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Wagers – TVHE http://www.tvhe.co.nz The Visible Hand in Economics Fri, 12 Jul 2013 01:28:07 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 3590215 Journalist OCR wager http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2013/07/12/journalist-ocr-wager/ http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2013/07/12/journalist-ocr-wager/#comments Fri, 12 Jul 2013 01:08:42 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=9071 Economists love wagers on beliefs – say as a tax on bullsh*t.  We have seen a wager in the past here between a series of economists on inflation.

Well here is a wager between journalists – Rob Hosking (NBR) saying that the RBNZ will lift the OCR by Christmas, and Bernard Hickey (Interest.co.nz, Herald columnist) saying that there will not be [Twitter proof – with Jessica Williams (Radio Live) witnessing].  The pot is a bag of coffee beans.

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This is what I like to see – good stuff.  Now everyone involved should also jump on iPredict and get to trading on their beliefs …

Update:  Stephen Kirchner put his hat in the ring betting two bags of coffee on a rate CUT by year end.  Anyone going to take him up on that?  Stephen is a research fellow at CIS in Australia (and editor of Policy magazine) as well as writing on Institutional Economics.

]]> http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2013/07/12/journalist-ocr-wager/feed/ 4 9071 A wager: Price growth of 15% between Dec 10 and Dec 15 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2011/03/25/a-wager-price-growth-of-15-between-dec-10-and-dec-15/ http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2011/03/25/a-wager-price-growth-of-15-between-dec-10-and-dec-15/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:19:07 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=5830 In the comments of this post, Andrew Coleman and myself decided to place down a little wager on price level growth during the next five years.  The bet goes as follows:

If the CPI grows by more than 15% between its December 2010 level and its December 2015 level (excluding any changes to the GST rate), Matt pays Andrew $100 (in Dec 2010 prices)

If CPI grows by less than 15% during this period, Andrew pays Matt $100 (in Dec 2010 prices).

We put down this bet just to show that we believe our own positions enough to stake money on them.  He believes there is some probability that the Reserve Bank will allow prices to grow at more than 2.8%pa during the next five years, and that this probability is sufficiently high for him to be willing to make this bet.  On the other hand, I do not think this will happen.

Update: Eric Crampton has also joined the bet, sitting on Andrew’s side.  So it is my $200 against $100 from each of them.  Confirmation here – combined with an explanation why.  I use the same explanation if I ever bet against the All Blacks in the work pool.

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