Readers & Thinkers: The 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics. Prediction

Posted by on Sep 6, 2012 in Readers & Thinkers | Comments Off on Readers & Thinkers: The 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics. Prediction Dear All: The Nobel prize for economic sciences for 2002 will be announced in the next few weeks. Every year, I take a bit of pleasure out of guessing who will win it. Last year, I was fortunate to guess the winners, which included Prof. Joe Stiglitz, who worked closely with the FOLIOfn Research group. That was quite cool. He did us the favor of coming to FOLIO and answering employee questions...
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Readers & Thinkers: The 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics. Post Analysis

Posted by on Sep 6, 2012 in Readers & Thinkers | Comments Off on Readers & Thinkers: The 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics. Post Analysis Dear All, Our very own Dr. Joe Stiglitz “brought home the bacon”! This morning the Nobel prize in economics for 2001 was given to Dr. Joe Stiglitz of Columbia and FOLIOfn, Dr. George Akerlof of UC Berkeley, and Dr. Michael Spence of Stanford. This document will shed some light on why they won it. I have had the privilege of knowing two of them personally; Akerlof was my mentor at UC Berkeley and...
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Readers & Thinkers: The 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics. Prediction

Posted by on Sep 6, 2012 in Readers & Thinkers | Comments Off on Readers & Thinkers: The 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics. Prediction Dear All: The Nobel Prize in Economics for 2001 will soon be announced. Who will it go to? (1) A group of economists (students and profs) think it might be DALE JORGENSON of Harvard. He’s the favorite. (2) My personal opinion is that it could go to two camps; the EXPERIMENTAL economics camp or the MICRO/UNCERTAINTY camp. If that’s true, my bets are on the following people: (a)...
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Readers & Thinkers: The 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics. Post Analysis

Posted by on Sep 6, 2012 in Readers & Thinkers | Comments Off on Readers & Thinkers: The 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics. Post Analysis Dear All: The Nobel Prize in economics was announced this morning. Despite my efforts and other people’s to predict the prize this year, we were wrong. WINNERS: James Heckman (CHICAGO) and Daniel McFadden (UC Berkeley) ON DAN MCFADDEN CONTRIBUTION: Dan McFadden was given the prize for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice models. Thus, he is primarily...
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Readers & Thinkers: The 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics. Prediction

Posted by on Sep 6, 2012 in Readers & Thinkers | Comments Off on Readers & Thinkers: The 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics. Prediction Dear All: Tomorrow morning is the announcment of the Nobel prize in economics. Please send your votes to ideas@foliofn.com by midnight tonight! Ludwig will take the winner out to lunch. Ludwig’s Guesses: I think the Nobel prize will be given in one of the following categories: (1) IO/Theory (2) Public Economics (3) Experimental Economics (4) Econometrics. Labor is also a possibility. For...
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