Amazing championship game for the NCAA men’s college basketball tournament.
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Regional propagation of business cycles
This is the second of two posts (first can be found here) based on the Craig Hiemstra Memorial Lecture that I’ll be giving in San Francisco on Friday. There I’ll be discussing some ongoing research I’ve been doing with Mike Owyang of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis on regional propagation of business cycles.
Downturn in auto sales continues
Automobile sales do not bode well for first-quarter GDP.
NCAA basketball: Round 4
Sixteen entries in the
2008 NCAA Bracket Econbrowser Challenge correctly picked all of the Final Four teams in the NCAA basketball tournament, including our two leaders who also correctly picked all of the Elite Eight finalists.
NCAA basketball: Round 3
And after Round 3 of the
2008 NCAA Bracket Econbrowser Challenge we have not one but two entries (from N. Klingenstein and H. Parsley) that correctly picked all of the Elite Eight finalists. How they knew Davidson would get there is beyond me.
Recessions at the state level
I’ve been invited to give the keynote lecture at the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics Annual Symposium next week at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. I plan on presenting results of some ongoing research with Mike Owyang of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis on regional propagation of business cycles. This is the first of two posts that describe some of our findings about how recessions differ and seem to propagate across different states and regions.
Would you like anything else with that coffee, Ben?
Last week we received some new data linking commodity prices to the decisions of the U.S. Federal Reserve.
Quick links
Here are a couple of nice summaries of the credit crunch and the Fed’s response.
NCAA basketball: Round 2
Here’s the status of the 2008 NCAA Bracket Econbrowser Challenge now that the tournament is down to 16 surviving teams.
In memoriam: John E. Flavin, Jr. (1922-2008)
Some personal reflections on the last year of my father-in-law, who died Thursday at the age of 86.