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April 29, 2013

Europe
Fiscal Revisionism

How does the attack on the two academic’s work change the landscape for macro policy, if at all? The recent challenge to a key finding of Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff’s This Time Is Different (R&R…

falling-off-cliff
Blog Post by Robert Kahn Macro and Markets

August 26, 2013

International Organizations
Jackson Hole: Future Worries

This year’s Jackson Hole Federal Reserve conference was a decidedly low-key affair given Ben Bernanke’s absence (and Janet Yellen’s successful effort to not make news). Nonetheless, there look to hav…

Blog Post by Robert Kahn Macro and Markets

February 10, 2017

The Future of Lava Jato and Brazil’s Reform Agenda

The tragic January airplane crash that killed Justice Teori Zavascki, a member of Brazil’s highest court (the Supremo Tribunal Federal, STF), has given President Michel Temer an opportunity to seize …

Brazil's President Michel Temer attends the inauguration ceremony of new Ministers, at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, February 3, 2017 (Reuters/Adriano Machado).
Blog Post by Matthew M. Taylor Latin America’s Moment

May 20, 2013

Learning About Growth from Austerity

MILAN – In a recent set of studies, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff used a vast array of historical data to show that the accumulation of high levels of public (and private) debt relative to GDP h…

U.S. Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) speaks in front of the "national debt clock" in New Hampshire, September 2012 (Brian Snyder/Courtesy Reuters.)
Blog Post by A. Michael Spence Renewing America

December 19, 2012

Fossil Fuels
Oil Boom... And Risk Management

A story on NPR yesterday morning, “The Downsides of Living in an Oil Boomtown,” had an interesting portrait of the economic effects of high oil prices and booming oil production on Williston, North D…

Blog Post by Blake Clayton Energy, Security, and Climate