Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Plus ca change...

You could be talking about the auditors circa 2002....


I started a new paper today on the effect of oligopoly market structure on reputation-based industries. In other words, the auditors and the credit raters. I'm not looking forward to doing the analysis (I had sort of hoped to move away from doing straight-up micro theory, since I'm just not trained well enough to do it efficiently) and had fantasized about finding a co-author to do all the work, but this morning on my walk to work I decided it might not be all that hard, and it is a paper that just needs to be written. Tonight's Rachel Maddow is, I guess, a sign from the powers that be that I should follow through.

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