New call for papers. Conference on: "Structural Changes and the Implications for Inflation" Eltville (near Frankfurt), 7-8 May 2024. PDF of call: matthias-rottner.github.io/Files/Confer...www.conftool.pro/business-cyc... Please submit!

I guess the dean liked his plan to fire half the department (casually announced over lunch).

In my last job, we had an external candidate for head of department who, in his job talk, responded to each question by walking up to the chair of the person who asked the question, till he was almost touching them, and then shouting down his answer. He did not get the job, though he came close.

Also posted on Twitter at the same time. There: 47 likes, 12 reposts. Here 0 of both. The great migration hasn't happened yet!

I have released a new version of my "Robust Real Rate Rules" paper here: www.tholden.org/assets/files... Featuring: empirics (no longer pure theory!), improved structure, new results on ZLB sunspot equilibria, more on communication, more on practicalities, etc. & even longer appendices!

One disadvantage of Bluesky's custom feeds is that it makes it harder to know when you're accidentally spamming people. On Twitter, I like literally every post from the Calvin and Hobbes fan account, but I like so much other junk that I know my followers are not going to see those likes. On Bluesky?

I don't think targeting top fives is crazy, but it's not always obvious on day one that a project has top five potential. More important is not wasting time working on things once you realise they definitely won't result in a decent pub (whatever is your definition of that).

The most surprising thing was the cost of the food. £200 for a seven course tasting menu sounds pretty cheap when most rooms are over £3000!

I have a new proof of the Banach-Tarski theorem: Take a full washing basket. Fill the washing machine with half its contents. Note that the washing basket is still full. QED (The pressure of a blank timeline was too much. Future posts can only improve on this initial low bar.)