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Always wise thoughts from the one and only Kevin Murphy . If for some reason you haven’t heard of him yet, all you need to know is that Murphy holds comparative advantage in all forms of production.
My whereabouts
After a full week in very beautiful (and very hot) Seville, where inter alia I presented a paper at this year’s ESPE conference (I will dedicate of course a separate post to my Seville experience a.s.a.p,
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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…).
My first (and last) public karaoke performance
…represents the validation of my long held opinion that I have no comparative advantage whatsoever in this area. My team partner for this impromptu exercise, Ian Walker, among other things the current editor-in-chief of Labour Economics, performed rather reasonably, but there was no chance to ultimately rank decently among the brave competitors– my colleague economists from the Aarhus School of Business, some of them natural born karaoke stars– precisely because of teaming up with yours truly.
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Although he seems in top shape and, inter alia, managed to even win against world champ Vishy Anand both at the Linares and at the Amber (Blindfold) tournaments (through wonderful games)…, there is definitely something wrong with Magnus Carlsen and the final games of most recent chess tournaments he has been participating in– which is probably more frustrating to his fans than to himself, it seems, given he continues on the same frequence :-).
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