It’s not very often that two of my favorite things in the world converge quite so unexpectedly as in this column from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about seeing Girl With A Pearl Earring, a “chick flick” on Valentine’s Day. Take this, for example: I’ve seen Firth brood in “Pride and Prejudice,” in “Bridget Jones’ Diary” and …
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So I’m at a conference here in Philadelphia with Tyler Cowen, and I told him after dinner that I was going up to my room to bed, no computer, just a phone call home. But then I got sucked in …
A friend of Knowledge Problem who is extremely knowledgeable about the electricity regulation and the dynamics of the industry in the past decade offers this response to my earlier post. I think he’s right: On your latest post re arbitrage, I think the spirit of your post is right, but the facts might not be. …
Here’s an article on the complex interaction of factors that have led to a recent rise in gasoline prices in California. It’s a lot of the usual — planned and unplanned maintenance, the seasonal fuel switchover, etc.
I agree with Alex at Marginal Revolution that Stock and Watson is an extremely good econometrics textbook. I don’t teach econometrics, but I do supervise senior theses that frequently require my consulting with students about their analyses, and Stock and Watson is very good. This is not surprising; I learned time-series econometrics from Mark Watson …
Check out this commentary from Monday’s Richmond Times-Dispatch. Virginia is considering returning to full regulation of its electricity industry, and this commentary by Thomas Nicholson lays out the case for why that’s a bad idea. The way the wholesale market has been designed in Virginia has some serious flaws, and Nicholson encourages Virginians not to …
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