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MME, May 18, 2013
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Express: Νέα δεδομένα για την ασφάλιση τραπεζικών καταθέσεων στην ΕΕ ανέκυψαν από το πρόσφατο κυπριακό «κούρεμα»
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Rania Antonopoulos: In Greece, 173,000 Persons among the 950,000 Registered Unemployed Are Less Than 24 years old
Eleftheritypia, May 19, 2013. All Rights Reserved. Youth unemployment is just one part of the wider problem of unemployment and of course requires specialized interventions to tackle it, according to Rania Antonopoulou, professor at Bard College, director of the research division for gender equality of the Levy Economics Institute, and associate researcher with the Labour […] -
MME, May 19, 2013
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Ράνια Αντωνοπούλου: 173.000 είναι ηλικίας κάτω των 24 ετών
Προσοχή και σε όσους έχασαν τη δουλειά τους και δεν είναι τόσο νέοι. Η ΑΝΕΡΓΙΑ των νέων είναι ένα μόλις μέρος του γενικότερου προβλήματος της ανεργίας, που ωστόσο χρειάζεται εξειδικευμένες παρεμβάσεις για την αντιμετώπισή του, σύμφωνα με τη Ράνια Αντωνοπούλου, καθηγήτρια στο Bard College, διευθύντρια του τμήματος Ερευνας για την Ισότητα των Φύλων του Levy […] -
BlogHyman Minsky and the Employer of Last Resort
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned Hyman Minsky’s new book, Ending Poverty: Jobs, Not Welfare (there is also a Kindle version). Take a look at the cover – Minsky looking like a bit of a rougue! I thought you might enjoy my powerpoint presentation, given at the Levy-Ford annual Minsky conference in NYC in mid-April. [...] -
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Measuring Success in the Eurozone
The formation of the eurozone represents “the wildest experiment in financial history,” according to C. J. Polychroniou: the eurozone was to involve the inclusion of independent states, with highly diverse economic systems and cultural settings, that were required to give up national currency sovereignty in exchange for a “foreign” currency without the backing of a [...] -
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A Budget Surplus by 2015?
That’s the implication of a James Pethokoukis post linked to here by Reihan Salam. Let’s assume for the sake argument that a federal budget surplus does emerge in 2015 (yesterday’s CBO report projected the 2015 deficit would be a mere 2.1% of GDP). Salam expresses concern that such a scenario would leave Republicans, who have [...] -
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Deposit Insurance and Moral Hazard: Lessons from the Cyprus Crisis
In a new policy note, Jan Kregel draws out some of the policy lessons of the Cypriot deposit tax episode for plans to create a system of EU-wide deposit insurance. In addition to the necessity of a strong central bank (the ECB in this case) standing behind the deposit insurance scheme (which does not appear [...] -
Working Paper No. 765The Economic Crisis of 2008 and the Added Worker Effect in Transition Countries
Following the financial crisis of 2008, transition countries—the economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union—experienced an increase in female labor force participation rates and a decrease in male labor force participation rates, in part because male-dominated sectors were hit the hardest. These developments have prompted many to argue that women have […] -
MME, May 12–14, 2013
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Express: Σύσταση εθνικού συστήματος τραπεζών κοινοτικής ανάπτυξης μπορεί να αποτελέσει μια σοβαρή διέξοδο