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Why not have the AEA annual meeting in Chicago every year?

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Is anyone interested in a simple bargaining model that gets a 1/N split as a unique Nash equilibrium?

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Check out the new link to EconSpark on the top of AEA homepage!

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Is quantitative analysis is more important in economics than theoretical background of a research?

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Do you recommend graduate students to go to Eastern Economic Association Meeting?

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Should the government give more importance to costs accounting as well as financial accounting?

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Handbooks of Economics: Elsevier or Routledge?

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Have you lined up people to comment on questions so as to get this forum to critical mass? [closed]

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Is the prime directive of economcs to maximize net social benefits?

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When and how is it appropriate for a journal editor to retract acceptance of a forthcoming paper?

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Which software do you use to compute the Gini coefficient from a large micro database?

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Which econometric software do you use to apply the Randomized Control Trial Method?

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Why isn't the maximum entropy approach to modelling stock return distributions from options prices more well studied

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Does any graduate program teach the business cycle approach of Wesley Clair Mitchell?

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Should Pakistan search for bailout package or rely on its own resources to came out of present economic crises?

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Sixteen economists including Solow submit a brief for Harvard in the Asian discrimination case. Are they right?

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Which statistics package should undergraduate econ students be taught?

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How much do you use data when teaching macro?

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Are we in a period of sticky wages (nominal rigidity) and what is generally expected to happen next?

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