Reuven Glick Responds! The Currency Unions and Trade Debate Rages On... tháng 4 27, 2017 Add Comment Previously, I reviewed the Currency Unions and Trade Literature here , and then shared some of my students' referee reports of a recent ...
How Bad is Peer Review? Evidence From Undergraduate Referee Reports on the Currency Unions and Trade Lit tháng 4 24, 2017 Add Comment In a recent paper, Glick and Rose (2016) suggest that the Euro led to a staggering 50% increase in trade. To me, this sounded a bit dubious,...
AFL experiments, or please eat your brötli tháng 4 22, 2017 Add Comment When messing around with AFL , you sometimes stumble upon something unexpected or amusing. Say, having the fuzzer spontaneously synthesize J...
The St. Louis Fed's Macroeconomic Outlook tháng 4 19, 2017 Add Comment St. Louis Fed president James Bullard recently gave this speech on the U.S. macroeconomic outlook. The key themes of his talk were: The U.S...
Sectoral and Occupational Trends in the U.S. Labor Market tháng 4 15, 2017 Add Comment The labor market is back to normal. Or so we are told. Here's the prime-age unemployment rate for the United States beginning in 1960. A...
Why You Should Come Study at NES! tháng 4 13, 2017 Add Comment I talk up the merits of the New Economic School at a recruiting event here .
A Quick Theory of the Industrial Revolution (or, at least, an answer to 'Why Europe?') tháng 4 10, 2017 Add Comment Following a Twitter debate involving myself, Gabe Mathy, Pseudoerasmus, and Anton Howes on the theory that high wages in England induced lab...
Fiscal over monetary policy? tháng 4 08, 2017 Add Comment The Economy May Be Stuck in a Near-Zero World (Justin Wolfers). Justin does a good job describing how many economists view the role of mone...
The Real Exchange Rates and Trade Literature tháng 4 06, 2017 Add Comment Noah Smith asks about the literature on the real exchange rate (RER) and trade. My own main line of research is about RERs and manufacturing...