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Argentina. Excess of public labor force. Can the excess of demand over supply devaluate the currency of a country?

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What should go into a letter of recommendation for admission to an economics PhD program?

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Is it a good idea to apply for PhD if someone already holds a PhD degree (with 18 good publications, 100+ citations)?

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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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Why is there so few openly LGBT economists out there?

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Is agent-based computational economics (ACE) the future of macroeconomics?

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Current state of undergraduate econometrics teaching

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Does is matter if a candidate graduates in 4, 5, 6, 7, ... years?

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Why link Romer and Nordhaus in one Nobel Prize?

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Should central banks change their inflation targets?

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What's Wrong With How We Teach the Supply and Demand Model?

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Is European economics different than US economics?

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If monetary policy works largely through income effects is it still the best tool for stabilisation policy?

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Teaching Monetary Economics at undergraduate studies

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Have low interest rates led to excessive risk taking?

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How to give a good conference presentation (ca 15-20 minutes) in economics. Does the Big 5 still work?

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What is right basic economics to explain huge variability in population density across US states

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What are some dissertation-worthy topics in market design?

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What are some dissertation-worthy topics in behavioral/experimental economics?

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Can a VECM be estimated without spurious regression problems ?

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How can you bring to light the error-corrective mechanism, from an econometric point of view ?

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Efficient mechanism for allocating hotel rooms at ASSA?

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What is a predoctoral research assistantship, how do students find them, and why are they growing in popularity?

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What role, if any, does secular stagnation play in the flat growth of wages since the recovery?

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Going back on academic market. Should I mention that my current job does not allocate research time?

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Heckman and Moktan on the Top 5

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