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• Banking on the State Support and vice versa

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 501
  Andrew Haldane once again. I have been covering his works in the crisis and all have been excellent reading ( here , here and here ). In his recent paper cum speech  co-written with  Piergiorgio Alessandri  he tells you how banks have changed over the years: Historically, the link between the state and ...
  12 hours ago

• Benefits of GST for Indian economy

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 501
  I had posted a while back  on India’s goods and service tax. In that post I had pointed to a primer and a speech from Dr Kelkar. In that speech Dr Kelkar had estimated the gains of GST for Indian economy based on similar gains made in Canada. In his recent speech (not recent actually, given in October 2009) he ...
  14 hours ago

• Understanding Banking- Mechanism Design Approach

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 501
  In 2007 , when Riksbank Committee awarded the Economics prize to Mechanism Design Theory, I realized there is something like this in economics.   Adam Smith’s classical metaphor of the invisible hand refers to how the market, under ideal conditions, ensures an efficient allocation of scarce resources. But in ...
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• Add Meir Kohn’s works to your reading list

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 501
  I don’t remember which blog/article pointed to a paper by Meir Kohn . He is an eco professor at Dartmouth who has done tonnes of work on financial history to understand whether it helps in economic growth. What is amazing is his phd was in Operations Research. He took up economic/financial history as he was ...
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• Mint’ new column on economic research papers

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 501
  There were 2 news paper columns that I know of that track latest economic research papers. Okonomos  in Business Standard. Mainly written by T C A Srinivasa-raghavan who bid his farewell to the column on Aug 22, 2008. After that the column was carried on for a while, but seems to have stopped for time being. Grey ...
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• Life’s paradoxes: On watching the fall of the Berlin Wall in Honolulu, November 1989

  
  Independent Indian: Work & Life of Dr Subroto Roy — Authority: 124
  From Facebook: Subroto Roy  recalls how, twenty years ago in Honolulu, he called his three-year old to the television to watch the fall of the Berlin Wall with him as a historic event — even while he had to battle as an individual against the most vicious tyranny unleashed against him by the Government of one ...
  2 days ago

• 30 Articles NEEDED!! by zkyclear

  
  Pro Freelance Projects — Authority: 177
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  3 days ago

• Basics of Corruption

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 501
  I came across this wonderful paper (HT Gulzar) on corrpution from Jakob Svesson   This paper will discuss eight frequently asked questions about public corruption: (1) What is corruption? (2) Which countries are the most corrupt? (3) What are the common characteristics of countries with high corruption? (4) ...
  3 days ago

• Probability of deflation in US has become fairly small

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 501
  In this new short note from FRBSF economist analyses inflation expectations in US. Predicting the course of inflation is one of the most important challenges facing monetary policymakers. Useful aids to such prediction are the measures of expected future inflation obtained from prices in government bond markets. ...
  3 days ago

• Importance of knowing and understanding Central Bank Laws

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 501
  When we think about central bank functions, it is important to know that their functions are governed by an Act/Law etc. The act determines what a central bank should do, objectives etc. This is because central banks are created by governments and legislation is a way to tell the bank what to do and what not to do. ...
  3 days ago

• 20 Dog related articles by beavboyz

  
  Pro Freelance Projects — Authority: 177
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  4 days ago

• Senators against (Political) Science

  
  Rodger A. Payne's Blog — Authority: 117
  Yesterday, the United States Senate voted down the so-called "Coburn amendment," which would have eliminated National Science Foundation support for research in the field of Political Science. Actually, Im being polite. The resolution offered by the Republican from Oklahoma used this wording: "Coburn Amendment 2631 ...
  4 days ago

• Simplifying thinking about financial regulation

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 501
  There is so much being written on financial regulation that one’s head just aches. There is much confusion and no clarity on how do you summarise them. I came across this useful way of simplifying and classifying financial regulation from Mark Carney of Bank of Canada. In his speech he summarises the financial ...
  4 days ago

• Icrier Review of Indian economy 2009-10

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 501
  ICRIER, the New Delhi based think tank has  released its  review of Indian economy for 2009-10. Despite signs of recovery from the global financial crisis, the GDP growth rate for the Indian economy is likely to be between 5.8 to 6.1 per cent in 2009-10, below the 6.7 per cent recorded in fiscal 2008-09. While ...
  4 days ago

• Microsoft "Mount Fuji Plan" strengthens links with Japanese academia

  
  Japundit - Published news — Authority: 451
  Microsoft is looking to expand ties with Japanese universities and has unveiled a multi-million dollar long-term plan to deepen its research roots in the country. read more
  4 days ago

• Promoting the geospatial intelligence tradecraft and building

  
  WERI CHANNEL — Authority: 421
  United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) 2007 Geospatial Achievement Award Presented at Hall of Fame Dinner on 24 OCT 07; largest IC conference of the year; over 3,000 attendees and 130 companies Dr. Swen Johnson was recognized with this prestigious geospatial academic research ...
  5 days ago

• IMF sells Gold to RBI – a bit more details

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 501
  On Tuesday morning (3 Nov 2009), I saw this press release at RBI website  and just kind of ignored it. However, it is pretty interesting from historical point of view. First, the RBI press release says: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has concluded the purchase of 200 metric tonnes of gold from the International ...
  5 days ago

• Lessons from Japan’s exit policies in 1990s crisis

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 501
  Apart from World Economic Outlook , IMF also releases regionwise Economic Outlooks . Both are bi-annual publications. In its latest Asia outlook , IMF has an interesting chapter on Japan’s exit policies in its 1990s crisis and lessons that can be drawn from the same. It breaks the Japan’s crisis in 3 phases ...
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• Conference Quagmire-What do you think?

  
  Worn Through — Authority: 124
  Well I skipped ITAA this year due to costs and because I’m mid-way through my dissertation, but done with other projects so I really didn’t have anything to present at this time. Generally, a lot of people do research, present it at some conferences, then work on manuscripts. My two main projects, “Black ...
  6 days ago

• Costume Society of America Western Region Internship program

  
  Worn Through — Authority: 124
  Recently, CSA Western region announced:“We will be sponsoring the Jack Handford Student Internship for Summer 2010 with a $2000 stipend for a qualified undergraduate who is entering their senior year or a graduate student in the field of costume history, museum studies, design, or a related area of study. Both ...
  6 days ago

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