Topic: Yale University

Insights From the Fall Meeting of the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity

Freakonomics - 490 days ago
The Brookings Panel on Economic Activity is pretty much my favorite conference each year. Two of the smartest young macroeconomists around, Kellogg's Jonathan Parker and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, presented new research that overturns the conventional wisdom in labor economics that recessions don't hit ...

Small-Caps Outperform Coming Out of Recessions

SeekingAlpha - 555 days ago
In a very interesting article that appeared recently on Advisor Perspectives, Michael Weiss and Yuliya Tarasava examine the tendency of small capitalization stocks to outperform larger companies in the period when the economy is emerging from recession. Smaller companies tend to be ...

When Double Dippers become economic party poopers

AP News - 558 days ago
Those predicting double dip recession may be helping to cause one by raising consumer anxietyThey're a minority, but a vocal one, and they're hovering like storm clouds over a brittle recovery.They're the Double Dippers — the politicians, economists and analysts who foresee ...
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Nicholas Perna: Expecting Small GDP Gains in 2009, Job Growth in 2010

SeekingAlpha - 900 days ago
Nicholas Perna is chief economist at Perna Associates, economic advisor to Webster Bank, and a visiting lecturer at Yale University. Previously he was chief economist for Fleet Financial Group, Shawmut Bank, and Connecticut National Bank. Before that he was an economist with ...

Robert Shiller Calls for Second Stimulus

SeekingAlpha - 916 days ago
Yale economist Robert Shiller was on Bloomberg yesterday talking about the need for more action by the U.S. government to ward off a dreaded " double-dip" recession..

Dismal job market for graduating U.S. students

Reuters Life! Online Report - 973 days ago
BOSTON (Reuters) - Facing the worst job market in a generation, students graduating from America's universities say they are willing to do just about anything for work.Some are taking unpaid internships, publishing blogs to document their troubles, applying to nonprofit organizations instead ...
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