Iman van Lelyveld » Economics http://iman.edublogs.org Research and Teaching Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:10:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Subprime 101 http://iman.edublogs.org/2007/09/02/subprime-101/ http://iman.edublogs.org/2007/09/02/subprime-101/#comments Sun, 02 Sep 2007 20:17:33 +0000 Iman http://iman.edublogs.org/2007/09/02/subprime-101/ Aron Schiff has this nice link to Stephen Cecchetti’s explanation.

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FAQs and figures on the subprime issue

I think every man and his dog learned the word subprime recently. I don’t know much about banking and finance, but Stephen Cecchetti, a former director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, knows what he’s talking about and explains the subprime crisis in (almost) layman’s terms in a clearly written post on the VoxEU blog.
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]]> http://iman.edublogs.org/2007/09/02/subprime-101/feed/ 0 Use of Excel to explain basics http://iman.edublogs.org/2007/09/02/use-of-excel-to-explain-basics/ http://iman.edublogs.org/2007/09/02/use-of-excel-to-explain-basics/#comments Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:54:56 +0000 Iman http://iman.edublogs.org/2007/09/02/use-of-excel-to-explain-basics/ Excel has become the workhorse in datamanagement. There are many reasons not to use the package. Flaws incomputations have been documened but for me a bigger flaw is the difficulty to keep your data intact. Changes to data are easily made but it’s very hard to keep track of them. Unfortunately it is a package that is widely availble and therefore used by many. This familiarity makes it a package use can use to explain simple economic concepts. Two examples are for instance given by Aaron Schiff with a simple supply and demand model. Many more are provided by  Wilson Mixon and Soumaya Tohamy, mainly micro-economics (Mankiw).

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10 Economics Blogs
Rank Blog Technorati
1 Freakonomics 137
2 Greg Mankiw’s Blog 581
3 Marginal Revolution 582
4 The Big Picture 1345
5 Economist’s View 2661
6 The Becker-Posner Blog 2772
7 Asymmetrical Information 3631
8 Brad DeLong 4296
9 EconLog 4344
10 Cafe Hayek 5726
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An alternative list is provided by CurrencyTrading.net. They posted a list of the top 100 economics blogs.

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