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Elizabeth Warren: The Unfinished Business of Financial Reform
Value Walk, April 15, 2015. All Rights Reserved. In a speech at the Levy Institute’s annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference today, Senator Elizabeth Warren laid out a set of proposals to advance the process of financial reform that began with the enactment of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010. Read more: http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/04/elizabeth-warren-financial-reform/
Elizabeth Warren’s New Agenda for Democrats on Financial Reform
National Journal, April 15, 2015. All Rights Reserved. For Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the Dodd-Frank financial reform law was an important first step to taming financial markets. On Wednesday, she laid out a series of bold next steps for financial reform that could provide a road map for the Democratic Party in 2016. Speaking at the […]
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24th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference on the State of the US and World Economies
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 on fiscal […]
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Top U.S. and European Economic Leaders to Discuss Dodd-Frank Reforms, Monetary Policy, and the Sustainability of the U.S. Economic Recovery at the Levy Economics Institute’s 24th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference, in Washington, D.C., April 15–16
Working Paper No. 836
Direct Estimates of Food and Eating Production Function Parameters for 2004–12 Using an ATUS/CE Synthetic Dataset
This paper evaluates the presence of heterogeneity, by household type, in the elasticity of substitution between food expenditures and time and in the goods intensity parameter in the household food and eating production functions. We use a synthetic dataset constructed by statistically matching the American Time Use Survey and the Consumer Expenditure Survey. We establish […]
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How Greece Has Been “Helped”
How has the Greek government used international loans? Using the data available from the flow of funds published by the Bank of Greece and the sectoral accounts published by the Hellenic Statistical Institute (ElStat), we have the following: Table 1. Greece. Use of international loans (billion euro) 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014* Sum Sources of [...]
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Bard College Presents Two Events Focusing on the History and Future of the Labor Movement
This Unorthodox Plan May Keep Greece in the Eurozone
MarketWatch, April 8, 2015. All Rights Reserved. NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The idea has been bandied about for years by economists who fear a Greek exit from the euro could trigger a global financial crisis. To create the fiscal flexibility that Greece’s economy so sorely needs to reinvigorate economic growth, meet its debt payments and, […]
Greece’s Overtures to Russia May Not Be a Sideshow
Al Jazeera, April 8, 2015. All Rights Reserved. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ visit to Moscow this week for talks with President Vladimir Putin has fuelled wild speculations about the real intentions of the Greek government. The visit is taking place while bailout talks between Greece and Europe have reached a very critical juncture. Read […]
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How Do We End the Inequality Feedback Loop?
“As Hyman Minsky argued, there are many varieties of capitalism, some more stable than others—and, we can add, some more equitable than others.” — Pavlina Tcherneva Pavlina Tcherneva has revisited her (in)famous inequality chart, which showed an ever-rising majority of the income growth during post-1970s economic expansions being captured by the wealthy (specifically the top 10 percent of income [...]
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Reforming the Fed’s Policy Response in the Era of Shadow Banking
This monograph is part of the Levy Institute’s Research and Policy Dialogue Project on Improving Governance of the Government Safety Net in Financial Crisis, a two-year project funded by the Ford Foundation. This is the fourth in a series of reports summarizing the findings of the Research and Policy Dialogue Project on Improving Governance of […]
Summary No. 2
Summary Spring 2015
This issue of the Summary opens with the latest strategic analysis of the Greek economy using the Levy Institute Model for Greece. The authors find that despite some modest improvements in the country’s economy, continued austerity will not lead to growth. They recommend an end to austerity, call for debt relief, and propose direct intervention […]