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Deficits Debt and Capital Formation

…at all. I’d alwmost tend to suspect that Yglesias read that post and found the model a convincingly useful approximation to reality. However, Krugman’s model was designed to be immune…

The REH vs the EMH

…a model in which the optimal policy is laissez faire and a model in which the optimal policy is confiscation and equal distribution of all wealth. update 2: snark deleted….

Shrill

models of trading volume including the rational expectations assumption in the literature. For more than 20 years agents who trade with no motive described in the model have been present…

comment on Ambrosini

…CBO model to be an economic model, because I suppose it lacks micro foundations. The fact is that Krugman makes quantitavie calculations. To you they don’t count, because the theoretical…

Spending Model

Andrew Samwick posts “one of the most depressing graphs [he has] ever seen.” Recall the simplest formula Tom used: Savings = Personal Income – Personal Taxes – Personal Consumption Expenditures…

Fiscal Policy and the Trade Deficit

…internationally mobile. While the Erceg, Guerrieri, and Gust model does not have these Mundellian features, the model implicit in Glenn Hubbard’s writings for the Bush CEA on why fiscal stimulus…