Antonio Fatas on the Global Economy

The debate about the need for a new stimulus package in the US is becoming more prominent among economists (see what Krugman or De Long ha...

Here is an interesting article from the New York Times about how fast France is spending the approved "stimulus money" relative t...

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...