Archive for the ‘economics’ Category

Pennies as call options

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

Tyler Cowen has a neat post about pennies behaving as call options on zinc/copper.

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eBay bidders are dumb, film at 11!

Friday, February 24th, 2006

Interesting post at Marginal Revolution on how eBay-bidders will prefer a $6 item with $5 shipping over a $10 item with free shipping.

Why am I not surprised?

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In whose interest are they working?

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

Surely I can’t be the only person to wonder how much of the sometimes insane shrillness of DeLong and Krugman (especially the latter) comes from having their hopes of getting a sinecure with a Gore or Kerry administration so rudely dashed.

That said, at least DeLong still often has interesting stuff to say, as opposed to turning into a complete partisan hack a la Krugman.

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