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• Investmentless recovery ahead?

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 536
  Fatas-Mihov Blog  post rarely but whenever they do, it is full of insights. The duo have written some super papers and make a mark in the blogposts as well. In the recent post , they point that recoveries post-recessions in 1991 and 2001 were investmentless. What is interesting in this chart is that the last two ...
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• Microfinance helps or not?

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 536
  Well, there has been a lot of debate recently on the issue- whether microfinance helps or not? Two studies, both by Poverty Action Lab researchers have been in heavy controversy since they have been published. First – The miracle of microfinance? Evidence from a randomized evaluation  by Abhijit Banerjee,  ...
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• Creating jobs in US – Lessons from Europe?

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 536
  Recently Paul Krugman pointed  to the differences in recovery of US and Germany. US is recovering with unemployment still rising and Germany recovering with hardly any increase in unemployment levels. Jacob Funk Kirkegaard has a superb post  in Peterson Institute’s Real Time Economics Issues Watch Blog. He ...
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• International Monetary System – a quick view

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 536
  Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada talks on international monetary system (IMS) in his recent speech . The international monetary system consists of (i) exchange rate arrangements; (ii) capital flows; and (iii) a collection of institutions, rules, and conventions that govern its operation. Domestic ...
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• Using economics to ease airport congestion

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 536
  It is once in a while you come across such papers which refresh you completely. These days most research is focused around crisis and recessions which is very good but gets onto you after a while. You need a change.  I came across this  fascinating paper  by econ trio – Jeffrey P. Cohen, Cletus C. Coughlin , ...
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• Water and waste

  
  Weblogsky — Authority: 116
  If you’re tired of worrying about climate change or the economy, you can start worrying about water pollution: an article in the New York Times says raw sewage is leaking into waterways. I know that I take water for granted, and I suspect you do, too. There’s always been plenty, and it’s been so cheap we ...
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• XKCD: Academia versus Business

  
  Infosecurity.US — Authority: 134
  [IMG: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/academia_vs_business.png]
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• Risk management lessons from Philippe Jorion

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 536
  One cannot skip Philippe Jorion , if he has taken a course in finance/MBA in finance. Atleast that seems to be the case in Indian schools. The moment your professor teaches about risk and moves to Value at Risk, he/she would most likely ask you to read Jorion’s famed book on VAR . In his new paper cum ...
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• The Academy of Behavioral Finance & Economics

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 536
  I got an email from Prof Rassoul Yazdipour  of Academy of Entrepreneurial Finance : Dear Amol,   I very much enjoyed your blog on interview with professor Malkiel; esp. the part on Behavioral Finance/Econ. So I thought to drop a line and let you know about The Academy of Behavioral Finance & Economics ...
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• Lessons from East Asian Crisis

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 536
  San Fransisco Fed organised a conference on Asia and the Global Financial Crisis . All biggies – Bernanke, Rogoff, Obstfeld, Eichengreen etc  – discussed on variety of topics – Asian crisis of 1997, Asian economies in this crisis, global imbalances etc.   I was reading this paper by Anne Krueger  on ...
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• Lack of Fiscal expectations could undermine Taylor rule

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 536
  I had said earlier  we should read Eric Leeper. He brings really interesting interactions between fiscal and monetary policy. His research centres on the idea that managing and anchoring fiscal expectations is as crucial. We usually worry about inflation and central bank expectations and never really look at fiscal ...
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• Thinking Strategies: vertical vs. horizontal

  
  Qwaider Planet — Authority: 170
  One of my advisers once drew a vertical line on a white sheet of paper and told me, in research, one needs to think vertically. He then continued, explaining, that graduate students should dig deeper and Read More......( read more )
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  Imran Ali — Authority: 133
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• Euroarea in Recessions- a comparison

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 536
  ECB’s November monthly bulletin  (heavy pdf file) has a short research note comparing the performance of Euroarea in previous recessions. To do a comparison of recessions in Euroarea is always a mighty job. The decline in investments, consumption, employment, wages is much the same as in previous recessions. ...
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• Fed’s role in Payments systems

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 536
  Thomas Hoenig of Kansas Fed has an interesting speech on payments system in US. He points that much of the growth in payments system  is happening in private sector with no regulatory oversight. The payment system is also being run by a few large players and there is little competition. So far it is all good as ...
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• Lessons from New Deal

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 536
  Lee Ohanian summarises the broad lessons from Great Depression and his huge research in this speech . He says the depression was mainly because of the New Deal. The failure to recover is puzzling, because economic fundamentals improved considerably after 1933. Productivity growth was rapid, liquidity was ...
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• Central Bank Communications – working?

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 536
  FRBSF economists Puneet Chehal and Bharat Trehan have a nice short paper on Central Bank communications in this crisis. Bank of Canada has promised to keep its interest rate low till second quarter of 2010 but Fed just says for an extended period. Hence BoC is more specific but Fed is vague. Does explicitiy help ...
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• CDS Volumes decline in H1 2009

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 536
  BIS Semi-Annual Report on OTC Derivatives for H1 2009 released last week . The detailed stats are available here . It didn’t get any real coverage in the blogosphere. The report indicates CDS volumes have declined in H1 2009. Key findings: notional amounts of all types of OTC contracts rebounded somewhat to ...
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• To fix poverty, fix instituions and to fix institutions fix government

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 536
  Daron Acemoglu has a   superb article summarising the research and his vast volume of work on growth and development. We are the rich, the haves, the developed. And most of the rest — in Africa, South Asia, and South America, the Somalias and Bolivias and Bangladeshes of the world — are the nots. It’s ...
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• Global Financial Crisis and India

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 536
  Deepak Mohanty of RBI has given a useful speech  on the global crisis and the impact and policies followed in India. Most of it is known but is still useful as a quick snapshot. Posted in Academic research & research papers, Central Banks / Monetary Policy, Economics - macro, micro etc, Economist, Financial ...
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