BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford “for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation.”
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UADB : Le MESRI et son homologue des Infrastructures ont procédé à la réception de 1 000 lits au CROUS de Bambey et 1000 places de restauration et à la pose de la première pierre du programme de cinq lots de construction et de réhabilitation et de finalisation des bâtiments
New publication : Nouvelle publication dans Applied Economics de Bchir Mohamed Ali, Cohen Caroline, Sene Omar, Willinger Marc, Contrasting risk preferences in the shadow of volcanic background risk: a field experiment in Arequipa, Perú https://t.co/oz7lcnENoo
@bookingcom I've been requesting a refund of over €400 for over two months after an unsuccessful booking. I've written to all the departments and provided the requested documents, but I haven't heard anything. It's a scam.
@bookingcom I've been requesting a refund of over €400 for over two months after an unsuccessful booking. I've written to all the departments and provided the requested documents, but I haven't heard anything. It's a scam.
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”
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Fama says he agrees with his good friend Richard Thaler on the facts about behavioral finance, but disagrees on the interpretation.
He then surprises @ritholtz by saying: "There is no behavioral finance. It's all just a criticism of efficient markets, with no evidence."
Causal analysis is important, but crucial research questions can be addressed or prepared using descriptive analysis. We have lost ability to do it properly because of our obsession with RCTs & IVs, this paper argues & it provides a much needed methodology https://t.co/ZAS7Y57hO0
@Niintche Ils n'ont pas le droit d'avoir de l'eau courante parce qu'ils sont "maudits"? @Niintche, ces gens disent musulmans ou chrétiens, fréquentent les mosquées/églises, mais il n'y a pas une once d'humanité en eux. C'est le paradoxe sénégalais
How did American universities go from blah in the 19th century to the best in the world in the 20th? This paper finds it was not world events, but rather the birth of tenure (which made older faculty OK with hiring talent) & competition for top professors. https://t.co/AHZYoYYItA