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Showing posts with label macroprudential. Show all posts
Showing posts with label macroprudential. Show all posts
Wednesday, 25 November 2015

Political economy assignments

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Suppose you have two objectives for monetary policy: financial sector stability and real economy stability. You have two main instruments: ...
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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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Thursday, 30 October 2014

In praise of macroeconomists (or at least one of them)

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This is a title that is sure to spur some angry comments. Didn’t the financial crisis prove that mainstream macroeconomics was hopelessly f...
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Sunday, 13 July 2014

Why macroeconomists, not bankers, should set interest rates

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More thoughts on the idea that interest rates ought to rise because of the possibility that the financial sector is taking excessive risks:...
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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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