Econometrics Beat: Dave Giles' Blog

Don't ask me why, but the other day I was thinking about one of my all-time favourite opening sentences in an academic paper:      ...

We're all familiar with index numbers. We encounter them every day - perhaps in the form of the CPI or the PPI;  or maybe in the form o...

I think it's time to put the "tips jar" out on my office desk again. I used to have one, but I gave up after a certain collea...

Tom Thorn  kindly sent me the following link, which is certainly pertinent to this posting: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/significant.png ...

" The picture-examining eye is the best finder we have of the wholly unanticipated " ( John Tukey , 1915 - 2000) Back in 199...

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...