Good morning. Ah: US media is finally picking up this French thingie…

https://www.businessinsider.nl/greeces-crisis-flare-up-couldnt-come-at-a-worse-time-for-france-2017-2/

How Greece compares to a number of other ‘emerging’ economies

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/02/08/2184149/greece-has-done-much-worse-with-the-euro-than-em-basket-cases-did-with-their-own-currencies/

Asymmetry in consumption from shocks

https://bankunderground.co.uk/2017/02/07/do-consumers-respond-in-the-same-way-to-good-and-bad-income-surprises/

Oliver Blanchard et al on productivity and secular stagnation

https://piie.com/system/files/documents/pb17-6.pdf

Best of last week.

https://lukasdaalder.com/2017/02/03/best-in-economics-this-week-february-3/

A bit of reading on dividends

http://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.nl/2017/02/january-2017-data-update-9-dividends.html

Overcrowding?

http://oecdinsights.org/2017/02/08/better-quality-and-more-affordable-housing/

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