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Javier Bianchi - Bank runs, fragility, and credit easing.
Diamond-Dybvig shows solvent banks vulnerable to self fulfilling runs, This paper tries to put them into general equilibrium model. Model Default is a s...
pandoc command reference
A useful starting point. To go from markdown to pdf: -C -N -s SOURCEFILE.md -o OUTPUTFILE.pdf The -C is short for --citeproc and the -N is short for --nu...
Map copyright
If you trace a coastline from a accurate copyrighted map , does your tracing constitute a derivative work of the original map? Maps themselves are explictl...
Internal and External effects of social distancing
Also with paper david presented, somethign about relazing an assumptio nbut keeping track of beliefs. Information Percolation in Large Markets. “Einstein ...
Onion cultivars
We harvested a giant onion, over one meter in length. But I am worried it is a perennial, so I am trying to find out its cultivar. One possiblity, looking ...
Magia Naturalis
Magia Naturalis is a book from 1558, and translated into English translated into English in 1658 under the title Natural Magick. It’s about, well, “natural m...
Civil Asset Forfeiture and Madoff
A factoid I heard from John Oliver is that Police steal more from people (via civil asset forfeiture) than criminals do. Is this true? Kind of. It’s truthyi...
Public Domain years
Looking through public domain vectors on Openclipart I came across this site alleging to host comics in the public domain. But these comics are from the 50s...
plastic waste
Turns out US and Europe are doing very well at handling plastic waste, releasing less than 1% into the ocean. 36% comes from Phillipines alone. (!) Almost e...
Sean Bassler and REne Leon presentations
Christian MoserFatih says his papers is really good. Why has worker heterogeneity increased? Segregation and sorting. Explain over half of increase in vari...
fatihapril26
Monte carlo integration overused fatih uniform sequence stochastic optimization book Stochastic Global Optimization Developments in hasman sequences Fati...
UMN banned from Linux kernel
Hey there, this entire blog is just for personal use, and you shouldn’t be here. This was written in a mentally compromised state. After checking over its c...
Thanksgiving and the Pequot massacre
Saw somebody online claim thanksgiving had a white supremacist origin. I thought “wait, isn’t Edward Winslow’s account of Thanksgiving a rare example of anti...
regulatory bugs
Examples of well meaning policies interacting in unforeseen ways to cause bad outcomes. Texas power outage 2021. Company offers cheap wholesale power. Go...
Why has nuclear power been a flop
Why has nuclear power been a flop? A blogpost summary of the book by Jack Devanney. Which makes this a summary of a summary… Hrm… Need to at least triple...
Fatih Lecture 5 Optimization
When you estimate parameters, there will be some free ones left over. Howe do we calibrate these floating parameters? Empirical estimates of risk aversion ...
Really Uncertain Business Cycles
Bloom, N., Floetotto, M., Jaimovich, N., Saporta‐Eksten, I., & Terry, S. J. (2018). Really uncertain business cycles. Econometrica, 86(3), 1031-1065. ...
Fluctuations in uncertainty
Bloom, Nicholas (2014). “Fluctuations in uncertainty.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 28, no. 2: 153-76. A summary of the recent rise in research into...
Federal Statistical Research Data Centers
Secure computing labs for conducting statistical analysis on non-public data collected by various public agencies. Managed by Census Bureau Minnesota RDC ...
Wage Inequality and Segregation by Skill
Kremer, M., & Maskin, E. (1996). Wage inequality and segregation by skill (No. w5718). National bureau of economic research. Link growing wage gap...
Spread of epidemic disease on networks
Newman, M. E. (2002). Spread of epidemic disease on networks. Physical review E, 66(1), 016128. Epidemic behavior usually shows a phase transition with...
Integrating Behavioral choice into epidemiological modesl of aids
Kremer, M. (1996). Integrating behavioral choice into epidemiological models of AIDS. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 111(2), 549-573. Behavior of ...
farming
Enclosure Basic story: England used to have fuedal lands, where the tenants have to pay rents and do labor to grow food for the lord, and also they could...
Walmart expansion
Rene M Diaz De Leon giving presentation about Firms and Space Where build new plant? Holmes 2011, Oberfeld 2020 Firm geography and...
changing secual activity and HIV prevalence
Kremer, M., & Morcom, C. (1998). The effect of changing sexual activity on HIV prevalence. Mathematical biosciences, 151(1), 99-122. From 1, in a simp...
Cool to be smart smart to be cool
Bursztyn, L., Egorov, G., & Jensen, R. (2019). “Cool to be smart or smart to be cool? Understanding peer pressure in education.” The Review of Economic ...
Strats for making class participation inclusive
Multiple Hands, Multiple Voices Ask a question, tell students won’t call on someone until at least 5 hands are raised. (Maybe roll a dice) Give one: ...
Economically Important Plant Families
Super Tier Grasses (Poaceae) Maize, wheat, rice, and other grains provide the majority of dietary energy for humanity. Bamboo, reeds, and straw are c...
Importing Inkscape land shapes into QGIS
There are lots of guides online for taking a QGIS map, exporting it to a vector format, and then using Inkscape to clean it up and make it pretty. But I wan...
rahman advice
Honest work. Being creative. Alkene and demsetz. One of the last non-mathy papers. One of top papers in aer. Read and contributed something. In times of do...
Fertility, mortality, migration
Fertility, mortality, migration, and population scenarios for 195 countries and territories from 2017 to 2100: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden o...
Credit and Labor market frictions
Twinkies anecdote Twinky going bankrupt. Tries to negotiate with union. Union says no. Twinky fails. Euro stock markets very small. Maybe because if c...
Uncertainty and Recessions
In class, Fatih mentioned the new field of research into business cycles as characterized by “second moment shocks” (variance, uncertainty) as opposed to fir...
Hurricane Intensity
Just read this artcile with specifci complaints about historic hurricane intensity. Complains about using economic losses to impute climate variables. Fits ...
Automation and Jobs class
“Software is eating the world” Software invades an industry, consumes the incumbants that can’t adapt. Happening to cars right now. That’s Tesla’s edge. So...
Malaria vaccine
Most important news of the year. Potential vaccine for Malaria. Previous vaccine only 30% effective. Why? The parasite has a protein that inhibits immune s...
Griddy and electricity in Texas
Griddy is company in Texas that charges flat fee for access to wholesale electricity. on average cheaper but exposes buyer to volatility of electricity ...
How to give seminar talk
Your Audience does not care about your topic. You have 2 minutes to change their minds. Assume the audience is about to leave. Make sure they walk out with ...
Bassler Structural Transformation Subsaharan Africa
fatih: When you are working on something, be aware of the broader literature. You never know when you find a treasure. Never write off a particular area....
Poisson Games
Original prompt from Peter Pusztai I was wondering if Poisson games would be a good way. For example the following. You could have players, the exact num...
CIE UV disinfection
Interesting little video here. UV-C radiation can be used to disinfect surfaces Chemical and heat sterilization is preferred in most cases because ...
pickens unions talk
He’s trying to build a model to explain why unionization is decreasing in the US and elsewhere. His story is that increasing gaps in skill difference betwee...
Mahdi Data Economy
Motivation Market Concentration is up. Labor share is down. Business dynamism is down. Value of data is large and rising. Values of data...
Ancient Egyptian conception of the soul
To summarize this page, these are the pieces of the soul, according to ancient Egyptians: Khet The physical form, the body. Preserved via mummification...
More notes about colors
Previous post talked about math of color perception. But what are colors called? Universal color names Basic Colour Terms. Berlin and Kay (1969) argue c...
LASSO
Murphy Machine Learning index entry lasso, 431, 470, 562, 936. ESL index entry Lasso, 68–69, 86–90, 609, 635, 636, 661, fused, 666. In pdf, need t...
color spaces
Short version: RGB values do not linearly coorespond to light intensity Our eyes respond more strongly to green light. These two factors combined mean...
rambling about misinformation and encryption.
Here’s the post that provoked this. The apps offer “end to end encryption,” which is a jargony way to describe messages that get scrambled to become inde...
Fatih Rene Leon Skewness
project Learn to apply lasso or something liek that annual wage earnings of individual = some function of observables Egor sent out training sample. RHS ...