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What are some dissertation-worthy topics in market design?

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Should the government give more importance to costs accounting as well as financial accounting?

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

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Handbooks of Economics: Elsevier or Routledge?

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

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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 ?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by Caleb_Jeremie_Dohou (100 points)

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Have you lined up people to comment on questions so as to get this forum to critical mass? [closed]

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by Eric Rasmusen (2.3k points)

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Is the prime directive of economcs to maximize net social benefits?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by Edward_Lambert (930 points)

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

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by Eric Rasmusen (2.3k points)

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

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by SADEQUL_ISLAM (120 points)

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Which econometric software do you use to apply the Randomized Control Trial Method?

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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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Does any graduate program teach the business cycle approach of Wesley Clair Mitchell?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by MIKE_MEEROPOL (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 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by Arshad_Malik (140 points)

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How many projects/papers are you working on at any one time?

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Sixteen economists including Solow submit a brief for Harvard in the Asian discrimination case. Are they right?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by Eric Rasmusen (2.3k points)

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Market Forecasting

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Which statistics package should undergraduate econ students be taught?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by NICK_HK (520 points)

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Looking for help with an Economic Project. Business negative cycles and how to avoid them.

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by Ryan_McConnell (2.8k points)

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Letter Writers for Tenure?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by user_3o6p8z (140 points)

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Efficient mechanism for allocating hotel rooms at ASSA?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by Brett_Roger_Matsumoto (1.3k points)

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How much do you use data when teaching macro?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by BRIAN_BARNIER (230 points)

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Are we in a period of sticky wages (nominal rigidity) and what is generally expected to happen next?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by user_5t3j5k (120 points)

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What are your suggestions to improve transparency, reproducibility , and credibility of economic research?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by JOACHIM_WAGNER (160 points)

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Teaching Monetary Economics at undergraduate studies

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by GORAN_PETREVSKI (140 points)

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Is any one working on links of agricultural productivity to child nutrition in developing countries?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by SWARMA_S_VEPA (150 points)

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Co-written recommendation letter for PhD applications ok?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by user_4l3g6m (150 points)

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Has anyone looked at taxing economic rents in a market characterized by imperfect competition models?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by DAVID_R_RICHARDS (160 points)

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How do you teach the model of the market (Supply & Demand)?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by CHARLES_B_MARCY (240 points)

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What is the policy about quoting or citing comments made in this forum in public forums?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by BRUCE_R_BARTLETT (150 points)

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What is Journal of Applied Econometrics quality rating (A+, A, or B) in Top 20 U.S. Ph.D. Economics schools?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by user_7o6w5a (120 points)

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How can economists as contribute to lower the risks of large scale economic recessions like the 2008-9 financial crisis?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by EIRIK_ROMSTAD (140 points)

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Should public policy try to rein in Amazon?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by Len Burman (150 points)

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What does microeconomics as a field contain?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by user_4g2t8j (110 points)

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Any good real-world examples for teaching on non-financial risk management?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by OS_MITCHELL (140 points)

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Considering a paper on structural economics and social insurances

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by John_Moser (280 points)

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Any thoughts on the Ted Hill math feminist double un-acceptance kerfuffle?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by Eric Rasmusen (2.3k points)

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When will a Chinese economist win a Nobel?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by user_5s6b2k (90 points)

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How do you teach intermediate/advanced undergraduate macroeconomics? Do you use theory, practice, or some hybrid?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by JASON_REED (240 points)