Freakonometrics

Links to some nice articles found (recently) on other blogs, or websites, in English

• "Tensions Run High Between Bank Regulators" on http://wsj.com/P8h6XQ
• "Saving the banks, but not reckless bankers" http://www.voxeu.org/article/criminal-sanctions-how-save-banks-without-rewarding-bankers …
• "To where should all roads lead?" http://www.significancemagazine.org/details/webexclusive/2481611/To-where-should-all-roads-lead.html … via @signmagazine
• "Banks Face Derivatives Margin Losses As Too-Big-To-Fail Ends" http://www.  bloomberg.com/news/2012-089/banks-face-derivatives-margin-losses-as-too-big-to-fail-ends-1-.html…
• "Why High-Frequency Trading Doesn’t Compute" http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424053111904239304577573162788310008.html?mod=BOL_twm_fs …
• "Lorenz curve and U.S. Health Care Spending" http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/you-just-cant-see-this-often-enough/…

• "the survival of the stupidest" http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2012/08/survival-of-the-stupidest.html … via @alea_
• "Impact factor manipulation" http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=420794&c=1 … "Citing to win as journals 'game' system"
• "I am sick of impact factors and so is science"http:// occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2012/08/13/sick-of-impact-factors/ …
• "Open access in research: catch up on the debate"http://www. guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/aug/10/uk-open-access-research-debate-round-up …
• "What does an Editor look for?" http://www.diabetologia-journal.org/eicadvice.html  (especially the end of the "The Analysis" section, on statisticians) "If you are lucky enough to find a statistician who can communicate with the non-numerate and is of the opposite sex, you should consider a proposal of marriage. It’s that important."
• [free ebook] Berger and Wolpert's "Likelihood Principle" (1984) http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.lnms/1215466210 …
• [free ebook] Brown's "Fundamentals of statistical exponential families with applications in statistical decision theory"http:// projecteuclid.org/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0&verb=Display&handle=euclid.lnms/1215466757 …
• "Noncomputability, unpredictability, undecidability, and unsolvability in economic theories" http://ideas.repec.org/p/trn/utwpas/1211.html … fromhttp:// w3.ualg.pt/~dgraca/Files/Papers/12-G-Finance.pdf …
• "Can we understand agent-based models?" http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2012/08/can-we-understand-agent-based-models.html …
• "Economics of Antibiotics Resistance" http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.fr/2012/08/economics-of-antibiotics-resistance.html … and pdf paper http://www.milkeninstitute.org/publications/review/2012_7/12-21MR55.pdf …
• "Climate Change Is Here — And Worse Than We Thought" http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/climate-change-is-here--and-worse-than-we-thought/2012/08/03/6ae604c2-dd90-11e1-8e43-4a3c4375504a_story.html?hpid=z3 … by NASA’s climatologist James Hansen
• ''Unpaid research internships reveal a dangerous hypocrisy in academia" http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/aug/02/unpaid-research-internships-academic-hypocrisy …
• "The college-cost calamity" (in the U.S.) http://www.economist.com/node/21559936
• "Putting A Price Tag On Your Descendants" http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/07/20/157105414/episode-388-putting-a-price-tag-on-your-descendants … ("... the answer hinges on the discount rate")
• "Using Bayes’ Theorem in Behavioural Crime Linking of Serial Homicide" http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2044-8333.2011.02043.x/full … via @statfr
• "Negative rates as a precursor to the death of banking" http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2012/07/31/1102191/negative-rates-as-a-precursor-to-the-death-of-banking/ …
• "Retracted articles and unethical behavior in economics journals?" http://andrewgelman.com/2012/07/15873/
• Forget Titanic: Women and children rarely first off sinking ships"http:// dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1207156109 … "the crew has the highest survival rate"
• "Why Algebra Matters (and Why Andrew Hacker is Off-Target)"http:// dropoutnation.net/2012/07/30/why-algebra-matters-and-why-those-who-think-it-doesnt-are-wrong/ … , "Yes, algebra is necessary" http://www.danielwillingham.com/1/post/2012/07/yes-algebra-is-necessary.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nbspDanielWillingham-DanielWillinghamScienceAndEducationBlog+%28Daniel+Willingham%27s+Science+and+Education+Blog%29 …via @nb58, or "Abandoning Algebra Is Not the Answer" via @SciAmUpdate http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/07/30/abandoning-algebra-is-not-the-answer/ …  answering tohttp://www."Is Algebra Necessary?" by Andrew Hacker nytimes.com/2012/07/29/opinion/sunday/is-algebra-necessary.html?pagewanted=all …
• "Why do the markets love government debt?" http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/opinion/money-for-nothing.html?_r=2&src=me&ref=general …
• "The more money, the merrier?" http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528752.300-inequality-the-more-money-the-merrier.html …and "Inequality: Why egalitarian societies died out" http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22071-inequality-why-egalitarian-societies-died-out.html …

• "Universités privées : la catastrophe" http://www.marianne2.fr/Universites-privees-la-catastrophe_a221675.html … sur les inégalités du système universitaire aux Etats-Unis
• "La mainmise des machines sur les marchés financiers en question" http://www.lepoint.fr/economie/la-mainmise-des-machines-sur-les-marches-financiers-en-question-11-08-2012-1495014_28.php …
• Chaine de Markov et jeux, le Monopoly http://eljjdx.canalblog.com/archives/2012/08/12/24832622.html … via @Vicnent

• Le StatData Geek http://www.data-publica.com/content/2012/07/les-blogs-de-data-geeks-freakonometrics-ou-la-data-stat-modelisation/ … via @datapublica

• "Le mercato universitaire" http://www.lenouveleconomiste.fr/le-mercato-universitaire-15697/ …
• "Qu’attendre des Assises de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche ? Rien, ou pire encore ?" http://www.collectif-papera.org/spip.php?article1369 …
• "Comment la propriété intellectuelle a transformé les Jeux olympiques en cauchemar cyberpunk" http://scinfolex.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/comment-la-propriete-intellectuelle-a-transforme-les-jeux-olympiques-en-cauchemar-cyberpunk/ …