Tag: Geopolitics
US bans energy imports from Russia
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"Russian oil will no longer be acceptable at US ports," President Biden said.
Global Economy
Interviews
US needs large-scale Covid testing urgently: Nobel winning economist Paul Romer
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In an exclusive interview with EconReporter on Tuesday, Romer, co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics Science, urged the US to adopt large-scale testing immediately to halt this most detrimental economic slump ever since the Great Depression in the 1930s.
Economics Rules – Why Economists do it with Models | Q&A with Dani Rodrik
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Rodrik explained why good economists think in terms of models, and what are major differences between models and theory.
He also told us why macroeconomists' quest to find "the one true model" on the business cycle is probably misguided.
What is Neo-Fisherian and FTPL? | Q&A with John Cochrane |
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Cochrane discusses with us his view on the development in Macroeconomics since the Great Depression. He also explains what Neo-Fisherian and Fiscal Theory of Price Level are, and why they are important for understanding the current economic situation around the world.
Politics and the Economics of Banking Crises | Q&A with Charles Calomiris |
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In this installment, we continue our discussion with Prof. Charles Calomiris, Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions at Columbia Business School. The topic of this installment is the missing role of politics in economics models of banking crises. We also discussed if Calomiris thinks macroeconomics has a similar problem.