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Zero Lower Bounds

…region with a downward sloping long run Phillips curve. I am trying to summarize Akerlof, Dickens and Perry 1996 (warning pdf). This would imply that a very low inflation target

The Taper Tantrum

…added tax. Monetary policy at the ZLB isn’t helpless, but it can be overwhelmed by fiscal policy. The assertion that a sufficiently determined monetary authority can target nominal GDP has…

Greek Deal

…a Greek surrender, they haven’t conceded the key point. Greece got Europe to concede that it “will, for the 2015 primary surplus target, take the economic circumstances of 2015 into…

Greek Tale(s)

…of GDP, above its target. But real GDP, which was expected to drop between 2009 and 2012 by 5.5%, actually declined by 17%. The debt/GDP level, which was supposed to…