2009-02-01から1ヶ月間の記事一覧

21世紀最初のグローバル金融危機

The First Global Financial Crisis of the 21st Century Part II: June – December, 2008 (Edited by Andrew Felton and Carmen Reinhart, A VoxEU.org Publication) VOXがまた本気出した模様。ちなみに1回目の本気はこちら。 (追記)Macroeconomic Stab…

物価水準目標政策

●Nick Rowe, “Current Fiscal Policy vs. Future Monetary Policy : Price-level Path Targeting”(Worthwhile Canadian Initiative, January 5, 2009)●Andy Harless, “A Con Game Too Successful for Its Own Good”(Employment, Interest, and Money, Fe…

デフレ期待を払拭する確実な方法;負けない賭け

●Nick Rowe, “Central Banks should bet on recovery - literally”(Worthwhile Canadian Initiative, December 22, 2008) Ben Bernanke should publicly bet $1 trillion dollars that the US economy will recover quickly from deflation and recession.…

フィッシャーに学ぶ

●Enrique G. Mendoza, “Crisis lessons from Irving Fisher: Fix the debt-deflation disease, not its symptoms”(VOX, February 12, 2009) In a seminal 1933 article, Mr. Irving Fisher offered a very different and innovative view. He focused on t…

信じて疑わない人々;自己欺瞞のメカニズム

●Daniel B. Klein(1994), “If Government Is So Villainous, How Come Government Officials Don't Seem Like Villains(pdf)”(Economics and Philosophy, Vol.10, Issue01, pp. 91-106) Another possibility is to say that our intellectual opponent…

悲観論が人気を集める理由

●Denis Dutton, “Our Insatiable Appetite for Gloomy News”(New Zealand Herald, August 20, 2003) We love bad news. Don’t blame it on editors: our addiction to gloom, doom, and misfortune is as persistent a fact of the human psyche as our lo…

Credit Easing, not Quantitative Easing

●Susan Woodward and Robert Hall, “The Fed contracts”(Financial Crisis and Recession, February 2, 2009)●David Altig, “Contraction, not tightening”(macroblog, February 6, 2009) 「Fedの声明では量的緩和に乗り出すと言っておきながら実際には…

公共選択論入門

●James M. Buchanan(2003), “Politics Without Romance(pdf)”(Policy, vol.19(3), pp.13-18) 過去の個人的な研究を回顧することが同時に経済学の一分野*1(=公共選択論)の歴史を語ることにもなる。「知の巨人」とはこういう人のことを言う*2。 *1:ブ…

あれから20年・・・まであと1年

●Gregory Mankiw(1990), “A Quick Refresher Course in Macroeconomics(pdf)”(Journal of Economic Literature, vol.28(4), pp.1645-1660) Recent developments in macroeconomic theory will ultimately be judged by whether they prove to be usefu…

ノブレス・オブリージュ?

●Bruno S. Frey, David A. Savage and Benno Torgler, “Noblesse Oblige? Determinants of Survival in a Life and Death Situation”(CESifo Working Paper Series No. 2425, October 2008) Abstract: This paper explores the determinants of survival i…