I spent the weekend at the Irish Economic Association's Annual conference, and learned a few things.
Jacco Thijssen can crack time into bits, which is awesome.
Liam Delaney thinks about students drinking. A lot.
Derek Bond is so smart, he makes me think I actually understand random field effect regressions. I floated out of the lecture, thought about his paper for thirty seconds, and my brain broke.
Yvonne McCarthy thinks increasing labour market participation rates probably won't help us grow forever, and tells us what to do about it. (Can't find a URL for the paper)
Bodhi Sengupta shows how to solve corruption problems with reputational effects. Wonder if it would work for Mugabe?Paper is here: bodthi.pdf" title="bodthi.pdf">bodthi.pdf
Stephen Cecchetti taught us the structure of CDOs and the need for increased regulation to get us out of the sub prime mess we're in right now.
Overall a nice conference, I learned a good bit, and I'll go again (if they let me).