Antonio Fatas on the Global Economy

The large increase in government debt that we are witnessing across many countries have raised questions about the adjustment that will be n...

An update to our previous post. Below is a chart from the blog Calculated Risk that makes clear how difficult is to judge the effectiveness...

What are the effects of the monetary policy actions that central banks around the world have taken since the start of the crisis? How many j...

I attended today a very interesting conference on the role of fiscal policy at the IMF. I presented a paper on the role of automatic stabili...

An increase in the yield for 10 year bonds put the yield curve in the US at one of its steepest since the mid-70s raising concerns about the...

John Taylor thinks that the Federal Reserve is to blame for the crisis because of the low interest rates in the year 2003-2005 period.  ...