Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Tales, thoughts and policy reflections from wannabe economists (that met) at the Graduate Institute in Geneva
Pages
Follow us on facebook
Brown Bag Lunch
Super cool blogs
About us
We are the wannabe economists of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. We use this blog to share out thoughts on the world economy and the rest. So...here's our musings and policy reflections.
Blog Archive
-
▼
2010
(174)
-
▼
August
(13)
- Swiss tourism and the falling franc
- Was Ricardo right?
- Finally Some Fiscal Sense
- Is Armenia importing coffee from Utopia?
- Marketing The Economist
- Divorce insurance
- World Bank reports
- Wyclef for president
- Flying buses as a solution to trafffic jams
- Why declare rice as mung beans?
- Smuggling sand to Singapore
- Armchair economists
- How goods reach Iran despite the sanctions
-
▼
August
(13)
Study at the Institute
If you like Rigotnomics, you (may) want to study economics at the Graduate Institute.
Total pageviews
Contact the Editor
pierre-louis.vezina (at) graduateinstitute.ch
2 comments:
Sounds like a good idea and the graphs come out really nice. I just have one little doubt: You do the index by multiplying the z score with a share and then sum over all industries. But is it not the case that countries that are poorer will have in all sectors a lower z-score so the index will always be lower for poor countries? If this is the case then you may prefer to use some alternative to the z-score that you compute across countries for each industry...what you need is a measure that tells you whether the country produces the goods it produces best ..what you have is something like a mix of this and the general efficiency of the country, if I understand right....
nice (I still have to read it carefully). isn't it a bit of a problem tough for your conclusion that agriculture (and services, but this is hard to get) are not accounted for?
Post a Comment