Last year was in Chicago, but this year the annual meeting of the American Economic Association is being held in San Diego, so I feel much more justified referring to it as Economic-Con. In case you weren’t aware, the conference runs this Friday through Sunday and features a large variety of interesting/random/obscure talks and about [...]
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Economic-Con 2013, For Real This Time…
January 2nd, 2013 · 2 Comments
Administrative
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What I’ve Been Doing Over My Summer Vacation, Music Industry Edition…
August 31st, 2012 · No Comments
Administrative · Behavioral Econ · Music Biz
First my apologies for being light on the pasting as of late. Part of that is me being lazy (hey, it *is* summer, after all), but part of it is due to the fact that, via the obviously excellent judgment of Columbia University Press, I am working on not one, but two books on the [...]
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Fun with Purchasing-Power Parity: The Big Mac Index
July 16th, 2012 · No Comments
About · Administrative · Macroeconomics
Many of you already know that I am the economics guide for About.com, where I post both articles about basic economics and blog posts about economics in the news and other fun stuff. Some of you may have even noticed that I link to the latest of said articles and blog posts in the sidebar [...]
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Econgirl TED Talks, Version 2.0…
June 21st, 2012 · 1 Comment
Administrative
Hey party people, Some of you may remember that I hauled my rear end to Canada last year to give a talk at a TED event that was organized by one of my former students. I got to talk all about how economists use both randomized and natural experiments to study the impacts of various [...]
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Tales From The Road, Chicago Edition…
January 18th, 2012 · 1 Comment
Administrative · Press · Uncategorizable
Dear EconoDiary, Sorry I haven’t written recently- it’s hard starting spring semester teaching the day after an 18-hour drive back from Chicago! (In related news, teaching graduate macro is an interesting challenge, to say the least.) Anyway, the conference went quite well, and Jarret and I even managed to put together a somewhat legit looking [...]
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