Richard Allen Posner on crisis in capitalism
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, economic growth, economic history, economics of information, Euro crisis, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, industrial organisation, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Richard Posner Tags: bank panics
V.V. Chari testifies on the information assumptions of modern macroeconomics and the risk of financial crises
03 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

Harold Demsetz on the risks of merging to enhance market power. Corporate reorganizations often fail.
28 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, financial economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, politics - USA, survivor principle Tags: competition law

Is It Unfair to Pay CEOs Billions? Q&A with Prof. Howie Baetjer
22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, market efficiency, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality Tags: CEO pay, envy, superstars
Do these Prescott results sit well with the real business cycle explanations of the Great Depression?
20 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic history, financial economics, great depression, macroeconomics
David Levine on @paulkrugman forgetting his own paper on financial crises despite rational expectations and efficient markets
15 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

David Levine on the impossibility of predicting the timing of a crisis
13 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, business cycles, entrepreneurship, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: efficient markets hypothesis

Stephen Williamson on a good model cannot predict the timing of the financial crisis
11 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in business cycles, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), macroeconomics, monetary economics
The hilarious freakonomics of McDonalds vs. drugs | Steven Levitt
09 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, financial economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: war on drugs
David Levine on why the timing of crashes and crises cannot be predicted
07 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in business cycles, entrepreneurship, Euro crisis, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: efficient markets hypothesis, The fatal conceit








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