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

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Theory vs data, computerization, old wine and new bottles

Oct 24, 2015

In 1953, Oskar Morgenstern proposed to reform the eligibility criterion for fellows of the Econometric Society, in an attempt to foster empirical work.

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The IMF Worries About EME Corporate Leverage

Oct 2, 2015

Hot on the heels of the BIS, now comes the IMF Global Financial Stability report, “Corporate Leverage in Emerging Markets–A Concern?”. Yes, a concern, and just in time for the annual meeting in Peru next week.

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The Efficiency of Markets

Sep 30, 2015

A student of microeconomics learns that any competitive equilibrium leads to a Pareto efficient outcome (First Fundamental Theorem of Welfare Economics). What do we mean by the efficiency or inefficiency of markets?