Antonio Fatas on the Global Economy

How strong the economic recovery will be depends on whether we believe that output will quickly return back to the trend that was following ...

While most advanced economies have displayed significant drops in GDP during the last years, the behavior of labor market variables (employm...

It is very common these days to hear that the global economy has no way of recovering because the most powerful engine of global demand – th...

Here is a nice chart from John Fernald at the San Francisco Fed that shows the path of GDP after the last three recessions, including the c...

By now we all know that the global imbalances were created by excessive consumption in the US and high savings in China (and other countries...

Paul Krugman has written a nice essay on the NY Times about How did economists get it wrong? . Oth er economists have written on the same to...