Antonio Fatas on the Global Economy

It is refreshing to see top academics questioning some of the assumptions that economists have been using in their models. Krugman , Brad De...

In a recent post Paul Krugman refers to the potential link between rising levels of debt prior to the 2008 crisis and the current discussio...

It has been surprising to see how over the last five years some have been holding to their economic theories even if the facts kept proving ...

I have written before about the investment dearth that took place in advanced economies at the same time that we witnessed a global saving ...

In his last press conference Mario Draghi said that the ECB was ready for negative deposit rates if necessary. His comments led to several E...

Martin Wolf at the Financial Times argues that the future of the world economy, in particular that of advanced economies, looks sluggish be...

The presentation of Larry Summers at a recent IMF conference  has generated a good amount of comments. While some of what he said was not co...