December 2008 - The Sebastian Buhai Blog

Happy New Year

From San Francisco.

My whereabouts at the beginning of the year will be at the ASSA ’09, presenting a paper on the 5th of Jan.
But plenty of wine before that, continuing from the Napa Valley wine tasting yesterday :-).

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Xmas Econlinks

The Economist’s books of the year. A few from the ‘economics & business’, ‘science & technology’ and respectively, the ‘biography’ sections are on my to-read list for quite a while now.

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What I’ve been reading

I’ve started many books and haven’t finished yet most of them…, but slowly and steadily, mainly during my many & long forthcoming travels (NB: Transylvania, here I come!), I’ll get there…

Anyway: a book I’ve just finished is Nick Hornby’s “Fever Pitch” (wiki link; audio link with Hornby answering questions about the book).

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The new RAE UK is out

…and for Economics and Econometrics, the quality profiles can be consulted here.

By strictly ranking percentages of research in the highest and respectively second highest research categories, the first 10 Econ Departments in UK RAE 2008 (not very unexpected) are the following:

LSE
UCL
Essex, Oxford, Warwick
Bristol, Nottingham, Queen Mary
Cambridge
Manchester

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You can call me Doc…

… for about a week now. And if you’re interested in my dissertation, here’s the full digital version, in the Erasmus University Rotterdam online repository. If you believe you deserve a nice, signed, hardcopy, do let me know :-).

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