MacroMania

What would happen if the Fed was to adopt a different policy rule--one that entailed an immediate increase in its policy rate? The effect o...

In the  Seven Faces of "The Peril"  (2010), St. Louis Fed president Jim Bullard speculated on the prospect of the U.S. falling i...

From Bloomberg Business week: The Fed Turns Aggressively Dovish with 'Evans Rule' The headline above seems to capture the gene...

The Arrow-Debreu model  provides the foundation for modern macroeconomic theory and the theory of finance. This is probably as it should ...

I am currently at the  Institute of Advanced Studies in Vienna, which hosts one of the best little macro conference in Europe: The Vienna ...

Interesting to see that Canada's former finance minister (and prime minister) Paul Martin issuing a "stern warning" to U.S....

With the unemployment rate still above 8% and some inflation measures below 2%, many people argue that the Fed is "missing on both sid...