Antonio Fatas on the Global Economy

Somehow a graduation speech by Tom Sargent (nobel prize in Economics in 2001) from back in 2007 made it to Vox  two days ago and it has been...

The notion that some countries are caught in a long and protracted period of low growth has received an increasing amount of attention and h...

The Euro area inflation came lower than expected in March and this has raised concerns about deflation (or "lowflation" as labelle...

Mario Draghi press conference yesterday was yet another exercise of creating confusion about what the ECB intends to do. Maybe what he refe...

Since the global financial crisis started there has been a debate about how much of the increase in unemployment is cyclical versus structur...

The difference between interest rate and growth rates appears as an important parameter in many macroeconomic models. It is also a key varia...

John Cochrane has a new blog post summarizing recent research by Budish, Cramton and Shim on the effects of high frequency trading. The pa...