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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Blogging Live from Berlin - Any Requests?
Just wanted to let you all know that amongst the distinguished, distinguishable and disturbing people at the INET conference we have inserted ourselves in the middle to do some interviews, attend talks and blog about what is going on.
Eurocrisis Redux
Liquidity: Not Like Water (part 1 of many)
Discussion of the results of the ECB’s LTRO2 has revolved around the question of hoarding, specifically whether banks are using the newly-created reserves to fund new lending.
Crisis Averted: Understanding LTRO2
Fundamentally, the ECB is trying to keep the ongoing sovereign debt crisis from turning into a full-fledged bank credit crisis.
Why did the ECB LTROs help?
Delicate balance
How God, Adam Smith, and the invisible hand changes over time
So with a suitably provocative title I think we can declare 2012 open.
How God, Adam Smith, and the invisible hand changes over time
So with a suitably provocative title I think we can declare 2012 open.
Is there an ECB?
At Home in Economics
What a liquidity crisis looks like
Bloomberg’s reporters continue their diligent work looking back on the Fed’s lending in the subprime crisis.
Financial (De)Globalization and the European Experiment
Europe is embarked on a grand experiment, managing modern financial crisis without a dealer of last resort, so refusing to follow the lead of the 2008 Fed.
Toxic Textbooks
Toxic Textbooks
The Toxic Textbooks movement devotes energy to curriculum reform as well. Its purpose is to galvanize student protests and “encourage schools and universities to use economics textbooks that engage honestly with the real world.”
Imagining a New Intro Economics
Economics in Uncertain Times
What's in a name?
Euro Summit Statement Explained
NGDP target, in practice
Nobel Prize Tasseology