mainly macro

When both headline and core inflation rose above target after the financial crisis, helped by rising oil prices, the Fed and Bank of Englan...

This post starts off talking about the UK, but goes on to make more general points about why we may have wasted resources on a huge scale o...

The debate about the current state of academic macroeconomics continues, but it has reached a kind of equilibrium. Heterodox economists, so...

When it comes to the issue of when interest rates should start rising, one of the points I and others have often made is that the risks ar...

Do all those using New Keynesian models have to believe everything in those models? To answer this question, you have to know the history o...