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  Working Paper No. 385

  Macroeconomic Policies of the Economic Monetary Union

  This paper presents two issues: first, an effort to decipher the theoretical and policy framework of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU); and second, an argument that the challenges to the EMU’s macroeconomic policies lie in their potential to achieve full employment and low inflation in the euro area. We conclude that the institutional and […]
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  Working Paper No. 384

  Minsky’s Acceleration Channel and the Role of Money

  Using Minsky (1986), this paper attempts to answer two questions: (1) How does policy affect real and nominal variables? and (2) How should monetary policy be conducted so as to improve the performance of the economy? Minsky asserted that rising interest rates, brought about by contractionary monetary policy, compromised the balance sheets of firms that […]
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  Working Paper No. 383

  Financial Sector Reforms in Developing Countries with Special Reference to Egypt

  Financial reforms, and financial liberalization in particular, have been at the root of many recent cases of financial and banking crises. In several countries financial reforms allowed real interest rates to reach levels exceeding 20 percent per annum in some cases; in other cases, banking and financial crises led to currency crises. National governments either […]
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  Policy Notes No. 3

  Caring for a Large Geriatric Generation

  The time has more than come to begin planning seriously for the aging of the baby-boom generation. The need for planning goes beyond concerns about the solvency of Social Security and Medicare. Another crisis looms in the form of a huge bill for the care of baby boomers who in their old age will need […]
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  Report No. 2

  Report June 2003

  This issue provides an overview of the Institute’s Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference, the focus of which was the formulation of economic policy for sustainable growth; topices included the effects of low interest rates and the reemergence of budget deficits, the implications of ongoing current account deficits, and the potential for deflation in the American […]
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  Press Release

  Europe Should Emulate Big Government Successes of US Economy, New Levy Institute Study Says

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  Working Paper No. 382

  The Case for Fiscal Policy

  This paper reconsiders the case for the use of fiscal policy based on a “functional finance” approach that advocates the use of fiscal policy to secure high levels of demand in the context of private aggregate demand, which would otherwise be too low. This “functional finance” view means that any budget deficit should be seen […]
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  Working Paper No. 381

  Reinventing Fiscal Policy

  Recent developments in macroeconomic policy, in terms of both theory and practice, have elevated monetary policy while downgrading fiscal policy. Monetary policy has focused on the setting of interest rates as the key policy instrument, along with the adoption of inflation targets and the use of monetary policy to target inflation. Elsewhere, we have critically […]
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  Working Paper No. 380

  How Long Can the US Consumers Carry the Economy on Their Shoulders?

  The consumer has been on a tightrope since the bursting of the "new economy" bubble, as losses in equity markets have been partly offset by gains in real estate and fiscal support and mortgage refinancing have partly offset increased consumer cautiousness. The consumer will remain on a tightrope in the near future, but if the […]
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  Working Paper No. 379

  Is Europe Doomed to Stagnation?

  This paper challenges the view that external shocks caused Euroland’s 2001 slowdown and subsequent stagnation. Instead, the design of Euroland’s macro policymaking arrangements is found lacking in looking after sufficient domestic demand growth. In the event the ECB has failed on its stabilization role–a rather vital role given that fiscal policy is severely constrained by […]
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  Working Paper No. 378

  The Conditions for Sustainable US Recovery

  The anemic US economic recovery and the threat of a double-dip recession stem from the weakness of investment, due to excess capacity created in the euphoric years of the "new economy" bubble. The current imbalances in the corporate sector (i.e., the all-time-high indebtedness in the face of falling asset prices) are preventing investment from picking […]
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  Conference Proceedings

  13th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference on the State of the US and World Economies

  The 13th Annual Hyman P. Minsky conference, held April 15, 2003, at the Hilton New York, focused on the uncertainty surrounding the United States’ recent economic recovery, as well as the monetary and fiscal policy prescriptions for renewed growth, employment, and price stability. These proceedings were published as part of the Summer 2003 Summary.