What I find in my email...

First a little background for those who did not come to this page through my home page: I used to be an Economics professor at the University of Connecticut (USA), specialized in macroeconomics. Now I am at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. I maintain a website about economics research, IDEAS. And somehow, some people think I can solve all their problems. I get quite a few who think I will do their Economics homeworks, but others are way off track. Here is a little sample. Note: these are the complete emails. I just cut names and signatures. And I spare you the phone calls I get...
This is the fourth page of emails. The first one is here, the second one there, the third one here and the fifth one here.
Dear Prof Zimmermann,
Good morning, my name is [name withheld], I am Ph.D. in Educational Sciences in [location withheld]. I am interested in the economy of education.
After having visiting your website : http://ideas.repec.org/zimm/, I contact you for a precious request.
I am now working on the Wooldridge data (2006).I am trying to estimate a model by instrumental variables (IV) and I have a few problems with the R codes. Some errors messages appear and i don't know why.
I was wondering if I could send to you my data and my file in which I wrote what I am trying to do ?
I guess it will take you more or less 15 minutes to help me.
Waiting for an answer from you, I send to you my Kind Regards,
Subject: PLEASE TREAT

I have a paper I want to publish at Asian Journal of Empirical Research. I dont no how to start. Please kindly guide me properly.
Thanks


Dear Sir or Madam, Christian Zimmermann :

Hello! We are Chinese college students of Jinan University, juniors from finance major. We formed a learning interest group in after school time, and we have some rough understanding of the international economy, hope to receive your guidance, thank you! The following is our forecasts for the capital market and problems.

Predictions:
1 The tendency of U.S. stocks now with the very similar to the crash in 1987. The United States will detonate a stock crash, and have a severe impact on the euro zone with aggravating the European debt crisis. At the same time, the American companies hold a huge sum of cash flow, and there will be a big-scale global mergers and acquisitions in the future;
2 The probability of United States to maintain or expand QE is 70%;
3 The euro will be violent fluctuate in September;
4 The euro will eventually collapse, and the dollar index will increase the weight of the pound and the Swiss franc;
5 The population expansion of new immigrants will add to the financial burden of the euro zone government, and the high social welfare in the euro area is difficult to maintain.

Questions:
1 When a major currency fluctuates, other currencies will tread on the heels of rise and fall. The -Y´efficient market hypothesis¡ whether is still be established based on the reality of monetary policy connected fluctuation?
2 Somebody of the Wall Street once has predicted subprime crisis, such as John Paulson, Bill Gross, Susie, Whitney, and Prof Roubini; this means that financial market risk is predictable, right?
3 The uncertainty of the market is caused by the participants self overestimate; more is affected by the price expression and then lose oneself. Did you engender this uncertainty phenomenon as the self overvalued at the beginning of your participation in the capital market?
4 For the new one who wants to enter the field of investment, as a wise man, what’s suggestion or advice you most want to put forward? Thank you very much!


I am preparing a manuscript for Journal of Health Economics I tried finding on the journal's site the specifics regarding different types of articles (description), the requisites for each (abstract? nb of words? structured?) as well as the total nb of words for each types (and if any other specifics like max number of figures/tables, references).
I do not perhaps appreciate how I stopped way up the following, even so considered the following placed once were excellent. I do not realize that you may be however undoubtedly you are going to some sort of well-known blogger in case you usually are not witout a doubt. Kind regards!
I am interested in submitting a manuscript to your Journal of Accounting and MIS. I would like to know how long (on average) you review process would take and if accepted, which issue would be the first available for publishing?

Do you publish both soft and hard copies ?


In response to the confirmation email during the registration process at the RePEc Author Service:

thanks,but i like to be an economical Author.THOUGH i like iam lucking fund to finance!


Dear Zimmermann:

I came across your online article abstract entitled "Sustainability of Holistic and Conventional Cattle Ranching in the Seasonally Dry Tropics of Chiapas, Mexico," published in 2013. I am doing a holistic and conventional ranching, specifically in the state of California and wanted to know how, if at all possible, I could get a hold of your research. Could you or the authors please send me the full article? I would also like to speak with you or the authors more about your research findings. Thank you.


I submitted a manuscript titled: "[...]" via [email address] for publication in [obscure journal] early February. I have not had any feedback in terms of acknowledgement of receipt of the manuscript or decision on same despite two separate enquires on the status of the manuscript. I will be grateful for an update on the manuscript or some clues in this regard.
We are writing to invite you to join the Editorial Board of INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND TRANSLATION STUDIES (IJELR). In making this request, we are particularly interested in expanding representation on the Board of those areas of expertise, i.e. ENGLISH LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND TRANSLATION STUDIES.
How do you do these days? I am now first time writing to you after getting approval and suggestions from Chief Editor, one of my benefactors, for publishing [book title] 2nd edition. I have perceived and respected the social activity of Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis for establishing and operating RePEc. This time, I could know that Chief Editor recommended my [book title] to Dr. Christian Zimmermann and, Dr. Christian Zimmermann further recommended my [book title] to RePEc, as the maintainer of IDEAS in RePEc.

As you agree with between lines of Acknowledgements here, it takes many years before accepted by society, researchers, people, and the literature. If I were born one hundred years earlier than 1930, I or my spirit must repeat the birthday several times, since no computer, no internet, and no instant worldwide communications, but pencil and pen with dictionaries; no way how to test evidences and how to prove reproducibility to 100 % and forever scientifically.

Further this time, I am unbelievable myself in that bravely you trusted my [book title] and besides, RePEc's records and indexes by month show increasing support for evaluation of my [book title], as if you know the results. As a result, I feel that God/Heaven already know the timing of peaceful world by country in this century, I repeat here to myself. Honestly we are lucky and hopeful for the future with every efforts of humans, aren't we, Dr. Christian? Also I desire your open and short communications with us, editors and me, for memories to future generations.


Dear zimmer,
I doing project in INS and GPS intgration using kalman filter. In that project i get output from imu as a(x y z) & g(x y z) (3- axis accelerometer and gyro output ) from that data i find the Velocity in NED (North East Down) (U V W) format, velocity dot (Udot Vdot Wdot) and Phi theta Psi using this i formed F matrix in kalman filter and also i finded the position from imu (latitude, longitude, altitude) and gps position data (latitude, longitude, altitude) with me but i does not able to form a kalman filter operation for intergration purpose.(i done all the operation in matlab)
So kindly i request you to help me for the mentioned issue.
Subject: Concerning my full afflication

Hi
I find that my affliction is missed when I check
my rank in website.why?


Dear Repec Team ,
I hope you would be fine . I wanted to get my paper published in your journal . Would you please suggest me how to submit my paper and how long one has to wait for the publication , if paper accepted for publication ?
Hello Christian,

my name is Ruslan, and I would like to know How can I get to the Nobel Committee of Economics as the member of the Nobel prize

it is impossible to find the answer in the internet I tried. And please tell me what kind of documents I should prepare to this event, and maybe you know the

adress of this committee. Here is my work.


Dear Professor.Christian ZIMMERMANN

I am in need of a certificate of publication of this article.
Because my degree at the university assessment
If possible, please help me.
Thank you.
Waiting for your reply.
Print this article I will give you for your help.
Print this article I very problem for me.


I am so sorry to disturber but I did not find information about reviewing process time. Kindly inform me the average time of reviewing process in the journal «Eastern European Economics».
Dear Christian Zimmermann: I want to excuse me with you and your important organization. I don´t have any article that could be included in REPEC. I am really embarrased and ashamed. I would appreciate that you give out tha database meantime I continue working very hard for some day to see included one of my articles in your important data base.

I have no words for you excuse me for all this disconfort.


Unfortunately, I don,t understood Access your point , Should I the full text of the speech 25-35 page academic or conference or Attachment, (ADD INDEX URL,IF USA,ISI,ISC,IC,UCSB,DOAJ) ... full copyright Royalties in The history of the institution with ISSN and publish it......?!!
Please explicit and Transparent Part to Part,Express or Fees Membership Or To Remove or My Data deleted?
I am eager to get my article published in the «Eastern European Economics» journal but I do not know the conditions of publications and on how long the path of the review. Since I and my colleagues have deadlines so I want to ask some questions.

May I specify the approximate time it would take to review the article? Do you have publication fee?

I have many good ideas and ongoing projects in different fields of science. And this is also connected to further development and promotion of my scientific work and that of my colleagues.


I m the friend to who i m coming to say the complaint about the person. she is my good friend. she went to egypt by tourist visa on end of the last year for higher education purpose but now she is not satisfy with that company which i have mentioned below. so please kindly consider my request and find about this matter. because she is working by tourist visa.

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Hollow
I hope that you are fine
I would like to get your help about an economic research I'd like to make
Can you help me suggesting me points I can start and do an economic
research about it related to information economics
Dear Mr Zimmerman
I read that you have a very big problem with the death of animals because of frost and shorteg of grass.
We have the best solution for to solve this problem.
Pl. Contact me.
Best Wishes
I am studying BSc Economics at the [UK University].
I would like to request the following data on INDIA for the period 2005- 2017 for my dissertation (It is an individual research project):

1. State wise literacy rate
2. State wise religion/ religious fractionalisation
3. State wise corruption perception data
4. State wise Gini coefficient of income inequality

I am focussing on the relationship between corruption and economic growth in India, the above data will contribute to my research and help me study the relationship closely.
Any of the above data that your organization can provide with would be deeply appreciated.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to assist me. I am very grateful to you for your aid.


Re: economic data

Hi dear
Sorry to disturb you
I needed some research to investigate.
I'd appreciate it if you help me.
Thanks.


Greetings Christian,

Can you please assist with

Research on word Ecotomic and its meanings.


I am writing you hoping that you would be able to help direct me in the right direction.

I am from South Africa and I have an idea with regards to our pre-paid electricity.

Who can i contact regarding this please?


Need guidance, to edit family wealth.
plese ser..you reserch expelent ckrest list jop
I live in Karachi Pakistan I follow repec.org in my home thanks
Hi dear
I have a PhD dissertation about dancing. This dissertation is about dance from the point of view of Shiite religion - from Islamic religions. To do this, I need to work with you. Thanks. Ali
This plan is an international proposal and solution called oil and debt payment versus dance-research and so on
Hi,
I am [redacted], student of pdh. İn Turkey,
I have a duty of research,
My duty is research on REPEC and find just unpublisned working,
Could you help me?
Could you give me directional knowledge,
Thank you.

*My dear Zimmer mann, 20th August 2021*

*Good morning and Good wishes.*
*The following Research papers of mine, in RePEC and MPRA are unique and of practical use *
*for all nations.*

[three paper titles]

I wish to get these papers nominated for a Nobel Prize in Economic Science.

Please guide me how to proceed to achieve the same.


Hi
Can you send me this paper

And if you really need to send me an email: contact details.