tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173472222012-01-23T11:41:41.413-06:00Sebi Buhaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986066650824237000noreply@blogger.comBlogger690125TheSebastianBuhaiBloghttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347222.post-8752577398510234472012-01-12T12:03:00.003-06:002012-01-12T12:16:18.504-06:002012-01-12T12:16:18.504-06:00Sebi Buhaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986066650824237000noreply@blogger.com1I find it the most lucid summary (and criticism) of almost everything influential that has been published on the financial crisis so far. Some of the...http://sebibuhai.blogspot.com/2012/01/facts-and-fantasy-about-financial.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347222.post-11893028333583435982011-10-09T23:02:00.000-05:002011-10-09T23:02:37.607-05:002011-10-09T23:02:37.607-05:00Sebi Buhaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986066650824237000noreply@blogger.com2I say "Ernst Fehr, Matthew Rabin, and Richard Thaler for their contributions to behavioral economics" (I even bet 3$ on this, but for some yet...http://sebibuhai.blogspot.com/2011/10/my-nobel-econ-2011-prediction.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347222.post-70698147346919917032011-05-10T15:43:00.003-05:002011-05-10T15:49:48.651-05:002011-05-10T15:49:48.651-05:00Sebi Buhaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986066650824237000noreply@blogger.com2The flawless Koto Song is my newest 'creative background piece': works miracles for theory modeling! For running regressions give Tokyo Traffic a...http://sebibuhai.blogspot.com/2011/05/jazz-impressions-from-japan.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347222.post-88857442871466069022011-05-05T23:46:00.006-05:002011-05-06T00:08:00.465-05:002011-05-06T00:08:00.465-05:00Sebi Buhaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986066650824237000noreply@blogger.com0My research whereabouts: after an inspiring matching workshop at Kellogg, Northwestern: "Matching: findings, flaws and future" (workshop schedule in...http://sebibuhai.blogspot.com/2011/05/more-matching-in-chicago.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347222.post-92012267556631477332011-05-03T00:02:00.001-05:002011-05-03T01:48:48.504-05:002011-05-03T01:48:48.504-05:00Sebi Buhaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986066650824237000noreply@blogger.com2I hate you all. I hate London. I hate books. I hate critics. I hate this magazine, I hate this column and I hate all the goons who appear in it. But...http://sebibuhai.blogspot.com/2011/05/funniest-dating-ad-ever.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347222.post-56199527124657662402011-04-28T10:25:00.004-05:002011-04-28T10:37:17.221-05:002011-04-28T10:37:17.221-05:00Sebi Buhaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986066650824237000noreply@blogger.com0After a thought-provoking lecture yesterday by Daron Acemoglu on "Why Nations Fail" at Kellogg (if/when the previous link is replaced, you should be...http://sebibuhai.blogspot.com/2011/04/my-whereabouts.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347222.post-65364958568438556132011-04-24T21:12:00.002-05:002011-04-24T21:37:52.837-05:002011-04-24T21:37:52.837-05:00Sebi Buhaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986066650824237000noreply@blogger.com3The most recent event under this heading is the Northwestern conference in the honor of Dale-- with some very good and some not so good...http://sebibuhai.blogspot.com/2011/04/econlinks-dale-t-mortensen-nobel.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347222.post-16548971495102203722011-04-18T16:28:00.005-05:002011-04-18T17:39:02.270-05:002011-04-18T17:39:02.270-05:00Sebi Buhaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986066650824237000noreply@blogger.com7See here the top 1-50. And I am proud to note that I have tried by now 4 places in the 2011 world top 12, namely: Noma (1): been there twice already,...http://sebibuhai.blogspot.com/2011/04/2011-san-pellegrino-top-world.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347222.post-26154054223130552162011-04-12T22:36:00.001-05:002011-04-12T23:15:01.557-05:002011-04-12T23:15:01.557-05:00Sebi Buhaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986066650824237000noreply@blogger.com2This blogpost is only for those who can read Romanian (and ultimately really regards only those still interested  in the political life, in...http://sebibuhai.blogspot.com/2011/04/romanian-article-of-week-dan-tapalaga.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347222.post-30923880395430070542011-04-08T16:44:00.003-05:002011-04-08T16:48:52.608-05:002011-04-08T16:48:52.608-05:00Sebi Buhaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986066650824237000noreply@blogger.com2...and some of us were worried about Portugal... At midnight, if the President and Congress have not reached an agreement on funding measures, the...http://sebibuhai.blogspot.com/2011/04/us-government-shutdown-menorah.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347222.post-68889890087544195912011-04-04T17:08:00.010-05:002011-04-04T21:30:13.566-05:002011-04-04T21:30:13.566-05:00Sebi Buhaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986066650824237000noreply@blogger.com4Serious fight on evolutionary theory ground. The bulk of evolutionary theorists seem to be set on taking Nowak et al to the guillotine, but there is...http://sebibuhai.blogspot.com/2011/04/econlinks-applied-maths-edition.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347222.post-58231345359960452392011-04-01T01:54:00.007-05:002011-04-01T03:11:23.584-05:002011-04-01T03:11:23.584-05:00Sebi Buhaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986066650824237000noreply@blogger.com3Word goes that Portugal is likely to soon join the category of developing countries (as you might have heard). However, before you start sobbing,...http://sebibuhai.blogspot.com/2011/04/best-leed-for-developing-countries.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347222.post-70449337097034758162011-03-27T19:36:00.002-05:002011-03-27T19:51:36.731-05:002011-03-27T19:51:36.731-05:00Sebi Buhaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986066650824237000noreply@blogger.com10Quels que soient ses problèmes, ce n'est pas le sens de l'humour qui lui manque: sans doute le chef d'État le plus drôle de la planète! Merci,...http://sebibuhai.blogspot.com/2011/03/ecoutez-bravo-1-0-pour-litalie.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347222.post-84693030792886696092011-03-24T13:06:00.021-05:002011-03-25T01:03:25.637-05:002011-03-25T01:03:25.637-05:00Sebi Buhaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986066650824237000noreply@blogger.com0Since I am in the middle of some very interesting discussions and experiments concerning this topic: it really does look like the difference in speed...http://sebibuhai.blogspot.com/2011/03/on-multicore-stata-mp-performance.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347222.post-9779736670162520252011-03-22T21:53:00.012-05:002011-03-22T23:19:18.287-05:002011-03-22T23:19:18.287-05:00Sebi Buhaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986066650824237000noreply@blogger.com8A couple of books I have read within the past few weeks, most of them on my Kindle 3G device(*): Scott Berkun's "Confessions of a Public Speaker"...http://sebibuhai.blogspot.com/2011/03/what-i-have-been-reading.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347222.post-90336963660136984982011-03-18T15:52:00.003-05:002011-03-24T22:59:41.607-05:002011-03-24T22:59:41.607-05:00Sebi Buhaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986066650824237000noreply@blogger.com2In the quest for the epiphany, I am happy to report reaching the lesser, though nonetheless revealing, epistrophy stage. Credits due to Thelonius...http://sebibuhai.blogspot.com/2011/03/work-in-progress.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347222.post-29792568449081601332011-03-12T16:42:00.002-06:002011-03-12T17:24:44.577-06:002011-03-12T17:24:44.577-06:00Sebi Buhaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986066650824237000noreply@blogger.com4I tend to watch great movies with a considerable delay..., but then again, my feeling is that I get to appreciate them much more in this way, aside...http://sebibuhai.blogspot.com/2011/03/sondheim-burton-depp-and-rickmans.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347222.post-89636252395960949412011-02-23T17:59:00.007-06:002011-02-23T19:14:59.537-06:002011-02-23T19:14:59.537-06:00Sebi Buhaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986066650824237000noreply@blogger.com5Seinfeld's spongeworthy Elaine, an unusual, limited-purpose --but very thorough-- option theory application, by the one and only Avinash Dixit.  All...http://sebibuhai.blogspot.com/2011/02/econlinks-freudian-interlude.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347222.post-56988240409726247622011-02-10T22:37:00.020-06:002011-02-11T00:49:31.552-06:002011-02-11T00:49:31.552-06:00Sebi Buhaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986066650824237000noreply@blogger.com2I've watched it most recently via this smart* video rental & online streaming service called Netflix : a true gem of a movie, albeit one of the...http://sebibuhai.blogspot.com/2011/02/lisbon-story.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347222.post-8114423097790683782011-02-08T14:06:00.002-06:002011-02-08T14:24:12.184-06:002011-02-08T14:24:12.184-06:00Sebi Buhaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986066650824237000noreply@blogger.com2 "This paper presents a list of the top 20 articles published in the American Economic Review during its first 100 years. This list was assembled in...http://sebibuhai.blogspot.com/2011/02/hundred-years-of-aer.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347222.post-88648755760106585012011-02-06T13:41:00.005-06:002011-02-06T13:55:30.522-06:002011-02-06T13:55:30.522-06:00Sebi Buhaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986066650824237000noreply@blogger.com5The third and the seventh: imagination materialized or Alex Roman's computer generated art. Via Michael Nielsen.  Staying in CG: meet Julia Map, of...http://sebibuhai.blogspot.com/2011/02/econlinks-of-art-old-and-new.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347222.post-29440372757458815532011-02-03T14:03:00.001-06:002011-02-03T14:06:22.263-06:002011-02-03T14:06:22.263-06:00Sebi Buhaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986066650824237000noreply@blogger.com0We ventured out to the Polish neighborhood yesterday. Nothing as compared to Chicago, but nonetheless good sausages. But after five minutes we went...http://sebibuhai.blogspot.com/2011/02/quest-for-good-old-kiebasa-in-big-apple.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347222.post-62174687392193004922011-02-01T20:43:00.003-06:002011-02-01T23:02:48.740-06:002011-02-01T23:02:48.740-06:00Sebi Buhaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986066650824237000noreply@blogger.com9Will it beat the legendary 1967 one? My Lakeview Lake Shore apartment windows are shaking,  but so far holding up (they'd  better: in Chicago terms,...http://sebibuhai.blogspot.com/2011/02/little-blizzard-treated-with-tanya.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347222.post-80057529366340767162011-01-29T19:19:00.004-06:002011-03-21T14:55:06.410-05:002011-03-21T14:55:06.410-05:00Sebi Buhaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986066650824237000noreply@blogger.com2What this is about: SBE 2020.244 white papers in SBE available on the NSF site.The white papers in Economics. Note that some of these papers are not...http://sebibuhai.blogspot.com/2011/01/grand-research-challenges-for-social.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17347222.post-63021495855514778582011-01-25T15:51:00.004-06:002011-01-25T16:07:55.674-06:002011-01-25T16:07:55.674-06:00Sebi Buhaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11986066650824237000noreply@blogger.com2Greg Mankiw seems to be arguing for a European-type separate master + PhD graduate Econ program-- such as those at LSE, Oxford, Pompeu Fabra,...http://sebibuhai.blogspot.com/2011/01/econlinks-in-degrees-of-awesomeness.html