Economist's View

Links for 03-26-18

• Trade and the Cities (Wonkish) - Paul Krugman
• Tax Cuts and Wages Redux (Slightly Wonkish) - Paul Krugman
• Chinese income distribution in 2002-3 and 2013 - globalinequality
• Tariffs as a Method of Promoting LR Free Trade - Everyday Economist
• Saving the Shrinking Middle - Mohamed A. El-Erian
• The War Within The FBI - Economic Principals
• Inflation and unemployment - MacroMania
• Mechanisms, singular and general - Understanding Society
• Do Adjustment Lags Matter for Inflation-Indexed Bonds? - FRBSF
• Size is Overrated - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz

Links for 03-23-18

• Bumbling Into a Trade War - Paul Krugman
• Globalization: What Did Paul Krugman Miss? - Brad DeLong
• The Economic Scars of Crises and Recessions - IMF Blog
• The Trump Boom Is Making It Harder to See the Next Recession - Robert Shiller
• The Output Gap is no longer a sufficient statistic for inflation - mainly macro
• How economics failed us - Martin Wolf
• Response to Wolf: Economics failed us before the global crisis - Peter Doyle
• Francis Bator, Influential White House Economist, Dies at 92 - NYTimes
• Income redistribution through taxes and transfers - VoxEU
• The hysteresis-resilience trade-off in unemployment - VoxEU
• Oil prices do not affect inflation expectations after all - VoxEU
• How reciprocity can magnify inequality - EurekAlert

Links for 03-20-18

• Trump and Trade and Zombies - Paul Krugman
• The Distribution and Redistribution of US Income - Tim Taylor
• The Golden Rule - Magic, maths and money
• What economics and cars can tell us about guns - The Berkeley Blog
• Big Data and Economic Nowcasting - No Hesitations
• What anchors inflation? - MacroMania
• Tougher capital regulation pays off - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• What Does it Mean to Have Rational Expectations? - Roger Farmer
• A road to right wing authoritarian government - mainly macro
• The /Other/ Marshall Plan - Economic Principals

Links for 03-17-18

• Voters May Be Wising Up - Paul Krugman
• A new classification of monetary policy frameworks - VoxEU
• Monetary and Fiscal Federalism, Debt, Canada, and the Eurozone - Nick Rowe
• Paul Krugman Explains Trade and Tariffs - The New York Times
• The Skeptical View in Favor of an Antitrust Push - Tim Taylor
• Monetary policy spillovers in the first age of globalisation - Bank Underground
• Cryptocurrencies challenge the status quo - VoxEU
• Mortgage delinquency rates: A cross-country perspective - VoxEU
• The illusion of knowledge - Stumbling and Mumbling
• A Keynesian model of long-run growth - VoxEU
• What Hath Merkel Wrought? - Uneasy Money
• Household Inequality, Consumption, and Aggregate Real Shocks - FRB Chicago
• The Dollar’s Doldrums - Barry Eichengreen
• The Distribution of Gains from Globalization - The Unassuming Economist

Links for 03-13-18

• Springtime for Sycophants - Paul Krugman
• Assessing Trends in Real Shares - Econbrowser
• The consumer benefits of trade agreements - VoxEU
• Towards a Union in the Union - Thomas Piketty
• When Shall We Overcome? - Joseph E. Stiglitz
• AEA draft code of conduct - Women in Economics at Berkeley
• China’s Unnecessary and Counterproductive Fiscal Consolidation - Brad Setser
• Identification Is Not Causality, Causality Is Not Identification - Marc Bellemare
• Trade Wars Can Be a Game of Chicken. Sometimes, Literally. - NYTimes
• Budget deficits, fiscal councils and authoritarian regimes - mainly macro
• The Great Recession took a toll on public health - EurekAlert
• Shares of Real GDP Don't Give the Real Story of Manufacturing - Justin Fox
• Great Recession still plagues workers with lower lifetime wages - EurekAlert!
• The Household Fallacy - Roger E. A. Farmer
• Ergodicity - Roger E. A. Farmer
• Cultural costs of high house prices - Stumbling and Mumbling
• US economy is still far from fully recovered - Martin Sandau
• Ten Years After Bear - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• Can central bankers become Superforecasters? - Bank Underground
• Innovation as a Challenge to Regulation - The Regulatory Review
• Equity markets are thriving but are they relevant? - John Kay