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Category Archives: economics
Pearlstein Looks for a Fed Bailout
If financial markets are frothy for a while and then revert to sensible levels
– but don’t overshoot – then does that constitute a fully-blown
financial crisis?
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Is This a Liquidity Crisis or an Insolvency Crisis?
Telling the difference is always more of an art than a science. And from my point of view, a lot of what Roubini considers to be insolvency is reallly “just” a liquidity problem.
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When Competition Increases Sales
You’re in a market and a competitor arrives. Should you be worried? Not always.
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Measuring Home Preferences
Would you rather have a 4,000-square-foot house in a neighborhood of 6,000-square-foot McMansions, or a 3,000-square-foot home in a zone of 2,000-square-foot bungalows?
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Bruce Wagner Explicates the Hedonic Treadmill
It can be hard to define the hedonic
treadmill in easy-to-understand terms.
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When GMU Economists Spar
The wonderful thing about having half a department blogging is that sometimes these discussions spill over onto the web, for all to enjoy.
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Economics Anonymous
Economists blogging I can
easily understand; economists blogging anonymously is harder.
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The Denver Bancrofts Play the Ultimatum Game
There’s a famous experiment in experimental economics called the Ultimatum
Game:
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On the Importance of Grad Students
Is it possible for experimental economists to do first-rate work without grad students?
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Why Sports Gambling Should Be Legalized
It’s always good to see Justin Wolfers get national exposure,
and he has a
great piece on the op-ed page of the NYT today, about the NBA betting scandal.
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Vernon Smith to Work on Californian Public Policy
I can see why Smith and his team would jump
at the chance to leave their ivory tower and actually build something big in
the real world.
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Overcoming Bias in Crowdsourcing
Aaron Naparstek reports
that "WNYC’s Brian Lehrer wants to know how many
SUV’s there are on your block."
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Bill Gross Joins the Billionaires-for-Tax-Hikes Club
Add billionaire Bill Gross, of Pimco, to the list of rich
men who want to raise taxes on the rich.
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More Details Emerge on GMU Economics Upheaval
Midas Oracle has more
details on the news
that most of GMU’s Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), led
by Nobel laureate Vernon Smith, is moving to California.
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GMU’s Other Star Professor Leaves
To lose one star economics professor to a minor-league competitor could be considered a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness.
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Vernon Smith Leaves GMU; Bloggers Silent
One might almost think that a don’t-blog-this edict had gone out, either explicitly or implicitly.
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When Governments Buy Companies
Most foreign takeovers do not pose any kind of national-security problem at all.
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Give Your Money Away
The rich use economics – or, more to the point, economists – to delude themselves that they shouldn’t give their money away.
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Repugnant Markets
Blogger Tim Harford got blogger
Virginia
Postrel, blogger Robin
Hanson, and a few non-bloggers such as the Bishop of Swindon to all talk
to him for a fascinating BBC radio documentary
on repugnant markets. Go read the transcript:
it’s great stuff.
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The Economics of Tour De France Breakaways
Andrew Leonard finds
a great piece of microeconomic analysis in
the sports pages, of all places, from the NYT’s Edward Wyatt:
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Blowing Bubbles
Both Shiller and Leonhardt conclude the same thing: that stocks are expensive.
Which is a bit weird, considering that, relative to everything else, they certainly
seem as though they’re actually
rather cheap.
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A Brief History of Chinese Industrial Policy
The most impressive economic success story of the past 30 years has been the
astonishing resurgence of China, which is likely to become the world’s third-largest
economy this year.
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The Ethics of Markets
Steve Waldman continues
the debate
about short-selling by looking at markets in ethical terms:
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No Sympathy for Short Sellers
Steve Waldman unleashes
a heartfelt cry in the face of uncaring markets – a cry for the short
seller, a breed among which he counts himself.
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Why Enormous Personal Debt Means a More Vibrant Economy
Chris Dillow finds
a silver lining to the ever-increasing amounts of leverage bidding up asset
prices around the world.
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