhat to the embarrassment of the profession, economists only agree that multip...
Sunday, 11 December 2011

of apes and men

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Scientific American has an excellent article on group violence and socio-economic stress, by Eric Johnson: The portrait of a powerful leade...
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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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