Report July 2005

The July Report leads off with a summary of the Levy Institute’s Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference, which this year examined the fiscal and monetary policies required for sustainable growth.

Contents:

Conference:

• 15th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference on the State of the US and World Economies;
• Economic Imbalance: Fiscal and Monetary Policy for Sustainable Growth.

New Policy Notes:

• Is the Dollar at Risk?;
• Imbalances Looking for a Policy.

New Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being Report:

• Economic Well-Being in US Regions and the Red and Blue States.

New Working Papers:

• Asset Ownership along Gender Lines: Evidence from Thailand;
• FDIC-Sponsored Self-Insured Depositors: Using Insurance to Gain Market Discipline and Lower the Cost of Bank Funding;
• Is the Equalizing Effect of Retirement Wealth Wearing Off?;
• A Simplified Stock-Flow Consistent Post-Keynesian Growth Model;
• The Disutility of International Debt: Analytical Results and Methodological Implications;
• Is More Mobility Good? Firm Mobility and the Low Wage–Low Productivity Trap.

Levy Institute News:

• New Program Codirector and Senior Scholar;
• Upcoming Events:
  • Conferences,
  • Unpaid Work and the Economy: Gender, Poverty, and the Millennium Development Goals,
  • Time Use and Economic Well-Being;
• Recent Levy Institute Publications.