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What do public policy schools look for when considering making senior hires from outside of academia?

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Does your university pre-screen at regional conferences?

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Is this a slow year for econ jobs?

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Has AER stopped publishing shorter papers now AERI has been created?

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Is the US government a "Zombie business"?

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How many applications do you have so far?

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Outside of tenure track jobs, what’s the most stressful work environment? Private industry? Government? Something else?

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Why do schools don't update non-offered candidates after flyouts?

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Matching Recommender System for the Econ Job Market

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Journal of Economic Geography is top field?

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Formatting for Journal Submission

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Panel or Cross Sectional datasets in Finance

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Which expert testimony do you find (more) persuasive in the Harvard admissions trial?

asked 5 years ago in Current Economic Issues by AL Roth (6.9k points)

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Application Deadlines - Open until Filled / Review Begins - What do they mean?

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Textbook for Financial Economics

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At which tech firms do economists have substantial influence and enjoy good working conditions?

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What are the interesting/promising/future areas in growth theory?

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EconTrack is up

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What information should I look for when researching a countries economy?

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How to develop strong technical skills during a UK PhD?

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Do you have a higher chance of publishing if you use LaTeX instead of Word?

asked 5 years ago in General Economics Questions by DeniMazrekaj (500 points)

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Why Is Paul Krugman so Invested in Asserting that "Old-Fashioned Macro" Has Been such a Success?

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Longitudinal survey data on rural-urban migration India?

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Calling Faculty Members

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What are some of your favorite economics podcasts? Looking for suggestions, thanks.

asked 5 years ago in General Economics Questions by user_2g9m5m (510 points)

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Should we teach Cournot duopoly with asymmetric, increasing MC, cost functions, and not using any diagrams?

asked 5 years ago in General Economics Questions by Eric Rasmusen (2.3k points)

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Currency board

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Do expansions die of old age?

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I developed new definition for economics. I like comments

asked 5 years ago in General Economics Questions by Manjappa_Hosamane (140 points)

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Argentina. Excess of public labor force. Can the excess of demand over supply devaluate the currency of a country?

asked 5 years ago in General Economics Questions by Ryan_McConnell (2.7k points)

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What should go into a letter of recommendation for admission to an economics PhD program?

asked 5 years ago by Dick_Startz (3.5k points)

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What points are most important to address in a cover letter at the senior level when applying to an advertised position?

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What's the best way to teach the shutdown decision?(when P<AVC)

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Should EconSpark allow anonymous posting?

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Is it a good idea to apply for PhD if someone already holds a PhD degree (with 18 good publications, 100+ citations)?

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Michigan iSchool Posting

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Is European economics different than US economics?

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Is agent-based computational economics (ACE) the future of macroeconomics?

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Should central banks change their inflation targets?

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Why link Romer and Nordhaus in one Nobel Prize?

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