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Report Vol. 16, No. 2 | April 2006

Report April 2006

The latest Levy Institute Strategic Analysis depicts a household sector that is struggling under an unprecedented burden of debt and relying upon an unsustainable upward trend in real estate prices. The authors find that a reversal of this trend could severely dampen economic growth.

Contents:

NEW STRATEGIC ANALYSIS

Are Housing Prices, Household Debt, and Growth Sustainable?

NEW POLICY NOTES

Reforming Deposit Insurance: The Case to Replace FDIC Protection with Self-Insurance

NEW WORKING PAPERS

Are Long-run Price Stability and Short-run Output Stabilization All that Monetary Policy Can Aim For?
Monetary Policy Strategies of the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of the US
Job-Hopping in Silicon Valley: Some Evidence Concerning the Micro-Foundations of a High Technology Cluster
All Types of Inequality are Not Created Equal: Divergent Impacts of Inequality on Economic Growth
Time to Eat: Household Production under Increasing Income Inequality
Speculation, Liquidity Preference, and Monetary Circulation
Importing Equality or Exporting Jobs? Competition and Gender Wage and Employment Differentials in USManufacturing
Enhancing Livelihood Security through the National Employment Guarantee Act: Toward Effective Implementation of the Act
Keynes’s Approach to Money: An Assessment after 70 Years
Where Do They Find the Time? An Analysis of How Parents Shift and Squeeze Their Time around Work and Child Care
Parental Child Care in Single Parent, Cohabiting, and Married Couple Families: Time Diary Evidence from the United States and the United Kingdom
Prolegomena to Realistic Monetary Macroeconomics: A Theory of Intelligible Sequences
Government Effects on the Distribution of Income: An Overv
Personality and Earnings