Experimenter on "Stopping by low-ranked job talks on a snowy afternoon"
Which candidate is this, who knows I know he must be low-ranked though For him to give his job talk here The others must've all said noHis little spouse must think it queer To look for jobs with...
View ArticleEconomist on "Is there any demand for trolls?"
There is plenty of supply. Since those threads are read, it looks like there is some demand. Can we find a market-based solution to trolling?
View ArticleEconomist on "Which US econ department has the least international presence?"
Just out of curiousity, in your experience what department has the highest percentage of American grad students/faculty?
View ArticleEconomist on "One Year from Tenure and One Pub Short"
All the projects I'm working on are dead ends. Advice from seniors?
View ArticleEconomist on "I like sig(nificance) stars and I cannot lie"
I like sig stars and I cannot lie My econbros cannot deny When a presenter puts up a table and does not show significance labels You're bummed. Gotta use the rules of thumb: Is coefficient vs. standard...
View ArticleEconomist on "IO bro(ette)s, what do you think of the Supreme Court's AmEx...
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-1454_5h26.pdfLots of economics in it!
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 "UK APs, there's hope for you yet!"
Look! They're gonna probe the reason you're poor.https://www.rt.com/uk/431355-un-extreme-poverty-probe
View ArticleEconomist on "Tesla makes no sense to me"
They don't hire anyone special or anything. Elon Musk doesn't seem to possess any special kind of technical or scientific abilities. It's not like he's developing all the R&D behind his products....
View Articleopnogood on "Confession Time"
When I write introductions to my papers I imagine myself in the opening scenes of a BBC documentary. Complete with british accent. What about you bros?
View ArticleEconomist on "Confession: The whole time I thought Paul Romer wrote Advanced...
Just noticed today it was David Romer. It feels like I just left the Matrix to wake up and discover everything was an illusion.
View ArticleEconomist on "How good is the overall reputation of UCSB"
compared with other well respected public schools: UCLA, Michigan, Wisconsin, UCSD, Washington, etc.?
View ArticleEconomist on "EJMR to host the next World Cup"
.... rumours from EJMR. Wouldn't it be nice?
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