ricardian ambivalence

Cities and super-creatives

A french study finds that agglomeration economies explain the fact that firms are more productive in larger cities (ht free

Australian politics doesn’t have anything like the US presidential election but the need to win a majority of electoral votes

There is a lot of good stuff out about the European situation just now. The Journal has another story on

Intrade has a member exiting the EUR by the end of 2012 at 41.5% (the contract trades at $4.15).

Gittins gives the official family’s line on monetary and fiscal policy in this weekend’s column. fiscal policy and monetary policy

I have admired Posen since he swore that if he was wrong about his inflation forecast and the need for

The floating exchange rate has been doing what it’s supposed to this last few weeks – dropping like a stone

BoE Gov King’s summary of the situation was pithy: our biggest trading partner, the euro area, is tearing itself apart

Stock and Watson are among the best that economics and econometrics have to offer, so few have a right to

The WSJ article Greece Teeters as Talks Fail claims that: In a potent sign of Greeks’ rising anxiety, depositors withdrew

Things keep going wrong for NZ. Their stats office just halved the pace of recent growth, and the price of

Stats NZ today heavily revised NZ GDP. The revisions suggest that the recession was smaller than expected, but that the