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
in financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), monetary economics, Public Choice

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.
The Lucas Revolution
09 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas Tags: new classical macroeconomics

Edward Prescott | Barcelona GSE Scientific Council Roundtable 2019
05 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, Edward Prescott, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, macroeconomics, monetary economics
Policy responses to the business cycle require detailed information on the nature of the shocks
31 Mar 2019 Leave a comment

Entrevista con David Friedman
29 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, David Friedman, economics of crime, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, history of economic thought, law and economics, monetary economics, property rights
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

Students Love the Green New Deal… Until Hearing What’s In It
12 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, fiscal policy, global warming, health economics, income redistribution, labour economics, law and economics, monetary economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, transport economics Tags: The fatal conceit





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