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Showing posts with label Price rigidity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Price rigidity. Show all posts
Tuesday, 1 December 2015

The centrality of policy to how long recessions last

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For economists Paul Krugman reminds us that one of the most misguided questions in macroeconomics is ‘are business cycles self-corr...
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Monday, 6 October 2014

More asymmetries: Is Keynesian economics left wing?

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In the textbooks it is suggested that Keynesian economics is what happens when ‘prices are sticky’. Sticky prices sound like prices failing...
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Sunday, 11 May 2014

Sticky prices: how we confuse students, and sometimes ourselves

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For teachers and students of macroeconomics. I’m about to teach a small number of first year undergraduate students Keynesian macroecon...
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Sunday, 23 February 2014

Two Anti-Keynesian myths

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This is mainly of interest to economists, but given the importance of these issues, I have tried to write it in an accessible manner. S...
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Monday, 23 July 2012

The Zero Lower Bound and Price Flexibility

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I’ve only written one of these Socratic/tutorial dialogue type posts before, mainly because I cannot make them as amusing as Tim Harford o...
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Tuesday, 3 January 2012

Keynesian Economics, Price Rigidity and Demand Denial

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Something prompted from revising my second year undergrad lecture notes, and so mainly for economists. In mainstream macro today, Keynes...
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Emeritus Professor of Economics and Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford. This blog is written for both economists and non-economists, and covers macroeconomics but also other economic issues, political economy, the media and politics.
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