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  Old Atlantic Lighthouse: Ignorant of the important work underway by Nils Hakansson and Hayne Leland, then graduate students elsewhere, I attacked the problem of dynamic portfolio theory in a continuous-time framework without having the benefit of their discrete-time formulations. Despite all the mathematics courses that I had taken, l had seen neither stochastic dynamic programming nor the Ito calculus, both of which turned out to be key mathematical tools needed for this research. (via Cosmos)

  AntitrustProf Blog: What Happened to Antitrust? Observations from the Annual AEA Meeting Posted by D. Daniel Sokol This past week, thousands of economists from around the world met at the annual meeting of the American Economics Association. What is particularly interesting from the standpoint of this blog is how few IO panels there were. Is antitrust no longer sexy? January 12, 2007 | Permalink (via Cosmos)

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  Computational Complexity: Suresh and Jeff cover theSODA Conferencecurrently meeting in New Orleans. Suresh talkedabout a lecture given by Luc Devroye giving techniques that might helpdetermine the actual constant factors in some algorithms. (via Cosmos)

 [Insidehighered.com] Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher ...: The AEA meeting had in recent years featured more sessions from various groups of economists with specialties and areas of interest than from the AEA as a whole, and the larger association has begun taking back more meeting slots. While AEA officials insist that groups are having meeting sessions eliminated based on attendance and not on politics, some left-leaning groups —

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 [Gregmankiw.blogspot.com] Greg Mankiw's Blog: Austrian Economics: As a (I hope) future mathematician deciding whether to take basic econ, doesn't the fact that the Nobel prize was awared both to Gunnar Myrdal and von Hayek mean that your field is totally without rigour and for that matter totally without shame. It seems to me this travesty is like awarding a Fields medal to two people one of who has both claimed to prove and the other to disprove the same conjecture.

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