Economist Channel

Several correspondents were kind enough to send me additional work on covered interest parity.There are two big questions (and a third at the end): 1) what force pushes prices out of line? 2) what force stops arbitrageurs from taking advantage of it, and thereby pushing prices back...

The February Issue of the Journal of Finance made it to the top of my stack, and it has a lot of good articles. The first two especially caught my attention, Who Are the Value and Growth Investors? by Sebastien Bertermeier, Larent Calvet, and Paolo Sodini, and Asset Pricing...

I spoke recently at several venues on behavioural economics, behavioural science, and health. Below is a sample of useful papers on these areas, again intended to stimulate some discussion in the Irish context. The interplay between disciplines such as health psychology, public health, behavioural medicine, and behavioural economics is a particularly...