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Working Paper No. 752Η ανισότητα και η χρηματοοικονομική συμπεριφορά των νοικοκυριών στην «εποχή των καταναλωτών»
Θα μπορούσε να περιμένει κανείς ότι η διόγκωση της εισοδηματικής ανισότητας στις ΗΠΑ θα μείωνε την αύξηση της ζήτησης και θα δημιουργούσε τροχοπέδη στην οικονομική ανάπτυξη της χώρας λόγω του ότι τα υψηλότερα εισοδηματικά στρώματα ξοδεύουν μικρότερο ποσοστό του εισοδήματος τους. Ωστόσο, παρά το γεγονός ότι αυξήθηκε η ανισότητα κατά τη διάρκεια των τελευταίων εικοσιπέντε […] -
BlogA Progressive Agenda for Greece (Part 2 of an Evening with Syriza)
Part 2 of a special event on Greece and the eurozone crisis, featuring top leadership of the official opposition party in Greece, SYRIZA: (1:30) Yiannis Milios, Economic Advisor, SYRIZA, Member of the Political Secretariat of Synaspismos and Professor of Political Economy, National Technical University of Athens (10:15) Rania Antonopolous, Senior Scholar and Director, Gender Equality [...] -
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22nd Annual Minsky Conference: Building a Financial Structure for a More Stable and Equitable Economy
A conference organized by the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College with support from the Ford Foundation. April 17–19, 2013 Ford Foundation 320 East 43 Street, New York City In 2008–09, the world experienced its worst financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression. Global employment and output collapsed, and an estimated 84 million people [...] -
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Προγράμματα άμεσης δημιουργίας θέσεων εργασιασ σε συνθήκες κρίσης στην Ελλάδα
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Προγράμματα άμεσης δημιουργίας θέσεων εργασίας σε συνθήκες κρίσης στην Ελλάδα
Σε όλο τον κόσμο, οι χώρες που βρίσκονται σε κρίση έχουν μπροστά τους το δύσκολο έργο της αντιμετώπισης των αυξανόμενων ποσοστών ανεργίας και της εμβάθυνσης της φτώχειας. Η Ελλάδα, η οποία αντιμετωπίζει μια βαθιά κρίση κυρίαρχου χρέους, έχει πληγεί σε πολύ μεγαλύτερο βαθμό από τις υπόλοιπες χώρες. Υπάρχει αφθονία πολιτικών απασχόλησης, από προγράμματα επιδότησης της […] -
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An Unconventional Central Banker
Since the outbreak of the global financial crisis and recession, we’ve seen some renewed interest (and angst) regarding the role of the central bank and of treasury-central bank cooperation. (The most recent example comes out of Japan, in which Japanese PM Shinzo Abe has been pushing for the Bank of Japan to accommodate his relatively [...] -
Working Paper No. 751
Arresting Financial Crises
Nineteenth-century British economists Henry Thornton and Walter Bagehot established the classical rules of behavior for a central bank, acting as lender of last resort, seeking to avert panics and crises: Lend freely (to temporarily illiquid but solvent borrowers only) against the security of sound collateral and at above-market, penalty interest rates. Deny aid to unsound, […] -
MME, February 3, 2013
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Express: Πώς η Ελλάδα θα απεγκλωβιστεί από την παγίδα λιτότητας που επιβάλλει η τρόικα
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Working Paper No. 750
Endogenous Bank Credit and Its Link to Housing in OECD Countries
The relevant economic literature frequently focuses on the impact of credit shocks on housing prices. The doctrine of the “New Consensus Macroeconomics” completely ignores bank credit. The “Great Recession,” however, has highlighted the significance of bank credit. The purpose of this contribution is to revisit this important macroeconomic variable. We propose to endogenize the volume […] -
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An Evening with Syriza
Below is the video from the first part of last week’s event at Columbia University that featured key leadership figures from the official Greek opposition party (SYRIZA). (3:29) Alexis Tsipras, Leader of the Opposition in Greek Parliament, Leader of SYRIZA, and President of Synaspismós. (46:40) Panel discussion, featuring Rena Dourou, Member of Greek Parliament (SYRIZA); [...] -
Working Paper No. 749
Weak Expansions
Using two standard cycle methodologies (classical and deviation cycle) and a comprehensive sample of 83 countries worldwide, including all developing regions, we show that the Latin American and Caribbean cycle exhibits two distinctive features. First, and most important, its expansion performance is shorter and, for the most part, less intense than that of the rest […]