Paul Beaumont

Assistant Professor of Finance at @DesautelsMcGill (joining in August 2020)

[Paul Beaumont @pbeaum]

@OxfordFrom Network!

[Paul Beaumont @pbeaum]

@AdrienMatray Here is the guest of the lecturer who was teaching the *same* course as me this fall. I did not even have a guest speaker
https://t.co/g5LYUnQOUm

[Le Monde @lemondefr]

Isabelle Méjean a reçu le Prix du meilleur jeune économiste 2020 https://t.co/xFm1evUNOn

[David Skeel @ Penn @daskeel]

While many of us are worrying about financial distress in the U.S., a group of the world's leading sovereign debt scholars have come up with a really clever strategy for creating a 12 month standstill for developing nations-- it deserves serious attention.
https://t.co/UgWPe46Vts

[JohannesBorgen @jeuasommenulle]

Aaaaaand the ECB just did a copy and paste !

https://t.co/vNkLs0MGDg

[JohannesBorgen @jeuasommenulle]

The Swiss bank regulator (FINMA) does statistics like no one else. A quick story - to file under "Fat Tails Twitter".

[Basile Grassi @Basile_G]

What are the sectoral effects of social distancing? Here a short paper with @jnbarrot from @HEC and @juliensauvagnat from @Bocconi.

Note in English: https://t.co/fuGtUcwGaW
WP in English: https://t.co/ilVGvNdfKj
Press in French (@lemondefr ): https://t.co/HrcSKHv0Ca

[Eric Spiegelman @ericspiegelman]

My wife and I play this fun game during quarantine, it's called "Why Are You Doing It That Way?" and there are no winners

[David Wessel @davidmwessel]

Regulator Mark Calabria says Fannie and Freddie can go for 12 more weeks, but if widepared mortgage forbearance goes longer than that, they'll need another taxpayer bailout. They're levered 240:1 https://t.co/uGIgDOabhh via @financialtimes

[Andrew Desiderio @AndrewDesiderio]

This is wild.

U.S. airlines are flying near-empty planes because the $2.2 trillion coronavirus package requires airlines to preserve their service capacity as of March 1 — even though this makes the airlines burn cash faster.

https://t.co/2lLtfd35v7

[Andrew M. Webb @AndrewM_Webb]

I'm having trouble concentrating on science animations right now, so instead here are some screenshots from my favourite document on the planet.

These are taken from a 'work in progress' document from Pepsi's 2008 rebrand. Every figure is as incomprehensible as this one. 1/23

[🦋🪩 @nimusenimodele]

J'ai explosé de rire 💀

La Leçon d'anatomie en visio, Rembrandt, 1632

[Heidi Shierholz @hshierholz]

Well, tomorrow I believe I will be posting the most shocking chart of my entire career. If UI claims jump as expected, they will look like this: https://t.co/jAbXI0O06P @aaronsojourner @paulgp

[Pierre Michels @PierreMichels1]

Dans cette situation :
A - Je me déporte sur l'autre voie
B - Je ne bouge pas, je suis bien placé

[Nouriel Roubini @Nouriel]

Ouch!!! "And 2014's Worst Currency Was...Bitcoin" http://t.co/G87CUlDgcM

[The Economist Data Team @ECONdailycharts]

Gangnam Style breaks YouTube's counter: here's what humanity could have done instead: http://t.co/OJNvevpRob

[Paul Beaumont @pbeaum]

@ERBofHistory http://t.co/2cd9taDoO9 Next ERB: James Bond vs Stephen Hawking ?

[Paul Beaumont @pbeaum]

http://t.co/JnNi8axiNq A modern version of the Corn Laws controversies @Noahpinion