It is an immense pleasure to announce that the call for papers of the International Economics special issue is now online: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-economics/call-for-papers/the-european-economy-in-the-time-of-covid-19 Feel free to submit your works…
Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose? Carl Sagan (1994) After a first…
The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. Sherlock Holmes.The Valley of Fear, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1915). In this blog,…
I wisely started with a map, and made the story fit (generally with meticulous care for distances). J. R. R. Tolkien (1954) In this blog, I will show…
The die has been cast. Julius Caesar (49 BC) One way to convince some students that it is simple to demonstrate the value of the two first moments…
We’ve learned from experience that the truth will come out. Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and find out whether you were wrong or right. Nature’s phenomena will…
A good way to visualize the effects of the international monetary system during the Bretton Wood era is to plot exchange rates over a long run period for…
Our paper is now published in Applied Economics: https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2021.1888864. This paper was written last year with my friend Sy-Hoa Ho. We met ten years ago in the University…
Our paper is now published in the Eurasian Economic Review: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40822-021-00167-4. I am very grateful to my colleagues Amélie Barbier-Gauchard, Meixing Dai, Claire Mainguy, Moïse Sidiropoulos, Isabelle Terraz…
If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found…
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