Sunday, December 06, 2009

New blog location...

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This blog is about to migrate to a new location. You are invited to drop by: http://publiceconomics.wordpress.com/ Este blog está en proce...
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Thursday, July 09, 2009

From blog rant to the press

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Mis “primeras reacciones” a la elección del domingo pasado aparecen (editadas y mejoradas) en El Universal de hoy:   Lo que produjero...
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Monday, July 06, 2009

Elección 2009: primeras reacciones

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1. El PREP 2009 avanza mucho más rápido, y es más amigable, que el PREP 2006.  Esto se debe a que las casillas sólo tuvieron que contar 1 bo...
Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Adios spots, bienvenida la reflexión

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He aquí mi cuarta entrega para El Universal sobre las campañas federales de 2009. La campaña no tuvo sorpresas mayores, salvo que las prefe...
Sunday, June 28, 2009

Mankiw on health care reform in the US

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The Pitfalls of the Public Option, by N. Gregory Mankiw The New York Times, June 28, 2009 In the debate over health care reform , one is...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Mercadotecnia Política y Estrategia Electoral - Curso de Verano 2009

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Este verano 2009 impartiré un breve curso de verano sobre marketing político junto con Jorge Buendía y Javier Márquez (de Buendía y Laredo, ...
Monday, June 22, 2009

Homo economicus strikes back

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Is Behavioral Economics Doomed? The ordinary versus the extraordinary By David K. Levine "… behavioral economics is all the rage these ...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Aritmética del voto nulo

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En 2003 hubo 3.36% de votos nulos y una tasa de participación de 41%. En 2009 la lista nominal será de 77,481,874 votantes. Redondeando ...
Tuesday, June 09, 2009

A un mes de la elección

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He aquí mi tercera entrega para El Universal sobre las campañas federales de 2009. Nada nuevo, pero la copio "for the record". ...
Monday, June 08, 2009

Votos nulos en 2003 y 2006

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En las elecciones intermedias de 2003 hubo 896,649 votos nulos (3.3% del total). En 2006 hubo 1,033,665 votos nulos para diputados de mayor...

Votar donde duele

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Mucho se ha hablado del voto nulo como herramienta de castigo "a los partidos". Más allá del valor expresivo (feel good value) de ...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Opposing Chavez

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The Price of Political Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela's Maisanta http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14923 Chang-Tai Hsieh, Edward Mig...
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Electoral Accountability and Corruption

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This is very replicable research… that is, if we only had reelection… and good data on corruption. Electoral Accountability and Corruption:...
Monday, May 11, 2009

Elecciones intermedias México 2009

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El Universal del día de hoy, Lunes 11 de mayo de 2009, me publicó un breve artículo sobre las preferencias electorales al inicio de la campa...
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Thursday, April 30, 2009

Swine flu, measurement error, and policy responses

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Is the Mexican government overreacting to the swine flu virus outbreak? It is still to soon to know. So far, in the first week of the "...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Risk Communication in Epidemics

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Great piece on the the hazard vs. public outrage tradeoff. "Let me tell you the basics of risk communication, and then I want to apply...
Thursday, October 30, 2008

Comparative trends in US presidential elections 2000 to 2008

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In the final days before the election, pundits and the media will claim that the race "is tightening" and that "you never kno...

Public funding and the 2008 election

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This is George F. Will , in today's Washington Post , on some of the campaign finance lessons from the 2008 presidential election:   ...

Migration policy, Media bias, Direct democracy (new papers)

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Do Interest Groups Affect U.S. Immigration Policy? Date: 2008-10-11 By: Prachi Mishra, Anna Maria Mayda, Giovanni Facchini http://d.repe...
Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Myths about the 2008 crisis

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Three economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Chari, Christiano and Kehoe, point out to Four Myths about the Financial Crisis...