Economist Channel

This is a guest post from Dr. Christian Schubert . Let’s assume that in country X ‘nudges’ are being implemented. As you may recall, these a...

Below is a heavily updated list of links and resources on the issue of research impact. I have tried to include pieces from research funders...

Òscar Jordà, Björn Richter, Moritz Schularick, and Alan Taylor wrote a provocative What has bank capital ever done for us?  at VoxEu, advert...

Commentators seem to have noticed a lot of the economics  of the United fiasco: Yes, don't stop auctions at $800. ( WSJ review and outlo...

A key portfolio manager behind Elliott Management's infamous Argentina bet is stepping down. Jay Newman, a lawyer who joined New Yor...

Are you a young economist or other professor, and would you like to spend a year at Stanford with no teaching? The Hoover National Fellows p...

Economics is mostly a quantitative discipline from the basic undergraduate principles courses to the most recent editions of the top journal...

The online Asset Pricing Ph.D. class is back! It died in a Coursera "upgrade," but it is now migrated over to Canvas. Click here ...