Economics Roundtable
-- Recession? --
Are back-to-back quarters of 0.6% GDP growth a recession? The blogs weigh in at Recession?
Will a 2% Fed Funds rate help? Fed Watch
-- Economic Principals --
David Warsh reports the latest on this year's free agent season for academic economists.
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-- Statistics --
137 Commentators
As of 2/19/08, the Economics Roundtable includes
137 commentators.
Mahalanobis
"Personal Weblog of Michael Stastny”
Trying to buy a mortgage bank in the midst of the subprime crisis was the equivalent of being a noodle salesman in Nagasaki when the atomic bomb went off. Not a lot of noodles left, or even a person, and thats what happened to us on this deal.
Story.Currently (Bloomberg.com):
In 2006, an iPod that cost about $200 would have cost $1B in 1976 and would have been very large. [Source]
"[Bortkiewicz] was not a good lecturer, and his lectures, which he elaborated with a minute and conscientious attention to details all his own, were said to be delivered to rather empty classrooms.
His critical acumen ...
Men in less-developed economies prefer quantity over quality [=skill] in wives and children. The explanation is rather intuitive. Rich men in less-developed economies are not efficient at producing ...
Eric Falkenstein isn't your typical 42-year-old hedge fund manager. Instead of trading stocks all day or courting new investors, he spends his time updating his blog, researching equity strategies, and talking to his lawyer. He's ...
He he. Quants like laws.
"The Gibbons, Ross and Shanken (1989) test compares the estimated maximum Sharpe ratio for the original ...