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Once again the issue is a matter of dispute among policymakers and economists.
Contrary to what such forecasting disparities may suggest, economists actually know a lot about the consequences of fiscal policy, at least much more than they used to know.
Economists are a fractious lot, but they are also stubborn investigators, so the controversy prompted new research into the effects of budgetary retrenchments.
Table 1: Household Saving Rate: Difference in Twins and Only Child Households by Income GroupOnly-Child HouseholdsTwin HouseholdsAverage household Saving Rate21.3%12.8%lowest 20% income quintile6.4%-2.9%second lowest quintile18.3%16.6%middle income23.7%10.3%second highest quintile27.4%19.5%highest 20% quintile33.4%25.4%Source: Urban Household Survey 2002-2009Inviting the AvoidableMaybe it is excessive skittishness, or perhaps it is the result of global financial volatility in recent years – crises in Mexico in 1994-5, East Asia in 1997-98, Russia in 1998, and then in Brazil, Turkey, and Argentina – but we economists are more concerned about monetary affairs and possible future disasters than we have been in many decades.
This is economists’ polite code for the message that the US must gradually cut its budget deficit, while other countries – like China and Japan – must gradually let the value of the dollar fall and that of their own currencies rise.
Piketty’s book, published in 2013, did much to put inequality back on the agenda of American economists.
As Hyun Shin and other economists at the Bank for International Settlements have argued, low developed-country interest rates and a weak dollar drove financial markets, led by the New York and London hubs, to borrow money in low-interest-rate currencies and invest in higher-interest-rate currencies.
As Bank of Japan economists point out, Japanese holdings of foreign assets are less profitable than foreign holdings of Japanese assets.
It also explains what World Bank economists Xavier Cirera and William Maloney have called the “innovation paradox”: despite the vast potential returns to investment in innovation in developing countries, those countries pursue far less of it than their advanced counterparts.
These impressive figures emerged from a comprehensive analysis conducted by a team of top economists tasked by my think tank, the Copenhagen Consensus Center, with assessing possible population-related targets, in order to identify the best global investments.
Are we in the midst of what economists call “multiple equilibria,” in which one unfavorable shift makes another, even worse, shift more probable?
For example, economists are beginning to resist the inclination to rely on too many simplifying assumptions that facilitate modeling but are removed from reality.
The ratio of market value to book value, termed “Tobin’s Q” by financial economists, is a standard measure for evaluating how effectively firms use the capital they have.
Financial economists view such luck-based compensation as a sign of governance problems.
Root-and-branch stimulus opponents whose work has crossed my desk recently include efficient-markets fundamentalists like the University of Chicago’s Eugene Fama, Marxists like CUNY’s David Harvey, classical economists like Harvard’s Robert Barro, gold bugs like the Council on Foreign Relation's Benn Steil, and a host of others.
The first account relied on the view, most closely associated with the economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, that recovery from a recession takes longer if the cause was a crash in housing and financial markets.
Making the energy sector work properly – an objective that unites both environmentalists and economists – means recognizing that a short-term economic boost cannot justify the long-term costs of fossil fuels.
Understanding the Productivity PuzzleLONDON – In all major economies, the so-called productivity puzzle continues to perplex economists and policymakers: output per hour is significantly lower than it would have been had the pre-2008 growth trend continued.
And while it goes without saying that economists have many ingenious explanations to offer, none has yet proved persuasive enough to create a consensus.
Some economists attribute the current surge of populism to the “hyper-globalization” of the 1990s, with liberalization of international financial flows and the creation of the World Trade Organization – and particularly China’s WTO accession in 2001 – receiving the most attention.
Even so, he adds that economists have a moral responsibility to stop ignoring those left behind.
This elderly cohort holds what the economists Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson call de jure political power, that is, decision-making power allocated by constitutions or electoral systems.
Several economists with little knowledge of public health became outspoken opponents.
Although we know this to be the case, the vast majority of Western economists and institutions continue to encourage China and India to consume more.
Perhaps the best analogy is an old puzzle posed by the classical economists three centuries ago: why is there such a difference between the price of water and the price of diamonds?
For economists, a recession is over when the economy starts to grow.
Many economists believe that it was one major episode, and that is probably the appropriate way to think about it in a broader historical context.
The Long Mystery of Low Interest RatesCAMBRIDGE – As policymakers and investors continue to fret over the risks posed by today’s ultra-low global interest rates, academic economists continue to debate the underlying causes.
But economists disagree on why we have the glut, how long it will last, and, most fundamentally, on whether it is a good thing.
Like most economists, he believes that if policymakers try to keep interest rates at artificially low levels for too long, eventually demand will soar and inflation will jump.
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