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Friday, 29 July 2011

My next (academic) book

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... is one step closer to completion. Peter Temin and I have been working away in the archives of Hoare's Bank for a some years now, pro...
Wednesday, 27 July 2011

The reigns of power...

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pass to Fernando Broner at the end of the month - I am stepping down as the director of the ITFD Master. Fernando has been the deputy direct...
Friday, 22 July 2011

if this is private sector pain...

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I want some. The EU finally got its act together: There will be a selective default to make the private sector pay... but the banks and insu...
Monday, 18 July 2011

The "transfer problem"

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Larry Summers today wrote an interesting piece for Reuters. His first point - worth considering - is that the German obsession with wrappin...
Wednesday, 13 July 2011

Debt trouble

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I was teaching "Financial Crises" in the CREI Macro Summer School last week ( link here ). As I was brushing up the syllabus, I re...

Surprise of the day... another bad idea

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from the EU. This time, the collected EU finance ministers seem to think that by buying back Greek debt at depressed prices, they can really...
Sunday, 10 July 2011

hack attack!

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The Barcelona GSE website was hacked last week, and remained down for much of it. I hope prospective students didn't get worried -- this...
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Joachim Voth
Zurich, Switzerland
I hold the UBS Chair in Macroeconomics and Financial Markets. My blog contains updates on research findings, observations on economic policy, and thoughts on research.
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