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Comment on macroeconomic issues

Monday, 16 June 2014

Does politics dominate economics in Eurozone crisis management?

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Athanasios Orphanides , leading academic macroeconomist and from 2007-12 Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus, does not hold back in a re...
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Thursday, 12 June 2014

John Williams on bubbles and monetary policy

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I have always found what John Williams writes interesting, from long before he became president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francis...
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Good and Bad Blog Debates

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One of the things I really like about blogs is that they can generate considered and informed debates about ideas. But not all blog debates...
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Tuesday, 10 June 2014

Monetarist vs Fiscalist

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Giles Wilkes (ex special advisor to Vince Cable, Business Secretary in the current UK government and LibDem) has a post that compares thos...
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Monday, 9 June 2014

The US and the Eurozone 2012-3

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If fiscal policy is important at the zero lower bound, why did the US recovery continue in 2012 and 2013 despite a large fiscal contraction...
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Saturday, 7 June 2014

How to change the inflation target

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The longer interest rates stay at the Zero Lower Bound (ZLB), the stronger the case ( pdf ) for raising the inflation target becomes. (No, ...
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Friday, 6 June 2014

What we do know

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After reading all about the latest ECB moves, I happened to read this by Noah Smith (HT MT). It made me unusually irritated, but it is not...
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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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