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Why not have the AEA annual meeting in Chicago every year?

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Is anyone interested in a simple bargaining model that gets a 1/N split as a unique Nash equilibrium?

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Are standards for the economist profession being considered for development?

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Check out the new link to EconSpark on the top of AEA homepage!

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Is quantitative analysis is more important in economics than theoretical background of a research?

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Do you recommend graduate students to go to Eastern Economic Association Meeting?

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What's the standard output table format for logit model and multinomial model in top Economics journals?

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Should the government give more importance to costs accounting as well as financial accounting?

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Are "behavioral economics" and "mainstream economics" still in conflict?

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Handbooks of Economics: Elsevier or Routledge?

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Looking for an econ relevant model that has local as well as global minimum in the loss function

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What are the basic macro economic fundamentals for the underdeveloped economy ?

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Is the prime directive of economcs to maximize net social benefits?

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When and how is it appropriate for a journal editor to retract acceptance of a forthcoming paper?

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Which software do you use to compute the Gini coefficient from a large micro database?

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Which econometric software do you use to apply the Randomized Control Trial Method?

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