I noticed two interesting articles touching on international trade today. The first is Arvind Panagariya’s Foreign Policy article coming out this month. He busts a bunch of myths and urban legends about the effects of trade and trade barriers (as well as providing evidence that supports truths): ?Rich Countries Are More Protectionist Than Poor Ones? …
The FCC issues guidelines on implementing number portabiilty starting November 24: The commission said companies should complete a phone-number switch between wireless carriers within 2 1/2 hours, a time already set as a goal by most major carriers. The FCC said the time period is not mandatory, but the commission would reconsider that if it …
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This Wired article from Wednesday points to an interesting case: a record label that enables sharing, lets you try before you buy, and splits the proceeds of sales 50/50 with artists from the get go. This label, Magnatune, has about 50 signed artists. Also interesting is that the artists retain rights to the songs; they …
So my beloved Pittsburgh Penguins start the hockey season tonight at home against the Los Angeles Kings. Mario Lemieux is on the roster, and it also looks like we’re pretty deep with talent both young and experienced at center, so the team’s fortunes won’t hinge so dramatically on his health. Martin Straka continues, and continues …
There are some planks in this platform that, if he can follow through and lead people with him, will unleash an amazing amount of creative energy and dynamism. From the Governor-Elect’s website, all points follow the statement “as Governor I will”: Encourage cost-effective conservation by increasing demand response to changing electricity markets. One of Governor …
Yeah, what he said. Co-integration, Granger causality, ARCH and GARCH models for estimation, all are things that I have used regularly. Congratulations to them both!
As of last Wednesday, I am now working with Nobel Prize winner Vernon Smith’s Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science at George Mason University. I will be the Director of a new Applied Energy Research Program at ICES. Through this program we plan to expand the use of experimental economic research in the establishment and implementation …
While you are at TCS, do also read Arnold Kling’s open letter to Paul Krugman. I find his distinction between consequence-based arguments and motive-based arguments very important and persuasive. I have always found motive-based arguments to be cheap, shoddy and unpersuasive, and as usual Arnold hits the nail on the head. What’s also interesting is …
Some time last week my husband came home from work with a gleeful grin, and with a flourish he whipped out Neal Stephenson’s new book Quicksilver. I had known it was out for a week or so before (because I read Intapundit), and figured I’d get it for him for his birthday. Oh well … …
This Christian Science Monitor editorial from Thursday lays out the natural gas supply issues in the US very clearly. Note that it mentions that a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in San Francisco has been voted down. Such votes will lead to the persistence of high, and volatile, natural gas prices into the future.
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