… for about a week now. And if you’re interested in my dissertation, here’s the full digital version, in the Erasmus University Rotterdam online repository. If you believe you deserve a nice, signed, hardcopy, do let me know :-).
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A morning thought on peer-review
Good journals in Economics (say top 15) typically have good referees (though it also depends on who the Editor in that particular case is and especially on how much effort he is putting in picking the referees; sometimes you have the feeling they expressly choose folks who really seem to have no expertise whatsoever in your area).
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Best sentence I’ve read today:
If Chapter 11 cannot save GM, then nothing can.
This is from the recent VoxEU opinion by Joshua Rauh and Luigi Zingales, proposing a bankruptcy to save General Motors.
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Greg Mankiw’s memo to the President-Elect; there is a chance Obama might actually listen, given how fast Mankiw’s comment changed things here :-).
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The secret pleasures of Dr. Doom: and you still wonder why Roubini has so many fans among the young economists?!
My whereabouts in the next few days
Time for tea, research & more… → Read more