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  • Working Paper No. 827 January 09, 2015

    Minsky on Banking

    L. Randall Wray
    Abstract

    In this paper, I examine whether Hyman P. Minsky adopted an endogenous money approach in his early work—at the time that he was first developing his financial instability approach. In an earlier piece (Wray 1992), I closely examined Minsky’s published writings to support the argument that, from his earliest articles in 1957 to his 1986 […]

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  • Working Paper No. 827 January 09, 2015

    Η προσέγγιση του Minsky για το τραπεζικό σύστημα

    L. Randall Wray
    Abstract

    Στην παρούσα εργασία διερευνούμε αν στο πρώιμο έργο του ο Hyman Minsky υιοθέτησε μια προσέγγιση του χρήματος ως ενδογενής μεταβλητή την περίοδο που ξεκινούσε την επεξεργασία της υπόθεση της χρηματοπιστωτικής αστάθειας. Σε ένα προγενέστερο κείμενό μου (Wray 1992) εξέτασα αναλυτικά τα δημοσιευμένα κείμενα του Minsky για να στηρίξω το επιχείρημα ότι διατηρούσε με συνέπεια την […]

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  • Working Paper No. 825 January 02, 2015

    Why Does Brazil’s Banking Sector Need Public Banks?

    Felipe Rezende
    Abstract

    The 2007–8 global financial crisis has shown the failure of private finance to efficiently allocate capital to finance real capital development. The resilience and stability of Brazil’s financial system has received attention, since it navigated relatively smoothly through the Great Recession and the collapse of the shadow banking system. This raises the question of whether it […]

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  • Working Paper No. 822 December 16, 2014

    Η κοινωνικοποίηση της επένδυσης από τον Keynes στον Minsky και ακόμα πιο πέρα

    Riccardo Bellofiore
    Abstract

    Ένας συνδυασμός των ιδεών του Καρλ Μαρξ για την εργασία και του Hyman Minsky για το χρηματοοικονομικό σύστημα είναι απαραίτητη προϋπόθεση για την κατανόηση της σημερινής καπιταλιστικής πραγματικότητας και για παρεμβάσεις στην οικονομική πολιτική. Ο καλύτερος τρόπος για να επιτευχθεί αυτό είναι μέσα από μια ιστορική ανάλυση, που εξετάζει τα διάφορα στάδια της εξέλιξης του […]

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  • Working Paper No. 822 December 16, 2014

    The Socialization of Investment, from Keynes to Minsky and Beyond

    Riccardo Bellofiore
    Abstract

    An understanding of, and an intervention into, the present capitalist reality requires that we put together the insights of Karl Marx on labor, as well as those of Hyman Minsky on finance. The best way to do this is within a longer-term perspective, looking at the different stages through which capitalism evolves. In other words, […]

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  • Working Paper No. 820 November 25, 2014

    Minsky, Monetary Policy, and Mint Street

    Srinivas Yanamandra
    Abstract

    This paper examines the emerging challenges to the art of monetary policymaking using the case study of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in light of developments in the Indian economy during the last decade (2003–04 to 2013–14). The paper uses Hyman P. Minsky’s financial instability hypothesis as the conceptual framework for evaluating the endogenous […]

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  • Book Series October 24, 2014

    Economic Development and Financial Instability: Selected Essays

    Jan Kregel, and Rainer Kattel
    Abstract

    This volume is the first collection of essays by Jan Kregel focusing on the role of finance in development and growth, and it demonstrates the extraordinary depth and breadth of this economist’s work. Considered the “best all-round general economist alive” (Harcourt), Kregel is a senior scholar and director of the monetary policy and financial structure […]

  • One-Pager No. 47 October 06, 2014

    Growth for Whom?

    Pavlina R. Tcherneva
    Abstract

    In the postwar period, income growth has become more inequitably distributed with virtually every subsequent economic expansion. From 2009 to 2012, while the economy was recovering from one of the biggest economic downturns in recent memory, the top 1 percent took home 95 percent of the income gains. To reverse this pattern, Research Associate Pavlina […]

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  • One-Pager No. 47 October 06, 2014

    Ανάπτυξη για ποιόν;

    Pavlina R. Tcherneva
    Abstract

    Στη μεταπολεμική περίοδο, η αύξηση του εισοδήματος έχει γίνει πιο άνισα κατανεμημένη με κάθε επακόλουθη οικονομική επέκταση. Από το 2009 μέχρι το 2012, ενώ η οικονομία ανακάμπτει από μια από τις μεγαλύτερες οικονομικές υφέσεις στην πρόσφατη ιστορία, το 95% των εισοδηματικών κερδών πηγαίνει στο 1% του πληθυσμού. Για να αντιστραφεί αυτή η τάση, η ερευνήτρια […]

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  • Working Paper No. 807 June 04, 2014

    Income Distribution Macroeconomics

    Olivier Giovannoni
    Abstract

    Recent research stresses the macroeconomic dimension of income distribution, but no theory has yet emerged. In this note, we introduce factor shares into popular growth models to gain insights into the macroeconomic effects of income distribution. The cost of modifying existing models is low compared to the benefits. We find, analytically, that (1) the multiplier […]

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  • Working Paper No. 802 May 21, 2014

    Shadow Banking

    Thorvald Grung Moe
    Abstract

    Central banks responded with exceptional liquidity support during the financial crisis to prevent a systemic meltdown. They broadened their tool kit and extended liquidity support to nonbanks and key financial markets. Many want central banks to embrace this expanded role as “market maker of last resort” going forward. This would provide a liquidity backstop for […]

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  • Working Paper No. 801 May 21, 2014

    The Political Economy of Shadow Banking

    Eloy Fisher, and Javier López Bernardo
    Abstract

    This paper describes the political economy of shadow banking and how it relates to the dramatic institutional changes experienced by global capitalism over past 100 years. We suggest that the dynamics of shadow banking rest on the distributive tension between workers and firms. Politics wedge the operation of the shadow financial system as government policy […]

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  • Public Policy Brief No. 131 April 08, 2014

    Minsky and Dynamic Macroprudential Regulation

    Jan Kregel
    Abstract

    In the context of current debates about the proper form of prudential regulation and proposals for the imposition of liquidity and capital ratios, Senior Scholar Jan Kregel examines Hyman Minsky’s work as a consultant to government agencies exploring financial regulatory reform in the 1960s. As Kregel explains, this often-overlooked early work, a precursor to Minsky’s […]

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  • Public Policy Brief No. 131 April 08, 2014

    Ο Μίνσκι και η δυναμική μακροπροληπτική ρύθμιση

    Jan Kregel
    Abstract

    Στο πλαίσιο των σημερινών συζητήσεων σχετικά με την κατάλληλη μορφή της μακροληπτικής ρύθμισης και των προτάσεων για την επιβολή ορίων στα επίπεδα ρευστότητας και κεφαλαίων, ο ανώτατος μελετητής Jan Kregel εξετάζει το έργο του Μίνσκι ως σύμβουλος κυβερνητικών υπηρεσιών που διερευνούσαν το ζήτημα της ρυθμιστικής μεταρρύθμισης τη δεκαετία του 1960. Όπως εξηγεί ο Kregel, αυτή […]

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  • Working Paper No. 796 April 04, 2014

    Minsky and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis

    Eugenio Caverzasi
    Abstract

    The aim of this paper is to develop a structural explanation of the subprime mortgage crisis, grounded on the combination of two apparently incompatible financial theories: the financial instability hypothesis by Hyman P. Minsky and the theory of capital market inflation by Jan Toporowski. Our thesis is that, once the evolution of the financial market […]

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  • Public Policy Brief No. 130 January 21, 2014

    Τι απομένει από τη θεωρία της διαχείρισης της ζήτησης σε έναν παγκοσμιοποιημένο κόσμο;

    Amit Bhaduri
    Abstract

    Στην εποχή της παγκόσμιας χρηματιστικής, η θεωρία της διαχείρισης της συνολικής ζήτησης κρατιέται ζωντανή, αλλά η χρησιμότητά της δεν είναι η ίδια, λέει ο Amit Bhaduri. Στο παρόν κείμενο δημόσιας πολιτικής, ο Bhaduri περιγράφει αυτό που θεωρεί ως την επικρατούσα σύγχρονη προσέγγιση στη διαχείριση της ζήτησης. Αποκομμένη από τις κεϋνσιανές της ρίζες, αυτή η «χυδαία» […]

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  • Public Policy Brief No. 130 January 21, 2014

    What Remains of the Theory of Demand Management in a Globalizing World?

    Amit Bhaduri
    Abstract

    In our era of global finance, the theory of aggregate demand management is alive and unwell, says Amit Bhaduri. In this policy brief, Bhaduri describes what he regards as a prevalent contemporary approach to demand management. Detached from its Keynesian roots, this “vulgar” version of demand management theory is being used to justify policies that […]

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  • Working Paper No. 783 January 10, 2014

    Options for China in a Dollar Standard World

    L. Randall Wray, and Xinhua Liu
    Abstract

    This paper examines the fiscal and monetary policy options available to China as a sovereign currency-issuing nation operating in a dollar standard world. We first summarize a number of issues facing China, including the possibility of slower growth, global imbalances, and a number of domestic imbalances. We then analyze current monetary and fiscal policy formation […]

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  • One-Pager No. 44 December 19, 2013

    Policy Options for China

    L. Randall Wray
    Abstract

    Since adopting a policy of gradually opening its economy more than three decades ago, China has enjoyed rapid economic growth and rising living standards for much of its population. While some argue that China might fall into the middle-income “trap,” they are underestimating the country’s ability to continue to grow at a rapid pace. It […]

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  • One-Pager No. 44 December 19, 2013

    Επιλογές οικονομικής πολιτικής για την Κίνα

    L. Randall Wray
    Abstract

    Με την εφαρμογή της πολιτικής του ανοίγματος της οικονομίας, πριν από περίπου 35 χρόνια, η Κίνα απολαμβάνει υψηλά επίπεδα οικονομικής ανάπτυξης και άνοδο του βιοτικού επιπέδου για μεγάλο μέρος του πληθυσμού της. Ωστόσο, κάποιοι αναλυτές υποστηρίζουν ότι η Κίνα ενδέχεται να μην εξελιχθεί σε χώρα υψηλού εισοδήματος, υποτιμώντας με αυτόν τον τρόπο την ικανότητα της […]

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  • Working Paper No. 778 November 01, 2013

    Modern Money Theory 101

    L. Randall Wray
    Abstract

    One of the main contributions of Modern Money Theory (MMT) has been to explain why monetarily sovereign governments have a very flexible policy space that is unencumbered by hard financial constraints. Through a detailed analysis of the institutions and practices surrounding the fiscal and monetary operations of the treasury and central bank of many nations, […]

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  • One-Pager No. 42 September 16, 2013

    Exit Keynes the Friedmanite, Enter Minsky’s Keynes

    Robert J. Barbera
    Abstract

    Perhaps the most indictable offense that mainstream economists committed, from 1988 through 2008, was to retrace Keynes’s path of discovery from 1924 (A Tract on Monetary Reform) through 1936 (The General Theory). Wholesale deregulation of finance and categorical confidence in a reductionist role for central banks came into being as the conventional wisdom embraced the […]

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  • One-Pager No. 42 September 16, 2013

    Έξω ο Κέυνς ο φριντμανικός, μέσα ο Κέυνς του Μίνσκι

    Robert J. Barbera
    Abstract

    Ίσως το πιο σοβαρό και καταδικάσιμο παράπτωμα που διέπραξαν οι καθεστωτικοί οικονομολόγοι την περίοδο 1988-2008 ήταν να επανεξετάσουν, βήμα προς βήμα, την πορεία του Keynes από το 1924 μέχρι το 1936. Η ολική απορρύθμιση του χρηματοπιστωτικού συστήματος και η άκρατη εμπιστοσύνη στον περιοριστικό ρόλο των κεντρικών τραπεζών προέκυψαν όταν η συμβατική σοφία αγκάλιασε την άποψη […]

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  • One-Pager No. 40 September 04, 2013

    The Fed Rates that Resuscitated Wall Street

    Nicola Matthews
    Abstract

    Nicola Matthews, University of Missouri–Kansas City, presents the main findings of her research on the Fed’s lending practices following the global financial crisis of 2008. Applying Walter Bagehot’s principles, she finds that the Fed departed from the traditional lender-of-last-resort function of a central bank by lending to insolvent banks without good collateral–and below penalty rates. […]

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