
Edward Prescott on the GFC
17 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic history, Edward Prescott, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - USA Tags: New Keynesian macroeconomics, real business cycle theory

Real business cycle theory ensures the questions are correctly posed
17 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: real business cycle theory

Eugene Fama on share market bubbles
02 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic history, economics of information, entrepreneurship, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, industrial organisation, macroeconomics, monetary economics, survivor principle Tags: efficient markets hypothesis, pessimism bias, rational expectations

Champ and Freeman on bank capital reserves
05 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, business cycles, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, industrial organisation, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: adverse selection, agent principal problem, deposit insurance, economics of central banking, monetary policy, moral hazard, prudential regulation

The day Minsky macroeconomics died! Instability can’t be fixed so easily?
23 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic history, Euro crisis, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, Public Choice Tags: asymmetric information, bank runs, banking panics, deposit insurance, economics of central banking, Keynesian macroeconomics, moral hazard, Post-Keynesian macroeconomics

David Levine on the lack of Keynesian depressions
20 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in business cycles, great depression, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics

Only rational expectations macroeconomics can explain self-fulfilling crises
01 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, currency unions, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Public Choice Tags: Euroland, rational expectations, sovereign defaults

35 years later: Diamond-Dybvig model of bank runs
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, economic growth, economic history, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: bank panics, bank runs, deposit insurance





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