Around the Traps 24/1/14

It is time for Around the Traps.
no cricket at all this week so updating will be easy.
Noah Smith obviously had no Christmas, there are quite a few econometric articles besides Our Dave writing and David Glasner has a great article.
Interesting article on various guises of Keynesianism by OZ's own John Quiggin.
voxwonk always interesting.


Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• The Kouk on heres-why-italian-bond-yields-are-lower-than-australia , all-pumped-up-about-inflation
• Harry Clarke on housing-prices-and-migration, getting-towards-a-sound-asylum-seeker-policy 
• Joshua Gans on the supply side effects of direct action 
• Peter Martin on how-australian-dollar-floated-30-years, clipping-peaks-why-we-should-allow-to-turn-off-our-air-conditioners
• Mumble on whats_at_stake_in_griffith
• John Quiggin on putting-their-worst-foot-forward
• Andrew Elder on on-a-different-plane, scott-morrison-should-be-sacked
• m0nty is cheesed off with Sinclair Davidson's hypocrisy, this is good too
• Kevin Bonham on andrews-phantom-welfare-spending-crisis

Northern America

• Noah Smith on does-americas-survival-mean-that-its-a-resilient-country, a-henry-george-tax-for-san-francisco
• Mark Thoma gives us Tim Duy on fed-watch-the-week-that-was 
• Stephen Gordon on statistics-canadas-attention-deficit-disorder
• Livio Di Matteo on a-lower-dollar-wont-reverse-dutch-disease

Europe

• Chris Dillow on market-trade-offs, who-needs-productivity, abuses-of-statistics
• Kruggers on running-economies-into-the-sand
• Francesco Saraceno on fiscal-expansion-or-what Thanks Mark 
• Kevin O'Rourke on deflation
• Simon Wren-Lewis on adapting-forward-guidance
• CEPR on greece-will-likely-begin-recovery-this-year-is-austerity-working  Thanks Mark

Asia
nuttin
Wonk

• Robert Waldeman on is-the-permanent-income-hypothesis-glass-half-full
• Nick Rowe on is-the-macroeconomic-importance-of-finance-an-artefact-of-monetary-policy, another-weird-monetary-world
• Simon Wren-Lewis on ordoliberalism-neoliberalism-and-economics
• John Quiggin on new-old-keynesianism and Kruggers on everything-new-is-old-again and then Robert Waldeman on john-quiggin-is-as-usual-brilliant
• David Glasner on g-l-s-shackle-and-the-indeterminacy-of-economics  really good, barro-and-krugman-yet-again-on-regular-economics-vs-keynesian-economics
• Noah Smith on robert-barros-famous-polemic-against-NewKeynesians, Kruggers needed here none-so-blind-macroeconomics-division  chris-house-sticks-up-for-macro
• Sandwichman on fallacy-vs-fallacy

General

• Noah Smith on toss-out-falsifiability, thoughts-on-the-neoreactionaries, wealth-inequality-slightly-exaggerated
• Liveo Di Matteo on foreign-remittances-immigration-and-economic-development
• Chris Dillow on democracy-dissonanceC

Climate

• Rabette run on curry-vs-curry
• open mind on one-of-the-problems-with-judith-curry
• John Neilsen-Gammon on your-logic-escapes-me
• James empry blog on recognising-pattern
• Science of doom on ghosts-of-climates-past-twelve-gcm-v-ice-age-termination
• William Connelly on peer-review
• Jeff Spross on world-climate-cataclysm
• Climate Science Watch on assault-on-knowledge-anti-science-policymaking-in-canada
• Ryan Koronoswki on noaa-nasa-2013-temperature
• John Neilsen-Gammon on the-basics-of-extreme-weather-and-global-warming, the-weather-trap Thanks Steve from Brisbane

Andrew Gelman (Stats)

• aaa-tranche-subprime-science
• mailing-list-degree-of-difficulty-difficulty
• commissar-traffic-presents-latest-five-year-plan
• everything-need-know-bayesian-statistics-learned-eight-schools
• spell-checking-example
• discussion-preregistration-research-studies
• parables-vs-data
• sparsity-density
• Good Stats Bad Stats on biased selection methods 
• Kaiser Fong on  numbersense-on-mailchimps-gmail-study

Dave Giles (Econometrics)

• six-word-peer-review
• an-ardl-add-in-for-eviews
• testing-up-or-testing-down
• Frances Diebold on causality-and-t-consistency-vs.correlation-and-p-consistency
• Arindrajit Dube on casual-versus-causal-inference-time-series-edition
• James Hamilton on on_rsquared_and-economic-prediction

Dianne Coyle (Quirky + Book Reviews)

• economics-of-shelfies, complementarity-serendipity, introducing-game-theory, history-retweeting

Voxwonk

• market-mechanisms-in-retreat
• multilateralising-21st-century-regionalism
• tapering-and-emerging-market-capital-flows
• why-japan-s-debt-hasn-t-wreaked-havoc-yet
• minimum-wages-and-jobs-new-evidence
• china-s-one-child-policy-and-saving-puzzle
• simple-formula-climate-linked-economic-damage
• efficient-retail-payments-and-growth-europe
• why-asian-firms-hold-cash
• russia-against-eu-s-eastern-partnership
• european-merger-policy-reform