Lars P. Syll

Reasons to dislike DSGE models First: They are based on unappealing assumptions. Not just simplifying assumptions, as any model must, but assumptions profoundly at odds with what we know about consumers and firms … Second: Their standard method of estimation, which is a mix of calibration and Bayesian estimation, is unconvincing … Third: While the models can formally be used for normative​ purposes, normative implications are not convincing … Fourth: DSGE...

Ist die Integration gescheitert?  [embedded content] Advertisements

Hatte Karl Marx doch recht?  [embedded content] Advertisements

But once, we were here (personal)  [embedded content]  [embedded content] In loving memory of my brother Peter ‘Uncas’ Pålsson — truly ‘a red man deep inside.’ Advertisements

RCTs risk distorting our knowledge base The claimed hierarchy of methods, with randomized assignment being deemed inherently superior to observational studies, does not survive close scrutiny. Despite frequent claims to the contrary, an RCT does not equate counterfactual outcomes between treated and control units. The fact that systematic bias in estimating the mean impact vanishes in expectation (under ideal conditions) does not imply that the (unknown)...

The debate about RCTs is over. The randomistas lost. We won.  [embedded content] Advertisements

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If life were only like this! When listening to — or reading — all the postmodern mumbo-jumbo​ that surrounds​ us today in social sciences and humanities, I often find myself wishing for that special Annie Hall moment of truth:  [embedded content] Advertisements

Agni Parthene — Valaam Brethren Choir  [embedded content] Advertisements

Pedagogik — ett ämne i fritt fall mot avgrunden Ingenstans i den svenska akademin befinner sig en disciplin mer uppenbart på randen av en antiintellektuell avgrund än pedagogiken. I inget annat akademiskt ämne har postmodern sanningsrelativism och kvasi-vetenskaplig mumbo jumbo fått en sådan framskjuten position. Ett tydligt belägg för sakernas bedrövliga tillstånd inom svensk så kallad “pedagogisk forskning” kan man få genom att till exempel läsa artikeln...