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10 Economists Respond to the Question, Is Morgan Kelly Right
Is Morgan Kelly right? Compiled by LAURA SLATTERY and SUZANNE LYNCH Fri, May 13, 2011 A compelling case for default and swift balancing of the national budget or a lethal injection for our economy and citizens? Twelve economists discuss SEÁN BARRETT Senior lecturer in economics Trinity College Dublin IRELAND’S CHANGE from a full employment economy and solvency to 14 per cent unemployment and a bailout invites a contrarian response so well led by Morgan Kelly. Widespread institutional failure caused the twin crises in banking and the public finances. These then spread their contagion over the entire economy. Regulatory capture and institutional malaise have dominated our responses to date. We need the provocative advice of Morgan Kelly to walk away from the bank crisis and tackle the public finances quickly rather than over several years. With so many of the institutions and personnel who caused the twin crises largely exempt from its consequences, and likely to remain exempt, we need Kelly to remind them and us how much they have harmed this country. Under “measures to prevent a recurrence” Kelly merits the tag of “required reading”. ALAN McQUAID Chief economist Bloxham Stockbrokers THE UNDERLYING theme of the Morgan Kelly article, apart from criticising individuals, is not saying anything new. What Joe Durkan and the ESRI are talking about is similar, in a way, to Kelly – they’re both talking about speeding up the budget correction. Enda Kenny has dismissed the idea and I’d be with Kenny on this. The economy is too fragile. The [Kelly/Durkan] argument is that it’s the ECB’s problem: a lot of the money was lent to us by European banks that should have known better. -
The Econometric Society European Region Aide Mémoire
The Econometric Society European Region Aide M´emoire March 22, 2021 1 European Standing Committee 2 1.1 Responsibilities . .2 1.2 Membership . .2 1.3 Procedures . .4 2 Econometric Society European Meeting (ESEM) 5 2.1 Timing and Format . .5 2.2 Invited Sessions . .6 2.3 Contributed Sessions . .7 2.4 Other Events . .8 3 European Winter Meeting (EWMES) 9 3.1 Scope of the Meeting . .9 3.2 Timing and Format . 10 3.3 Selection Process . 10 4 Appendices 11 4.1 Appendix A: Members of the Standing Committee . 11 4.2 Appendix B: Winter Meetings (since 2014) and Regional Consultants (2009-2013) . 27 4.3 Appendix C: ESEM Locations . 37 4.4 Appendix D: Programme Chairs ESEM & EEA . 38 4.5 Appendix E: Invited Speakers ESEM . 39 4.6 Appendix F: Winners of the ESEM Awards . 43 4.7 Appendix G: Countries in the Region Europe and Other Areas ........... 44 This Aide M´emoire contains a detailed description of the organisation and procedures of the Econometric Society within the European Region. It complements the Rules and Procedures of the Econometric Society. It is maintained and regularly updated by the Secretary of the European Standing Committee in accordance with the policies and decisions of the Committee. The Econometric Society { European Region { Aide Memoire´ 1 European Standing Committee 1.1 Responsibilities 1. The European Standing Committee is responsible for the organisation of the activities of the Econometric Society within the Region Europe and Other Areas.1 It should undertake the consideration of any activities in the Region that promote interaction among those interested in the objectives of the Society, as they are stated in its Constitution. -
Dr. Patrick Honohan
Dr. Patrick Honohan Patrick Honohan joined the Peterson Institute for International Economics in March 2016 as a nonresident senior fellow. Honohan was governor of the Central Bank of Ireland and a member of the governing council of the European Central Bank from September 2009 to November 2015. He came to that position from Trinity College Dublin where he was professor of international financial economics and development and where he has since become an honorary professor of economics. Previously he spent 12 years on the staff of the World Bank as a senior advisor on financial sector issues. During the 1990s he was a research professor at Ireland's Economic and Social Research Institute. In the 1980s he was economic advisor to the Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Garret FitzGerald. He also spent earlier spells at the Central Bank of Ireland and at the International Monetary Fund. A graduate of University College Dublin, he received his PhD in economics from the London School of Economics in 1978. He has taught economics at the London School of Economics, at the University College Dublin, and as a visitor to the University of California, San Diego and the Australian National University as well as at Trinity College Dublin. He was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2002. In recent years, Honohan's research has focused on monetary and financial sector policy. His work on financial crises includes an evaluation of how different policy approaches have affected the overall cost of these crises in both developing countries and advanced economies. He has also studied exchange rate regime choice. -
Fundamatics Fi Rst Issue Q1 2012
Fundamatics rst issue Q1 2012 FAP: FINANCIAL AID PROGRAM A Class of 1981 Legacy Project ©Loan Scholarships from past students ... to present students ... to be repaid when borrowers earn ... for the benefit of future students ©5th year of FAP operations 1132 loan disbursals ... to 436 students ... amounting to Rs.212 lacs to date Implemented by: ASF: ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION An IITBombay Alumni Initiative [email protected] FAP Motto: To Make IIT Education Financially Achievable Quarterly magazine of IIT Bombay Alumni Association From the Beehive Here it is. The very first issue of your quar- further develop and strengthen the hive by terly magazine Funda- matics that will now consolidating the alumni database, extending give you the right combination of serious our web presence and creating events and brain food and pure, unadulterated fun, reunions of all hues — silver, ruby, jade and Reinvigorating the art of the spirited essay, gold — and inclinations. A special character- Funda-matics aims to bring together the best istic of bees is communication and the one of IITB alumni thought and debate, keeping thing that we have found lacking so far, has alumni around the world up-to- date and been the presence of an alumni magazine. A on their toes. Within these pages you will periodical that can provide a global platform find contributions from some very eminent for exchanging fundaes, unleashing creativity, people, - directors of other IITs, prominent indulging nostalgia and above all, binding politicians, world-renowned economists, alumni together. Most IITB alumni were bestselling authors, national policy makers, notorious in their student days for turning newspaper cartoonists, well-known moun- in assignments at the last minute. -
European and International Constraints on Irish Fiscal Policy, By
2. EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL CONSTRAINTS ON IRISH FISCAL POLICY Patrick Honohan* 2.1 In a world of increasing interdependence, fiscal autonomy of individual Introduction nations has increasingly been constrained. Ireland is no exception. Yet it is possible to exaggerate the degree to which fiscal autonomy has been lost. The purpose of my talk today is to explore some of the dimensions of external constraints on fiscal policy, focusing on the role of the European Union, other international governmental pressures, and international market pressures. It is convenient to distinguish between two rather different types of constraint: those that limit a government's flexibility in setting tax rates, and those that limit a government's ability to run a temporary deficit.1 I will argue that, despite the considerable recent focus on our European Union commitments as a constraint on aggregate fiscal policy, these have so far been of much less importance than the EU's influence on tax rates and tax design. International governmental pressures on tax rates are also growing in importance. Market forces can provide the most decisive of constraints but, so far as policy on the overall budgetary stance is concerned, these may have reached their full extent – indeed may have actually declined – though they will continue to grow so far as tax rates are concerned. The most spectacular European Union initiative in the area of fiscal 2.2 policy has undoubtedly been the Maastricht criteria for Economic and Deficits Monetary Union (EMU) membership. Suddenly, and more or less out of * The views expressed are strictly personal and do not reflect those of the World Bank. -
The Bendheim Center for Finance Annual Report 2009 Princeton University
The Bendheim Center for Finance Annual Report 2009 Princeton University Contents 5 In Memoriam: Robert Austin Bendheim, 1916-2009 7 Director’s Introduction 10 Faculty 28 Visiting Faculty 30 Visiting Fellows 31 Graduating Ph.D. Students 33 Seminars 33 Civitas Foundation Finance Seminars 34 Finance Ph.D. Student Workshop 35 Conferences 35 The Princeton Lectures in Finance 35 Third Cambridge-Princeton Conference 36 Humboldt-Princeton Conference: Semiparametrics Meets Mathematical Finance 37 Conference on the Mathematics of Credit Risk 37 Rethinking Business Management: An Examination of the Foundations of Business Education 37 Second New York Fed-Princeton Liquidity Conference 38 Stochastic Analysis and Applications from Mathematical Physics to Mathematical Finance 39 CCCP Mathetical Financial Workshop 40 Undergraduate Certificate in Finance 42 Departmental Prizes, Honors, and Athletic Awards to UCF 2008 Students 43 Senior Theses and Independent Projects of the Class of 2008 46 Mini-Course on Financial Modeling, Valuation, and Analysis using Excel, VBA, and C++ 47 Master in Finance 47 Admission Requirements 48 Statistics on the Admission Process 50 Program Requirements 50 Core Courses 50 Elective Courses 52 Tracks 53 Some Course Descriptions 56 Master in Finance Placement 57 MFin Math Camp/Boot Camp 59 Advisory Council 60 Corporate Affiliates Program 60 2008–09 Partners 60 Benefits 61 Gift Opportunities 62 Acknowledgments 2008–09 In Memoriam: Robert Austin Bendheim, 1916-2009 The Bendheim Center for Finance is saddened to report that Robert A. Bendheim died on August 21 at age 93. Bob graduated from Princeton in 1937. As many of you know, Bob and his family have been great friends of the University and have had a major impact on its missions of teaching and research and in promoting a deeper understanding of the forces that shape our national and international destiny. -
India Country Primer. Bloomberg India’S Steady Recovery to Face an Election Challenge Intelligence
A Bloomberg Professional Services Offering Bloomberg Terminal India country primer. Bloomberg India’s steady recovery to face an election challenge Intelligence Abhishek Gupta Economist Bloomberg Intelligence Contents The latest 01 Growth 02 Inflation 02 Policy 03 Forecasts 04 Research 06 News Growth & inflation 06 Supply 08 Demand 09 Inflation Policy & structural 10 Fiscal policy 10 FX Forecast 11 Reform India country primer. India’s steady recovery to face an election challenge (Bloomberg Intelligence) The Indian economy is returning to a slow and steady recovery. Although not evident in official year-on-year GDP data, our monthly GDP tracker adjusted for base effects shows that the recent pullback in oil prices and improving liquidity conditions are aiding growth. The new governor, Shaktikanta Das, has also turned supportive of growth, giving up his predecessor’s hawkish bias. That, along with a tailwind from structural reforms of the past few years, should support a gradual economic recovery. Still, national elections around May 2019 pose a short-term risk. Another term for Modi’s government would bode well for further reforms and market sentiment. A win for a united opposition led by the Congress and composed of smaller regional parties with different ideologies could hurt near term economic and financial stability. The latest Growth India’s Growth Slowdown Calls for Monetary Policy Support: The downtrend in India’s GDP growth during October-December was largely driven by an unreasonably tight monetary policy and fading favorable base effects, in our view. Monetary policy has already made a U-turn under new RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das and we expect the central bank’s policies to be supportive of growth ahead. -
Tirole's Industrial Regulation and Organization Legacy in Economics
Tirole’s Industrial Regulation and Organization Legacy in Economics Drew Fudenberg March 21, 2015 I thank Glenn Ellison, Mira Frick, Ryota Iijima, Eric Maskin, Lones Smith, Patrick Rey, Jean- Charles Rochet, Al Roth, Nathalie Tirole, and Jean Tirole for helpful comments. NSF grant SES-1258665 provided financial support. 1. Introduction “Je suis un chercheur; je ne suis pas capable de parler de tout et n’importe quoi.” 1 Jean Tirole was awarded the 2014 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his analysis of market power and regulation. This essay will try to convey the main ideas of that work, along with some of Tirole’s positive and methodological contributions to the study of imperfect competition and its implications for industrial organization. This narrow focus emphasizes my connections with Jean, and leaves out his many important contributions in such fields as asset pricing, behavioral economics, and organizational economics, which on their own would constitute a stellar career, as well as his arguably Nobel- level work on banking and corporate finance. 2 Jean’s phenomenal energy and breadth are reflected in the fact that he has distinct and influential collaborations with each of Philippe Aghion, Roland Benabou, Mathias Dewatripont, Oliver Hart, Bengt Holmstrom, Paul Joskow, Jean-Jacques Laffont, Josh Lerner, Eric Maskin, Patrick Rey, and Jean-Charles Rochet. Any of them could have been asked to write this essay, and each would have their own take on Jean’s story; I would like to share a little of my own. I first met Jean in 1978 when we both started graduate school at MIT. -
Experts Needed an All-Male One
THIS WEEK EDITORIALS academia. Undaunted, for many years she lectured in Erlangen and, symmetry led her to discover that the symmetries of a physical system from 1915, at the University of Göttingen — often for free. are inextricably linked to physical quantities that are conserved, At the time, that city was the centre of the mathematical world, such as energy. These ideas became known as Noether’s theorem largely due to the presence of two of its titans — Felix Klein and David (E. Noether Nachr. d. Ges. d. Wiss. zu Göttingen, Math.-phys. Kl. 1918, Hilbert. But even when Noether was being paid to teach at Göttingen 235–257; 1918). and making her most important contributions, fate and further dis- As well as answering a conundrum in general relativity, this theorem crimination intervened: Hitler took power in 1933 and she was fired for became a guiding principle for the discovery of new physical laws. For being Jewish. She escaped to the United States and taught at Bryn Mawr example, researchers soon realized that the conservation of net electric College in Pennsylvania, until she died in 1935, at the age of just 53. charge — which can neither be created nor Noether devoted her career to algebra and came to see it in a striking “Before Noether, destroyed — is intimately related to the rota- new light. “All of us like to rely on figures and formulas,” wrote Bartel topologists tional symmetry of a plane around a point. van der Waerden, her former student, in his obituary of Noether. “She had been The impact was profound: those who created was concerned with concepts only, not with visualization or calculation.” counting holes in the standard model of particle physics, and Noether saw maths as what are now called structures. -
ECONOMIC ENDEAVORS Volume 5, Issue 1 the Haverford College Economics Department Newsletter May 2012
ECONOMIC ENDEAVORS Volume 5, Issue 1 The Haverford College Economics Department Newsletter May 2012 Greetings from the Haverford Economics Department! This year our department was especially vibrant with eight full time faculty members. Shannon Mudd launched the microfinance and impact investment initiative with a new introductory course on microfinance, a microfinance speaker series with 4 practitioner/researchers visiting campus throughout the year, an extracurricular impact investing seminar, and a reopening of the microfinance In this issue: club. Student interest has been strong with high enrollments in all the courses, good turn-out at the speakers and a number of senior theses on microfinance. Professors Cichello and Banerjee have continued on staff replacing Dave Owens, who has been on junior leave, and Linda Bell, who is ~Greetings from finishing her five year term as provost. Department Chair Over fall break, Professor Banerjee took 17 students from his class, The Economics of Transition and Anne Preston~ Euro Adoption in Central and Eastern Europe, to Brussels, Belgium, and Frankfurt, Germany, to attend lectures at the EC, the European Central Bank and the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. The trip was funded by the CPGC and the President’s Office. Traveling during an ~Alumni exciting and tumultuous time in the history of the Euro, students saw their classwork come alive. Updates!~ They had front row seats in the policy debates over how to curb the European economic crisis. This year was the inauguration of the full year senior thesis. Fall term was spent attending a speaker series, building skills not taught elsewhere in the curriculum, and developing a research question, and ~Thesis Topics by the end of the fall semester all students had written and presented their thesis research proposal. -
Annual Report 2014-15
Annual Report 2014-15 Contents Director’s note 1 About CERP 3 Implementing Partners 4 Donors 4 CERP’s Network Affiliates 5 General Body 5 Board of Directors 5 Finance and Audit Committee 6 Procurement Committee 6 Company Secretary 6 Auditors 6 Financial Consultants 6 Legal Advisers 6 Financial Statement 7 Catalyzing Rigorous Policy Research About CERP CERP’s Implementing Partners The Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP) is a non-profit research center with the strategic objective * Adult Basic Education Society of informing policy and practice by filling socio-economic research gaps in Pakistan using rigorous economic * Agriculture Department, Government of Punjab research tools. CERP also facilitates an environment where the international academic community both within and * Aman Foundation outside Pakistan can work with program implementers to answer research questions that matter, bringing together * Communication and Works Department, Government of Punjab academic findings, policy advice, and focused debate. * Excise and Taxation Department, Government of Punjab * Finance Department, Government of Punjab Initiated in 2008 by economists at the Harvard Kennedy School, University of Chicago, Pomona College and Lahore * Health Department, Government of Punjab University of Management Sciences, CERP is continually expanding in both size and scope. The organization * Higher Education Department, Government of Punjab currently enjoys an inspirational roster of over 30 economists and social scientists working on numerous research * Livestock and Dairy Development Department (LDDD), Government of Punjab projects in collaboration with the government of Pakistan and several international organizations. Partnerships * Local Government Department, Government of Punjab with various government departments have included those with Punjab Livestock Development Department, * National Commission for Human Development (NCHD), Punjab Excise & Taxation Department and Punjab Resource Management Program. -
Riksbank Macroprudential Conference
SPEAKERS INFORMATION Riksbank Macroprudential Conference June 21–22 2016, Stockholm, Sweden 1 2 Opening remarks Kerstin af Jochnick First Deputy Governor Sveriges Riksbank Kerstin af Jochnick has been First Deputy which is a lobby organisation for banks with Governor of the Riksbank since January 2012. activities in Sweden. She has also been Chair Her current international assignments include of the Committee of European Banking the Basel Committee and the General Board Super visors as well as Head of Department of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB). at Finans inspektionen (the SwedishFinancial Kerstin af Jochnick has previously been Managing Supervisory Authority). Director of the Swedish Bankers’ Association, 3 Macroprudential challenges of managing real estate Author Charles W. Calomiris Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions Columbia Business School Charles W. Calomiris is Henry Kaufman Professor Calomiris received a B.A. in economics Professor of Financial Institutions at Columbia from Yale University, Magna Cum Laude, and Business School, Director of the Business School’s his Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. Program for Financial Studies and its Initiative on His most recent book (with Stephen Haber), Finance and Growth in Emerging Markets, and a Fragile By Design: The Political Origins of professor at Columbia’s School of International Banking Crises and Scarce Credit (Princeton and Public Affairs. 2014), received the American Publishers 2015 His research spans the areas of banking, Award for the best book in Business, Finance and corporate finance, financial history and monetary Management, and was named one of the Best economics. He serves as co- managing editor of Economics Books of 2014 by the Financial Times.