By N1000 Thursday, 31 March 2016 Academic Articles Commentary Economists Macro Monetary Policy Neo-Fisherian caveats Raise interest rates to raise inflation? Lower interest rates to lower inflation? It's not that simple. A correspondent from an emerging...
By N1000 Tuesday, 29 March 2016 Academic Articles Inflation Monetary Policy Thesis topics A very simple neo-Fisherian model A sharp colleague recently pushed me to write down a really simple model that can clarify the intuition of how raising interest rates might...
By N1000 Friday, 25 March 2016 Banking Commentary Finance Financial Reform Monetary Policy Politics and economics Regulation Central banks as central planners Two news items cropped up this week on the general topic of central banks as emergent central planers.: a nice WSJ editorial by James Macki...
By N1000 Monday, 21 March 2016 Academic Articles Economists Finance Macro Talks Teaching Thesis topics The Habit Habit The Habit Habit. This is an essay expanding slightly on a talk I gave at the University of Melbourne's excellent "Finance Down Und...
By N1000 Tuesday, 8 March 2016 Commentary Economists Inflation Monetary Policy negative interest rates Stimulus Deflation Puzzle Larry Summers writes an eloquent FT column " A world stumped by stubbornly low inflation " Market measures of inflation expectatio...
By N1000 Wednesday, 2 March 2016 Commentary Environment Health economics Premium increase insurance Marginal Revolution and the Wall Street Journal both pass on a great quote from Warren Buffett: It’s understandable that the sponsor of th...