Antonio Fatas on the Global Economy

Since the financial crisis started we have heard many commentators telling the Euro countries: "I told you so, this was a very bad idea...

Paul Davies at FT Alphaville argues that the $3.4tn in foreign reserves that China holds cannot be used to address with their problems o...

Teaching about inflation is fun. Most people who have never been exposed to macroeconomics before are surprised when you show the correlatio...

Macroeconomists analyze business cycles in two different ways: 1. Using a model where crises and booms are driven by shocks (unexpected ev...

There is an increasing debate about the ability of emerging markets to continue growing at the pace at which they have been growing over the...

In a New York Times column Paul Krugman makes the point that the Chinese economy is going to have difficulties continuing growing with its ...

Most of the commentary one reads these days about the negative consequences of the policies set by central banks (low-interest rate and quan...