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  • Strategic Analysis December 06, 2011

    Is the Recovery Sustainable?

    Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, and Gennaro Zezza
    Abstract

    Fiscal austerity is now a worldwide phenomenon, and the global growth slowdown is highly unfavorable for policymakers at the national level. According to our Macro Modeling Team’s baseline forecast, fears of prolonged stagnation and a moribund employment market are well justified. Assuming no change in the value of the dollar or interest rates, and deficit […]

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  • One-Pager No. 21 November 29, 2011

    Βιοπολιτική και νεοφιλελευθερισμός

    C. J. Polychroniou
    Abstract

    Με την κρίση στην ευρωζώνη να απειλεί την ακεραιότητα της ίδιας της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης, η Γερμανίδα καγκελάριος Αγκελα Μέρκελ συνεχίζει να απορρίπτει το κάλεσμα για την μετατροπή της ΕΚΤ σε δανειστή έσχατης ανάγκης και παραμένει σταθερά εναντίον των εισηγήσεων για την έκδοση ενός ευρωομολόγου. Ομως η Γερμανία έχει σχέδιο για την ευρωζώνη ακόμα και αν […]

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  • One-Pager No. 21 November 29, 2011

    Biopolitics and Neoliberalism

    C. J. Polychroniou
    Abstract

    With the crisis in the eurozone threatening the integrity of the European Union itself. German Chancellor Angela Merkel continues to brush aside calls to permit the European Central Bank to act as lender of last resort, and she remains steadfast against suggestions for the issuing of a eurobond. Yet Germany does have a plan for […]

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  • Policy Notes No. 6 November 22, 2011

    Προς μια εφαρμόσιμη λύση για την ευρωζώνη

    Marshall Auerback
    Abstract

    Αν και δεν προήλθε από οικονομολόγο, η άκαιρη έκφραση «déjà vu ξανά από την αρχή» έρχεται πάντα στο μυαλό με το τέλος σχεδόν κάθε Συνόδου Κορυφής της ΕΕ τα τελευταία χρόνια, οι οποίες ολοκληρώνονται πάντα με την υπόσχεση ότι θα δοθεί μια «τελική λύση» στα προβλήματα που προκαλούνται από μια ολοένα και περισσότερο προβληµατική νομισματική […]

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  • Policy Notes No. 6 November 22, 2011

    Toward a Workable Solution for the Eurozone

    Marshall Auerback
    Abstract

    Although it didn’t originate with an economist, the malaprop “It’s déjà vu all over again” is invariably what springs to mind in the aftermath of virtually any euro summit of the past few years, all of which seem to end with the requisite promise of a so-called “final solution” to the problems posed by the […]

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  • Working Paper No. 697 November 22, 2011

    Distribution and Growth

    Claudio Sardoni, and Fabrizio Patriarca
    Abstract

    This paper studies the effects of an (exogenous) increase of nominal wages on profits, output, and growth. Inspired by an article by MichaÅ‚ Kalecki (1991), who concentrated on the effects on total profits, the paper develops a model that explicitly considers the dynamics of demand, prices, profits, and investment. The outcomes of the initial wage […]

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  • One-Pager No. 19 November 16, 2011

    Το μέλλον της ευρωζώνης δεν ανήκει στη διεύρυνση

    C. J. Polychroniou
    Abstract

    Η επιβίωση της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης εξαρτάται από την ικανότητά της να προβεί σε μεταρρυθμίσεις, είτε μέσω επέκτασης—μεγαλύτερο οικονομικό και δημοσιονομικό συντονισμό προς την κατεύθυνση κάποιου είδους ομοσπονδιακού κράτους—ή με το να συρρικνωθεί, με την ευρωζώνη να γίνεται μια βέλτιστη νομισματική περιοχή. Οι περισσότεροι αναλυτές στηρίζουν την πρώτη πρόταση. Αλλά η εσπευσμένη ενίσχυση και διεύρυνση της […]

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  • One-Pager No. 19 November 16, 2011

    The Future of the Eurozone Does Not Lie with Enlargement

    C. J. Polychroniou
    Abstract

    The European Union’s survival depends on its ability to reform, either through enlargement—greater economic and fiscal coordination in the direction of some sort of federal state—or by getting smaller, with the eurozone becoming a true optimum currency area. Most analysts support the former proposition. But the rush to strengthen and expand the Union is precisely […]

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  • Policy Notes No. 5 November 08, 2011

    Resolving the Eurozone Crisis—without Debt Buyouts, National Guarantees, Mutual Insurance, or Fiscal Transfers

    Stuart Holland
    Abstract

    One of the reasons for the failure of Europe’s governing bodies to resolve the eurozone crisis is resistance to debt buyouts, national guarantees, mutual insurance, and fiscal transfers between member-states. Stuart Holland argues that none of these are necessary to convert a share of national bonds to Union bonds or for net issues of eurobonds—two […]

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  • Policy Notes No. 5 November 08, 2011

    Η επίλυση της κρίσης της Ευρωζώνης—δίχως εξαγορές χρέους, εθνικές εγγυήσεις, αλληλοασφάλιση, ή δημοσιονομικές μεταβιβάσεις

    Stuart Holland
    Abstract

    Ένας από τους λόγους για την αποτυχία του Ecofin και του Ευρωπαϊκού Συμβουλίου να δώσουν λύση στην κρίση της ευρωζώνης είναι η αντίσταση σε εξαγορές χρέους, κρατικές εγγυήσεις, αλληλοασφάλιση και δημοσιονομικές μεταβιβάσεις μεταξύ κρατών-μελών. Ο Stuart Holland υποστηρίζει ότι κανένα από αυτά τα μέτρα δεν είναι απαραίτητο για να μετατραπεί ένα μέρος των εθνικών ομολόγων […]

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  • One-Pager No. 18 November 08, 2011

    Twin Strategies to Resolve the Eurozone Crisis—without Debt Buyouts, Sovereign Guarantees, Insurance Schemes, or Fiscal Transfers

    Stuart Holland
    Abstract

    The cancellation of the October 26 meeting of the European Union’s council of finance ministers, or Ecofin, has further eroded confidence in its ability to solve the burgeoning sovereign debt crisis in the eurozone. A viable strategy is needed now—and as Stuart Holland illustrates, two viable strategies are even better than one.

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  • One-Pager No. 18 November 08, 2011

    Δίδυμες στρατηγικές για την επίλυση της κρίσης στην ευρωζώνη—Δίχως αγορές χρέους, εθνικές εγγυήσεις, ασφαλιστικά σχέδια ή δημοσιονομικές μεταβιβάσεις

    Stuart Holland
    Abstract

    Η ακύρωση της συνεδρίασης της 26ης Οκτωβρίου των Υπουργών Οικονομικών της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης, ή του Ecofin, έχει διαβρώσει περαιτέρω την εμπιστοσύνη στην ικανότητά του να δώσει λύσει στην επιδεινόμενη κρίση του κυρίαρχου χρέους στην ευρωζώνη. Μια βιώσιμη στρατηγική απαιτείται τώρα—και όπως διευκρινίζει ο Stuart Holland, δύο βιώσιμες στρατηγικές είναι ακόμα καλύτερες από μια.

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  • Working Paper No. 696 November 07, 2011

    Time Use of Mothers and Fathers in Hard Times and Better Times

    Günseli Berik, and Ebru Kongar
    Abstract

    The US economic crisis and recession of 2007–09 accelerated the convergence of women’s and men’s employment rates as men experienced disproportionate job losses and women’s entry into the labor force gathered pace. Using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) data for 2003–10, this study examines whether the narrowing gap in paid work over this period […]

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  • Working Paper No. 695 November 07, 2011

    Orthodox versus Heterodox (Minskyan) Perspectives of Financial Crises

    Jesús Muñoz
    Abstract

    Orthodox and heterodox theories of financial crises are hereby compared from a theoretical viewpoint, with emphasis on their genesis. The former view (represented by the fourth-generation models of Paul Krugman) reflects the neoclassical vision whereby turbulence is an exception; the latter insight (represented by the theories of Hyman P. Minsky) validates and extends John Maynard […]

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  • Working Paper No. 694 October 27, 2011

    Reducing Economic Imbalances in the Euro Area

    Gregor Semieniuk, Till van Treeck, and Achim Truger
    Abstract

    This paper evaluates whether the 2011 national stability programs (SPs) of the euro area countries are instrumental in achieving economic stability in the European Monetary Union (EMU). In particular, we analyze how the SPs address the double challenge of public deficits and external imbalances. Our analysis rests, first, on the accounting identities of the public, […]

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  • One-Pager No. 16 October 21, 2011

    Beyond Pump Priming

    Pavlina R. Tcherneva
    Abstract

    The American Jobs Act now before Congress relies largely on a policy of aggregate demand management, or “pump priming”: injecting demand into a frail economy in hopes of boosting growth and lowering unemployment. But this strategy, while beneficial in setting a floor beneath economic collapse, fails to produce and maintain full employment, while doing little […]

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  • One-Pager No. 15 October 14, 2011

    Dawn of a New Day for Europe?

    C. J. Polychroniou
    Abstract

    Failure on the part of EU leaders to address the eurozone crisis is in large part due to the fact that Germany and France are at opposite poles—politically, economically, and culturally. In this context, the announcement by Germany’s Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy that they’ve agreed to a comprehensive package of proposals to […]

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  • One-Pager No. 15 October 14, 2011

    H αυγή μιας νέας ημέρας για την Ευρώπη

    C. J. Polychroniou
    Abstract

    Η αποτυχία εκ μέρους των ηγετών της ΕΕ να αντιμετωπίσουν αποτελεσματικά την κρίση της ευρωζώνης έχει να κάνει σε μεγάλο βαθμό με το γεγονός ότι η Γερμανία και η Γαλλία βρίσκονται σε αντίθετους πόλους—πολιτικά, οικονομικά και πολιτιστικά. Στο πλαίσιο αυτό, η ανακοίνωση που έγινε από την Μέρκελ και τον Σαρκοζί πως έχουν συμφωνήσει σε ένα […]

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  • Public Policy Brief No. 120 October 13, 2011

    Waiting for the Next Crash

    L. Randall Wray
    Abstract

    Senior Scholar L. Randall Wray lays out the numerous and critical ways in which we have failed to learn from the latest global financial crisis, and identifies the underlying trends and structural vulnerabilities that make it likely a new crisis is right around the corner. Wray also suggests some policy changes that would shore up […]

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  • Working Paper No. 692 October 12, 2011

    Quality of Match for Statistical Matches Used in the Development of the Levy Institute Measure of Time and Income Poverty (LIMTIP) for Argentina, Chile, and Mexico

    Thomas Masterson
    Abstract

    The quality of match of three statistical matches used in the LIMTIP estimates for Argentina, Chile, and Mexico is described. The first match combines the 2005 Uso del Tiempo (UT 2005) with the 2006 Encuesto Annual de Hogares (EAH) for Argentina. The second match combines the 2007 Encuesta Experimental sobre Uso del Tiempo en el […]

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  • Working Paper No. 691 October 12, 2011

    Unpaid and Paid Care

    Rania Antonopoulos, and Kijong Kim
    Abstract

    Transforming care for children and the elderly from a private to a public domain engenders a series of benefits to the economy that improve our standard of living. We assess the positive impacts of social care from both receivers’ and providers’ points of view. The benefits to care receivers are various, ranging from private, higher […]

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  • One-Pager No. 14 October 11, 2011

    Neoliberalism and the State of the Advanced World Economy

    C. J. Polychroniou
    Abstract

    Whoever said that economic science is free of ideological bias and political prejudice? Three hundred years of financial and economic crises have meant nothing to die-hard neoliberals, who believe in (among other things) self-regulating markets and trickle-down theory. With so many incorrect assumptions guiding market liberalism, it’s no wonder neoliberals have failed to draw the […]

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  • One-Pager No. 14 October 11, 2011

    Νεοφιλελευθερισμός και η κατάσταση της προηγμένης παγκόσμιας οικονομίας

    C. J. Polychroniou
    Abstract

    Ποιος είπε ότι η οικονομική επιστήμη δεν είναι ιδεολογικά προκατειλημμένη και δεν πάσχει από πολιτική μεροληψία; Τριακόσια χρόνια χρηματοπιστωτικων και οικονομικών κρίσεων δε λένε απολύτως τίποτα στους αδιάλλακτους νεοφιλελεύθερους, που πιστεύουν (ανάμεσα σε άλλα πράγματα) στην ιδέα της ύπαρξης μιας αυτορρυθμιζόμενης αγοράς και στη θεωρία της προς τα κάτω διαρροής του πλούτου. Mε τόσες πολλές […]

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  • Working Paper No. 690 October 05, 2011

    The Measurement of Time and Income Poverty

    Ajit Zacharias
    Abstract

    Official poverty thresholds are based on the implicit assumption that the household with poverty-level income possesses sufficient time for household production to enable it to reproduce itself as a unit. Several authors have questioned the validity of the assumption and explored alternative methods to account for time deficits in the measurement of poverty. I critically […]

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