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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

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Who does original research?

Jul 23, 2011

INET is all about thinking new things, and indeed academia is supposed to inspire great thoughts.

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A PBoC balance sheet primer

Jul 4, 2011

Last time, I looked at the Chinese property market. The last link in that chain of financial interlinkages is the People’s Bank of China, the Chinese central bank.

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Introducing the Jazz economist

Jul 3, 2011

You would have thought that to be a “jazz economist” was a good thing. I first imagined a “cool cat” that would entrance the hearts and minds of the populace. Not so.

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Shocks

Jun 21, 2011

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A Cold Case

Jun 20, 2011

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Are banks firms?

Jun 11, 2011

New Thinking about Modigliani-Miller

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Chinese property: a money view

Jun 9, 2011

The Chinese property market may finally be boiling over; there are certainly enough signs that the bubble is ready to burst.

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The New Fed and the Real World

May 6, 2011

Breaking the Silence

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These Things Take Time

May 3, 2011

Last week, I spent a few days in the Dalton-Brand Research Room, at Duke University, skimming through the

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TSLF and the price of good collateral

Apr 13, 2011

In my last post I argued that if we want a Fed that is ready for the next crisis, we had better understand what happened to it during the last one.

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Upon leaving Mount Washington

Apr 13, 2011

The place invites poetry. By the way, all sessions can be viewed from the – check out in particular the last session featuring Gillian Tett of the Financial Times moderating a discussion between Paul Volcker and George Soros