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Showing posts with label Spain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spain. Show all posts
Thursday, 3 September 2015

Spain, and how the Eurozone has to get real about countercyclical policy

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Matthew Klein has a good account of how Spain’s macroeconomic fortunes are improving, but only from a very bad place. I’m not that knowle...
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Sunday, 1 March 2015

Eurozone fiscal policy - still not getting it

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The impact of fiscal austerity on the Eurozone as a whole has been immense. In my recent Vox piece , I did a back of the envelope calculati...
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Friday, 23 January 2015

Alternative Eurozone histories

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I missed this paper by Philippe Martin and Thomas Philippon when it came out last October, but thanks to Francesco Saraceno I have now re...
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Saturday, 12 October 2013

Nominal wage rigidity in macro: an example of methodological failure

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This post develops a point made by Bryan Caplan (HT MT). I have two stock complaints about the dominance of the microfoundations approach ...
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Thursday, 17 May 2012

The Fruits of European Austerity

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                In an earlier post I argued that austerity in Eurozone countries like Ireland was not necessarily self defeating, if thos...
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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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