Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Greece, EMU and democracy

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One more post on Greece, possibly not the last one. Markets are more worried about what is going on and there is more and more talk about ...
Sunday, January 25, 2015

Grexit: it is not the debt, it is the future.

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A follow up to my previous post now that we know that the Syriza party has won the election. What comes next will not be easy. And it is not...
Monday, January 5, 2015

And this is how Greece might leave the Euro

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An interesting month lies ahead for the Euro area. On January 22 the ECB will meet and they will either announce a QE-style monetary policy ...
Tuesday, December 2, 2014

The logic behind the German Euro gamble.

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In the current economic policy debate in Europe there seems to be an increasing polarization between the German view and the view of the oth...
Monday, November 24, 2014

Is 0% growth for 90% a successful economic model?

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Via Greg Mankiw I read the review of Piketty's book by Deirdre McCloskey . The review reminds me of the conversations I have in my class...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

Macroprudential policy and distribution of risk

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There is very little doubt that housing prices and leverage played a strong role in the global financial crisis that started in 2008. As th...
Sunday, November 16, 2014

German economic policy and chameleons

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Wolfgang Munchau's FT article today is one of the most complete explanations I have seen about the origin and contradictions of the Ger...