2018

In Memoriam Herman Stekler

I am sad to report that Herman Stekler passed away last month. I didn't know until now. He was a very early and important and colorful -...

Check out: PUBLISHING AND PROMOTION IN ECONOMICS: THE TYRANNY OF THE TOP FIVE by James J. Heckman and Sidharth Moktan NBER Working Paper 2...

Art Owen and Hal Varian have an eye-opening new paper, " Optimizing the Tie-Breaker Regression Discontinuity Design ". Randomized ...

(The following article appeared on cnbctv18.com on September 24, 2018 https://www.cnbctv18.com/finance/indian-debt-capital-markets-no-need-t...

A few weeks ago the NBER released WP25000, What a great NBER service -- t here have been 7.6 million downloads of NBER WP's in the las...

Very cool NYT graphics summarizing U.S. Facebook network connectedness. Check it out: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/19/upshot...

See below for announcement of a useful new product from the Bank of France and its Representative Office in New York. Banque de France has ...

[I tried quite hard to email this privately. I post it here only because Griffin has, as far as I can tell, been very successful in scrubbin...

How could I have forgotten to announce my latest paper, "Machine Learning for R egularized Survey Forecast Combination: Partially-Egal...

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( The enclosed article appeared as a web-exclusive on Business Standard on 11th September 2018: https://www.business-standard.com/article/ma...

Missing Events in Event Studies: Identifying the Effects of Partially-Measured News Surprises by Refet S. Guerkaynak, Burcin Kisacikoglu, Jo...

(The following article appeared on cnbctv18.com online on 6th Sept 2018, link provided below: https://www.cnbctv18.com/market/currency/rupee...