Coffee in Berlin
The local coffee shop and bakery near my apartment in Berlin charges €1 for an excellent cup of coffee. The similar shop near my office, but on a main tourist…
The local coffee shop and bakery near my apartment in Berlin charges €1 for an excellent cup of coffee. The similar shop near my office, but on a main tourist…
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…so many other people quite happy with our current president? Perhaps the answer is similar to a story frequently told about sports fans. Back in the early 1990s, a friend…
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…104.4%. Our findings demonstrate that TDFs with similar target dates can follow significantly different investment strategies. If regulators assumed that TDFs with the same target date provide investors with similar…
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Listen to an NBA coach during a game and you will often hear him scream something like the following: “You have to share the ball.” “Start looking for your teammates.”…
…Price Fishback and Ken Snowden For the past four years, the U.S. has faced a housing crisis that shows no signs of ending. The situation was similar in June 1933…
…a clear signal of the confidence and hope we have in tomorrow’s Europe.” Almost ten years later, things look a little different. The financial crisis that has brought much of…
…the green economy, first had to settle on what it should be looking for. The Bureau decided that green jobs are those that produce goods and services which benefit the…
…France, and Russia that show similar mortality results for a variety of populations, where the mortality rate is lower in prison than out. Also, our earlier study from 2008 found…
…and coal-fired generation technologies are viable alternatives to nuclear generation. Both are dispatchable and can be built at sizes similar to nuclear power plants, with natural gas typically having a…
…much the same reason. Just think about the subprime crisis. It failed the same three tests. First, many big banks and insurance companies were taking similar bets at similar times,…
…those previous flips influence the next one.” A similar effect is even seen in “an optimal, fully rational computer learner given similar incorrect beliefs about the world.” (HT: Eric M….
…similarly unregulated at the start. As time went by, people created their own customs and rules. Q: What steps have you taken to prevent collusive or otherwise anticompetitive activity in…
…box or something similar? That to me seems to be the final barrier to achieving massive growth that could make cable and satellite companies a thing of the past. —…
…Too many possible choices in Go and even if two positions look very very similar in every possible variable, one could be completely winning and one could be completely losing….
…to follow in Roosevelt‘s footsteps. Roosevelt negotiated a series of Reciprocal Trade Agreements with key trading partners that helped stimulate a world-wide recovery. Moves to sign similar agreements with Latin…
…Mitt Romney and John Edwards. They construct a Reagan-ometer, measuring the similarity of a candidate’s words with the former President, relative to the usage of those same words by Martin…
…for sale and similar properties, the less likely she is to make bad decisions. That said, there is still a lot of room for improvement. A reader named Sam Bauch…
…recent researches. Richard asked: Mark Twain is probably the most quoted (and misqouted) person in history. I have heard two variations of a similar statement attributed to him: ‘I am…
…Economics would also tell us to look for differences across groups. That is, some identifiable groups both save more and have better long-term health outcomes, despite being in similar economic…
…that you had covered a similar problem about a year ago. Instead of cheap gas, the problem was?to find true love. The solution to maximize your probability of success was…
…brother-in-law has it about right. But I worked at a big bank before the phone company, and when I noticed that these two companies were similar in their types of…
…Jesse Shapiro made a similar argument in a paper called “Does Television Rot Your Brain,” which Austan Goolsbee wrote about in Slate. But in two separate incidents in Brooklyn recently,…
…started out trying to make a show that was educational and fun at the same time, we’d never have succeeded. We just put all the curiosity and irreverence and our…
…friend Lionel Page points me to a related study of his, which analyzes tennis. Lionel uses a similar approach to arrive at a different conclusion, but I think his results…
…a personal epiphany. The postcard described a humiliating childhood experience that was very similar to one I’d had three decades earlier. I had been blocking the event out ever since;…
…for smoking taxes if smokers underestimate the cancer probability. In a similar spirit, if the population in cities such as Moscow systematically underestimates the probability of heat waves in the…
…these tests and looking at lifestyle changes, the specific impact on life span and other particulars (like the diseases and the level of seriousness of the health problems they incur,…