Writing angst?
Economist can’t write concisely
Why economic papers are so long?
…and some “existential” angst
Macro: ten years later…
Galí and Uhlig on some recent developments in New Keynesian Economics.
Is this time different?
Online competition and inflation: a new environment for central banks?
“Immaculate inflation”
Krugman, Andolfatto and Cochrane: more on the unemployment-inflation link!
Modern Monetary Theory
How did MMT come to be? How different it is from mainstream macro and what are the critics saying.
Fascinated with the future
The art of forecasting
New research on how to select forecast models, detect forecast breakdowns and when to use economic judgement.
E-Krona
The Risksbank is investigating the possibility and consequences of introducing a Swedish central bank digital currency, a so-called e-krona.
Always fun watching economists spat!
A spat over secular stagnation
Was secular stagnation a “political” argument? Were the policies implemented the right ones? Stiglitz, Summers and Farmer are debating.
The new geopolitics
A new phase for the Eurozone
The Greek bail out ended but worries are now shifting to Italy.
The US-EU-China trade war
“To try to ascertain the Trump position on trade at any point in time is like trying to ascertain the position of a sub-atomic particle: it is better viewed as having a probabilistic distribution” – Jeffrey Frankel
