The Euro area’s macroeconomic balancing act
Wolff, Guntram. The European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) and the proposed prevention and correction of macroeconomic imbalances regulation (EIP) are designed to avoid imbalances. However, these instruments overlap, and need clarification. Both the ESRB and the Commission, which is given certain powers by the EIP, must identify and act early on risks. Acting in the […]
The Derivatives Market’s Helpful Enemies
Zingales, Luigi. The launch of two European antitrust investigations into the market for credit default swaps (CDS) might appear to be no more than a political vendetta against one of the alleged culprits behind the 2010 European sovereign-debt crisis. The negative perception that most people (especially in Europe) have of CDS has certainly played a […]
Μαθήματα μαγειρικής από οικονομολόγους…(vid.)
Στο βίντεο αυτό θα βρείτε συνταγές ομελέτας για όλα τα (οικονομικά) γούστα, καθώς και προτάσεις βιβλίων μαγειρικής από τους Robert Lucas (Rational eggs-pectations), Milton και Rose Friedman (Bok choices), Robert Solow (Cooking Solow), Paul Krugman (The Republicans are destroying America cookbook) , Art Laffer (Eat more, weigh less: secrets of the Laffer Curve diet) και […]