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The promise of prediction markets, as policy forum article in Science; many Econ Nobelists and future Nobelists on that list of authors… This is a follow up of a statement signed by equally prestigious researchers that I talked about a while ago.
Category: wine
Gone southeastwards
…though only as far as Budapest, which I am enjoying (as always; I love this city!) since yesterday evening. Among other things, I’ll be presenting two papers (one is here, the other one available only as abstract for now on this page or in this conference handbook) at the Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data (CAED) conference, cruise the Danube, drink top Tokaji wines and admire the beautiful Hungarian women around :-).
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Remember my post about names in Denmark? At that time I could not find which were really the most frequently used first names. But Denmark Statistics even has those available. So “Jens” (male) and “Anne” (female) are the most common first names in Denmark, to date.
The Wine of the Year: Clos des Papes, Châteauneuf-du-Pape 2005
Wine Spectator’s best wine of 2007: Clos des Papes, Châteauneuf-du-Pape 2005. Apparently an easy choice, almost unanimous decision among the senior editors of Wine Spectator for the best wine of Vincent Avril’s domain.
Econlinks for 19-09-07
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Ian Ayres’s prediction tools online. Although predicting things like how long your marriage would last or how long you’ll live might also catch the interest of some, my favourite by far is predicting the value of Bordeaux.