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Research Project ReportThe Measurement of Time and Income Poverty in Korea
August 28, 2014 This report presents findings from a joint project of the Levy Economics Institute and the Korea Employment Information Service, with the central objective of developing a measure of time and...more Publication -
Public Policy Brief No. 136Can Child-care Subsidies Reduce Poverty?
August 28, 2014 In partnership with the Korea Employment Information Service, Senior Scholar Ajit Zacharias and Research Scholars Thomas Masterson and Kijong Kim investigate the complex issues of gender, changing labor market conditions,...more Publication -
Blog12th International Post Keynesian Conference
August 27, 2014 Update: see here for the complete conference schedule. There is still time to register for our upcoming Post Keynesian conference at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Unfortunately, the program is full so we cannot accept paper proposals. However, there is still space for participants. The registration is very affordable, and includes all dinners and special events, some [...] Blog -
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Last Update on Greek GDP
August 24, 2014 ElStat, the Greek statistical institute, has recently published a flash estimate for GDP in the second quarter of 2014. In current euro prices, GDP keeps falling by 2.5% against the same quarter of 2013. We already know many will claim this as a success of the austerity plans, since the fall is now slower than [...] Blog -
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A Fiscal Policy Rule Without Austerity
August 18, 2014 What will happen about fiscal policy after the tumultuous events beginning in 2010 or so in Europe and the end of Great-recession-era fiscal stimulus in the US? In the US, Paul Krugman and other economists debate the meaning of the CBO’s recent fiscal report, which, as Krugman points out, clearly show a drastic fall in [...] Blog -
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Can a Euro Treasury End the Crisis?
August 14, 2014 Dimitri Papadimitriou introduces Jörg Bibow’s plan for the creation of a Euro Treasury: It was only a matter of time until the euro area was hit with the kind of crisis from which it is still struggling to recover—this was understood well in advance, by many at the Levy Institute and elsewhere. The problem has always [...] Blog -
Public Policy Brief No. 135
Το σχέδιο για ένα ευρω-υπουργείο Οικονομικών
August 12, 2014 Σε αντίθεση με τoν πρόσφατο ισχυρισμό της γερμανίδας καγκελαρίου Άνγκελα Μέρκελ, η ευρω-κρίση δεν έχει σχεδόν τελειώσει, αλλά παραμένει άλυτη, αφήνοντας την ευρωζώνη εξαιρετικά ευάλωτη σε ανανεωμένες πιέσεις. Στην πραγματικότητα,...more Publication -
Public Policy Brief No. 135
The Euro Treasury Plan
August 12, 2014 Contrary to German chancellor Angela Merkel’s recent claim, the euro crisis is not nearly over but remains unresolved, leaving the eurozone extraordinarily vulnerable to renewed stresses. In fact, as the...more Publication -
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A New Book on Money to Please Fans of Minsky and MMT
August 12, 2014 Opinions heard on the subject of money and the economy often seem uninformed or absurd. For a great book about money and monetary theory, I would strongly recommend Money: The Unauthorized Biography by Felix Martin, a 2014 book from Alfred A. Knopf. This book might just please students of history and finance and others who [...] Blog -
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It’s Official: Too Big to Fail Is Alive and Well
August 06, 2014 Thank heaven for Tom Hoenig, the only proven-honest central banker we’ve got. Yes, I know he’s moved on from the KC Fed to serve as Vice Chairman of the FDIC. He actually might do a lot more good over there, anyway. In recent months, we’ve heard how Wall Street’s Blood-sucking Vampire Squids have reformed themselves. [...] Blog -
Working Paper No. 813Economic Policy in India
August 06, 2014 The implementation of economic reforms under new economic policies in India was associated with a paradigmatic shift in monetary and fiscal policy. While monetary policies were solely aimed at “price...more Publication -
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Greece: A Nation for Sale and the Death of Democracy
August 02, 2014 When the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) came to Greece’s rescue in May 2010 with a 110 billion euro bailout loan in order to avoid the default of a eurozone member state (a second bailout loan worth 130 billion euros was activated in March 2012), the intentions of the rescue plan [...] Blog -
Working Paper No. 812
Time Use of Parents in the United States
August 01, 2014 Feminist and institutionalist literature has challenged the “Mancession” narrative of the 2007–09 recession and produced nuanced and gender-aware analyses of the labor market and well-being outcomes of the recession. Using...more Publication -
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Another Eccles at the Fed?
July 30, 2014 From time to time, I call attention to solid coverage of the Federal Reserve in the popular press, for example this post, which links to an interesting William Greider profile of Ben Bernanke. Nicholas Lemann profiles the new Fed chair in the July 21 issue of The New Yorker. One of the key themes of [...] Blog -
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The Implications of Flat or Declining Real Wages for Inequality
July 24, 2014 by Julie L. Hotchkiss, a research economist and senior policy adviser at the Atlanta Fed, and Fernando Rios-Avila, a research scholar at the Levy Institute A recent Policy Note published by the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College shows that what we thought had been a decade of essentially flat real wages (since 2002) has actually been a [...] Blog -
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Predatory Capitalism and Where to Go from Here
July 23, 2014 Contemporary capitalism is characterized by a political economy that revolves around finance capital, is based on a savage form of free market fundamentalism, and thrives on a wave of globalizing processes and global financial networks that have produced global economic oligarchies with the capacity to influence the shaping of policymaking across nations.[1] As such, the landscape [...] Blog -
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Wray on Why Money Matters
July 21, 2014 Randall Wray did a guest post at FT Alphaville as part of a series devoted to the upcoming Mission-Oriented Finance conference. In his post, Wray counters the conventional story about the nature and significance of money with an alternate view drawing on Schumpeter’s notion of bankers as the “ephors” of capitalism: Bank and central bank money creation is limited by rules of thumb, [...] Blog -
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Modi’s Budget and the New Macroeconomic Policy Consensus in India
July 21, 2014 What has struck me about Modi’s maiden budget is not the fiscal arithmetic, but the framework. And while this note confines itself to analyzing the budgetary framework rather than the numbers, it should be noted that the effectiveness of the fiscal arithmetic has gone for a toss with the announcement of token provisions on too [...] Blog -
Working Paper No. 811
If Deficits Are Not the Culprit, What Determines Indian Interest Rates?
July 14, 2014 This paper challenges two clichés that have dominated the macroeconometric debates in India. One relates to the neoclassical view that deficits are detrimental to growth, as they increase the rate...more Publication -
Working Paper No. 810
Ο δρόμος προς την κόλαση είναι στρωμένος με καλές προθέσεις
June 27, 2014 Με τη δημιουργία της Οικονομικής και Νομισματικής Ένωσης και του ευρώ, το εθνικό δημόσιο χρέος των κρατών-μελών της ευρωζώνης έγινε πιστωτικά ευαίσθητο (credit sensitive). Ενώ οι δυνητικά αποσταθεροποιητικές επιπτώσεις των...more Publication -
Working Paper No. 810
When Good Intentions Pave the Road to Hell
June 27, 2014 With the creation of the Economic and Monetary Union and the euro, the national government debt of eurozone member-states became credit sensitive. While the potentially destabilizing impact of adverse cyclical...more Publication -
Working Paper No. 809
Causal Linkages between Work and Life Satisfaction and Their Determinants in a Structural VAR Approach
June 23, 2014 Work and life satisfaction depends on a number of pecuniary and nonpecuniary factors at the workplace and determines these in turn. We analyze these causal linkages using a structural vector...more Publication -
Working Paper No. 808
Heterogeneity in the Relationship between Unemployment and Subjective Well-Being
June 23, 2014 Unemployment has been robustly shown to strongly decrease subjective well-being (or “happiness”). In the present paper, we use panel quantile regression techniques in order to analyze to what extent the...more Publication -
Policy Note No. 4A Decade of Flat Wages?
June 04, 2014 In the late 1990s low unemployment rates, increases in the minimum wage, and improvements in labor productivity contributed to a boost in wages, which translated into 12.4 percent cumulative growth...more Publication