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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

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Congratulations to Economics Nobel Laureates Hart and Holmström

Oct 10, 2016

Economists honored for their work on contract theory, which has important implications for issues such as executive compensation that have been a focus of Institute research

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Rethinking Macroeconomic Theory Before the Next Crisis

Sep 23, 2016

While many countries throughout the world have faced severe financial crises over the last decades, and while the Japanese stagnation and the 1997 Asian financial crisis did induce some additional interest for the introduction of banking and finance in macroeconomic theory, it is only with the advent of the US subprime financial crisis that macroeconomic and monetary theories put forward by mainstream economists have started to be questioned.

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Why gender remains a central focus in tackling economic inequality

Sep 22, 2016

Remarks by IMF managing director Christine Lagarde remind us why gender remains a major research and policy focus for the Fund — and for the Institute for New Economic Thinking