Hi. I’m back home, and happy, before a one-day turnaround where I leave again. We were able to get the business of the church done one day ahead of schedule. While at the meeting, I had no internet… there is something odd about my laptop that blocked them from connecting me, and, they messed up my laptop in trying to connect me, so that I can’t use my dedicated line. Kinda sad.
One quick rant because when you get a boatload of e-mail at once, things get clearer. I think someone has created a mailing list for economics/finance bloggers, because I have a number of semi-interesting press releases in my e-mail. They would be interesting, but there are over a dozen of them, and none of them really fit my profile, aside from a professor asking me to review an academic finance article. (Me?! I’m on the hinterlands of the profession.) I appreciate truly personal mail, but the faux personal mail, which is really PR, does not get me to move.
One other note: while I was away, since I did not have internet, during free time, I went through my files to cull through research that I downloaded to be read. By the time I was done, I went through about 200 articles, and added 20 or so to my research files. I could do a post on what I think is valuable in academic/professional finance research — I’m not sure how much my readers would value it. That said, going through the research sharpened my views on what I think is valuable in academic research… so, at least I gained something from it.
I should be able to post more tomorrow, beyond that, I have no idea what kind of connectivity I might have.
A page of your favorite or most significant papers, as you have done with your Investment Books page, would be great. There are so many papers that any critical filtering is valuable.
I’d be interested. Also interesting, to the extent that it’s different, would be an annotated bibliography describing which journals tend to contain relevant stuff.