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Referral fees not as bad as first thought shock! The Australian Consumer Association finds a new source of funding

Nicholas Gruen
August 3, 2011August 12, 2011
Me in today's Crikey It’s a dirty business but someone has to do it. Selling home loans that is. Now after a lifetime of howling...
Gender Political theory

Do women behave more reciprocally than men? (Hint: yes)

Nicholas Gruen
August 3, 2011
Do women behave more reciprocally than men? Gender differences in real effort dictator games Heinz, Matthias, Rau, Holger A., and Juranek, Steffen Abstract: We analyze dictator allocation...
Geeky Musings

Benford’s Law: around 30% of the first digits in many real world data-sets are “1”.

Nicholas Gruen
August 3, 2011
Yes, folks it's Benford's Law - from Kaggle's website. One fun aspect of working with real data is that you get to observe real-life phenomenon. For...
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Merv Bendle and the paranoid style

Don Arthur
August 2, 2011August 6, 2011
As thousands of Norwegians poured into Oslo's streets singing, hugging and waving flowers, Queensland academic Merv Bendle sat at his computer fixated on how leftists...
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Symbolic Climate Policies, part III: how to produce climate public goods?

Paul Frijters
August 2, 2011August 2, 2011
(see here for part one and two and here for even earlier posts) Where we economists are most useful in climate change discussions is the...
Economics and public policy

The political economy of unindexed income tax brackets

Richard Tsukamasa Green
August 1, 2011
The survey of opinion amongst Australian Economists made for some interesting reading for me. I found that I where a clear majority of respondents agreed...

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