Archive
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Conference paperMarcello De Cecco: Political Economy: What Can Government Do? What Will Government Do?
Apr 2010
The crisis of the export led model in the EMU countries and its monetary and financial consequences on European integration.
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Conference Session
Political Economy: What Can Government Do? What Will Government Do?
Apr 9, 2010 | 12:15—02:05
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Conference Session
Economics, Conventional Wisdom and Public Policy
Apr 9, 2010 | 06:35—08:05
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Conference paperInequality and Economic and Political Change: A Comparative Perspective
Apr 2010
This paper describes the broad evolution of inequality in the world economy over the past four decades, and provides a summary account of the relationship between inequality, economic development, political regimes and the functional distribution of income.
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Conference paperHow Empirical Evidence Does or Does Not Influence Economic Thinking and Theory
Apr 2010
This paper asks, how empirical evidence does or does not influence economic thinking and theory. In particular, which role do calibration, statistical inference, and structural change play?
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Conference paperEconomic Policy Challenges in the Post-Crisis Period
Apr 2010
The global financial crisis—and the Great Recession that followed—have inflicted tremendous economic and social damage across the world. Thankfully, we now appear to be on the path to recovery—though it remains sluggish and uneven, and in need of continued policy support in many advanced economies.
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Conference paperMathematical Formalism and Political-Economic Content
Apr 2010
Human economic interactions spontaneously express themselves in the quantitative form of prices and transactions quantities. Thismakes it difficult to avoid quantitative reasoning in political-economic research altogether
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Conference paperReally Reorienting Modern Economics
Apr 2010
Modern economics can benefit significantly both from a radical reorientation at the level of method, as well as from a greater input from appropriate branches of philosophy.
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Conference Session
How Empirical Evidence Does or Does Not Influence Economic Thinking and Theory: Calibration, Statistical Inference, and Structural Change
Apr 9, 2010 | 04:05—06:10
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Conference Session
Mathematical Models: Rigorously Testable, Qualitative Metaphors, or Simply an Entry Barrier
Apr 9, 2010 | 06:30—08:05
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Conference Session
Dominique Strauss-Kahn: Economic Policy Challenges in the Post-Crisis Period
Apr 9, 2010 | 08:05—09:55
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Conference Session
The Consequences of Inequality and Wealth Distribution
Apr 9, 2010 | 10:00—12:15
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Working Paper
Conference paperOn the Role of Theory and Evidence in Macroeconomics
Apr 2010
This paper, which is prepared for the Inagural Conference of the Institute for New Economic Thinking in King’s College, Cambridge, 8-11 April 2010, questions the preeminence of theory over empirics in economics and argues that empirical econometrics needs to be given a more important and independent role in economic analysis, not only to have some confidence in the soundness of our empirical inferences, but to uncover empirical regularities that can serve as a basis for new economic thinking.
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Conference paperWhat Kind of Theory to Guide Reform and Restructuring of the Financial and Non-Financial Sectors?
Apr 2010
The purpose of the paper is to argue for attention to be paid, not only to choice of theory, but also to choice of theoretical approach, in order to address issues posed by the crisis.
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Conference paperRevitalizing Global Economic and Financial Cooperation: Observations on the Global Financial Architecture
Apr 2010
Since the outbreak of the Asian financial crisis more than a decade ago, world leaders have been searching for ways to make the global financial system more resilient, less crisis-prone, and better able to play its essential role in supporting broadly-shared growth.