Economist on "Tenure case fight or flight?"
and word from On High is he will never be head again.A. Don't believe hollow comments. B. A department head is just 1 guy and its certain that others were involved. C. Environment will suck bad for him...
View ArticleEconomist on "rochester placement rocks"
This is terrible. Absolutely terrible. I can't recall a year like this recently. By the way, I have noticed that Turkish are also not well placed. If you look at Rochester, Maryland, UT Austin and...
View ArticleEconomist on "Now it's confirmed: this year's job market was terrible"
Look at Penn, Maryland, Rochester, Austin and so on. What a bad year of placements.
View ArticleEconomist on "Now it's confirmed: this year's job market was terrible"
And someone got placed into Oxford. Oh the humanity!!-Unemployed wanting a position at Oxford.
View ArticleEconomist on "Now it's confirmed: this year's job market was terrible"
Shat into Oxford? Yikes. That IS bad.
View ArticleEconomist on "Now it's confirmed: this year's job market was terrible"
Oxford repec #5, lol just lol so lrm
View ArticleEconomist on "Now it's confirmed: this year's job market was terrible"
The demand side was harrible this year, just harrible.
View ArticleEconomist on "Rogoff/Reinhart coding error -- ouch!!"
We need more replication. There may be many more papers which had such problems. And consider the many other papers who cited such papers to build their theory. This brings bad name to the profession.
View ArticleEconomist on "Rogoff/Reinhart coding error -- ouch!!"
We need more replication. There may be many more papers which had such problems. And consider the many other papers who cited such papers to build their theory. This brings bad name to the...
View ArticleEconomist on "Rogoff/Reinhart coding error -- ouch!!"
ignoring the coding error for a second, is the paper really that bad:http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/04/16/reinhart_rogoff_coding_error_austerity_policies_founded_on_bad_coding.htmlclaiming to...
View ArticleEconomist on "Rogoff/Reinhart coding error -- ouch!!"
Who is going to do replications? Certainly not tenured profs, nor APs. The stakes are too high for grad students. Look how it f**ked up Rothstein.
View ArticleEconomist on "Rogoff/Reinhart coding error -- ouch!!"
It's a Papers and Proceedings paper. No referees were involved and there is explicitly no quality control, so complaining "why does AER publish that" makes no...
View ArticleEconomist on "Rogoff/Reinhart coding error -- ouch!!"
Omitting five observations changes the main result of the paper...The most important lesson here is: macro no giod pThe problem is not that they omitted these observations, the problem is that they...
View ArticleEconomist on "Rogoff/Reinhart coding error -- ouch!!"
Omitting five observations changes the main result of the paper... The most important lesson here is: macro no giod p The problem is not that they omitted these observations, the problem is that they...
View ArticleEconomist on "Rogoff/Reinhart coding error -- ouch!!"
My main point is that replication is not necessary to see why this paper is completely flawed, just browsing through the paper is sufficient
View ArticleEconomist on "Rogoff/Reinhart coding error -- ouch!!"
Macro theorist here. Everyone say it with me. Macro no giod p.
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