Readers & Thinkers: The 2004 Nobel Prize in Economics. Post Analysis

Posted by on Sep 7, 2012 in Readers & Thinkers | Comments Off on Readers & Thinkers: The 2004 Nobel Prize in Economics. Post Analysis Dear All: The Nobel prize for economic sciences for 2004 was announced today. It went to Ed Prescott and Finn Kydland. I had guessed Prescott for my second choice. This is 6 out of 7 years that either my 1st or 2nd choice has won the Nobel…it’s good to be lucky sometimes. I didn’t name Kydland, but he was the natural choice to go with Prescott, however, I thought it would be...
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Readers & Thinkers: The 2004 Nobel Prize in Economics. Prediction

Posted by on Sep 7, 2012 in Readers & Thinkers | Comments Off on Readers & Thinkers: The 2004 Nobel Prize in Economics. Prediction Dear All: The Nobel prize for economic sciences for 2004 will be announced on Monday, October 11, 2004. I take a personal enjoyment in guessing who might win the Nobel prize each year. I also enjoy reminding people of the Nobel in economics, since it’s great to recognize significant achievement. This year is going to be a difficult one. I can’t really think of whom they might award the prize...
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Readers & Thinkers: The 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics. Post Analysis

Posted by on Sep 7, 2012 in Readers & Thinkers | Comments Off on Readers & Thinkers: The 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics. Post Analysis Dear All: Franco Modigliani, Emeritus Professor at MIT, died last week on September 25, 2003. He won the Nobel prize for his work in life cycle saving and the very known M-M Theorem. The M-M original paper is one of the papers I still find to be a truly well-written paper. Simple, precise, and with dramatic conclusions. The last time I saw Franco Modigliani was at Rudi Dornbusch’s memorial. Over...
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Readers & Thinkers: The 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics. Prediction

Posted by on Sep 7, 2012 in Readers & Thinkers | Comments Off on Readers & Thinkers: The 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics. Prediction I could not find the exact letter written out for the 2003 ex-ante prediction, but my prediction was Clive Granger, Robert Engle, and Jerry Hausman for econometrics.
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Readers & Thinkers: The 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics. Post Analysis

Posted by on Sep 6, 2012 in Readers & Thinkers | Comments Off on Readers & Thinkers: The 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics. Post Analysis Dear All, My second choice won the Nobel in economics and I am happy for him, since he was a long shot. VERNON SMITH (Ph.D. in economics from Harvard) “for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms” DANIEL KAHNEMAN (Ph.D. in Psychology from UC Berkeley) “for having integrated...
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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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