From the monthly archives: February 2009

Of Mice and Academics: Examining the Effect of Openness on Innovation

By Rufus Pollock On February 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Just came across an interesting working paper put out last Autumn that is relevant to the openness and innovation debate. Entitled: Of Mice and Academics: Examining the Effect of Openness on Innovation and authored by Fiona Murray, Philippe Aghion, Mathias Dewatripont, Julian Kolev and Scott Stern, it is an attempt to bring some empirical [...]

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Changing the Numbers: UK Directory Enquiries Deregulation and the Failure of Choice

By Rufus Pollock On February 10, 2009 · 3 Comments

A couple of weeks ago I was back at City University’s Centre for Competition and Regulatory Policy for their winter workshop to present a new paper. Entitled Changing the Numbers: UK Directory Enquiries Deregulation and the Failure of Choice it looked at what happened when the UK deregulated its directory enquiries [...]

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Revolutionary Road

By Rufus Pollock On February 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment

6.5/10. Builds to a powerful climax from a rather ropey start — continually improving largely thanks to an excellent performance by Winslet. It would have been even better but for a script that occasionally slews into bathos (perhaps the fault of the original book which is rather old) and a very weak performance by DiCaprio. [...]

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New Open Access Journals from the Econometric Society

By Rufus Pollock On February 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment

As a member of the Econometric Society I received yesterday the following announce:

The Council and the Fellowship of the Econometric Society have both voted in favor of a plan for the Society to publish two open-access journals: Quantitative Economics (QE) and Theoretical Economics (TE). All voting Council members were in favor of [...]

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