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…an advanced econometrics book and you’ll spot ’em aplenty) and you can’t shake them from their ignorance, there isn’t much point to using R or Stata or you name the…

And Next Mark Will Ask for A Pony

…is clean and clear. (Judging by his videos, he’s also the second best college-level Econometrics teacher I’ve ever seen—and it’s no crime to be behind Peter Loeb in that regard.)…

Short and Variable Lags

Robert Waldmann Casual discussion of macroeconomics suffers from the fact that one can get any result one wants by playing with lags. I’m not saying that I think formal econometrics

Megan McArdle Knows Galileo Was Waaay Over-rated

…one can find correlations between unrelated things. As my econometrics professor used to say, there are artifacts in the data. But here’s a tip for McArdle: don’t stop when you…

MINIMUM WAGE & TEENAGE UNEMPLOYMENT

…driven by the business cycle. I’ll leave it to others to do the econometrics and demonstrate how to weight each. But, all those like Larry Kudlow blaming the current rise…

On the Deterrence Value of the Death Penalty

…the death penalty, but profound uncertainty – even about its sign. Their abstract reminds me of an argument in Edward Leamer’s Let’s Take the Con Out of Econometrics. For more…

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James Hamilton…where have I heard that name before? Oh yes, grad school. He wrote the book on time series econometrics, literally. And now he has a blog. Also, Mark Thoma…