Finance

Today’s Financial Times article: Report to highlight alleged conflicts of interest in Goldman’s dealings (Jan 12, 2011), Goldman’s pieties insult our intelligence (Jan 13, 2011)

GFC finance as war finance

This research project elaborates an original model of Keynesian demand-led growth and communicates Keynesian macroeconomic insights to a broad and diverse audience.

The project provides new ideas and policy proposals to contain the spread of systemic risk in the financial system through appropriate regulation of financial markets and intermediaries, as well as the design of monetary policy.

This research project develops a monograph on divergent stochastic time series that permits the modeling of capital, inventory, and financial capital in economies.

This research project develops an operational measure of systemic risk, as an input into the policy process by capturing the interaction of private and governmental sources of systemic risk during and in advance of the crisis.

Why is this a surprise?

Today’s Financial Times article: ECB: trick or Trichet (Dec 2)

Is raising required bank capital the answer?

What’s really going on with Europe’s bailout of the Irish Economy

The first thing to say about QE2 is that it is a very different operation from QE1.

The Institute joined DIME and Central European University in hosting a conference addressing a key question of economics today: How can we create a new macroeconomic theory that takes into account the true relationship of finance to the real economy and can more accurately anticipate crises?

Joseph Stiglitz at the Institute’s debut conference in Cambridge, UK (2010).

Presented at the inaugural Conference at King’s College