My Iberian experience (previous episodes here, here and here, some still incomplete) continued with 10 great (although unbearably hot…) end August days in Barcelona, around the EEA-ESEM conference this year, excellently hosted by the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, in its two campuses at Autònoma and Pompeu Fabra.
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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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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…).
And there was Alicante
… and with that also my very first time in Spain (though, with Seville and Barcelona to follow within the next few months, this will definitely be my ‘Spanish year’). The ‘city of lights’ was ultimately a pleasant surprise, although, to start with the lows, I thought it was already too hot for this time of the year–however, evenings were perfect–, the architecture of the city is really not my very favourite (I recall here an earlier post of Andy on Alacant–he was way more negative on the city looks— while I think there are also some nice spots), and if you happen to stay in one of the fancy hotels next to the Casino, the music/noise will not stop until 4:30 AM, only to restart at 7:30 AM with the hyperactive hotel housekeeping ladies… :-).
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My whereabouts: returning to Aarhus after a couple of days in wonderful Budapest, where, inter alia, I had a poster presentation in an interesting ‘Wages, Firms and LEED data’ workshop, at CEU.
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