Book of the Week 15 “Real Estate Finance & Investments: Risks and Opportunities is the best introductory book on real estate. Spans all necessary topics to have a round grasp of the issues of this omnipresent asset class. The book covers from slang to market practices, from formulas to instruments in an easy to read and well-structured way. ” Lucian […]

Book of Week 14 “The Origin of Wealth is an accessible introduction to complexity economics. The review of the vast field is an ambitious endeavor and deserves credit for the way it was handled. The book introduces to a broad audience, via well-chosen examples and well-explained theory, concepts such as complex adaptive systems, networks and business ecologies. The author aims […]

The Paper of the Week 16 “The Financial Crisis Response In Charts”  is a collection of charts prepared by U.S. Department of the Treasury with the aim of providing an update on the impact of the combined actions of the Treasury, the Federal Reserve, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on the American Economy. imagine de pe treasury.gov    

The Paper of the Week 15 “The Paper of the Week 15 category refers to a discipline called Neuroeconomics and includes two articles and a comment to one of the articles. The first article is “On potential of Neuroeconomics: a critical (but hopeful) appraisal” by B.Douglas Bernheim, the second one is “Neuroeconomics: a view from neuroscience”, by P. Read Montague and the […]

Paper of the Week 14 “The Government of Romania just failed in auctioning Cuprumin, a transaction involving copper mining rights. There were several mistakes made in structuring the transaction from disregarding the value of Knowing Your Customer to broad lack of knowledge with respect to real option theory and simple game theory. The Paper of the Week 14, Bidding for […]

Paper of the Week 13 “The paper of the Week 13, How do Laffer Curve differ across countries ? by M. Trabandt and H. Uhlig, extends the results of a previous paper from 2011 in several ways. The authors starting from the darling of all public discussions on taxation, the Laffer curve, look at it from a cross-country (US and […]

Paper of the Week 12 “Economics and Reality by H. Uhlig is an interesting take by a promising economist on the current state of the relationship between economics and reality. Despite being a non-technical paper is a very insightful one with a philosophical flavor. On top of touching the influence of empirical evidence on the economic thinking deals specifically with […]

Book of the Week 13 “Short of a great book, The Globalization Paradox, it is well written and plays on at least two levels of understanding. The reader glides through easily and is sent to dig further for subtleties. The author emphasizes the need to have a nuanced approach when dealing with the economic phenomena, argues for a moderate globalization […]