In this post, I would like to draw attention to a very interesting data set collected by Guan, Palma and Wu as part of the replication package for their paper The rise and fall of paper money in Yuan China, 1260-1368. The paper describes inflation, mon...

It’s Hallowe’en; that time of year when LinkedIn is full of photos of the recruiters who ghosted you dressed up as ghosts. But ghosting isn’t the only bad thing about the modern-day job market. Another plague on job seekers is the endless rounds of int...

Introduction The Paris 2024 Olympic Games featured the debut of a new Olympic sport: break dancing. The sport made a lot of headlines after Australian competitor Raygun delivered an unusual routine which was ridiculed by many internet commentators. Is ...