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Thursday, 31 May 2012

Ode to the missing envelopes...

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If you look at income statistics, things are not so bleak in Spain. Wages are falling only a bit; GDP will contract by, maybe, 2-3% this yea...
Saturday, 19 May 2012

a good headline

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is like a great paper title... worth its weight in gold. Remember the famous "Ford to City: Drop Dead" one by the Daily News, duri...
Friday, 18 May 2012

everything you need to know

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about Spanish banks, lucidly explained, over at fist full of euros . The conclusions are cheerful: Naturally the whole BFA/Bankia edifice is...
Wednesday, 16 May 2012

fun paper of the week - snow and liquidity

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finally, a fun finance paper with some really cool (!) identifying variation: Based on a sample of highly leveraged Austrian ski hotels und...

who said

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that economists aren't working on real-world problems? Here is the abstract of a paper by Diamond and Rajan (QJE 2011): Is there any nee...

ECB smoke signals

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First came the news that Jens Weidmann is openly arguing for collateralizing TARGET balances in the Eurozone . If you don't breathe and ...

How culturally isolated are you?

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Take Charles Murray's little online quiz and find out how far away you are from American "mainstream culture". Notice that th...
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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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