Macroeconomics & Finance
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Financial Crises
Credit-financed markets are inherently unstable. Inevitably, the pattern of payment promises doesn’t align with actual ability to pay. What happens then depends on institutions, regulations and management. Today, the credit system is global, and so also is the prospect of financial instability.
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Government Finance
Government response to global financial crisis has threatened to crowd out the other important social functions of government the world over. Economic and social development require restoration of governments’ ability to effectively tax and borrow within capital markets.
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Imperfect Knowledge
Imperfect Knowledge Economics develops macroeconomic models that are open to unforeseeable structural change and avoid the presumption that market participants are irrational. This program is also developing econometric methodology that is suitable for testing time-series implications of IKE models.
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International Finance
When capital markets are global, asset pricing is global. When money markets are global, the cost of funds is global. Globalization creates new opportunities and new constraints for both private and public borrowers. The question is how local institutions shape the effects of globalization.
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Macroeconomic Theory
Governments turn to macroeconomic theory to help shape policies to manage instability. Current theories do not adequately support our policy needs. Credit markets, income, and employment are all inherently unstable. We need better theory to help us design better institutions and better policies.
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Money & Banking
Modern macroeconomics and finance have both turned their backs on the study of money and banking but, after 2008, we need new economic thinking about money and banking more than ever. We must rediscover, rework and develop the study of banking and central banking, bringing both into the globalization age.
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