Re: paid parking a market failure?

2005-10-16 Thread Eric Crampton
Richard Arnott at Boston College has done a ton of work on modeling parking and solving parking problems. Those interested might wish to run a Google Scholar search on Arnott + parking. Regards, Eric Crampton

Re: Nobels

2004-09-22 Thread Eric Crampton
Remember that it's a fun-money market, so people's expressive preferences have free reign. I think it's exceedingly unlikely he'll be tapped given how political a choice he'd be about now; however, the same thing makes him pretty expressively appealing. Not that it's a bad thing to have

Re: Siberia and Canada

2004-04-08 Thread Eric Crampton
Mass migration would be incredibly unlikely in the short term. Too much Canadian nationalism. Longer term, though, increasing migration would put pressure on the Canadian govt to adopt more sensible policies to reduce outflow. At least that would be my guess. There are huge regional

Re: gold rush

2003-10-02 Thread Eric Crampton
What's it been doing against the Euro? $US has been taking a beating lately in general Eric On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, chris macrae wrote: What do you feel is the main reason why there has been such a steep rise in the price of gold in recent times? Chris Macrae