Austan Goolsbee, writing in the New York Times, discusses Michael Greenstone’s paper (discussed here at Midas Oracle in September) that examines the market for Iraq’s bonds for an assessment of the long-term future of the Iraq government. Goolsbee’s quick conclusion: “But global financial markets have been monitoring the war for months, and with remarkable [...]
At Economist’s View, Mark Thoma draws attention to a recent paper that uses financial markets data to infer a market prediction of the likely effectiveness of the U.S. government’s ‘Surge’ strategy in Iraq.
In “Is The ‘Surge’ Working? Some New Facts“, MIT’s Michael Greenstone writes:
This paper shows how data from world financial markets can [...]
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