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Interview with Kenneth Rogoff
Interview with Harvard economist about financial globalization, risks to central bank independence and the history of financial crises.
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Adam Smith; capitalism's prophet
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Interview with Alice Rivlin
Vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors is the latest in a series of public service positions Alice Rivlin has held over the past 30-plus years. In 1996 she made the shift from fiscal to monetary affairs with ease.
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Interview with Joseph E. Stiglitz
When Joseph Stiglitz was named to the president's Council of Economic Advisers in 1993, one pundit named the group "the dream team of economics," and another writer later dubbed him the council's "idea man."
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Interview with Alan S. Blinder
Federal Reserve Governor Alan S. Blinder shares his thoughts on life at the White House, the Fed and as a college professor. He also talks about inflation, unemployment, his political philosophy and the importance of economic education.
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A retrospective on J. Denis Sargan and his contributions to econometrics
This retrospective provides a biographical history of Denis Sargan's career and reviews his contributions to econometrics, emphasizing the breadth of his work in both theoretical and applied econometrics. We include a complete bibliography for Denis and a list of PhD theses that he supervised--students were a substantive facet of his professional life. Finally, two of Denis's previously unpublished manuscripts on model building now appear in print.
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Hayek; social theorist of the century
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Gender ratios at top PhD programs in economics
Analyzing university faculty and graduate student data for the top-ten U.S. economics departments between 1987 and 2007, we find that there are persistent differences in gender composition for both faculty and graduate students across institutions and that the share of female faculty and the share of women in the entering PhD class are positively correlated. We find, using instrumental variables analysis, robust evidence that this correlation is driven by the causal effect of the female faculty share on the gender composition of the entering PhD class. This result provides an explanation for ...
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Mining for missing links
By examining the iron ore industry, a Minneapolis Fed economist confirms that productivity gains are the direct result of increased competition.
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Milton Friedman; economist as public intellectual