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It is a great honor to announce that I have been awarded the 4th Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) Finance Award under the auspices of Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan. I am very happy that my research has been recognized.
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Since 2017 or 2018, I only post my working papers on arXiv because it is free, open to anyone (they need a referral for initial submission, though), users can download the source file, and version control is straightforward. I see no value for SSRN, though it seems to be still popular among economists. An added bonus of arXiv is that if you use Overleaf, there is an option to submit to arXiv, so the submission process is (mostly) painless.
Out of curiosity, I wanted to know how many articles arXiv publishes by year and field. It was easy to get these statistics. For instance, for economics, you can go to https://arxiv.org/archive/econ and click “Article statistics by year”.
The graph below shows the number of articles in mathematics (math), computer science (cs), physics (physics), statistics (stat), and economics (econ). Here are a few observations.
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If a person enters my house without my permission, I suppose I have the right to ask the person to leave, and if they refuse, I may force them to do so. By analogy, if a person crosses the border into a country without permission from the government of that country, I suppose the government has the right to ask the person to leave, and if they refuse, they may force them to do so. Therefore, I see no problem that some government cracks down illegal immigration and attempts to deport illegal immigrants (although there may be exceptions on an individual basis, for example children that were taken to the country by their illegal immigrant parents and grew up for quite some time, losing tie to their country of birth). It is just common sense that follows from the fundamental principle of a liberal society that honors property rights. A corollary of this argument is that I do not understand why some people (typically the radical left or whatever they are called) organize protests against the crack down of illegal immigration.
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だいぶ前の話になるけど、アトランタへの通勤の時間を有効に使おうと思って、Amazon Kindleで夏目漱石全集を2ドルだか3ドルで買った。主要作品は文庫本で持っているけど、マイナーな作品も読めてとてもよかった。