global financial crisis
Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Fracking, Germs, and the Global Financial Crisis
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.
At the risk of stating...
A New Capitalisn’t Episode: Winners and Losers in the Stimulus Bill – a Reading List
In order to combat the coronavirus, Congress has passed a $2 trillion stimulus bill that targets individuals, small businesses, and large corporations. From an...
Constitutional Limits to Independent Agencies and Central Banks: A Mini-Course With Paul Tucker (Part 2)
The Federal Reserve and the ECB have been taking unprecedented steps to react to the financial impact of Covid-19. To frame the debate around the...
The Economics of the Covid-19 Bailout: a Webinar
Princeton Professor Markus Brunnermeier and Nellie Liang, the former director of the Division of Financial Stability at the Federal Reserve, discuss the legacy of policy...
How to Interpret Financial Market Movements to Predict the Impact of Coronavirus on GDP
Equity markets in the EU and US dropped by as much as 30 percent, which means that investors have revised downward their estimate of...
