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comment by _refugee_

Reinhart-Rogoff respond

edit; not saying i agree with either side or anything, just figured this would be relevant to the conversation.





mk  ·  4281 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks.

This is not a very convincing rebuttal, IMO. They point to other studies that seem to support their reported findings, and only go halfway to addressing the issue of weighting episodes of unequal years equally. They make no mention of excluding countries from the averaging.

_refugee_  ·  4278 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh I completely agree