Author Archives: mkevane

Les sofas de la République et le coup d’Etat du 22 mars : Le tout nouveau son « Aw ya to anga lafia! » Cette chanson est l’œuvre des rappeurs, du groupe Tata Pound, Master Soumi,  Ramsès et bien d’autres. Le single … Continue reading →

competition <- read.table(“C:\\Data\\Econ 135 Gender\\competitivereadingcamp.csv”, header=TRUE, sep=”,”) names(competition ) # first make tables with(competition , tapply(score1 , list(female , treatment ), mean)) with(competition , tapply(score2 , list(female , treatment ), mean)) # now run regression fit <- lm(score2 ~ female … Continue reading →

HT: Elisee

What seems clear is that China’s economy did not bottom out as expected in the first quarter. It is flirting with real trouble. Yao Wei from Societe Generale says a blizzard of awful data “screams out for easing”. China’s electricity … Continue reading →

I have a piece in the NYT Sunday Review section today, on the question many Chinese economists and industrialists are asking themselves but that relatively few outsiders recognize. Essentially it is whether the Chinese system of “guided” capitalism, which has … Continue reading →

There have been many spikes in the euro zone’s crisis fever in the past, of course, with a bailout here or a stopgap measure there seeming to calm things for a while. But this time, Europe may have reached a … Continue reading →

China’s currency dropped further in May against the dollar than in any other month since the Chinese government began allowing the renminbi to appreciate gradually in the summer of 2005, in a currency market shift that could help Chinese exports … Continue reading →

There is a huge developing story in China’s currency, the renminbi. After years of structural under-valuation, things are changing. China faces what we have described before as a “dollar shortage” problem, a situation it last faced on a major level … Continue reading →

House Prices Plunge in Chinese Ghost Town – YouTube.

via No Guarantee « Patrick Chovanec. In early April, Caixin magazine ran an article titled “Fool’s Gold Behind Beijing Loan Guarantees”, which documented the silent implosion of Zhongdan Investment Credit Guarantee Co. Ltd., based in China’s capital. “What’s a credit … Continue reading →

A number of readers, both at this blog and other places, have been asking for an explanation of what IS-LM is all about. Fair enough – this blogosphere conversation has been an exchange among insiders, and probably a bit baffling … Continue reading →

After weeks of speculation and debate, Egyptians went to the polls on Wednesday to cast ballots in the Arab world’s first competitive presidential election. via The New York Times – Breaking News, World News & Multimedia.

Inside Job clip ‘Mishkin Looks Bad’ – At UK Cinemas February 18th – YouTube.

The Mexican Peso Crisis of the Mid-1990s – YouTube.

Mishkin on Lessons from the Crisis.

In our MBA curriculum reform we tried to convince part of the faculty to go this route, and they were completely opposed, with no interest in listening or experimenting. How about a randomized experiment for what works to get faculty … Continue reading →

The online version of this article here in Perspectives on Psychological Science 2012 7: 221. Abstract By 2025, when most of today’s psychology undergraduates will be in their mid-30s, more than 5 billion people on our planet will be using … Continue reading →

From Kun Guo and co-authors, confirmation of an earlier finding that dogs, like humans, exhibit left gaze bias to better and more quickly read emotions (more likely expressed on right side of face) in humans. Sensitivity to the emotions of … Continue reading →