Finance
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Are better capitalized banking systems safer?
Jun 21, 2019 |
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How can we measure risk exposure of banks and credit markets?
Jun 21, 2019 |
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Credit Supply Shocks: Where do they come from, and what are their effects?
Jun 20, 2019 |
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Credit Booms and Crises: what do historical bank-level data tell us?
Jun 20, 2019 |
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Subprime Lending and the 2008 Crisis: Do we need a new narrative?
Jun 20, 2019 |
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Was the US Great Depression a “Credit Boom Gone Bust?”
Jun 20, 2019 |
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NextGen
ConferencePrivate Debt Initiative
Hosted by Private Debt
Jun 20–21, 2019
Shaped by the 2008 financial crisis, a new generation of economists is expanding the boundaries of economic thinking on credit cycles, private debt, and financial stability.
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Could Household Debt Cause the Next Recession?
Jun 19, 2019
Steven Pressman says in the next few years, we could see rising interest rates bring about a recession
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Relearning Recessions
Jun 12, 2019
Matthew Baron challenges conventional myths about booms and busts
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Coding Private Money
Jun 3, 2019
The state has long used law to back private money—with dire consequences, then and now
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Report
Macroeconomic Management Meets the New Economy
May 2019
A report of the Commission on Global Economic Transformation’s subcommittee on Macroeconomics & Finance
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Macroeconomic Stimulus à la MMT
Apr 30, 2019
Modern Monetary Theory is problematic. Launching large scale fiscal programs that rely on it would be skating on thin ice.
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U.S. Borrowers Still Pay More Than What’s Fair
Apr 19, 2019
Low interest rate policy can only do so much to bring the relief to American borrowers that they deserve: past monetary policies, credit market regulations and stagnant labor productivity growth all get in the way. Interest rate policy activism is part of the problem, not the solution.
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INET to G20: Bank Regulation Can't Be Heads Banks Win, Tails Taxpayers Lose
Mar 28, 2019
At a G20 preparatory meeting in Berlin, an INET panel analyzed how governments can prevent banks from exploiting taxpayer-funded bailout guarantees
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Is MMT “America First” Economics?
Mar 20, 2019
Modern monetary theorists ignore how their policies could hurt developing countries