Reuven Glick Responds! The Currency Unions and Trade Debate Rages On...

Previously, I reviewed the Currency Unions and Trade Literature here, and then shared some of my students' referee reports of a recent Glick and Rose (2016) paper here. My undergraduates were quite skeptical.In fact, I first...

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How Bad is Peer Review? Evidence From Undergraduate Referee Reports on the Currency Unions and Trade Lit

In a recent paper, Glick and Rose (2016) suggest that the Euro led to a staggering 50% increase in trade. To me, this sounded a bit dubious, particularly given my own participation in the previous currency unions and trade...

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AFL experiments, or please eat your brötli

When messing around with AFL, you sometimes stumble upon something unexpected or amusing. Say,having the fuzzer spontaneously synthesize JPEG files,come up with non-trivial XML syntax,or discover SQL semantics.It is also fun to challenge yourself to employ fuzzers in non-conventional ways. Two canonical...

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The St. Louis Fed's Macroeconomic Outlook

St. Louis Fed president James Bullard recently gave this speech on the U.S. macroeconomic outlook. The key themes of his talk were:The U.S. economy has converged to a low-growth, low-safe-real-interest-rate regime,...

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How to integrate querydsl in your javaee7 project

This guide requires knowledge on:mavengiteclipsequerydslwild flyWe will show you how to modify the javaee7-archetype project to integrate querydsl. For those who do not know, it is a library to unify queries in java. What I like more about it is that you can fluently construct your api. For more info...

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How to setup Arquillian testing with Wildfly

This tutorial requires:Knowledge with GITKnowledge with archetypeRequirements:WildflyeclipseWhat to do:In eclipse create a new maven project: File->New->Other, enter maven in the filter. Select Maven Project.Click...

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Sectoral and Occupational Trends in the U.S. Labor Market

The labor market is back to normal. Or so we are told. Here's the prime-age unemployment rate for the United States beginning in 1960.Above we see the familiar cyclical asymmetry, in which the unemployment rate spikes up...

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Why You Should Come Study at NES!

I talk up the merits of the New Economic School at a recruiting event he...

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A Quick Theory of the Industrial Revolution (or, at least, an answer to 'Why Europe?')

Following a Twitter debate involving myself, Gabe Mathy, Pseudoerasmus, and Anton Howes on the theory that high wages in England induced labor-saving technologies and led to the Industrial Revolution, I thought I should...

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How to signin to keycloak using google

There are 3 set of steps that we must follow in order to come up with a web project that will allow us to login using google's identity provider.Set 1 - Create a google applicationCreate a google application at https://console.developers.google.comSet...

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Fiscal over monetary policy?

The Economy May Be Stuck in a Near-Zero World (Justin Wolfers).Justin does a good job describing how many economists view the role of monetary and fiscal policy in the post Great Recession world of low interest rates and...

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