Yes, this is the seventh year of blogging. Will I enter a a prolonged slump like some faculty do after obtaining tenure? Am I due for a sabbatical? Unfortunately, both may happen. As announced last Summer, my new responsibilities make it difficult for me to maintain the pace I have had in previous years. And it has shown in the last six months: I have missed days, I have been wrong on at least one occasion, and my posts have become shorter. Yet, I am more and more impressed by the following this blog is receiving and I hope the same will hold to Economic Logic, Too, where I invite others to post comments about papers they read.
Traditionally, I have reviewed the most popular posts of the year. For reasons I do not quite understand, this year's lists only contains posts from this year. So here they are:
Traditionally, I have reviewed the most popular posts of the year. For reasons I do not quite understand, this year's lists only contains posts from this year. So here they are:
- Top Economics graduate programs are not as good as you think
- Teen sex: are females dropping scruples due to the lack of men?
- Are economists really uneasy about studying inequality?
- The fundamental equation of economics
- Is money a factor of production?
- Five universal laws of economics
- Forecasting the weather using the market
- Test statistics and the publication game
- How econophysics describes the income distribution
- Overconfident NBA players are lead to their financial demise
- Lack of transparency at the American Economic Association
- Can IKEA replace the BigMac or the Ipod?
- Procrastination is a strong predictor of academic performance
- The price of diamonds
- Flying in Europe and North America, puzzling differences
- Which academic field contributes the most to economic growth
- The obscure economics of vampires
- homo socialis
- The experimental macroeconomics of monetary policy
- AEA elections are on, you know for whom to vote
- Why are prices sticky?
- What kind of jobs are academic scholars looking for?
- Large GDP shocks are permanent
- Reconciling macro and micro estimates of the Fischer labor supply elasticity
- Some people go to classical concerts to cough
- The AEA executive is still not representative
- New responsibilities
- Leaning against publication bias: about the experiments that do not work out
- Why Keynes dominates Hayek
- The brain drain from financial liberalization
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