STAFET: Johan Lagerlöf

Hvor spiser du helst i København?
I have often taken seminar guests to restaurant Heering at Nyhavn. It’s a decent place and worth visiting, but probably I should experiment a bit more than I have done so far.

Hvis du skulle anbefale en god bog, hvad ville det så være?
Steven Pinker’s “The Blank Slate” (on the nature/nurture debate) made a big impression on me.

Hvad ville du gøre hvis du vandt en million?
I probably should pay off my student loan once and for all.

Hvad, hvis noget, burde du have indset lidt før i livet?
For a while I actually thought I should become a macroeconomist. Later I realized what a bad idea this was, but I wish I had understood it a bit earlier.

Hvad er den bedste del af dit job?
The research. (Sorry students.)

Hvilken regning hader du allermest at betale?
The TV license fee. My TV doesn’t even work.

Hvad synes du er den smukkeste sammenhæng, ligning eller resultat indenfor økonomien - og hvorfor?
Arrow’s impossibility theorem and related results (as discussed for example in William Riker’s “Liberalism against Populism”). Simple idea, big implications.

Hvilken kendt økonom ville du helst tilbringe en eftermiddag i selskab med?
Later this fall I will spend at least a day with first Maria Saéz from Zürich and then Paul Heidhues from Berlin. They are good microeconomists and famous enough in my eyes.

Hvad er det vigtigste finanskrisen har lært os?
Well, nothing about how I should do microeconomics.

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