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moneyscience: Interesting: Recorded Google hangout on the Data Economy from The @Guardian - http://t.co/jEXtnrTf #tcm

moneyscience: Interesting: Recorded Data Economy Google hangout from The @Guardian - http://t.co/jEXtnrTf #tcm

moneyscience: Why was the response to the finance crisis from US academics so muted? Extract from 'Inside Job' http://t.co/PztYh551 @oneworldnews #tcm

Ugh.

I enjoyed reading the lead article in the latest issue of Empirical Economics, by Helmut Lütkepohl and Fang Xu. It assesses the quality of forecasts obtained from an ARIMA model that is estimated using the levels of the data in question, as opposed to forecasts that are generated from a model estimated from the logarithms of the data. Should we use apply a log transform to time-series data before estimating an ARIMA model or not? Some authors resort to this as a way of...

On the Money View, Perry Mehrling reviews Lance Taylor's book Maynard's Revenge: The Collapse of Free Market Economics. Mehrling suggests that Keynes had it right: "The economy itself is a constantly changing and evolving entity, which means that individuals face epistemic problems of uncertainty, not just risk. In a world like that, historico-institutional methods provide a kind of knowledge that mathematico-statistical methods simply cannot, knowledge to inform individual...

moneyscience: Stern words from @ritholtz on the Facebook IPO and high frequency shenanigans http://t.co/FbkPwUnR #hft

Charles Skorina discusses what it takes to be a CIO with Sam Gallo.