No blog posts for past few days because I spent all week at the NBER summer institute. There were a few good papers, but overall I thought the quality was a little lower than in past years. Perhaps this is because Erzo presented a paper we had written with Amy, and like Groucho Marx, "I don't want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member."
My favorite paper was by Alex Mas and David Lee, who were studying the effects of unions on firms. Michael Greenstone always tells us that we should try to create a "killer graph" to make our papers memorable. Lee-Mas definitely have such a graph (page 43):
What happened to the Blog? Spending too much time specializing on golf?
Posted by: Patrick | August 28, 2008 at 01:07 PM