Benford Goes to the Casino
You’re strolling past a casino and you notice an eye-grabbing sign: The Multiplication Game, Carpe Diem! You’re curious, so you …
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The Elusive Gains from Industrial Policy
Dave Donaldson (Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States) is one of the two keynote speakers at …
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The lost boarding pass and the seven dwarfs
Imagine a group of 100 Icelanders boarding a plane from Reykjavík to Tenerife. They board one at a time. The …
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State and Development
A journey around the world without leaving a TI lecture room. This year’s TI Economics Lectures centered on the topic …
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A big flirt with machine learning
A big flirt with machine learning is one way to capture the essence of the three days of lectures and …
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Letters from Alumni: Oleg Sokolinskiy
In an effort to make this letter useful to TI students, I would like to share some of my insights …
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Political Economy of Green Paradoxes
Five years ago, Cees Withagen was successful in obtaining the prestigious Advanced Instigator Grant of the European Research Council and …
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Letters from Alumni: Sanne Blauw
I remember the exact moment that I decided to write for a living. It was August 24, 2014— and I …
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A Shaky Business
Natural gas production worldwide has grown rapidly in recent years. In the last six years, for example, total gas production …
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