Showing posts with label Public Economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Public Economics. Show all posts
Sunday, July 27, 2008

Questions about the need for fiscal rules

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Over at Stumbling and Mumbling an interesting question; Which raises the question: why do we need external rules to do this? Why can’t the ...
Sunday, June 22, 2008

James Poterba on Insurance Pricing

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Region : You've developed a significant body of work on asymmetric information in insurance markets, much of it with Amy Finklestein . I...
Saturday, May 10, 2008

Lewis Black on Tax Rebate

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' I wonder who I could invade with 600 dollars '- Lewis Black
Friday, May 9, 2008

Carnival of Podcasts

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Credit Shocks and Economic Aftershocks Global Economic Trends: The Credit Crunch: A Conversation with George Soros Brusuelas Says Rise in Co...
Tuesday, May 6, 2008

U.S. Airport Privatizations?

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Winston of Brookings Seeks U.S. Airport Privatizations

Austerity for Saudi Kings- can it work?

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Saudi Arabia’s central bank governor on Tuesday called on the government to fight inflation by curbing public expenditure, warning that econ...
Sunday, May 4, 2008

Hillary on Economists

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This morning, George Stephanopoulos began his televised interview with Senator Hillary Clinton by asking if she could name a single economis...
Sunday, April 27, 2008

Structural Reforms in crisis times

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Any attempt to deal with the full range of structural changes while also trying to manage a short-term recovery from the crisis put severe s...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Message Force Multipliers

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Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand Internal Pentagon documents repeatedly refer to the military analysts as “message force multipli...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Assorted

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Graph of Interbank Spreads Suggests Financial Crisis Continues Unabated Politics and trade: evidence from the age of imperialism On the Link...
Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Assorted

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5 Myths About NAFTA More False Budget Comparisons Just so that we are clear - the U.S. does manufacture things Stiglitz on Monetary Policy ...

Assorted Pakistan

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Demand Analysis For Tax Reform In Pakistan Angus Deaton and F. Grimard Abstract: Pakistan, like many LDCs, derives most of government revenu...

NY City Budget and how not to do budgets

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In her evolution from a campus activist nicknamed Mad Dog to the first female speaker of the City Council and a likely candidate for mayor, ...

Random Public Finance introductory courses

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Public Sector Economics - McGill Public Finance - UC Davis
Friday, March 28, 2008

Optimal Disaster Insurance

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On the Optimal Design of Disaster Insurance in a Federation by Timothy J. Goodspeed and Andrew F. Haughwout Abstract: Recent experience wit...
Sunday, March 23, 2008

Arnold Kling vs Peter Orszag

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Arnold Kling disagrees with Peter Orszag; Orszag argues, as others do, that because health spending is highly concentrated, catastrophic he...
Saturday, March 22, 2008

Econ Talks

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" Health Care: Capturing the Opportunity in the Nation's Core Fiscal Challenge " Peter Orszag , Director, U.S. Congressional B...

For soft landing try fiscal

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Achieving a Soft Landing: The Role of Fiscal Policy Summary: This paper utilizes an open-economy New Keynesian overlapping generations model...
Saturday, March 15, 2008

Tax Policy in Down Under

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THE Rudd Government should scrap dividend imputation credits and instead reduce the company tax rate by about a third if it wants to increa...
Thursday, March 13, 2008

Book recommendation to the new governor

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The importance of the upcoming budget negotiations for Mr. Paterson was apparent throughout the day. In a radio appearance Thursday morning,...