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200 publications found, searching for 'Fiscal Policy '

• Working Paper No. 581 October 14, 2009

  Lessons from the New Deal

  Dimitri B. Papadimitriou
  Abstract

  Since the current recession began in December 2007, New Deal legislation and its effectiveness have been at the center of a lively debate in Washington. This paper emphasizes some key facts about two kinds of policy that were important during the Great Depression and have since become the focus of criticism by new New Deal […]

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• Working Paper No. 580 October 13, 2009

  An Alternative View of Finance, Saving, Deficits, and Liquidity

  L. Randall Wray
  Abstract

  This paper contrasts the orthodox approach with an alternative view on finance, saving, deficits, and liquidity. The conventional view on the cause of the current global financial crisis points first to excessive United States trade deficits that are supposed to have “soaked up” global savings. Worse, this policy was ultimately unsustainable because it was inevitable […]

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• Working Paper No. 569 June 15, 2009

  Fiscal Policy and the Economics of Financial Balances

  Gennaro Zezza
  Abstract

  This paper presents the main features of the macroeconomic model being used at The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, which has proven to be a useful tool in tracking the current financial and economic crisis. We investigate the connections of the model to the “New Cambridge” approach, and discuss other recent approaches to the […]

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• Working Paper No. 563 May 13, 2009

  Whither New Consensus Macroeconomics?

  Giuseppe Fontana
  Abstract

  In the face of the dramatic economic events of recent months and the inability of academics and policymakers to prevent them, the New Consensus Macroeconomics (NCM) model has been the subject of several criticisms. This paper considers one of the main criticisms lodged against the NCM model, namely, the absence of any essential role for […]

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• Working Paper No. 562 May 08, 2009

  The Current Economic and Financial Crisis

  Rania Antonopoulos
  Abstract

  Widespread economic recessions and protracted financial crises have been documented as setting back gender equality and other development goals in the past. In the midst of the current global crisis—often referred to as “the Great Recession”—there is grave concern that progress made in poverty reduction and women’s equality will be reversed. Indeed, for many developing […]

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• Strategic Analysis December 24, 2008

  Prospects for the United States and the World: A Crisis That Conventional Remedies Cannot Resolve

  Wynne Godley, Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, and Gennaro Zezza
  Abstract

  The economic recovery plans currently under consideration by the United States and many other countries seem to be concentrated on the possibility of using expansionary fiscal and monetary policies alone. In a new Strategic Analysis, the Levy Institute’s Macro-Modeling Team argues that, however well coordinated, this approach will not be sufficient; what’s required, they say, […]

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• Strategic Analysis April 09, 2008

  Fiscal Stimulus—Is More Needed?

  Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, and Gennaro Zezza
  Abstract

  As the government prepares to dispense the tax rebates that largely make up its recently approved $168 billion stimulus package, President Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and Research Scholars Greg Hannsgen and Gennaro Zezza explore the possibility of an additional fiscal stimulus of about $450 billion spread over three quarters—challenging the notion that a larger and more […]

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• Strategic Analysis November 30, 2007

  The US Economy: Is There a Way Out of the Woods?

  Wynne Godley, Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, and Gennaro Zezza
  Abstract

  In their latest Strategic Analysis, Distinguished Scholar Wynne Godley, President Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, and Research Scholars Greg Hannsgen and Gennaro Zezza review recent events in the housing and financial markets to obtain a likely scenario for the evolution of household spending in the United States. They forecast a significant drop in borrowing and private expenditure […]

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