Trade Diversion

I think that the server switch was relatively seamless, so that those subscribing to http://www.tradediversion.net/atom.xml are still receiving the feed, but the proper URLs are now http://www.tradediversion.net/feed/atom (Atom) and http://www.tradediversion.net/feed (RSS), so it’d be best to update your subscription. Thanks for reading!

I’m the lone economics blogger amongst the twenty finalists competing for the 2008 Blogging Scholarship. Please show your support for Trade Diversion [and the rest of the economics blogosphere ] by voting for me. Thanks!

I’ve been having some technical difficulties over the last week or so, please bear with me.

I apologize for all the repeat posts today. Some internet bug ate all my posts from the last week, so I restored them today by repeating the entries.

Ben Muse has cemented his blogosphere dominance of Korea-US FTA coverage by setting up a blog dedicated to the trade deal.

My exams are next week, but after that I promise a return to actual blogging — more than mere links and excerpts!

In the meantime, you might enjoy:

Dan Drezner & others discussing global governance at Cato Unbound.

A Business Week story on measuring productivity gains in the presence of offshoring: “But new evidence suggests that shifting production overseas has inflicted worse damage on the U.S. economy than the numbers show. BusinessWeek has learned of a gaping flaw in the way statistics treat offshoring, with serious economic and political implications. Top government statisticians now acknowledge that the problem exists, and say it could prove to be significant.” [HT: Thoma]

VoxEU, a new portal from the CEPR featuring numerous top economists, including recent columns by Paul Collier & Tony Venables, Andrew K. Rose, Simon Evenett, and others.

The recent downturn in posting has been due to my upcoming exams. I’ll continue to post links and snippets over the next few weeks, but it’s unlikely that I’ll have time for lengthy pieces. Full-scale Trade Diversion will resume in mid-June. Thanks for reading.

It’s a new year – care to suggest a resolution that I should adopt for Trade Diversion? If you’ve got thoughts about topics I should (or shouldn’t cover) or other suggestions for the blog, please leave a comment or email me. Thanks!

I apologize for the service outage over the weekend. Those responsible have been sacked.

I was at an exciting seminar for the last five days without internet access, but I should have a few interesting items to post about in the near future.

I’m starting an M.Phil. in Economics in the fall. At this point, I plan to continue blogging while in grad school, because I think that it’s complementary to research activities. Studying might reduce my (already light) bogging activity, but I see no reason to give up Trade Diversion entirely. Is anyone aware of grad students that have opined about the value of blogging in comparison to the opportunity costs?