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I have moved! Along with changing my name from Carola Conces to Carola Binder (my new married name), I have also changed my blog to carolabi...

It is ironic that in the 2012 election there are two Catholic Vice Presidential candidates and no good options for Catholic voters. The Wash...

Biodegradable Potatoware We should have seen it coming. Our kitchen sink was draining slower than usual. But nobody in the house took a...

I am beginning a self-study of the textbook Robustness by Lars Peter Hansen and Thomas Sargent (2008). My macro professor from last semeste...

Today is the first day of the Fall 2012 semester. That means it has been two years since I have polished my nails. Before starting graduate ...

I just made my flight reservations to and from Newark to attend the Princeton Initiative on Macro, Money and Finance in September. I'm ...

My list of books I want to read is too long already, but I couldn't resist stopping to browse in Half Price Books today, and once there,...

I took the economic history field exam today. Five essays in three hours meant a lot of rushed writing! I felt comfortable that I knew the s...

A few posts ago, I wrote about American Exceptionalism . For economic historians, this typically refers to the United States' industrial...

My field exam in macro is on Monday and in history is on Wednesday. It is crunch time now! It is also exciting to see the new crop of first ...

Attending an economics seminar is not a passive endeavor. It took me two years of attending seminars to start to get the hang of how to atte...

I am currently studying for my field exams in macroeconomics and economic history, which are on August 13 and 15. At Berkeley, we take field...