Short-Run Fiscal

Featured
Q&A: Why is Fiscal Policy So Close to Being Neutral in Many Modern Macro Models?
Helicopter Drops of Money Are Not the Answer
Narayana Kocherlakota Advocates Negative Rates and Criticizes the Conduct of US Fiscal Policy
David Dreyer Lassen, Claus Thustrup Kreiner and Søren Leth-Petersen—Stimulus Policy: Why Not Let People Spend Their Own Money?
Quartz #55—>Righting Rogoff on Monetary Policy
Gary Conkling on My Federal Lines of Credit Proposal
On the Great Recession
Enkhjargal Lkhagvajav: John Taylor is Wrong—Inequality *Is* Holding Back the Recovery
Monetary vs. Fiscal Policy: Expansionary Monetary Policy Does Not Raise the Budget Deficit
Quartz #25—>Examining the Entrails: Is There Any Evidence for an Effect of Debt on Growth in the Reinhart and Rogoff Data?
Quartz #24—>After Crunching Reinhart and Rogoff's Data, We Found No Evidence High Debt Slows Growth
Twitter Debates Sparked by Miles's and Yichuan's Second Quartz Column on Reinhart and Rogoff
Instrumental Tools for Debt and Growth
Examining the Entrails: Is There Any Evidence for an Effect of Debt on Growth in the Reinhart and Rogoff Data?
An Independent Blog
For Sussing Out Whether Debt Affects Future Growth, the Key is Carefully Taking into Account Past Growth
Quartz #22—>An Economist's Mea Culpa: I Relied on Reinhart and Rogoff
After Crunching Reinhart and Rogoff's Data, We Found No Evidence That High Debt Slows Growth
Quartz #20—>Why Austerity Budgets Won't Save Your Economy
Quartz #18—>Show Me the Money!
An Economist's Mea Culpa: I Relied on Reinhart and Rogoff
Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash, Robert Pollin and Mike Konczal: Researchers Finally Had a Chance to Replicate Reinhart-Rogoff, and There Are Serious Problems.
We Don't Talk Enough About the Story Outside the Model
Why Austerity Budgets Won't Save Your Economy
Show Me the Money!
Quartz #1—>More Muscle than QE: With an Extra $2000 in Their Pockets, Could Americans Restart the US Economy?
Miles on HuffPost Live: Debt, Electronic Money, Federal Lines of Credit, and a Public Contribution Program
Noah Smith Joins My Debate with Paul Krugman: Debt, National Lines of Credit, and Politics
What Paul Krugman Got Wrong About Italy's Economy
Gita Gopinath Helps France Beat the Euro Straitjacket
See All Short-Run Fiscal Posts