Archive
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Article
I Have to Act Like an Adult in Hong Kong
Apr 1, 2013
The INET conference in Hong Kong is serious business.
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Working Paper
Grantee paperIf Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why Has Income Diverged?
Mar 2013
We study the lags with which new technologies are adopted across countries, and their long-run penetration rates once they are adopted.
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Working Paper
Grantee paperThe Inevitability of Shadowy Banking
Mar 2013
Shadowy banking is safety-net arbitrage. It employs substitutes for products and activities performed within the traditional banking sector.
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Article
As Goes Cyprus, So Goes the European Union
Mar 31, 2013
All of a sudden, tiny Cyprus is making headlines. How could such a small country, with an economy approximately the size of the State of Maranhao, create such big problems?
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Article
Meeting New Challenges in China
Mar 27, 2013
Further system reforms will enable China to overcome middle-income trap and push forward social progress
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Article
The Consequences of a Leaderless Economy
Mar 26, 2013
What happens when there’s no leader in the global economy?
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Article
Russia to the Rescue of Cyprus?
Mar 20, 2013
There is a certain rich irony attached to the sight of corrupt Russian oligarchs now posing as liberal champions of the rule of law as they find themselves sucked into the maelstrom of Cyprus’s ongoing financial crisis.
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News
Complex Networks in Finance: Nature Physics Journal on Financial Complexity
Mar 19, 2013
Why Nature Physics has released an issue focusing on physicists and economists considering the state-of-the-art in the application of network science to finance?
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Working Paper
Grantee paperAggregate Demand, Instability, and Growth
Feb 2013
This paper considers a puzzle in growth theory from a Keynesian perspective.
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Working Paper
Journal articleFinancialization and U.S. Income Inequality, 1970–2008
Feb 2013
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Article
How the Economic Quacks Promoting Austerity Will Increase the Deficit
Feb 28, 2013
Why all of the fuss about a nonexistent emergency?
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News
Between Free and Forced Labor
Feb 25, 2013
An innovative new paper by INET grantee Suresh Naidu
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Article
History of Economics and Images: static and dynamic
Feb 23, 2013
There has been an important movement towards making available on the web a host of open courses.
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Webinars and Events
Global Inequality @Columbia
DiscussionFeb 21, 2013
The relatively new field of inequality studies is gaining increasing momentum as economic disparity grows throughout the world, in advanced countries as well as less developed ones—especially in the United States.
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News
IKE Co-founder Michael Goldberg Awarded Todd H. Crockett Professor of Economics
Feb 18, 2013
Michael Goldberg was awarded last week the Todd H. Crockett Professor of Economics at the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire.