Summary Spring 2013
This issue of the Summary features the Macro Modeling Team’s latest Strategic Analysis and a collection of Hyman P. Minsky’s writings on poverty and employment titled Ending Poverty: Jobs, Not Welfare. Also included are publications focused on the Fed’s history, governance, and policies; the social and economic consequences of the ongoing crisis in Greece; the challenges and policy choices faced by the eurozone; a demonstration of the emergence of secondary markets from the flow part of the economy using only structural axioms; gender differences in the long-term benefits of worker migration; the impacts of financialization and uncertainty on the accumulation process; the link between endogenous bank credit and the housing market; a review of the stock-flow consistent modeling literature; analyses of factors affecting US economic growth and business-cycle patterns in Latin America and the Caribbean; a Kaleckian perspective on income redistribution; a discussion of the trends in income inequality and household finance in the United States; and a critical exploration of the opportunities to promote gender equality through social protection initiatives in developing countries.
INSTITUTE RESEARCH
Program: The State of the US and World Economies
- DIMITRI B. PAPADIMITRIOU, GREG HANNSGEN, and MICHALIS NIKIFOROS, Is the Link between Output and Jobs Broken?
- C. J. POLYCRONIOU, The Tragedy of Greece: A Case against Neoliberal Economics, the Domestic Political Elite, and the EU/IMF Duo
- GIORGOS ARGITIS, Greece: Caught Fast in the Troika’s Austerity Trap
- ROBERT J. BARBERA and GERALD HOLTHAM, ECB Worries / European Woes: The Economic Consequences of Parochial Policy
Program: Monetary Policy and Financial Structure
- PHILIP ARESTIS, ANA ROSA GONZÁLEZ, and OSCÁR DEJUÁN, Investment, Financial Markets, and Uncertainty
- THORVALD GRUNG MOE, Marriner S. Eccles and the 1951 Treasury–Federal Reserve Accord: Lessons for Central Bank Independence
- PHILIP ARESTIS and ANA ROSA GONZÁLEZ, Endogenous Bank Credit and Its Link to Housing in OECD Countries
- THOMAS M. HUMPHREY, Arresting Financial Crises: The Fed versus the Classicals
- BARRY Z. CYNAMON and STEVEN M. FAZZARI, Inequality and Household Finance during the Consumer Age
- EUGENIO CAVERZASI, The Missing Macro Link
Program: Gender Equality and the Economy
- RANIA ANTONOPOULOS, Expanding Social Protection in Developing Countries: A Gender Perspective
Program: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Social Structure
- SANJAYA DESILVA, Long-Term Benefits from Temporary Migration: Does the Gender of the Migrant Matter?
Program: Economic Policy for the 21st Century
Explorations in Theory and Empirical Analysis
- EGMONT KAKAROT-HANDTKE, Primary and Secondary Markets
- LEKHA S. CHAKRABORTY, Interest Rate Determination in India: Empirical Evidence on Fiscal Deficit – Interest Rate Linkages and Financial Crowding Out
- EUGENIO CAVERZASI and ANTOINE GODIN, Stock-flow Consistent Modeling through the Ages
- ECKHARD HEIN, Finance-dominated Capitalism and Redistribution of Income: A Kaleckian Perspective
- LEKHA S. CHAKRABORTY, YADAWENDRA SINGH, and JANNET FARIDA JACOB, Analyzing Public Expenditure Benefit Incidence in Health Care: Evidence from India
- ESTEBAN PÉREZ CALDENTEY, DANIEL TITELMAN, and PABLO CARVALLO, Weak Expansions: A Distinctive Feature of the Business Cycle in Latin America and the Caribbean
- OLIVIER G. GIOVANNONI, Growth Trends and Cycles in the American Postwar Period, with Implications for Policy
- MICHAEL A. VALENTI and OLIVIER GIOVANNONI, The Economics of Inclusion: Building an Argument for a Shared Society
INSTITUTE NEWS
- New Levy Institute Book
- New Master’s Degree Program in Economic Theory and Policy
- New Research Scholar
- Economic Forum in Athens
Upcoming Events:
- 22nd Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference: Building a Financial Structure for a More Stable and Equitable Economy
- The 2013 Hyman P. Minsky Summer Seminar
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
- Publications and Presentations by Levy Institute Scholars
- Recent Levy Institute Publications