Finance
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Are better capitalized banking systems safer?
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
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Financial Regulation Shouldn’t Be Hard—Here’s What We Need to Make It Work
Feb 20, 2019
We can land planes safely at crowded airports, yet we can’t manage to make our financial system safe. Why?