Economist on "Official CFA 2018 exam thread"
4 weeks to test day. How is everyone feeling about it? How many hours have you put in? How do you balance studying with school/work family?What's your least, or most favourite, subject? What are you...
View ArticleEconomist on "Official Economics Nobel Prize 2018 Predictions thread"
The ink on the 2017 Prize is slowly and irrationally drying, so it is time to predict the next year's recipient.Rajan/Myers/Diamond Kiyotaki/Moore/Wright Eaton/Kortum/Melitz
View ArticleEconomist on "I'm cognitively dissonant about myself as an economist"
I simultaneously believe that I'm the next economic genius too good for where I am now and that I'm an impostor who doesn't even belong in academia. Both beliefs cause me severe psychological stress,...
View ArticleEconomist on "Please vote on Taleb poll about economics"
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/998243364096086016
View ArticleEconomist on "TV Show Idea: Lev-itt or List it"
Economists Steven Levitt John List compete for the affections of fed-up JMCs looking to either renovate or sell their JMP. Levitt transforms their no good JMP by adding a weak instrument while List...
View ArticleEconomist on "Started titling papers like millennials title articles"
Finished running regressions. You won't believe what I found...
View ArticleEconomist on "Breakthroughs ideas new approaches"
A NEW way of approaching the problemit looks promisingthis result of real problem solving and analytic thinking is what makes theory feel superior to your recent paper on the correlation between...
View ArticleEconomist on "Department knows I post on EJMR, will this affect me?"
I used a computer in the department to view a few threads and got caught. How will this change my future?
View ArticleEconomist on "Shoes/clothes for both office and home - is it possible?"
Maybe someone has solved this constrained optimization problem before.I'm a jeans/tshirt kind of guy, an AP in an econ department. We are basically in the business school and, although there's no...
View ArticleEconomist on "Any evidence that the supply of journal submissions is elastic?"
One common argument is that submission fees are required because it keeps the chaff out of the system. But if this is true, we should expect lower submission rates and therefore higher acceptance rates...
View ArticleEconomist on "I have no real passion for economics"
I like it and find it intellectually stimulating. I'm also reasonably good at it and have a cushy job because of it. But I have no passion for it and wish everyday I had studied music instead.
View ArticleEconomist on "Jealous co-author"
My co-author is uber, shall we say, "protective." Putting down my other co-authors, emailing me a ton when I visit campuses of other co-authors, etc. Seems to want our co-authoring to be an exclusive...
View ArticleEconomist on "How has Israel maintained such a high fertility rate?"
Israeli people have maintained a positive Total Fertility Rate that has recently reached levels as high as 3 kids per women among Jewish. A few years ago Jewish fertility was higher than Muslim in...
View ArticleEconomist on "Official Economics Nobel Prize 2018 Predictions thread"
The ink on the 2017 Prize is slowly and irrationally drying, so it is time to predict the next year's recipient.Rajan/Myers/Diamond Kiyotaki/Moore/Wright Eaton/Kortum/Melitz
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