Antonio Fatas on the Global Economy

While the ECB and Bank of Japan are exploring negative interest rates, the US Federal Reserve is preparing us for a slow and cautious increa...

The ECB just announced a further reduction in interest rates, extended its QE program by increasing the rate at which buys assets, beefed up...

If the US or the Eurozone entered a recession this year, a few macroeconomic variables would look very different relative to previous recess...

An interview with Hyun Song Shin, economic adviser and head of research at the BIS, reposted in the BIS web site  reminds us of the strange ...

In most advanced economies business cycles can be well characterized by a succession of long expansion phases that are interrupted by short ...

It will soon be eight years since the US Federal Reserve decided to bring its interest rate down to 0%. Other central banks have spent simil...

Ken Rogoff in the Financial Times argues that the world economy is suffering from a debt hangover rather than deficient demand. The argumen...