 |
TalkEconAn economics blog discussing recent events and the economic theory behind these events. |
View Blog details |
Recent Blog Posts
Unit Root? Greg Mankiw vs. Paul Krugman
on Mar 7, 2009 in Econometrics Economy Greg Mankiw: Team Obama on the Unit Root HypothesisGreg Mankiw: Wanna bet some of that Nobel money? Greg Mankiw: The Myth of Economic Recovery Paul Krugman: Root of EvilI am not an econometrician nor an economist. While I kind of un...
How to brief a marketing analyst
on Mar 17, 2009 in briefing brief econometrics marketing Analysis So you want an analyst to spend some time looking at your marketing? This is all about how you get a piece of work that will do something more than confuse you for a couple of hours (which means it must be very, very clever) and then spend the rest o...
Brilliant. And slightly depressing.
on Apr 28, 2009 in vimeo honda econometrics Who doesn't love Honda's advertising? Ever since Cogs, they've been producing consistently fantastic creative ideas.Following up on the prediction in my last post that Vimeo is set to put a big dent in Youtube, Honda has used its higher quality and m...
Comparing Unemployment During Past Recessions
on Aug 7, 2009 in Economy econometrics economy labor force NBER recession statistics unemployment unemployment rate Late last year, in December, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) officially set the start of the current recession as of December 2007. So basically, it took them a whole year to come to the same conclusion that I did almost immediately:...