Econometrics Beat: Dave Giles' Blog

The Devil made me do it! It just had to happen sooner or later, and no one else seemed to be willing to bite the bullet. So, I figured it ...

In each episode of that wonderful long-running public radio show,  A Prairie Home Companion , Garrison Keilor always ends his monologue abo...

It probably wasn't what the Statler Brothers actually had in mind as they soared to Number 4 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and Number...

The other day I paid a surprise visit to my University's library - it was an honest-to-goodness physical visit that involved putting on...

  “ Less is More ” - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Some of the most influential academic journals have very short (one-word) titles. To wit...

" Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. Quid enim est aetas hominis, nisi ea memoria reru...

If I were not aware of the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, I’d say it was entirely my fault. Last weekend I cleaned off the barbeque an...

Perhaps understandably, it's a question that I get asked by students all of the time: "How long does my thesis (dissertation) have...

Hi - I'm just getting underway with this Blog, so it may be  few days before anything of substance appears here. In the meantime, you ...