Recently David Beckworth and Martin Sandbu, among others, have drawn attention to an interesting paper by James Bullard and Riccardo DiCecio unveiled in Norway earlier this year. In it, Bullard and DiCecio investigate a model economy possessing both a large private credit market and "Non-state contingent nominal…
In the long, tragic chronicle of the Great Recession, April 30, 2008, doesn't resonate as an infamous date. It lacks the notoriety of March 16, 2008, when, by guaranteeing $30 billion of Bear Stearns’ assets, the Federal Reserve crossed a last-resort lending Rubicon, extending its safety net…
In the first, 1922 edition of Money, his own now-classic primer on monetary economics, the great Dennis Robertson included a chapter he called "Money in the Great Muddle," about the blow World War I dealt to England's once (relatively) rock-solid monetary system, and to other monetary arrangements…
I was just about to treat myself to a little R&R last Friday when — wouldn't you know it? — I received an email message from the Brookings Institution's Hutchins Center. The message alerted me to a new Brookings Paper by former Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota….
Michael Bordo, John Duca, and Christoffer Koch recently produced a Cato Institute Research Brief on how policy uncertainty affects bank lending. The Cato Research Briefs in Economic Policy series allows economic researchers to write an accessible 2,000 word summary of an academic article that cuts through the…