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  17th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference on the State of the US and World Economies

  The focus of this year’s conference was the current economic and financial crisis in the United States and its effects on the world economy. Topics included the causes and consequences of the "Minsky moment"; the impact of the credit crunch on the economic and financial market outlook; dislocations and policy options; margins of safety, systemic […]
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  Conference Proceedings

  17th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference on the State of the US and World Economies

  In April 2008, top policymakers, economists, and analysts from government, industry, and academia gathered at the Levy Institute’s research and conference facility in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, to present their insights about the American economy and the financial sector in the context of Minsky’s economic theories. Participants discussed Minsky’s financial instability hypothesis and the ability of […]
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  Working Paper No. 533

  The Discrete Charm of the Washington Consensus

  Over the last two centuries in Latin America a Washington Consensus development strategy based on integration in the global trading system has dominated both domestic demand management and industrialization "from within." This paper assesses the performance of each from the point of view of the impact of external conditions, and the validity of its underlying […]
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  Working Paper No. 532

  Old Wine in a New Bottle: Subprime Mortgage Crisis—Causes and Consequences

  This paper seeks to explain the causes and consequences of the United States subprime mortgage crisis, and how this crisis has led to a generalized credit crunch in other financial sectors that ultimately affects the real economy. It postulates that, despite the recent financial innovations, the financial strategies—leveraging and financial risk mismatching—that led to the […]
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  Working Paper No. 531

  The International Monetary (Non-)Order and the “Global Capital Flows Paradox”

  This paper sets out to investigate the forces behind the so-called “global capital flows paradox” and related “dollar glut” observed in the era of advancing financial globalization. The supposed paradox is that the developing world has increasingly come to pursue policies that result in current account surpluses and thus net capital exports—destined primarily for the […]
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  Press Release

  Larger Fiscal Stimulus Needed to Limit Impact of Downturn, New Levy Economics Institute Analysis Says

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  Working Paper No. 530

  Changes in the US Financial System and the Subprime Crisis

  This paper traces the evolution of housing finance in the United States from the deregulation of the financial system in the 1970s to the breakdown of the savings and loan industry and the development of GSE (government-sponsored enterprise) securitization and the private financial system. The paper provides a background to the forces that have produced […]
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  Strategic Analysis

  Fiscal Stimulus—Is More Needed?

  As the government prepares to dispense the tax rebates that largely make up its recently approved $168 billion stimulus package, President Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and Research Scholars Greg Hannsgen and Gennaro Zezza explore the possibility of an additional fiscal stimulus of about $450 billion spread over three quarters—challenging the notion that a larger and more […]
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  Public Policy Brief Highlight

  Financial Markets Meltdown

  According to Senior Scholar L. Randall Wray, the current crisis in financial markets can be traced back to securitization (the “originate and distribute” model), leverage, the demise of relationship-based banking, and a dizzying array of extremely complex instruments that—quite literally—only a handful understand.
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  Public Policy Brief Highlight

  Financial Markets Meltdown

  According to Senior Scholar L. Randall Wray, the current crisis in financial markets can be traced back to securitization (the “originate and distribute” model), leverage, the demise of relationship-based banking, and a dizzying array of extremely complex instruments that—quite literally—only a handful understand.
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  Public Policy Brief Highlight No. 94

  Financial Markets Meltdown: What Can We Learn from Minsky?

  According to Senior Scholar L. Randall Wray, the current crisis in financial markets can be traced back to securitization (the “originate and distribute” model), leverage, the demise of relationship-based banking, and a dizzying array of extremely complex instruments that—quite literally—only a handful understand.
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  Biennial Report

  Biennial Report, 2006–2007

  Throughout 2006–07, the Levy Institute continued to make significant contributions to the public policy discussions on many economic issues. In addition to organizing conferences, workshops, and lectures with distinguished representatives of the academy, the business community, and government, the Levy Institute used its wide range of print and online publications to disseminate information about, and […]