→ Read moreWHEN you leave Szamos Ujvár, the road passes straight over a plain, with little or nothing to relieve the monotony. A Hungarian village or two, a nobleman’s mansion with the surrounding farm-buildings,-that is all, until the tall spire and the various towers of Klausenburg rise before you.
Weekend econlinks
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The other side of scientific publishing: the Editor’s perspective. In this case nothing to complain about (au contraire: e.g., see earlier): if only most editors (cross-disciplinary) would follow on McAfee’s steps… unfortunately, plenty of counterexamples around, such as the editors involved here
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Steven Shreve on working with models in the finance world.
Back from Catalunya
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.
→ Read more Publishing Scientific Comments: The Pain, the Horror, the Frustration
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.
→ Read more 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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