Antonio Fatas on the Global Economy

The yield curve is becoming flatter. The difference between the 10-year and 2-year government bond is now approaching 1%. The yield curve te...

The recent disappointing performance of the world economy has been labelled as the "new mediocre" by Christine Lagarde , the ...

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 ...