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FOMC Member Evans Calls For More Aggressive Monetary Policy
MoneyNews, April 22, 2014. All Rights Reserved. Charles Evans, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and a leading dove of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), delivered a speech April 9 titled "Monetary Goals and Strategy" to the 23rd annual Hyman Minsky Conference, which is sponsored by the Levy Institute of Bard College […]
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Distribution, Stagnation, and Macro Policy in an Interactive Model
The funny-shaped surface in the Wolfram “CDF” below (software download link) depicts excess demand for goods. The flat one represents the zero line where supply and demand are equal. On each axis is a variable that affects the degree to which demand outpaces or falls short of supply: (1) firms’ share in the price of [...]
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Minsky and Financial Reform’s “Never Ending” Struggle
In a new policy brief, Jan Kregel looks at a lesser-known, early period of Minsky’s work on financial reform. In the ’60s, Minsky was a consultant to a number of government agencies, including the Federal Reserve, on issues related to financial regulation. In this context, he came up with a new approach to bank examination, [...]
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Charles Evans on Missing the Fed’s Targets
Chicago Fed President Charles Evans spoke at last week’s Minsky conference, and news reports have focused on his comments regarding the expectation that the Federal Reserve will wait at least six months after the end of QE before beginning to raise interest rates (Evans: “It could be six, it could be 16 months”; “If I [...]
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Working Paper Roundup 4/15/2014
Minsky and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis: The Financial Instability Hypothesis in the Era of Financialization Eugenio Caverzasi “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 [...]
China: The Bad Way and the Good Way to Burst Asset Bubbles
Forbes, April 14, 2014. All Rights Reserved. For years, China has been enjoying robust economic growth that has turned it into the world’s second largest economy. The problem is, however, that China’s growth is in part driven by over investment in construction and manufacturing sectors, fueling asset bubbles that parallel those of Japan in the […]
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Financial Governance after the Crisis
Cosponsored by the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College and MINDS – Multidisciplinary Institute for Development and Strategies, with support from the Ford Foundation Everest Rio Hotel Rio de Janeiro, Brazil September 26–27, 2013 This conference was organized as part of the Levy Institute’s global research agenda and in conjunction with the Ford Foundation Project […]
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Fracasos Múltiples Internacionales está regresando al escenario político y económico argentino. La moción de censura y la amenaza de iniciar el camino de la expulsión del país de esa institución por la calidad de las estadísticas públicas colocó al Gobierno en una situación incómoda. La opción era romper con ese organismo internacional, convirtiéndose en el […]
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Federal Reserve Bank Governance and Independence during Financial Crisis
This monograph is part of the Levy Institute’s Research and Policy Dialogue Project on Improving Governance of the Government Safety Net in Financial Crisis, a two-year project funded by the Ford Foundation. This is the third in a series of reports examining the Federal Reserve Bank’s response to the global financial crisis, with particular emphasis […]
Tarullo Says Fed Shouldn’t Rush to Avert Any Wage Pressures
The Bond Buyer, April 11, 2014. All Rights Reserved. Federal Reserve Governor Daniel Tarullo said the central bank shouldn’t raise interest rates "preemptively" on a belief the recession cut the supply of ready labor in the economy. "We should remain attentive to evidence that labor markets have actually tightened to the point that there is […]
BCE: Constancio, faremo qualcosa perche’ inflazione troppo bassa
Class Editori, April 11, 2014. All Rights Reserved. MILANO (MF-DJ)–La Banca centrale europea e’ pronta a intervenire per affrontare il problema della bassa inflazione che continua a rimanere sotto il target ufficiale della Bce. Lo ha dichiarato il vice presidente della Bce Vitor Constancio, aggiungendo che i policy maker stanno ancora cercando di capire quali […]
Evans’s Prescription: Wage Hikes and Small Dose of Inflation
The OMFIF Commentary, April 11, 2014. All Rights Reserved. The normal duty of central bankers (especially in Europe) is to denounce inflation as the work of the devil and call for labour market flexibility as a barely disguised code for reducing wages. But a gathering of academic economists at the annual Minsky Conference this week […]