Tomas Tapak

Econ PhD student @Stanford. MSc Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from @LSEEcon

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Classic sign error, happens to the best of us.

[Antoine Levy @LevyAntoine]

France’s congressional debate on deficit reduction strategies is progressing well.

The goal is to reduce the deficit by 60 billion this year.

So far they passed 57 billion in new spending ideas.

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Economists would say: "Our quantitative model matches the data well."

Meanwhile their untargeted moments reported in the appendix look like this:

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"I promise I won't talk about efficient allocations at dinner"
Me after 3 beers:

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Studying at LSE vs studying at KCL/UCL

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PhD students be like:

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The guy just won the vote of the whole applied econ community

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

On Day 1, *instantly* fire 50% of federal bureaucrats.

Here’s how: if your SSN ends in an odd number, you’re fired.

That downsizes government by half. Absolutely *nothing* will break as a result.

It doesn’t violate civil service rules because mass layoffs are exempt.

SHUT IT DOWN.

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Moving to the US as a European:

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I really do wish for LyX to have an online editor version (such as Overleaf) so that you simultaneously edit the document with your collaborators.

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@NeoContraction Tbh, I cannot think of any concept for which \mathbb{X} would be a well established notation. State space... I guess I could imagine it used there, but I would use \Omega, \mathbb{S}, or \mathbb{G} instead (in that order), since X is common notation for random variable already.

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New Twitter logo: \mathbb{X}

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Students during an exam term:

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Great ad placement

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Micro people complain that log linearization in macro is obnoxious

Meanwhile micro problem sets be like
"We look at different cases.
Case 1
Case 2
...
Case 41584"

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My interests in econometrics:

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UK MSc and BSc exams were much more stressful than PhD exams here in the US, so that is an improvement in my life.

On the other, because in the UK we had more than a month to prepare I feel that I learnt incomparably more from the exams.

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Exams at 8:30 should not be a thing in a civilised country

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@svpwycherley Oh no, how will we prepare for exams now?

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Revising for grad stats mood: