Margaret Thatcher’s economic legacy | The Economist
02 May 2019 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), industrial organisation, labour economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, unemployment, unions Tags: British politics, Margaret Thatcher
Top economists still dewy eyed about deposit insurance despite its role in #GFC, S&L crisis, and bank capital ratios halving after its introduction in 1930s
11 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
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From http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/european-deposit-insurance
Peltzman spelled out in his 1970 article “Capital Investment in Commercial Banking and Its Relation to Portfolio Regulation”
that banks capital ratios dropped significantly in the US after the introduction of deposit insurance.
Edward Prescott | Barcelona GSE Scientific Council Roundtable 2019
05 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
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Policies to Energize the United States Economy Lee Ohanian
26 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
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Forgot to post this @NZTreasury OIA on @ProfSteveKeen’s 2-day visit winning no support for a model touted to have predicted #GFC
18 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: Post-Keynesian macroeconomics
Lucas on moral hazard and banking crises
15 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, business cycles, economics of regulation, Euro crisis, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, industrial organisation, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas Tags: banking panics, moral hazard
Eugene F. Fama on the government’s role in the subprime mortgage meltdown
28 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic history, economics of religion, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: deposit insurance
Line of Inquiry: John H. Cochrane on how to prevent financial crises
28 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, David Friedman, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), macroeconomics, monetary economics
Prescott Says ‘Partial’ Default Is Likely for Greece”
23 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, Edward Prescott, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, macroeconomics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: time inconsistency
The Recession of 2007–? by Robert E. Lucas
17 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas
Does Post-Keynesian macroeconomics strictly forbid shadow banking’s major role in the GFC? @ProfSteveKeen
13 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in business cycles, global financial crisis (GFC), macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: Post-Keynesian macroeconomics
George Selgin | How the Fed prolonged the Great Recession
11 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
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Patrick J. Kehoe “Asset Prices and Employment Fluctuations”
05 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
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Didn’t know of @ProfSteveKeen Rory Robertson bet! Bereft @NZTreasury doesn’t know who’s who in economics profession anymore!
01 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economics of bureaucracy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: Post-Keynesian macroeconomics
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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