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

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Economic theory declassified?

Oct 19, 2013

So, most Nobel Prize exegetes went a long way, this week, toward explaining that asset pricing is not primarily born out of theoretical reflection but out of prize-deserving empirical work.

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A Model’s Crisis

Sep 21, 2013

Friedrich von Hayek described the economist’s task as demonstrating how little we really know about what we imagine we can design

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Lehman Was Not Alone – Measuring System Risk in the 2008 Crisis

Sep 21, 2013

what would measures of systematic risk have indicated to Treasury Secretary Paulsen if they had been available at that time?