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Michael Ash

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Name: Michael Ash

First reported Jun 07 2013 - Updated Jun 07 2013 - 1 reports

International Monetary Fund

When a study goes 'rogue'

IN ERROR? Reinhart & Rogoff's paper was cited more than 500 times by other academic fellowsMORE than what we want or need, we are surrounded by numbers. Numbers, especially statistics and economic modelling, sell very well.The latter is often not transparent ... [Published New Straits Times - Jun 07 2013]

Entities: Kenneth Rogoff, International Monetary Fund, Paul Krugman

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Corunna High School

Long tenure nears end (2)

SHERIFF’S OFFICE Lt. Mike Ash is seen here in front of a Shiawassee County patrol car. Ash is retiring at the end of this month.Long tenure nears end By CURTIS WILDFONG, Argus-Press Staff Writer The Argus-Press | 2 commentsCORUNNA — After graduating ... [Published The Argus-Press - May 22 2013]

Entities: Corunna High School, Michael Ash, Education

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Enron Corp

Are We Missing the Debt Debate’s Real Point?

Krugman and others have been doing a victory dance, claiming that the Reinhart-Rogoff work on the relationship between debt and growth has been repudiated. Hardly. The R&R spreadsheet error is embarrassing, but of minor consequence. The other criticisms ... [Published Wall St. Cheat Sheet - May 06 2013]

Entities: Niall Ferguson, Enron Corp, United States Government, Andy Fastow, Matthew Klein

First reported Apr 26 2013 - Updated Apr 26 2013 - 1 reports

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Debt, Growth and the Austerity Debate

Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff respond to the controversy over their paper “Growth in a Time of Debt” in the NYT: Last week, three economists at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, released a paper criticizing our findings. They correctly ... [Published 3quarksdaily - Apr 26 2013]

Entities: Robert Pollin, Michael Ash, University of Massachusetts Amherst

First reported Apr 24 2013 - Updated Apr 24 2013 - 1 reports

Reply to Prof. Hamilton regarding "Reinhart-Rogoff Data Problems"

Today Econbrowser hosts this guest contribution from Robert Pollin and Michael Ash of the Department of Economics and Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Reply to Prof. Hamilton regarding "Reinhart-Rogoff ... [Published Econbrowser - Apr 24 2013]

Entities: Robert Pollin, Michael Ash, Serial Correlation

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 20 2013 - 2 reports

Gavyn Davies on Reinhart/Rogoff

Gavyn Davies: How much of Reinhart/Rogoff has survived? : The work of Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff (RR) on public sector debt ratios, and their relationship with GDP growth, has been extraordinarily influential… had appeared to establish an important ... [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: Gavyn Davies, Growth Rates, Budget Deficit, Robert Pollin, Michael Ash

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 1 reports

How much of Reinhart/Rogoff has survived?

The work of Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff (RR) on public sector debt ratios, and their relationship with GDP growth, has been extraordinarily influential in academic and policy circles since 2010. Before this week, their statistical analysis, based ... [Published FT.com - Gavyn Davies - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: Robert Pollin, Michael Ash, Carmen Reinhart

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

The Death of Neoliberal Ideology Is Real

There was a time when the models and mathematics of neoliberal economists (who are not really economists in the first place), could not be contested. When they said such and such a number or curve was telling us the truth, it was accepted as nothing ... [Published The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University, Robert Pollin, Michael Ash, University of Massachusetts Amherst

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

Links 4/18/13

Apologies for lack of my own posts. Competing responsibilities, including taping a session with Harry Shearer today. This is by far the cutest baby bat we’ve ever seen Grist Trees Call for Help—And Now Scientists Can Understand National Geographic ... [Published naked capitalism - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Paul Krugman, Harry Shearer, Robert Pollin, Michael Ash

First reported Apr 16 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 2 reports

Rogoff and Reinhart defend their numbers

Harvard economists admit to a coding error but stand by their central finding: when government debt is above 90% growth is sent into reverseKenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart, the economists accused of getting their sums wrong in an influential study ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: Kenneth Rogoff, Robert Pollin, Dean Baker, Paul Krugman

First reported Apr 16 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 3 reports

This time is different – thanks to data manipulation

I don't know why, but it is somehow very satisfying to see the work of Reinhart and Rogoff, oracles of the dangers of excessive public indebtedness, somewhat debunked. A new paper, by University of Massachusetts Amherst economics doctoral student Thomas ... [Published Finance - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: Robert Pollin, Michael Ash, University of Massachusetts Amherst

First reported Apr 16 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 10 reports

Did This Excel Error Cause Panic Over Federal Debt?

The debate over federal debt and the urgency with which to cut the United States’ dependency on borrowings has paralyzed policymaking in Washington. Now, it turns out, a mistake in a Microsoft ( NASDAQ:MSFT ) Excel worksheet may be partly responsible ... [Published Wall St. Cheat Sheet - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: Microsoft Excel, Gross Domestic Product, Robert Pollin, Federal

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Economists looked even closer at Reinhart and R... [Published Quartz - Jun 12 2013]
When a study goes 'rogue' [Published New Straits Times - Jun 07 2013]
The debt-growth nexus [Published The News International - May 31 2013]
Miles Kimball and Yichuan Wang: Contra Reinhart... [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - May 29 2013]
Miles Kimball and Yichuan Wang: Contra Reinhart... [Published Brad DeLong - May 29 2013]
Austerity and Its Discontents [Published American.com - May 29 2013]
After crunching Reinhart and Rogoff’s data, we’... [Published Quartz - May 29 2013]
Reinhart and Rogoff defend themselves [Published Econbrowser - May 26 2013]
David Coates: The Half-forgotten Debt Crisis [Published Huffington Post - May 25 2013]
Long tenure nears end (2) [Published The Argus-Press - May 22 2013]
Are We Missing the Debt Debate’s Real Point? [Published Wall St. Cheat Sheet - May 06 2013]
Laura Santhanam: Fox's Dobbs Laughs Off Discred... [Published Media Matters for America - County Fair - Apr 30 2013]
Wonkbook: The hopey-changey thing isn’t working... [Published Ezra Klein - Apr 30 2013]
Reply to Reinhart and Rogoff’s NYT Response to ... [Published naked capitalism - Apr 28 2013]
Twitter: Your First Source of Investment News [Published The Big Picture Blog - Apr 27 2013]
Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff: Debt, Growth an... [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - Apr 26 2013]
Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff: Debt, Growth an... [Published Brad DeLong - Apr 26 2013]
Debt, Growth and the Austerity Debate [Published 3quarksdaily - Apr 26 2013]
REINHART AND ROGOFF: We Never Said Austerity Wa... [Published Clusterstock - Apr 26 2013]
Robert Samuelson Tries to Salvage Reinhart-Rogo... [Published Firedoglake - Apr 26 2013]
Noted for April 25, 2013 [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - Apr 25 2013]
Noted for April 25, 2013 [Published Brad DeLong - Apr 25 2013]
Inside the offbeat economics department that de... [Published Ezra Klein - Apr 24 2013]
Reinhart-Rogoff and Herndon-Ash-Pollin: a few f... [Published Econbrowser - Apr 24 2013]
Reply to Prof. Hamilton regarding "Reinhart-Rog... [Published Econbrowser - Apr 24 2013]
Guest Post: Scoring The Reinhart-Rogoff Debate [Published Zero Hedge - Apr 22 2013]
Philip Pilkington: Defrocking Reinhart and Rogo... [Published naked capitalism - Apr 22 2013]
Reinhart-Rogoff data problems [Published Econbrowser - Apr 21 2013]
Austerity Is A Consequence — Not A Punishment [Published Clusterstock - Apr 20 2013]
Gavyn Davies on Reinhart/Rogoff [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - Apr 19 2013]

Blogs

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Miles Kimball and Yichuan Wang: Contra Reinhart... [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - May 29 2013] Miles Kimball and Yichuan Wang confirm Arin Dube: Guest Post: Reinhart/Rogoff and Growth in a Time Before Debt \|Next New Deal : Miles and Yichuan: After crunching Reinhart and Rogoff’s data, we’ve concluded that high debt does not slow growth ...
Miles Kimball and Yichuan Wang: Contra Reinhart... [Published Brad DeLong - May 29 2013] Miles Kimball and Yichuan Wang confirm Arin Dube: Guest Post: Reinhart/Rogoff and Growth in a Time Before Debt\|Next New Deal:Miles and Yichuan:After crunching Reinhart and Rogoff’s data, we’ve concluded that high debt does not slow growth - Quartz: After ...
Reinhart and Rogoff defend themselves [Published Econbrowser - May 26 2013] Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff have posted an open letter to Paul Krugman to try to correct some of the misrepresentations of their scholarship that continue to be repeated by people who should know better. Reinhart and Rogoff's letter begins ...
Are We Missing the Debt Debate’s Real Point? [Published Wall St. Cheat Sheet - May 06 2013] Krugman and others have been doing a victory dance, claiming that the Reinhart-Rogoff work on the relationship between debt and growth has been repudiated. Hardly. The R&R spreadsheet error is embarrassing, but of minor consequence. The other criticisms ...
Laura Santhanam: Fox's Dobbs Laughs Off Discred... [Published Media Matters for America - County Fair - Apr 30 2013] Fox Business anchor Lou Dobbs dismissed the discovery of errant data points in a recently dismantled Harvard economics study that had formed the cornerstone for arguments supporting U.S. and European austerity as merely "a small mistake." On the April ...