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Sunday, March 3, 2013

Two new VOX EU pieces

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Debt restructuring and the rules of engineering Incentivves to avoid delayed default -------------------------------------------------...
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

On Time Magazine

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As UN economist Ugo Panizza, one of the authors of the study, explains : “Our findings show that there can be “too much” finance. While...
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Thursday, July 5, 2012

Troppa Finanza?

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Il nostro articolo " Too Much Finance? " e' uscito come IMF Working Paper ed e' stato notato in alcuni siti italiani: I...
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Monday, April 23, 2012

Our public debt and growth paper on VOX

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Countries with high public debt tend to grow slowly – a correlation often used to justify austerity. This column presents new evidence chall...
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Is public debt bad for growth?

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Not really. This paper uses an instrumental variable approach to study whether public debt has a causal effect on economic growth in a s...
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Friday, November 11, 2011

Italy and original sin

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Krugman on our original sin paper http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/10/original-sin-and-the-euro-crisis/ ----------------------------...
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Monday, October 31, 2011

Chinese Perfume Brands

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I took this picture in a shopping mall in Wuhan (Hubei Province, China) ------------------------------------------------- ♦ DiggIt! ♦ Add...
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Friday, September 2, 2011

When Financial Sectors Become “Too Large”

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At the end of July Alan Greenspan published an Op Ed arguing that tighter financial regulation and capital standards will lead to the accum...
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Thursday, August 4, 2011

Lebanese Innovations

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Thursday, June 30, 2011

11 luglio CORIPE day

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Friday, June 24, 2011

100 trillion dollars (Zimbabwe)

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These bills are worth more as a souvenir (5 USD) than when they were legal tender. Below are 10 and 5 billions. --------------------------...
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Friday, March 25, 2011

Too much finance?

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This paper examines whether there is a threshold above which financial development no longer has a positive effect on economic growth. We d...
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Housing prices in Geneva are still going up

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For what is worth, the Switzerland and Geneva series appear to be cointegrated. Such a long-run relationhsip suggests that either rest of Sw...
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Keynes on exams

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The results of his civil service exams infuriate Keynes. He writes to Strachey: "I have done worst in the only two subjects of which I ...
Sunday, June 13, 2010

Development and grammar

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Friday, May 28, 2010

On economists

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Therefore, the total impact includes a journal's impact on many disciplines other than economics. For many purposes this may be an entir...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Interview with the BBC on the costs of default

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here (my part starts at minute 8) ------------------------------------------------- ♦ DiggIt! ♦ Add to del.icio.us ♦ Share on Faceboo...
Friday, May 14, 2010

Ravi Kanbur is very wise

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issue makes me uncomfortable within myself, takes me off my high moral perch when I talk (or lecture) to others about poverty, and it is an...
Friday, May 7, 2010

Grecia edi costi del default

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Il debito pubblico si differenzia da quello privato, per la mancanza di una procedura ben definita per punire uno stato che non ripaga i deb...
Thursday, May 6, 2010

What will happen if Greece defaults? Insights from theory and reality

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My piece (with Eduardo Borensztein) on the costs of default: here ------------------------------------------------- ♦ DiggIt! ♦ Add to de...
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Friday, April 30, 2010

Intervista sulla crisi greca alla radio della svizzera italiana

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qui oppure qui http://reteuno.rsi.ch/modem/welcome.cfm?IDc=40891 ------------------------------------------------- ♦ DiggIt! ♦ Add to de...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Nadine with models

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Sunday, April 18, 2010

Bankers' conflicts of interest in the interwar years: Lessons for today’s regulators

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My (joint with Marc Flandreau and Norbert Gaillard) new piece on VOX The global crisis is frequently compared to the Great Depression and th...
Friday, April 2, 2010

Me on the Economist

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Eduardo Borensztein and Ugo Panizza counts as many as 257 sovereign defaults between 1824 and 2004. Between 1981 and 1990 alone, there were ...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Great vox piece

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with great pictures too. Here ------------------------------------------------- ♦ DiggIt! ♦ Add to del.icio.us ♦ Share on Facebook
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