Posted by Unknown | 2:58 PM

(Note: I wrote this post quite a while ago, and never published it. Since I'll be mostly too busy to blog for a few weeks, I've dec...

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Posted by Unknown | 4:47 PM

"Past performance is no guarantee of future results." This is the most common caveat in finance. It means that, despite the fact t...

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Posted by Unknown | 4:37 PM

A couple posts back, on May 14 I criticized Timothy Conley and Bill Dupor for overstating their results in the abstract of a recent paper on...

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Posted by Unknown | 12:03 PM

Note: Posting is sporadic, and will continue to be so, due to the freak occurrence of a natural disaster known as "dissertation".....

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Posted by Unknown | 10:40 AM

One native-born American, one (very) high-skilled immigrant. There is a puzzle in the American political economy that has me utterly baffled...

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Posted by Unknown | 2:23 PM

Hey non-economists, want to see what's inside the guts of one of those econ papers you keep hearing about? Well that's why you have ...

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Posted by Unknown | 1:30 PM

Another gas price spike, another wave of articles blaming "speculators." Here's an editorial in USA Today by Representative E...

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Posted by Unknown | 12:18 AM

" Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so." - Galileo Galilei "I appear to be wiser than he, because I...

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Posted by Unknown | 3:53 PM

When I wrote my earlier post recounting what I learned in econ grad school , I realized shortly after I finished it that I might have sounde...

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Posted by Unknown | 12:04 PM

Wow, I almost can't believe I just wrote those words. Anyway... Paul Krugman and Brad DeLong are quick to jump all over Casey Mulligan f...

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Posted by Unknown | 6:18 PM

  In honor of the death of bin Laden , I think I'll take a break from economics and do some random, off-the-cuff historical musing. I...

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