Re: median voter and financial scandal

2002-07-23 Thread Fred Foldvary
--- Bryan Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [The median voter] probably passed the whole year without even remembering > the existence of accounting regulations! The median voter thus favored > the status quo by default. That is somewhat toward my point. But it's not that Mr. Median "favored"

Re: Silent Takeover

2002-07-23 Thread Sagewhys
<<  I think you're underestimating the massive effects of state capitalist    intervention not only individuallly, but the synergy between them.     Regarding transportation subsidies alone, Tibor Machan wrote a good article    for The Freeman (August 99, I think) against not on

Re: Textbook Econometrics

2002-07-23 Thread Alex Tabarrok
The best text is Jeffrey Wooldridge's Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach. Supplement with Peter Kennedy's A Guide to Econometrics (a must have.) Alex -- Dr. Alexander Tabarrok Vice President and Director of Research The Independent Institute 100 Swan Way Oakland, CA, 94621-1428 Tel. 5

RE: take-in/eat out

2002-07-23 Thread John Perich
>From: "Gray, Lynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Do you typically purchase a beverage when you order take out? I know I >don't >(just take the food home and drink whatever we have there). If and I don't >think I am mistaken on this restaurants have a higher margin on beverages >than food would this

Re: Textbook Econometrics

2002-07-23 Thread Noel Campbell
At that level, I'm a big fan of Wooldridge's "Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach" from South-Western College Publishing. Noel Dr. Noel D. Campbell Asst. Prof. of Business Administration North Georgia College & St. Univ. Dahlonega, GA 30597 (706)864-1621 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/23/02

RE: The Public Believes in Mean Reversion

2002-07-23 Thread Michael Etchison
>Subject: The Public Believes in Mean Reversion Gee, so do I. The question, as Mr. Dumpty might have put it, is to which mean are we reverting? Makes a couple of hundred (or more) points' -- and a direction - difference. Michael

The Public Believes in Mean Reversion

2002-07-23 Thread Bryan Caplan
A kind of funny result from Excite's informal poll: 48% surveyed think that the Dow will rise over the next month, vs. 32% who think it will fall. http://poll.excite.com/poll/results.jsp?cat_id=1 -- Prof. Bryan Caplan Department of Economics Ge

Textbook Econometrics

2002-07-23 Thread Hentrich, Steffen
Dear armchairs, I'm looking for a comprehensible and practical textbook in econometrics (beginners up to intermediate level)for self-study. Can you give me some recommendations. Thanks! Steffen

Re: median voter and financial scandal

2002-07-23 Thread Bryan Caplan
Fred Foldvary wrote: > > If, as I think is evident, lax accounting rules contributed siginficantly to > the currrent financial scandals and stock-market decline, then it must be, if > the median-voter hypothesis is correct, that the median voter favored such > legal larceny as not requiting optio

RE: take-in/eat out

2002-07-23 Thread Gray, Lynn
Do you typically purchase a beverage when you order take out? I know I don't (just take the food home and drink whatever we have there). If and I don't think I am mistaken on this restaurants have a higher margin on beverages than food would this explain at least part of your question? Lynn

Re: median voter and financial scandal

2002-07-23 Thread chris macrae
What are you talking about? Is the average member of the public really expected to have kept up with how full and fair reporting by accountants walked off this path? And how many political lobbyists prevented putting tihs right for a long while now? I dont think that the average voter has ever tho

Thoughts on New Book

2002-07-23 Thread OSW User
A book recently published (see below) looks interesting to me. Anyone who has an opinion (informed or otherwise) on its value, I would appreciate your thoughts. (Also, why does it retail at $110!?) June 2002 - New Publications - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

median voter and financial scandal

2002-07-23 Thread Fred Foldvary
If, as I think is evident, lax accounting rules contributed siginficantly to the currrent financial scandals and stock-market decline, then it must be, if the median-voter hypothesis is correct, that the median voter favored such legal larceny as not requiting options to be expensed or not clearly