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At which tech firms do economists have substantial influence and enjoy good working conditions?

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Are standards for the economist profession being considered for development?

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

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Is European economics different than US economics?

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

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

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

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

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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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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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Why link Romer and Nordhaus in one Nobel Prize?

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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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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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Can a VECM be estimated without spurious regression problems ?

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Heckman and Moktan on the Top 5

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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.

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