Hints and tips:
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...Hatzius argues that the sharp increase in the quality of services provided by new products in consumer technology has not been picked up in the data, so real output is higher, and inflation lower, than shown...
...We suppose the real point is that if Parker et al can construct a reasonably robust metric (mileage may vary, it is de facto limited, and we’re open to being told this is the wrong stuff to measure) than...
...One recent article that reviewed the quality of Chinese labor statistics claimed that the official unemployment rate is “almost useless” (Cai et al., 2013)....
...Sensible sentences from Citi’s Buiter et al on China’s valuation shock (with our emphasis): This decision by the PBOC is a significant event, even if its implications and motivations are not yet fully clear...
.... … Stated in positive terms, routine and non-routine tasks will generally coexist within an occupation to the degree that they are complements — that is, the quality of the service improves when the worker...
...To our knowledge, there are only a few, limited estimates of the benefits of these regulations, eg Cheshire and Sheppard (2002) and Glaeser et al (2005), both of which suggest that the welfare costs of regulation...
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...al., 2007)....
...Again, Hugenholtz et al, point out that the majority of cases brought under the Directive have been about databases that would have been created anyway - telephone numbers, television schedules, concert...
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