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Lending in the Dark: China's Shadow Banking Sector

Apr 22, 2013

The proliferation of China’s opaque, loosely regulated (or unregulated) shadow-banking system has been raising fears of possible financial instability. But just how extensive – and how risky – is shadow banking in China?

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On the difficulty of assembling a chronology and other F....moments in history of economics research

By Beatrice Cherrier

Apr 21, 2013

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History of applied economics: now what?

By Beatrice Cherrier

Apr 17, 2013

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Grantee Arindrajit Dube Examines Reinhart and Rogoff's Causal Claims

Apr 17, 2013

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Reinhart and Rogoff Respond to Criticism

By Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart

Apr 16, 2013

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Keynesianism, neoliberalism and the 'Dissemination' of Economic Ideas: That's the Way of the World.

By Yann Giraud

Apr 15, 2013

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Why Raising the Minimum Wage Makes Economic Sense

By Marshall Auerback

Apr 13, 2013

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Voth vs. Ferguson: And How Austerity Leads to Worse Outcomes

By Local Historian

Apr 5, 2013

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I like IKE

By Local Historian

Apr 4, 2013

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Japan's Money Base Will Be 45% of GDP: US and UK is 19%-21%

By Local Historian

Apr 4, 2013

Japan is going to double its money supply, according to today’s front page of the Financial Times (5 April 2013), and a salient question might be what we should compare that to. It sounds like a lot, but is it?

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Where the World Economic Association Started

By Local Historian

Apr 4, 2013

Having lunch next to Edward Fullbrook he told me the story of how the post-autistic economic review got its start, leading to what we today know as the World Economic Association and all the great work coming from this community.

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