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

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Why is there so few openly LGBT economists out there?

answered 6 years ago in General Economics Questions by Nosferican (1.8k 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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Why link Romer and Nordhaus in one Nobel Prize?

answered 6 years ago in General Economics Questions by AL Roth (6.9k points)

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

answered 6 years ago in Current Economic Issues by Edward_Lambert (930 points)

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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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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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Heckman and Moktan on the Top 5

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

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Has a paper ever been rejected by an econ journal, or acceptance rescinded, due to outside pressure?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 years 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 6 years 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 6 years ago in General Economics Questions by Eric Rasmusen (2.3k 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 6 years ago in General Economics Questions by Eric Rasmusen (2.3k points)

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Structural Estimation 101

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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?

asked 6 years ago in General Economics Questions by Ryan_McConnell (2.8k points)

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

asked 6 years ago in General Economics Questions by Cameron_Fen (300 points)

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What is the current status of Deep Learning in economics research?

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What do working economists do day-to-day?

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BA wanting to gain exposure to econ. research, seeking advice

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How do you choose a teaching reference letter writer?

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Criteria for evaluating AP positions

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Handbooks of Economics: Elsevier or Routledge?

asked 6 years ago in General Economics Questions by user_8m3m2h (130 points)

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Should Pakistan search for bailout package or rely on its own resources to came out of present economic crises?

asked 6 years ago in General Economics Questions by Arshad_Malik (140 points)

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Any suggestions to fare better in job market if you don't belong to younger cohort?

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Where will the Annual Meeting be held in 2020?

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Why isn't the maximum entropy approach to modelling stock return distributions from options prices more well studied

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Recommendation - Good job market advice

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What is a good way to get the attention of employers through JOE if you are not a fresh PhDs?

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

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Could anyone provide me with some advice, papers and documentation on gender analysis frameworks ?

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

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