You may have guessed that I enjoy poking the ruling elite in economics. That was the case with a self-declared tyrant that threatens the careers of my students, a Fed VC who thinks it is best to have neither his students at Columbia nor researchers at the Fed be trained in modern computational skills, and […]
At today’s macro conference hosted by John Taylor, George Hall presented his paper with Tom Sargent titled “Three world wars: Fiscal-monetary consequences” at today’s Taylor conference. James Bullard asked Hall and Sargent to compare their analysis of taxation and spending with the Barro theory. In their paper, Hall and Sargent say “After World War I
Macroeconomists endorse Barro (1979). I prefer Dehejia and Rowe (1995). Read More »
I am at John Taylor’s annual macroeconomic conference on monetary policy. The first panel included comments from Richard Clarida and Larry Summers. Time for questions ran out so I put mine here. Larry Summers said he asked an RA to run simulations of FRB/US, the primary Fed model, and reported that the results said a
Why can’t the Fed be as good as the Bank of Canada? Read More »
Richard Clarida presented “Monetary policy in open economies–Practical perspectives for pragmatic central bankers” at John Taylor’s 2014 conference “Frameworks for Central Banking in the Next Century” . The following is a cleaned up version of my comments and question to Prof. Clarida. The original transcript is at the end of this post. I’m Ken Judd
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Today I received an email from the University of Chicago Research Computing Center entitled “Celebrating Ten Years”. The RCC Director is Birali Runesha whose welcome describes its goals. I want to extend my congratulations to RCC and Birali for their excellent work over the past ten years. I was a frequent visitor at the University
Congratulations to the RCC and Director Birali Runesha! Read More »