What’s Wrong with Modern Macroeconomics
This January I met Alan Kirman at the Robinson Workshop on Rationality and Emotions. Over lunch we had a brief discussion about the difficulties of modern macroeconomics. I was therefore intrigued to...
View Article2008 International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC)
After attending the IIOC conference last year I was back this weekend at the 2008 IIOC event which took place at Marymount University in Virginia. I presented the latest version of two of my papers:...
View ArticleFLOSS 2008 Workshop on Free/Open Source Software
Last week I attended FLOSS 2008, the second international workshop/network meeting on FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source software) in Rennes, France. I was presenting my paper Innovation and Imitation with...
View ArticleCCRP Summer Workshop 2008
City University’s Centre for Competition and Regulatory Policy summer workshop took place today and yesterday and I was there to present The Control of Porting in Platform Markets. As well as...
View ArticleEuropean Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) Conference 2008
Last Friday and Saturday I was at the 2008 European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) conference, held this year in Bern. I presented my paper on the optimal term of copyright and discussed a...
View ArticleESRC Well-Being Research Workshop at the LSE
Last Friday I attended an ESRC Research Workshop on Well-Being held at the LSE. According to the blurb: The time is ripe for a major expansion of well-being research in Britain – in conjunction with...
View ArticleOf Mice and Academics: Examining the Effect of Openness on Innovation
Just came across an interesting working paper put out last Autumn that is relevant to the openness and innovation debate. Entitled: Of Mice and Academics: Examining the Effect of Openness on Innovation...
View ArticleTalk by Frederick Scherer: Deregulatory Roots of the Current Financial Crisis
Last Thursday I attended a talk by Frederick Scherer at the [Judge] entitled: “Deregulatory Roots of the Current Financial Crisis”. Below are some sketchy notes. Notes Macro story: Huge current account...
View ArticleThe Elusive Disappearance of Community
From Laslett ‘Phillipe Ariès and “La Famille”‘ p.83 (quoted in Eisenstein, p.131): The actual reality, the tangible quality of community life in earlier towns or villages … is puzzling … and only too...
View ArticleHistorical Banking Crises and the Rules of the Game
Attended an interesting talk today: “Historical Banking Crises and the Rules of the Game” by Professor Charles Calomiris, Columbia Business School. Sporadic notes below. See also this Weaving History...
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