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Strategic AnalysisThe Greek Economic Crisis and the Experience of Austerity
Employment in Greece is in free fall, with more than one million jobs lost since October 2008—a drop of more than 28 percent. In March, the “official” unemployment rate was 27.4 percent, the highest level seen in any industrialized country in the free world during the last 30 years. In this report, Levy Institute President […] -
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Η ελληνική οικονομική κρίση και η εμπειρία με τις πολιτικές λιτότητας
Η απασχόληση στην Ελλάδα βρίσκεται σε ελεύθερη πτώση: πάνω από ένα εκατομμύριο θέσεις εργασίας έχουν χαθεί από τον Οκτώβρη του 2008, αντιπροσωπεύοντας μια μείωση της απασχόλησης άνω του 28%. Τον Μάρτη του 2013 η «επίσημη» ανεργία ήταν 27.4%, το υψηλότερο ποσοστό ανεργίας των τελευταίων τριάντα ετών σε οποιαδήποτε βιομηχανοποιημένη χώρα του δυτικού κόσμου. Σε αυτή […] -
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An Exception to a Keynesian Rule?
Paul Krugman warns against “caricaturing” Keynesian economics, and in particular the General Theory (GT), Keynes’s best known work. One caricature heard from time to time is that the book is not mathematically tractable. The caricature also claims that no one has succeeded in fitting such a contradictory and confusing bunch of arguments into a clear, [...] -
Working Paper No. 768Evaluating the Gender Wage Gap in Georgia, 2004–2011
This paper evaluates the gender wage gap among wage workers along the wage distribution in Georgia between 2004 and 2011, based on the recentered influence function (RIF) decomposition approach developed in Firpo, Fortin, and Lemieux (2009). We find that the gender wage gap decreases along the wage distribution, from 0.64 log points to 0.54 log […] -
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Are More Jobs the Answer? The “BIG” Bait and Switch
Last week Allan Sheahan published a piece arguing that “Jobs Are Not the Answer” to America’s unemployment problem. Here’s his reasoning: “The current unemployment rate of 7.5% percent means close to 20 million Americans remain unemployed or underemployed. Nobody states the obvious truth: that the marketplace has changed and there will never again be enough [...] -
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Germany and the Euro: Paragon or Parasite?
The French and German governments recently issued a joint statement titled “Together for a stronger Europe of Stability and Growth.” The communiqué emphasizes strengthened policy coordination and the use of indicators in establishing a common assessment of economic conditions in the currency union as a whole, member states, and particular markets. The new push for [...] -
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Euro Crisis Sees Reloading Of Germany’s Current Account Surplus
Who is running the largest current account surplus in the world? China? Saudi Arabia? Both wrong! These are only the number two and three countries. China had a record $420bn surplus in 2008, but that imbalance has more than halved since. As a share of GDP China’s external imbalance is down from ten to two-and-a-half [...] -
Working Paper No. 767
Germany and the Euroland Crisis
This paper investigates Germany’s vulnerability to the ongoing Euroland crisis. In 2010–11, Germany experienced a strong rebound from the global financial crisis of 2008–09. The Euroland crisis then meant record low interest rates and a depressed euro that boosted German extra-area exports. But the crisis that started in Euroland’s so-called periphery has meanwhile reached the […] -
Working Paper No. 767
Η Γερμανία και η κρίση στην ευρωζώνη
Η εργασία αυτή διερευνά την ευπάθεια της Γερμανίας στη συνεχιζόμενη κρίση της ευρωζώνης. Την περίοδο 2010–11, η Γερμανία ανέκαμψε από την παγκόσμια οικονομική κρίση του 2008-09. Η κρίση της ευρωζώνης εκείνη την περίοδο σήμαινε ιστορικά χαμηλά επιτόκια και πτώση του ευρώ, πράγμα που ενίσχυσε τον εξαγωγικό τομέα της Γερμανίας. Αλλά η κρίση που ξεκίνησε στη […] -
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Fed Tapering and Bullard’s Dissent
(Updated) Here’s what’s new from yesterday’s FOMC statement and Bernanke’s press conference: the Fed has indicated that asset purchases (QE) will end when unemployment hits 7 percent. (Note that that’s different from the point at which the Fed will begin considering raising short-term interest rates — previously linked to a threshold of 6.5 percent unemployment.) [...] -
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Coming Soon: Another London Whale Shocker?
Remember last summer? The London Whale, that blockbuster adventure thriller, triggered one chill after another as the high-risk action at JPMorgan Chase was revealed. Today, the threats posed by megabanks remain just below the surface — no crisis at the moment — but they’re equally dangerous. A major sequel this year cannot be ruled out. [...] -
Coming Soon: Another London Whale Shocker?
The Huffington Post, June 18, 2013. Copyright © 2013 TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Remember last summer? The London Whale, that blockbuster adventure thriller, triggered one chill after another as the high-risk action at JPMorgan Chase was revealed. Today, the threats posed by megabanks remain just below the surface—no crisis at the moment—but they’re equally […]