Miscellaneous Musings

SNB, CHF and Our Colleague…

Jan 23, 2015

The Swiss Franc (CHF) was the talk of the financial world last week. We feel compelled to write something about it, but our response will be measured because we know someone directly affected by the situation. You see, we have this colleague…

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Square Root of 2

Nov 16, 2014

Since the days of the Babylonians it’s been known that square root of 2 – which I’ll shorthand as SQR(2) from here on out – has a lot of numbers in the decimal places.  And even if they didn’t know specifically that it was irrational, with their available mathematical knowledge, they came up with …

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Repeated Games & Airline TV

Nov 16, 2014

Pricing models are something that have long fascinated us.  So compelling is the topic that it’s a well known form of entertainment amongst economists to try and decipher how businesses set prices.  This is especially fun when there’s a good reason to think that there might be something unintuitive and more interesting than simple supply and demand.

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Monopoly for the Modern Era

Oct 14, 2014

have a 2-year old living in my house, and as a quant/nerd/economist, I’m always looking for unique ways to educate my wee lad on how the world really works. Games have always played an important social role in my family, and Monopoly has held a prominent role even in the pantheon of games.

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