The current state of the economy Edward Prescott 2013
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Edward Prescott, Monetary Policy with 100% Reserve Banking: An Exploration
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@dandolfa on Keynesian macroeconomics making business cycle stabilisation too easy to be true
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Declan Trotter on @ProfSteveKeen’s failure to found a hedge fund
24 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
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Nobel Symposium Harald Uhlig Modern DSGE models: Theory and evidence
17 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
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From Lucas and Sargent’s After Keynesian Macroeconomics 1979
15 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
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The Queen didn’t ask Keynesians about not predicting the 1970s stagflation, a phenomenon their macroeconomics strictly forbade
15 Aug 2018 2 Comments
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Source: Kehoe, Midrigan and Pastorino 2018.
Ellen McGrattan, Intangible Capital and Measured Productivity
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@dandolfa on how Keynesian macroeconomics is just to good to be true
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New Keynesian macroeconomics isn’t a progressive research programme
06 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
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My favorite Greg Mankiw quote on the influence of modern macroeconomics
26 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
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Nobel symposium Financial intermediaries and liquidity creation Douglas Diamond
21 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in global financial crisis (GFC), macroeconomics, monetary economics
16th SAET Conference on Current Trends in Economics – Robert E. Lucas, JR
28 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
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