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...Thomas Barkin, the president of the Richmond Fed who will vote on the US central bank’s policy deliberations this year, is looking closely at whether retailers regain their ability to force manufacturers...
...Reinhart and Sbrancia [in The Liquidation of Government Debt] produced excellent research on this....
...Chief economics commentator Martin Wolf in this clip talks to OECD chief economist Laurence Boone; former NY Fed president Bill Dudley; World Bank chief economist Carmen Reinhart; and Markus Schomer, chief...
...Again, excessive growth of credit almost always leads to crises, as Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff showed in This Time is Different ....
...Thomas Edison once noted that genius was 1 per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration....
...Other readables This time is not different: Carmen Reinhart shows the current commodities bust is similar to the seven that came before it in the last two centuries....
...Thomas Piketty’s book, ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’, has been the publishing sensation of the year....
...The work of Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff (RR) on public sector debt ratios, and their relationship with GDP growth, has been extraordinarily influential in academic and policy circles since 2010....
...And it’s under attack by a trio at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst – Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash, and Robert Pollin....
...There’s also the claims about whether they made their data available for testing prior to responding to the request from grad student Thomas Herndon....
...Mike Konczal has the post of the day summarising a new paper by economists Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash, and Robert Pollin — they find flaws in the methodology used by Reinhart and Rogoff, in their controversial...
...The row began in April when a student, Thomas Herndon, tried and failed to replicate the famous R&R paper as a piece of coursework....
...The first was debunked last week by Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash and Robert Pollin, researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst....
...The recent critique by Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash and Robert Pollin of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst makes three specific charges against the conclusions of professors Reinhart and Rogoff:...
...In a new working paper, co-authored with Thomas Herndon, we found that these results were based on a series of data errors and unsupportable statistical techniques....
...But the Massachusetts academics – Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash and Robert Pollin – countered that when they repeated the analysis with the same data they got a figure of plus 2.2 per cent....
...(April was a good month for economics students elsewhere in Massachusetts: Thomas Herndon of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, delivered a reputational kneecapping to Harvard professors Carmen Reinhart...
...India. 39.Carmen Reinhart, economist. US. 40.James Robinson and Daron Acemoglu, political science and economics, authors. US and Turkey/US. 41.Hans Rosling, statistician....
...- Carmen Reinhart’s spreadsheets documenting two centuries of financial crises. - The Goldman Sachs class of 2010. - Mark Thoma explains why ending interest on reserves won’t have much effect....
...Related links: A question for the Kansas City Fed – Mark Thoma 2010 economic policy symposium – Kansas City Fed...
...In 1981 the US economist Thomas Sargent wrote a seminal paper on “The Ends of Four Big Inflations”. It was in many ways the epitaph for the Keynesian era....
...Documents filed in Paul Reinhart’s US bankruptcy proceedings provide a rare insight on how the volatility wreaked havoc....
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