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Recapitalization of Battered Greek Banks Entering Critical Phase, New Levy Economics Institute Report Says
Investorideas.com, November 12, 2015. All Rights Reserved. The battered Greek banks will soon face yet another round of recapitalization this November and December. For the banks to have any prospect of returning to their precrisis role as liquidity providers to the Greek economy, it is imperative that the country’s EU creditors and supervisors avoid the […] -
Press ReleaseRecapitalization of Battered Greek Banks Entering Critical Phase, New Levy Economics Institute Report Says
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BlogNew Book on EU Financial Regulation
A new volume on EU financial regulation edited by Rainer Kattel, Jan Kregel, and Mario Tonveronachi: Have past and more recent regulatory changes contributed to increased financial stability in the European Union (EU), or have they improved the efficiency of individual banks and national financial systems within the EU? Edited by Rainer Kattel, Tallinn University of Technology, [...] -
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Is Financial Reregulation Holding Back Finance for the Global Recovery?
A conference organized by the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College with support from the Ford Foundation The 2015 Minsky Conference addressed, among other issues, the design, flaws, and current status of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, including implementation of the operating procedures necessary to curtail systemic risk and prevent future crises; the insistence […] -
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25th Annual Minsky Conference Returns to Blithewood
The 2016 Minsky conference will be held here at Blithewood mansion, home of the Levy Institute. Barney Frank will be among the keynote speakers: Will the Global Economic Environment Constrain US Growth and Employment? Organized by the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College with support from the Ford Foundation Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Blithewood Annandale-on-Hudson, [...] -
Working Paper No. 853Finance, Foreign Direct Investment, and Dutch Disease
In recent years, Colombia has grown relatively rapidly, but it has been a biased growth. The energy sector (the “locomotora minero-energetica,” to use the rhetorical expression of President Juan Manuel Santos) grew much faster than the rest of the economy, while the manufacturing sector registered a negative rate of growth. These are classic symptoms of […] -
Book SeriesFinancial Regulation in the European Union
Have past and more recent regulatory changes contributed to increased financial stability in the European Union (EU), or have they improved the efficiency of individual banks and national financial systems within the EU? Edited by Rainer Kattel, Tallinn University of Technology, Director of Research Jan Kregel, and Mario Tonveronachi, University of Siena, this volume offers […] -
Book Series
Why Minsky Matters: An Introduction to the Work of a Maverick Economist
Perhaps no economist was more vindicated by the global financial crisis than Hyman P. Minsky (1919–1996). Although a handful of economists raised alarms as early as 2000, Minsky’s warnings began a half century earlier, with writings that set out a compelling theory of financial instability. Yet even today he remains largely outside mainstream economics; few […] -
Policy Notes No. 7Losing Ground
US labor force participation has continued to fall in the wake of the Great Recession. Improvements in the US unemployment rate reflect the fact that more people are falling out of the labor force, not a stronger labor market. Controlling for changes in the demographic makeup of the workforce (i.e., gender, age, education, and race), […] -
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“Why Minsky Matters” Now Available
“Hyman Minsky is the most important economist since Keynes, yet it’s virtually impossible to find any books about him.” That’s from Michael Pettis’s blurb for Randy Wray’s new book Why Minsky Matters, which is now shipping: Hyman Minsky’s name has appeared in the popular press a lot more since the financial crisis, but often without much more elaboration [...] -
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Is a “Bad Bank” Model the Solution to Greece’s Credit Crunch?
Dimitri Papadimitriou and new Levy Institute Research Associate Emilios Avgouleas write about one of the obstacles to recovery of the Greek economy: the absence of credit expansion in connection with still-troubled Greek banks. Beyond deposit flight and the ongoing recession, Papadimitriou and Avgouleas argue that the botched recapitalization of Greek banks can also be blamed for the failure to alleviate [...] -
Working Paper No. 852
The Malady of Low Global Interest Rates
Long-term interest rates in advanced economies have been low since the global financial crisis. However, in the United States the Federal Reserve could begin to hike its policy rate, the federal funds target rate, before the end of the year. In the United Kingdom, the Bank of England could follow suit. What is the outlook […]