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John Kennes has put together quite an impressive resource on the ‘economics of search and matching’ (on which he’s giving a full course this Fall, in Aarhus: if you are a master/PhD student active/interested in the area, you really don’t want to miss that).
Month: July 2010
NBER SI & ICA @ Boston
Mid July, terribly hot, Cambridge, serious Econ research: high time for the yearly NBER Summer Institute. Yesterday I attended an interesting second part of the EF&G Research Meeting, where in particular I’d single out Chetty’s paper on bounding labour supply elasticities with optimization frictions (succeded by Rogerson’s excellent discussion).
→ Read more Montreal, SED, and Pulp(o) Fiction
To start with the last item in the title, it wasn’t to be for The Netherlands… a third World Cup final wasted. Mais, c’est la vie. However, even though I predicted wrongly the winner in the very last game, I still managed to eventually rank 411th among 497,206 participants worldwide, in the Castrol’s FIFA World Cup Predictor Challenge.
→ Read more Hup Holland Hup!
With a very pertinent quote from my good old friend Robert, which best summarizes what needs to happen tomorrow (today, if you are on European soil):
→ Read moreIndeed, the defence is crucial, as is violence on the midfield.