Finance

Everyone wants to ring-fence something, but they can’t agree on what: Vickers, Liikanen, Volcker.

Everyone wants to ring-fence something, but they can’t agree on what:

Recent empirical findings suggest that macroeconomic variables are seldom normally distributed.

Ambiguous private information leads to informational inefficiency of asset prices in rational expectations equilibrium.

Can economics be morally centered? And perhaps more importantly, should it be?

Last Thursday, the Fed announced its anticipated third round of balance-sheet expansion, at a fixed rate of about $40B per month “until [substantial] improvement [in unemployment] is achieved in a context of price stability”.

Would having more women in leadership have prevented the financial crisis?

This work studies the interactions between income distribution and monetary and fiscal policies in terms of ensuing dynamics of macro variables (GDP growth, unemployment, etc.) on the grounds of an agent-based Keynesian model.

A Response to Heiner Flassbeck’s questions about the Institute’s Council on the Euro Crisis

Where’s the next economic crisis?

Paul De Grauwe raises very important questions on the institutional structure of Europe and how it must be modified to fortify the euro zone.

In what sense are central banks really independent? From whom are they independent? For whom in society do they deliver?

How must the European institutional structure be modified to fortify the euro zone?

In Friday’s FT, former Morgan Stanley trader Douglas Keenan traces banks’ LIBOR manipulations back to 1991, when he observed, from the futures desk, LIBOR fixings come in at levels different from where he new the market to be.

Stock flow consistent macroeconomic models suffer from the lack of a coherent estimation method due to the complicated nature of the modeling process.