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Tuesday, 27 November 2012

Lessons from the Dutch Republic

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I have an op-ed which ran on the CNN website this weekend, comparing recent events in Catalonia with the Dutch fight for independence in th...
Thursday, 15 November 2012

Reading about punishment

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fodder for our next reading group session ( Hermann, Thöni, Gächtner, Science 2008 ): We document the widespread existence of antisocial pun...
Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Greeks vs Germans

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Guiso, Herrera and Morelli have a new version of their working paper on "A CULTURE BASED THEORY OF FISCAL UNION DESIRABILITY". Th...

Economic history pays

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at least in the UC system... Keefe and Wang have a new paper on faculty salaries in economics departments of the UC system, and find that t...
Tuesday, 16 October 2012

Readings

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Felipe Valencia and I are organizing a reading group in long-term persistence this term. Today, we'll be discussing "Poor Instituti...

Fewer Guns...

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More Violence. The NRA will love this piece of research!  MIT's Laura Ralston has a paper that looks at a disarmament campaign in Ugand...

Waiting for Woody

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It seems that there is a serious failure in marketing the case for Catalan independence. As I peruse the news sections of the gazettes, prin...
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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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