This is absolutely amazing. I mean, of course it is absolutely awful for the researcher in question, but great that he took the pain to write it down: should be recommended reading for any (aspiring) scientist.
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Bracara Augusta et al
After a few days of touring Transylvania—inter alia, fighting bears & beers in the Carpathians-Bucegi mountains—, followed by a most interesting microeconometrics workshop in Copenhagen (blended with excellent July jazz evenings), I’ve been enjoying the latest week in wonderful Braga, Portugal.
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Always wise thoughts from the one and only Kevin Murphy . If for some reason you haven’t heard of him yet, all you need to know is that Murphy holds comparative advantage in all forms of production.
My whereabouts
After a full week in very beautiful (and very hot) Seville, where inter alia I presented a paper at this year’s ESPE conference (I will dedicate of course a separate post to my Seville experience a.s.a.p,
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A nice, brief VoxEU note of Willem Buiter on negative nominal interest rates (and their potential desirability). Greg Mankiw also tackled the topic earlier.
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If you’re at all into arithmetics (and not only) you might like this concise exposé on very big numbers (think Ackerman series, Busy Beavers and the like if you are dubious about what “very big” stands for in this context…).