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  Working Paper No. 849

  Bank Leverage Ratios and Financial Stability

  Bank leverage ratios have made an impressive and largely unopposed return; they are mostly used alongside risk-weighted capital requirements. The reasons for this return are manifold, and they are not limited to the fact that bank equity levels in the wake of the global financial crisis (GFC) were exceptionally thin, necessitating a string of costly […]
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  Working Paper No. 848

  Is Monetary Financing Inflationary?

  Historically high levels of private and public debt coupled with already very low short-term interest rates appear to limit the options for stimulative monetary policy in many advanced economies today. One option that has not yet been considered is monetary financing by central banks to boost demand and/or relieve debt burdens. We find little empirical […]
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  One-Pager No. 50

  A Public Investment Priority for Job Creation in Turkey

  This one-pager presents the key findings and policy recommendations of the research project report The Impact of Public Investment in Social Care Services on Employment, Gender Equality, and Poverty: The Turkish Case, which examines the demand-side rationale for a public investment in the social care sector in Turkey—specifically, early childhood care and preschool education (ECCPE)—by […]
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  MME, October 18, 2015

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  Αποψη: Νέα ανακεφαλαιοποίηση και οι παγίδες των προηγούμενων

  Kathimerini, 18 Οκτώβριος 2015. Με επιφύλαξη παντός δικαιώματος. Ο​​ι τραυματισμένες ελληνικές τράπεζες θα βρεθούν σύντομα αντιμέτωπες με έναν νέο κύκλο ανακεφαλαιοποιήσεων, οι οποίες είναι συζητήσιμο αν θα καταφέρουν να αποκαταστήσουν τον ρόλο του παρόχου ρευστότητας προς την οικονομία, που είχαν οι τράπεζες πριν από την κρίση. Σε αυτό το πλαίσιο είναι σημαντικό να προειδοποιηθούν οι […]
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  Working Paper No. 847

  Integration, Spurious Convergence, and Financial Fragility

  The Spanish crisis is generally portrayed as resulting from excessive spending by households, associated with a housing bubble and/or excessive welfare spending beyond the economic possibilities of the country. We put forward a different hypothesis. We argue that the Spanish crisis resulted, in the main, from a widening deficit position in the nonfinancial corporate sector—the […]
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  2015’s Most & Least Recession-Recovered Cities

  WalletHub, October 12, 2015. All Rights Reserved. For many Americans today, the Great Recession is nothing more than the distant shadow of a troubled economic past. The longest downturn since the Great Depression officially ended six years ago. Cities coast to coast have completely bounced back — some even surpassing their pre-recession economic levels, thanks to lucrative […]
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  Working Paper No. 846

  Secular Stagnation or Stagnation Policy?

  The current debate on secular stagnation is suffering from some vagueness and several shortcomings. The same is true for the economic policy implications. Therefore, we provide an alternative view on stagnation tendencies based on Josef Steindl’s contributions. In particular, Steindl (1952) can be viewed as a pioneering work in the area of stagnation in modern […]
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  Summary No. 3

  Summary Fall 2015

  This issue includes the two most recent strategic analyses, for Greece and the United States. The Levy Institute Macro Modeling Team argues that Greece cannot return to economic growth under austerity. The strategic analysis of the US economy follows, and shows that economic growth could easily be undermined by such things as a rising dollar, […]
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  Is It Time for a New New Deal?

  The Nation, September 30, 2015. All Rights Reserved. To close out our series on work, produced in partnership with Open Source with Christopher Lydon and The Nation, we’re looking ahead to the big proposals and spiritual realignments that might spell a major change for working- and middle-class people who feel as though the recession never ended. […]
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  Working Paper No. 845

  The Euro’s Savior?

  This study assesses the European Central Bank’s (ECB) crisis management performance and potential for crisis resolution. The study investigates the institutional and functional constraints that delineate the ECB’s scope for policy action under crisis conditions, and how the bank has actually used its leeway since 2007—or might do so in the future. The study finds […]
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  Book Series

  Modern Money Theory: A Primer on Macroeconomics for Sovereign Monetary Systems, Second Edition

  In a completely revised second edition, Senior Scholar L. Randall Wray presents the key principles of Modern Money Theory, exploring macro accounting, monetary and fiscal policy, currency regimes, and exchange rates in developed and developing nations. Wray examines how misunderstandings about the nature of money caused the recent global financial meltdown, and provides fresh ideas […]