http://www.econjobrumors.com/ Economics Job Market Rumors: Recent Posts en Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:19:17 +0000 http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=14296#post-244252 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:07:43 +0000 Anonymous 244252@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>Thanks for the encouragement! </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=14297#post-244251 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:07:25 +0000 Anonymous 244251@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>The lemon paper is still the best. The problems of social costs comes close second. However, OP is onto something. It is Nobel worthy </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=14297#post-244250 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 08:54:31 +0000 Anonymous 244250@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>^I will put it in a leading contenders list. But this one tops it:</p> <p>"You feel less hungery if you eat more: Evidence from a large randomized experiment in Keyna." Working paper no. 2101, July 2010 </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=14285&page=3#post-244249 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 08:49:50 +0000 Anonymous 244249@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>"4. Grad analysis might be unnecessary. I'd sooner recommend differential geometry or complex analysis."</p> <p>If you guys want to go do mathematics then go to a maths program. Both diff geometry and complex analysis are utterly useless in econ. You should concentrate on your econ and stop trying to be a mathematician. </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=14297#post-244248 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 08:45:19 +0000 Anonymous 244248@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>"Nudging Frequency of Farts: Evidence from two Randomized Experiments in Kenya." Forthcoming, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2011, JPAL working paper No. 2133, July 2010. </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=14296#post-244247 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 08:39:57 +0000 Anonymous 244247@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>Nice post. Yeah! </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=14296#post-244246 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:53:21 +0000 Anonymous 244246@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>What's up, bietches?</p> <p>Nervous, bitches?</p> <p>Job market paper not working out, huh?</p> <p>I will fieck you alive in denver, biatches! </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=14295#post-244245 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:46:28 +0000 Anonymous 244245@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>Holmstrom-Tirole on Liquidity (see Tirole's page). </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=14291&page=2#post-244244 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:47:49 +0000 Anonymous 244244@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>slackware </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=14285&page=3#post-244243 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:40:51 +0000 Anonymous 244243@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>"^ no, it is not"</p> <p>actually it is </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=14254&page=12#post-244242 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:25:48 +0000 Anonymous 244242@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>EDO is just modified Smet-Wouters, which the hard core DSGE people rejected when it first came out. Now they are clinging to it. Look, the new "DSGE" stuff is just revived temporary equilibria models a la Benassy and Grandmont, certainly part of GE, but not full long-run GE, which has been what DSGE has been traditionally, with its arrogant claims of using Lucas's solution to his critique (rational expectations at the aggregate level). Sargent went to Santa Fe nearly 20 years ago and produced _Bounded Rationality and Macroeconomics_ in 1993. Get it folks; once you introduce learning on adaptive ex with ratex only holding asymptotically, you are no longer in a true DSGE world, but a temporary equilibrium one. </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=14295#post-244241 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:22:15 +0000 Anonymous 244241@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>What are the upcoming books in finance, financial economics, and financial econometrics in near future? Kerry Back's book will be out next month. An up-to-date text on liquidity, assymetrics info etc. would be very nice and will have stroing demand. </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=14254&page=12#post-244240 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:18:24 +0000 Anonymous 244240@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>^^"not yet" Oh yeah? What the hell do you think this recent Congressional hearing was about in which Chari was all by himself selling useless Kool-Aid and worn out lines nobody takes seriously except dumb shits who hang onto Randy Wright's shirt at jokes of SED conferences? It has already very publicly failed, and between people laughing their heads off at you fools and preparing not to interview you sucks, the best Chari and his thug followers can do is redefine the "DSGE framework" to include all the stuff they used to mock and reject. </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=14254&page=11#post-244239 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:17:25 +0000 Anonymous 244239@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>^ben does. never heard of the EDO model? dingleberry. </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=14254&page=11#post-244238 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:14:15 +0000 Anonymous 244238@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>^^^^Um, the incoming Fed Vice Chair spoke at the Levy Institute's Minsky conference last year. Anyone here who thinks that any central bankers other than maybe Kotcherlatkota or Plosser is paying more than rat's ass worth of attention to any DSGE model is totally deluded. </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=14285&page=3#post-244237 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:08:46 +0000 Anonymous 244237@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>OP's original post contains one clearly idiotic statement: that if you want anything other than the five subjects he mentions you should get them out of the econ dept. Obvious utter stupidity. What he really means is that anything other than his top five are useless in econ. This is clearly wrong, with theory people being able to use further training in various areas such as diff eqs, differential topology, and some others, depending on their particular specialties. And of course anyone serious pursuing any sort of econometrics would be well advised to get some courses in the appropriate stats or math dept depending on their particular specialty. OP a moron. </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=4674&page=30#post-244236 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 05:55:26 +0000 Anonymous 244236@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>He is getting big money from some shithead donor, but the dean delusionally believes that he will get a Nobel.</p> <p>No. Fucking. Way. </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=14286#post-244235 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 05:53:51 +0000 Anonymous 244235@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>Rawls's statement is perfectly reasonable, even if one disagrees with it. However, OP's post has serious spelling error, "analysis" should be "analyze." OP no good. </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=11393&page=4#post-244234 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 05:51:19 +0000 Anonymous 244234@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>What a bunch of fucking sissies.</p> <p>L.S.D. </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=14257&page=5#post-244233 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 05:41:11 +0000 Anonymous 244233@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>Chari is correct that there is way too little money given to macro research in the US. Europe will soon be dumping huge wads, up to a billion euros into it. But large chunks of new US money should go to ABM/ACE such as the impending Axtell-Farmer project, rather than the wacked-out-desperate-to-save-face MN gang of Chari. </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=14285&page=3#post-244232 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 05:22:23 +0000 Anonymous 244232@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>^^ You may be right. Personally, I am a bus driver. </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=14273&page=3#post-244231 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 05:04:05 +0000 Anonymous 244231@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>He placed well because he is good. Simple, no? </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=14273&page=3#post-244230 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:56:36 +0000 Anonymous 244230@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>^^^Strong macro connections; another placement is Kambourov who is Associate at UofT </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=14285&page=3#post-244229 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:43:39 +0000 Anonymous 244229@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>complex analysis is useful for time series / macro. </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=14285&page=3#post-244228 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:43:23 +0000 Anonymous 244228@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>Man, there are so many people talking nonsense in this board that I sometimes wonder if we really have any graduate students besides me. </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=14294#post-244227 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:34:55 +0000 Anonymous 244227@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>This genius has to be leaving some i.p. breadcrumbs around. Someone with some know how should find him out. </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=13140&page=2#post-244226 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:32:13 +0000 Anonymous 244226@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>The dude knows how to bang coauthors </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=13637#post-244225 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:27:53 +0000 Anonymous 244225@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>Shimer looked really bad at the NBER this summer. His attack on Manovski looked petty, really petty. Manovski made him look really silly. </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=14273&page=2#post-244224 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:22:14 +0000 Anonymous 244224@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>Manovski is better than Shimer and Werning. </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=14285&page=3#post-244223 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:20:09 +0000 Anonymous 244223@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>Some heterodox or Austrian people seem to believe in the stereotype of the "physics envy" mainstream economist. If you happen to fit that stereotype, then complex variable theory and differential geometry might help you with your guilty pleasure, physics reading. </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=14291&page=2#post-244222 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:19:31 +0000 Anonymous 244222@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>All you need is Excel </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=14294#post-244221 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:16:01 +0000 Anonymous 244221@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>We have all seen the review on amazon that takes it to DA's text. Well now there is an open thread to express your thoughts:</p> <p><a href="http://firelarrysummersnow.blogspot.com/2009/06/acemoglu-text-review.html" rel="nofollow">http://firelarrysummersnow.blogspot.com/2009/06/acemoglu-text-review.html</a> </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=14126&page=5#post-244220 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:15:13 +0000 Anonymous 244220@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>LSE is no good. They hired Caselli. </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=14254&page=11#post-244219 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:14:45 +0000 Anonymous 244219@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>The fact is -- if a paper is good, it gets an audience -- shut up and write papers people read -- if you cannot do that, labeling it as neoclassical or heterodox is irrelevant --</p> <p>--------------------------</p> <p>Very true. Its not like DSGE has always been the leading method. It was a response to earlier methods that failed. So too one day DSGE will fail. But not yet. </p> http://www.econjobrumors.com/topic.php?id=4674&page=30#post-244218 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:14:07 +0000 Anonymous 244218@http://www.econjobrumors.com/ <p>Randall Wright at Wisconsin Business School </p>