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Please share your thoughts on the recent AEA initiatives to improve the professional climate in economics.

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Should we teach Cournot duopoly with asymmetric, increasing MC, cost functions, and not using any diagrams?

commented 5 months ago in General Economics Questions by EconSpark Admin (200 points)

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Currency board

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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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How important was the financial panic as a cause of the Great Recession?

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What's the best way to teach the shutdown decision?(when P<AVC)

commented 5 months ago in General Economics Questions by Eric Rasmusen (1.5k points)

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Looking for help with an Economic Project. Business negative cycles and how to avoid them.

comment edited 5 months ago in General Economics Questions by Ryan_McConnell (950 points)

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

edited 5 months ago in General Economics Questions by Ryan_McConnell (950 points)

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

asked 5 months ago by Dick_Startz (3.1k points)

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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)?

commented 5 months ago in Job Market - Candidate Questions by user_9y2h6i (120 points)

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

answered 5 months ago in General Economics Questions by Antonn_Park (370 points)

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What points are most important to address in a cover letter at the senior level when applying to an advertised position?

answered 5 months ago in Job Market - Candidate Questions by BenHansen451 (3.3k points)

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Michigan iSchool Posting

answer edited 5 months ago in Job Market - Candidate Questions by YAN_CHEN (260 points)

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

answer edited 5 months ago in General Economics Questions by BenHansen451 (3.3k points)

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What is a good way to get the attention of an appealing employer through JOE?

answer edited 5 months ago in Job Market - JOE by BenHansen451 (3.3k points)

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What are issues that arise in advising grad students and young colleagues, or about which you have sought advice?

answer edited 5 months ago in General Economics Questions by user_8e9x6c (820 points)

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Why is there so few openly LGBT economists out there?

comment edited 5 months ago in General Economics Questions by user_2e5t8w (380 points)

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

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Can I post slides (but not a paper) on my website for a work in progress?

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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?

asked 5 months ago in General Economics Questions by Eric Rasmusen (1.5k points)

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

answer edited 5 months ago in Current Economic Issues by Ryan_McConnell (950 points)

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Have low interest rates led to excessive risk taking?

answer edited 5 months ago in Current Economic Issues by user_4q3m2p (530 points)

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

asked 5 months ago by Sevrin_Waights (150 points)

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

asked 5 months ago by Lawrence_Summers (260 points)

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

answer edited 5 months ago by GUILLAUME_FRECHETTE (230 points)

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Can a VECM be estimated without spurious regression problems ?

asked 5 months ago in General Economics Questions by WS_509 (120 points)

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

asked 5 months ago in General Economics Questions by WS_509 (120 points)

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Efficient mechanism for allocating hotel rooms at ASSA?

comment moved 5 months ago in General Economics Questions by Anna Stansbury (660 points)

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Heckman and Moktan on the Top 5

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What are the best sources to read for job market advice?

answer edited 5 months ago in Job Market - Candidate Questions by paulgp (370 points)

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Has a paper ever been rejected by an econ journal, or acceptance rescinded, due to outside pressure?

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Where to look for jobs apart from JOE, EconJobMarket, HigherEd Jobs?

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Not a question, but welcome to the new forum. Let it be informative and civilized. Its success depends on all of us.

asked 6 months ago in General Economics Questions by OLIVIER_BLANCHARD (1.2k points)

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

asked 5 months ago in General Economics Questions by Arshad_Malik (140 points)

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

asked 5 months ago in General Economics Questions by Eric Rasmusen (1.5k points)

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

asked 5 months ago in General Economics Questions by Eric Rasmusen (1.5k points)

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Structural Estimation 101

asked 6 months ago in General Economics Questions by Ariel_Karlinsky (200 points)

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Yield on PhD acceptances

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

comment edited 5 months ago in General Economics Questions by Ryan_McConnell (950 points)