Monthly Archives: February 2020
Helicopter Money is here in Hong Kong? Well…
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“The money helicopter has arrived,” Claire Jones writes in her FT Alphaville post, citing Hong Kong Finance Secretary’s announcement of a handout of HKD 10,000 to each permanent resident in the city.As a Hong Konger who loves to read online monetary economics discussion, I...
Global Economy
Interviews
The effects of Unconventional Exchange Rate and Monetary Policy | Q&A with Joseph Gagnon
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The honorable guest for this installment is Joseph E. Gagnon, senior fellow at Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE). We discussed one of his latest research paper "Unconventional Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies" and the new book he coauthored with C. Fred Bergsten, "Currency Conflict and Trade Policy: A New Strategy for the United States". Gagnon also shared his view on the very popular "Global Financial Cycle" ideas.
Interview with Paul Romer on large scale Covid testing – Transcript
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Edited transcript of our interview with Paul Romer, on why the US urgently to scale up testing for Covid-19 and why he thinks the covid-crisis amounts an intellectual failure
Is Inequality part of Macroeconomics? | Interview with Branko Milanovic |
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Branko Milanovic discusses whether the study of inequality can be considered as part of macroeconomics and how should macroeconomists incorporate his idea of Kuznets Waves into their models.
How to use Interest on Reserve for Inflation Targeting? | Q&A with Ricardo Reis...
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This is the eighth installment of our interview series “Where is the General Theory of the 21st Century?”In this installment, we continue our talk...