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Incentives and globalization, a brief but very interesting interview with Luis Garicano. Topics tackled here are CEOs, football, and…everything else.
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Geography of the recession in the USA. Thanks to Fred for the link!
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‘Wall Street on the Tundra’: Iceland anno 2009 or… high time for the rise of the Icelandic women leaders… More. This has a higher likelihood than the ‘Lehman Sisters’, though I would strongly support the US (and a global, why not) version too (10th bullet point).
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The benefits of (financial) inactivity? Call it patience, though: nothing but the eternal “con calma”, I’d say. BTW, I would have never thought Roubini to be that high on equity :-).
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Andrew Gelman & Hal Stern with a nice short paper on differences between statistically significant and statistically non-significant results that are themselves not significant… You can find zillions of examples in published Economics papers, as well. And I do plead guilty to not having paid enough attention to this, myself…
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God will listen to you for the next 6 months… at least here in Holland. The offer does not include answering, though :-).
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The African branding problem, very well explained by June Arunga, linked video on Bill Easterly’s blog. And, connected, somebody else who should clearly feature on the same blog…
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Finally, for those of us who have non-convex desires, you might also consider the girl’s marginal benefits (the lyrics) :-). The latter is also my proposed song of the day. All together now, accompanying Mike Toomey and Julia Zhang (excellent stuff, ad majora!): “Cause girl your marginal benefits far outweigh your marginal costs/ Without our equilibrium baby well you know I’d be lost/ Trapped inside this market I need you to buy my love/ Girl without your complementing goods well I’m just not enough”
