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- You get what you pay for: MP's edition by Nicholas Gruen 24/07/2017
- Blitz and bullet chess: Carlsen v Nakamura by Nicholas Gruen 23/07/2017
- Tennis before larger racquet heads by Nicholas Gruen 22/07/2017
- Garbage in, garbage out and civil service effectiveness by Nicholas Gruen 20/07/2017
- The worst bit of old age is not being extended. It's being delayed. by David Walker 17/07/2017
- The Overton window - Overton juggernaut Science edition: Part 4 by Nicholas Gruen 16/07/2017
- Scandinavian film festival by Nicholas Gruen 13/07/2017
- When the hawks cry ... by David Walker 12/07/2017
- Helen Rose Parish 4 June 1926 – 29 June 2017 - a eulogy by Ken Parish 10/07/2017
- 65,000 people in Hyde Park casually create one of the great Bohemian Rhapsody performances by David Walker 09/07/2017
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Author Archives: Nicholas Gruen
Multipliers over 1: SHOCK!!
The Effect of Cash Injections: Evidence from the 1980s Farm Debt Crisis by Nittai K. Bergman, Rajkamal Iyer, Richard T. Thakor Abstract: What is the effect of cash injections during financial crises? Exploiting county-level variation arising from random weather shocks during the … Continue reading
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Biased Promotions and Persistence of False Belief
Beetles: Biased Promotions and Persistence of False Belief by George Akerlof, Pascal Michaillat – #23523 (LS PR) Abstract: This paper develops a theory of promotion based on evaluations by the already promoted. The already promoted show some favoritism toward candidates … Continue reading
Posted in Economics and public policy, Science
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Genetic diversity is good for the economy!
High School Genetic Diversity and Later-life Student Outcomes: Micro-level Evidence from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study by C. Justin Cook, Jason M. Fletcher – #23520 (EFG LS) Abstract: A novel hypothesis posits that levels of genetic diversity in a population may … Continue reading
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Right-to-Carry Laws and Violent Crime
Right-to-Carry Laws and Violent Crime: A Comprehensive Assessment Using Panel Data and a State-Level Synthetic Controls Analysis by John J. Donohue, Abhay Aneja, Kyle D. Weber – #23510 (LE) Abstract: The 2004 report of the National Research Council (NRC) on … Continue reading
Dinner Party in Melbourne on the 22nd June: #WAINS?
My 60th Birthday party was a blast. So as not to wait another decade till the next one, I thought I’d do it annually. But to disguise the naked egotism of it I decided to raise money for a Good … Continue reading
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Australia, New Zealand, the OECD and the better life index
Working out why the Australian economy has left New Zealand’s in the dust for the last thirty years is a bit tricky. I’ve had a go at it on this blog once before. Anyway, now New Zealand is coming back into fashion. They’ve certainly … Continue reading
Posted in Economics and public policy
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Fire and ice
Last night I came off a series of deadlines and sat in my chair, catching up on a backlog of emails. I also watched David Stratton’s series on David Stratton with some Australian Movies worked into it currently on iView (episode 2) which was … Continue reading
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