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• ►2022 (57)
  • ►January(57)
    • Fair and Inclusive Markets: Why Fostering Dynamism Matters
    • Want to make better forecasts? Here are two traps to avoid
    • Data Sources Compendium [Updated]
    • Kevin Erdmann was right
    • Paul Krugman and Tyler Cowen on the housing boom
    • Why Ireland’s housing bubble burst
    • Chart of the day…. or century?
    • Why skyscrapers are so short
    • Modelling Okun’s Law – Does non-Gaussianity Matter?
    • Does Financial "Bonanza" Cause Premature Deindustrialization?
    • World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2022
    • Housing View – January 21, 2022
    • Inequality and Health Crises
    • EconoFact at Five
    • Housing affordability and responses during times of stress: A preliminary look during the COVID-19 pandemic
    • Residential Mobility and Unemployment in the UK
    • Thinking Can Make It So: The Important Role of Inflation Expectations
    • [New Paper] Parameter-efficient deep probabilistic forecasting
    • New Evidence on the Measurement and Determinants of Poverty in the United States
    • Fraud and the financial crisis
    • [New Paper] On the Macroeconomic Consequences of Over-Optimism
    • UN Report- World Economic Situation and Prospects 2022
    • Working from home and corporate real estate
    • Understanding the Declining Share of Labor in USA's National Income
    • Labor Shortages and the Immigration Shortfall
    • The Mussa puzzle and the optimal exchange rate policy
    • The Agglomeration of Urban Amenities: Evidence from Milan Restaurants
    • The US Economy as 2022 Begins
    • The Inflation Outlook
    • Nonprofits in Good Times and Bad Times
    • Do Exchange Rate Movements Equalize Yields?
    • How democracy causes growth: Evidence from Indonesia
    • Housing View – January 14, 2022
    • What Americans Like about their Health Care
    • Fiscal Inflation
    • The Promise of Services-Led Development with Small Firms
    • [New Paper] Forecasting Real GDP Growth for Africa
    • World Bank Global Economic Prospects Report
    • Bloomberg: There Was No Housing Bubble in 2008 and There Isn’t One Now
    • A Measurement of Aggregate Trade Restrictions and their Economic Effects
    • Prime Real Estate Newsletter – January 2022
    • Clubs and Networks in Economics Reviewing
    • Macroeconomic Research, Present and Past
    • Elite Capture of Foreign Aid: Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts
    • Should Blacks Apply for Mortgage Loans at the End of the Month?
    • Alvin Rabushka: A link to his work
    • Emerging-Market Central Bank Purchases Can be Effective but Carry Risks
    • The unemployment-risk channel in business cycle fluctuations
    • Housing View – January 7, 2022
    • Tackling regional inequality "while we wait for levelling up"
    • Global services value chains: A new path to development
    • The Price of Nails since 1695: A Window into Economic Change
    • How long can the global housing boom last?
    • Rising Inflation and the Cause for Concern
    • Correlates of declining income inequality in emerging and developing nations
    • The new consensus of economists is further to the left
    • Okun's Law in Liechtenstein
• ►2021 (125)
  • ►December(42)
    • Moving on up? Understanding migration to red states in 2021
    • Measuring US Core Inflation: The Stress Test of COVID-19
    • Inequality in India Declined during COVID
    • The Ghost of Christmas Inflation
    • New Evidence on Social Mobility in Germany
    • Book: India's Industrial Policy and Performance
    • How to Achieve Inclusive Growth: Major New Book from the IMF
    • Forecasting Facing Economic Shifts, Climate Change and Evolving Pandemics
    • Why low interest rates force us to revisit the scope and role of fiscal policy
    • The Latin American Pandemic
    • VIDEO: Discussing Global Recovery from the Pandemic with Gita Gopinath
    • Where Can Residential Real Estate Investors Find the Most Potential ROI?
    • Interview with Edward Glaeser on Urban Evolution
    • Reversing the Pandemic's Education Losses
    • Buildings key to achieving Europe’s climate goals
    • Role of Decentralized Financing in Improving Healthcare Provisioning
    • Housing View – December 17, 2021
    • WHO Analyzes Trends in Global Healthcare Expenditure
    • PODCAST: The Challenges of Macroeconomic Forecasting in the Era of COVID
    • Pensions at a Glance: Challenges of Ageing Populations
    • The State of Economic Opportunity in America
    • China’s Coming Property Correction: A Managed Soft Landing
    • The Economic Success of East Asia: Industrial Policy or Sound Fundamentals?
    • The laws of attraction: Economic drivers of inter-regional migration, the role of housing, and public policies
    • A Better Deal for the World's Workers
    • Paul Krugman on Inflation: The ‘Team Transitory’ View: Transcript of Nov. 30 Webinar
    • Housing View – December 10, 2021
    • Free Lunch: The Global State of Inequality
    • Where is Standard of Living the Highest? Local Prices and the Geography of Consumption
    • World Inequality Report 2022
    • Housing Market in Albania
    • Race and Economic Well-Being in the United States
    • Real-Time Forecasting with a (Standard) Mixed-Frequency VAR During a Pandemic
    • Housing Market in Australia
    • Are Your Greenhouse Gas Emissions All About Location, Location, Location?
    • Productivity and Pay in the US and Canada
    • 2022 AEA’s papers on housing
    • Creating a Disability-Inclusive Society
    • Combating Food Insecurity: Data-Based Approaches
    • Housing View – December 3, 2021
    • Industrial Policy Makes A Comeback in Africa
    • A new survey-based measure of economic uncertainty
  • ►November(52)
    • House Prices in Mongolia
    • The Economic Middle Class and Welfare Policy Implications
    • Kaushik Basu explains the Global Inflation Conundrum
    • Demographia United States Housing Affordability: 188 Markets Rated
    • Why People Vote Against Redistributive Policies That Would Benefit Them?
    • Housing View – November 26, 2021
    • Distributional Impacts of COVID-19 in the MENA Region
    • Dani Rodrik's Primer on Trade and Inequality
    • Some Eviction Economics
    • State Capacity: What Is It, How We Lost It, And How To Get It Back
    • Federal Reserve Board) will present “Evaluating the Federal Reserve’s Tealbook Forecasts
    • Why Has Global Wealth Grown So Quickly?
    • Does Inequality Matter?
    • The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
    • Coming Together- 17 Rooms Global Flagship Synthesis Report
    • Housing View – November 19, 2021
    • Wealth and History: A Reappraisal
    • China's New Goal for Income Distribution: Some Insights from Survey Data back from 1981
    • From recovery to expansion, amid headwinds: The Commission's Autumn 2021 Forecast
    • Oil Price Futures and Forecasts
    • When Residential Real Estate Turned Commercial: Working from Home
    • The post-war rise of popular wealth
    • Macrofinancial Causes of Optimism in Growth Forecasts
    • The Feminist Building Blocks of Just, Sustainable Economy
    • More than Economists
    • Housing Market in Netherlands
    • Credit, crises, and inequality
    • Trade, development and political economy: The life and work of Ronald Findlay, 1935-2021
    • Evaluating Interventions for Public Infrastructure Maintenance and Usage
    • Could clean energy be the answer to China's demographic woes? Dean Baker answers.
    • Housing View – November 12, 2021
    • Economic Growth and the Role of Robust Bureaucratic Machinery
    • Nowcasting with large Bayesian vector autoregressions
    • When industrial policy worked: The case of South Korea
    • In memory of John Williamson, 1937-2021
    • Modern Discourse on Inequality
    • Early Childhood Development, Human Capital Formation, and Poverty
    • Who Paid Los Angeles' Minimum Wage? A Side-by-Side Minimum Wage Experiment in Los Angeles County
    • Forecasting Macroeconomic Variables in Emerging Economies
    • Comparing forecasting performance in cross-sections
    • Examining the role of Social Identity, Skills, and Personality in determining Labor Market Mobility in India
    • Housing View – November 5, 2021
    • Absolute Poverty and Sound Public Finance in the Eurozone
    • The Climate Action Gender Gap
    • Flattening the curve: Pandemic-Induced revaluation of urban real estate
    • Conference Board: Are Consumer Expectations Signaling a U.S. Recession?
    • The International Monetary Fund's View of Social Equity Throughout Its 75 Years of Existence
    • Affordable Housing as a Pathway to Economic Opportunity
    • Why are relatively poor people not more supportive of redistribution?
    • After floods and pandemics: How to obtain a meaningful forecast
    • Boosting Tax Revenues with Mixed-Frequency Data in the Aftermath of Covid-19: The Case of New York
    • Bryson and Blanchflower use expectations data to argue that US is entering recession
  • ►October(12)
    • Housing View – October 29, 2021
    • Economics of socialism and transition: The life and work of János Kornai, 1928-2021
    • Housing View – October 22, 2021
    • Natural experiments in labour economics and beyond: The 2021 Nobel laureates David Card, Joshua Angrist, and Guido Imbens
    • Housing View – October 15, 2021
    • Why the U.S. Housing Boom Isn’t a Bubble
    • Do Foreign Buyer Taxes Affect House Prices?
    • House Prices and Consumer Price Inflation
    • Euro Area Housing Markets: Trends, Challenges and Policy Responses
    • Housing View – October 8, 2021
    • Racial Disparities in Housing Returns
    • Housing View – October 1, 2021
  • ►September(9)
    • Housing View – September 24, 2021
    • Can China’s outsized real estate sector amplify a Delta-induced slowdown?
    • Housing Market in Belgium
    • Housing Market in the Philippines
    • Housing Market in Lithuania
    • Housing Market in Latvia
    • Housing Market in Croatia
    • House Prices in Austria
    • Housing Market in the US
  • ►July(4)
    • Housing Market in Estonia
    • Housing Market in Germany
    • Housing Market in Singapore
    • Housing Market in Saudi Arabia
  • ►June(6)
    • Housing Market in Switzerland
    • Housing Market in Slovak Republic
    • Housing Market in Hungary
    • Housing Market in Ireland
    • Housing Market in Cyprus
    • Housing Market in Denmark
• ►2020 (67)
  • ►June(1)
    • U.S. Housing Markets and the COVID-19 Crisis: EconoFact
  • ►May(3)
    • COVID-19 will raise inequality if past pandemics are a guide
    • Lockdowns averted 650,000 Covid-19 deaths
    • Algorithmic economics and how it might help recovery from Covid-19
  • ►April(12)
    • Forecasting Turning Points: An Update
    • A Look at Demographia's Latest Housing Affordability Survey
    • Housing View – April 17, 2020
    • The German housing market cycle: Answers to FAQs
    • Sneak Preview of COVID-19 Impact on U.S. Job Market
    • Housing View – April 10, 2020
    • How many jobs can be done at home?
    • Room to Grow: Housing for a New Economy
    • FT editorial: “Radical reforms are required to forge a society that will work for all”
    • New Measure of Pandemic Uncertainty: COVID-19 is all-time high
    • Housing View – April 3, 2020
    • The Economic Consequences of the Virus: Views of Top Macroeconomists
  • ►March(9)
    • Housing View – March 27, 2020
    • Housing View – March 20, 2020
    • Flattening the Pandemic and Recession Curves
    • Coronavirus Response Should Include Urgent Fiscal Policy Measures to Address Financial Hardship, Stave Off a Severe Recession
    • Housing View – March 13, 2020
    • Operationalizing Inclusive Growth: Per-Percentile Diagnostics to Inform Redistribution Policies
    • Housing View – March 6, 2020
    • House Prices in Australia
    • Transitory and Permanent Shocks in the Global Market for Crude Oil
  • ►February(26)
    • House Prices in Malaysia
    • Foreign Demand and Local House Prices: Evidence from the US
    • Household Debt and House Prices-at-risk: A Tale of Two Countries
    • Economists should learn lessons from meteorologists
    • Housing View – February 28, 2020
    • Mobility and Political Upheaval in an Age of Inequality
    • Untangling India's Distinctive Economic Story
    • How Affordable is Housing? Insights from a New Data Set
    • Housing View – February 21, 2020
    • The accuracy of long-term growth forecasts by economics researchers
    • Distributional Implications of Labor Market Reforms: Learning from Spain's Experience
    • House prices in Croatia
    • Property price dynamics: domestic and international drivers
    • What makes capital cities the best places to live?
    • Housing View – February 14, 2020
    • Construction Activity Can Signal When Credit Booms Go Wrong
    • Scottish Home Prices: Compatible with Euro Membership?
    • Growth divergence and income inequality in OECD countries: the role of trade and financial openness
    • A just transition must help those struggling to heat their homes
    • Disappearing Cities: Demographic Headwinds and their Impact on Japan’s Housing Market
    • Philippines: Is Real Estate Credit a Concern?
    • Housing View – February 7, 2020
    • Poverty Reduction and Economic Growth
    • Why Economists Should Act More Like Weather Forecasters
    • Annual US CO2 Emissions, 1987 to 2030 (est.)
    • Guyana: Housing Market and Implications for Macroprudential Policies
  • ►January(16)
    • Housing View – January 31, 2020
    • Six Charts Explain South Africa's Inequality
    • Housing View – January 24, 2020
    • As California comes to grips with housing crisis, Texas real estate rises in 2020
    • House prices in Estonia
    • International Effects of Stock Market Dispersion
    • The (Subjective) Well-Being Cost of Fiscal Policy Shocks
    • Predicting Downside Risks to House Prices and Macro-Financial Stability
    • Finance and Inequality
    • Housing View – January 17, 2020
    • House prices in Finland
    • Central Banks and Climate Change
    • House Prices in Peru
    • Experts Confer on the State of the U.S. Rental Housing Market
    • Housing View – January 10, 2020
    • Housing View – January 2, 2020 [2020 AEA Annual Meeting Special Edition]
• ►2019 (288)
  • ►December(18)
    • Quality Upgrading and Export Performance in the Asian Growth Miracle
    • The Old Boys' Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap
    • Housing View – December 13, 2019
    • Top Ten Posts of 2019
    • Paul Volcker: 1927-2019
    • Housing Market in Cyprus
    • China’s Productivity Convergence and Growth Potential—A Stocktaking and Sectoral Approach
    • A Look at Housing Affordability in Asia
    • Views from housing market experts
    • Local Capital Scarcity and Small Firm Growth: Evidence from Real Estate Booms in China
    • Housing View – December 6, 2019
    • Accuracy and Determinants of Self-Assessed Euro Area House Prices
    • Housing Market in Hungary
    • South and Midwest Regions are Gaining Larger Share of Homebuyers
    • Summer reading list for the Prime Minister 2019
    • Chile’s insurgency and the end of neoliberalism
    • The aggregate and distributional effects of financial globalisation
    • The interplay between national and parental unemployment in relation to adolescent life satisfaction in 27 countries
  • ►November(15)
    • Housing View – November 29, 2019
    • Finance and decarbonisation: why equity markets do it better
    • A profile of Harvard’s Edward Glaeser
    • Housing View – November 22, 2019
    • A Look at the Evolution of Credit as a Policy Tool
    • Should Monetary Policy Take Inequality and Climate Change into Account?
    • Assessing House Prices in Canada
    • Housing View – November 15, 2019
    • How developing countries can get ahead
    • Resolving the missing deflation and inflation puzzles
    • Empirical Analysis of Labor Markets over Business Cycles
    • Unemployment insurance schemes around the world: Evidence and policy options
    • Housing View – November 8, 2019
    • Who deserves the Nobel for China’s economic development?
    • Housing View – November 1, 2019
  • ►October(23)
    • CBO’s Economic Forecasting Record: 2019 Update
    • Building Urban Resilience: An Evaluation of the World Bank Group’s Evolving Experience (2007-2017)
    • Geography of desperation in America
    • Trade effects of 3D printing (that you didn’t hear about)
    • Housing View – October 25, 2019
    • The Phillips curve: Dead or alive
    • Understanding the rise in second-home buying
    • Housing policies to combat the affordability crisis
    • Housing View – October 18, 2019
    • The link between declining middle-wage jobs, rising wage inequality, and worker welfare
    • Putting Economic Policy to the Test: An economist’s real-life experiments yield surprising results
    • Recession 2020?
    • Drilling Down: The Impact of Oil Price Shocks on Housing Prices
    • Housing View – October 11, 2019
    • Reigniting Growth in Emerging Market and Low-Income Economies: What Role for Structural Reforms?
    • Housing market in Thailand
    • Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State – Book Review
    • Changing business cycles: The role of women’s employment
    • We cannot build our way out of inequality
    • Housing View – October 4, 2019
    • Structural Reforms and Election: Evidence from a World-Wide New Dataset
    • To Tackle Housing Affordability in Canada, Build More Houses
    • How Mexico’s Social Spending Reduced Poverty and Income Inequality
  • ►September(21)
    • Tracking uncertainty across the globe
    • The Phillips Curve: a Relation between Real Exchange Rate Growth and Unemployment
    • Private Sector Job Creation in MENA: Prioritizing the Reform Agenda
    • Beyond Growth: Towards A New Economic Approach
    • Housing View – September 27, 2019
    • Public economics and public policy: The ideas and influence of Martin Feldstein, 1939-2019
    • How Should We Measure City Size? Theory and Evidence Within and Across Rich and Poor Countries
    • Housing Affordability in New Zealand
    • Housing View – September 20, 2019
    • Advancing Inclusive Growth in Cambodia
    • House prices in Mongolia
    • Evaluating housing affordability policies: What works?
    • Manufacturing Jobs and Inequality: Why is the U.S. Experience Different?
    • House Prices in Namibia
    • Housing View – September 13, 2019
    • Reallocating Public Spending to Reduce Income Inequality: Can It Work?
    • Fixing Capitalism
    • Understanding what works for active labour market policies
    • Macroeconomic and Financial Policies for Climate Change Mitigation: A Review of the Literature
    • The Global Liveability Index 2019
    • Housing Market in Saudi Arabia
  • ►August(9)
    • Attempting to Avoid a Recession: Fortune or Folly?
    • Housing markets and inequality
    • Lessons in economics from Algeria’s victory in the Africa Cup of Nations
    • Good for the environment, good for business: Foreign acquisitions and energy intensity
    • House Prices in China
    • Labor Market Slack and the Output Gap: The Case of Korea
    • House Prices in Latvia
    • Monetary Policy, Housing Rents and Inflation Dynamics
    • House Prices in Indonesia
  • ►July(28)
    • House Prices in Lithuania
    • Designing Good Labour Market Institutions: How to Reconcile Flexibility, Productivity and Security?
    • Residential Mobility and Unemployment in the UK
    • A Hesitant Transition: Renewable Energy Growth and Carbon Emissions
    • Housing Market in France
    • Okun's Law--Sectoral and Cross Country Differences
    • Costs of Recessions
    • Mapped: The Countries With the Highest Housing Bubble Risks
    • Decoupling-Debunked
    • Recession Forecasts Are So Bad, They're Good
    • Intergenerational mobility in Italy: Income distribution and regional analysis
    • Housing View – July 19, 2019
    • Why Is Inflation Low Globally?
    • Housing Market in Singapore
    • The effects of global warming on rural–urban migrations
    • Explaining High Unemployment in ECCU Countries
    • Housing Market in Slovak Republic
    • Is There a Relationship between Inflation and Unemployment?
    • Real Estate Prices in Portugal
    • Housing View – July 12, 2019
    • Housing Market in the Euro Area
    • Housing Market in Germany
    • Wealth Inequality and Private Savings in Germany
    • Grenada : Climate Change Policy Assessment
    • Capital Account Liberalization and Inequality
    • Housing View – July 5, 2019
    • Robots and Firms---A fresh perspective
    • Summer Reading: Recommendations by Experts on Housing Markets
  • ►June(20)
    • Housing View – June 28, 2019
    • Assessing House Prices in Canada
    • U.S. Housing Market
    • Housing Market in Denmark
    • Housing View – June 21, 2019
    • Managing House Price Booms: Evolution of IMF Surveillance and Policy Advice
    • The return of the policy that shall not be named: Principles of industrial policy
    • Housing Market in Ireland
    • Some Snapshots of the Global Energy Situation
    • Housing Market in Czech Republic
    • Housing View – June 14, 2019
    • House Prices in Norway
    • RIP Marty Feldstein
    • IMF's Ian Parry receives the IAEE's 2019 annual prize for outstanding contributions to the field
    • GDP and beyond: New Zealand's well-being budget prioritizes gross national well-being
    • Understanding Housing Finance: Views from Susan Wachter
    • Housing View – June 6, 2019
    • Animated chart of US oil production by state, 1981-2018
    • Stranded! How Rising Inequality Suppressed US Migration and Hurt Those Left Behind
    • Qatar: Property Market Update
  • ►May(24)
    • The radical plan to change how Harvard teaches economics
    • Housing View – May 31, 2019
    • A case for second-best solutions in climate policy
    • Housing View – May 24, 2019
    • Shorter working weeks needed to tackle climate crisis
    • How inequality makes us poorer
    • Climate Change Heterogeneity
    • The Rise of Robots in China
    • Daniel Hamermesh: How Do People Spend Time?
    • Energy and the Military: Leading by Example
    • The new globalisation and income inequality
    • Housing View – May 17, 2019
    • Evolution of Macroprudential Policies in Korea
    • Housing Market in Luxembourg
    • Housing Market in Macao
    • Housing View – May 10, 2019
    • Snapshots of US Income Taxation Over Time
    • Is Something Different this Time about the Effect of Technology on Labor Markets?
    • Globalization, Market Power, and the Natural Interest Rate
    • Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Remain Large: An Update Based on Country-Level Estimates
    • The next US recession is likely to be around the corner
    • The Great Divide: Regional Inequality and Fiscal Policy
    • The next US recession is likely to be around the corner
    • Housing View – May 3, 2019
  • ►April(31)
    • Revisiting the causal effect of democracy on long-run development
    • Shadows and lights of globalization
    • Housing View – April 26, 2019
    • Forty years of inequality in Europe: Evidence from distributional national accounts
    • 18 spectacularly wrong predictions made around the time of first Earth Day in 1970, expect more this year
    • Employee wellbeing, productivity, and firm performance: Evidence from 1.8 million employees
    • Promotions and the Peter Principle
    • School finance equalisation increases intergenerational mobility
    • Understanding Housing Supply: Views from Jenny Schuetz
    • Housing View – April 19, 2019
    • The Captain Swing Riots; Workers and Threshing Machines in the 1830s
    • It’s too soon for optimism about convergence
    • House Prices in Myanmar
    • Housing View – April 12, 2019
    • Inclusive development in Africa
    • Stability of the labour shares: evidence from OECD economies
    • Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the richest of them all?
    • Rethinking the Phillips Curve: Inflation May Rise Modestly Next Year
    • An Assessment of the IMF’s Unemployment Forecasts
    • Illuminating Economic Growth
    • Subjective Models of the Macroeconomy: Evidence From Experts and a Representative Sample
    • Measuring unemployment and labor-force participation
    • Universal Basic Income: The Promise vs the Practicalities
    • The Power of Two: Inclusive Growth and the IMF
    • Housing View – April 5, 2019
    • Assessing the Risk of the Next Housing Bust
    • The missing link between income inequality and economic growth: Inequality of opportunity
    • Housing Market in Kuwait
    • Monetary Policy, Growth and Employment in Developing Areas: A Review of the Literature
    • Some US Social Indicators Since 1960
    • As income pie shrinks, Ottawa and business community talk past each other
  • ►March(31)
    • Housing Market in Sweden
    • Accounting for Urban China’s Rising Income Inequality: The Roles of the Labor Market, Human Capital, and Marriage Market Factors
    • I’m taking Friday off—permanently
    • Work of the past, work of the future
    • Housing View – March 29, 2019
    • News-driven inflation expectations and information rigidities
    • The Return of the Policy That Shall Not Be Named: Principles of Industrial Policy
    • Climate Change and the Federal Reserve
    • Housing Market in San Marino
    • Share of global cumulative CO₂ emissions
    • The Structural Determinants of the Labor Share in Europe
    • House Prices in Bulgaria
    • The Remarkable Renaissance in US Fossil Fuel Production
    • Housing View – March 22, 2019
    • Fundamental and Speculative Demands for Housing
    • The Total Risk Premium Puzzle
    • Assessing House Prices with Prudential and Valuation Measures
    • China’s investment in coal power
    • Unemployment Surges in the EU: The Role of Risk Premium Shocks
    • Paul Cheshire on Urban Economics
    • Housing View – March 15, 2019
    • Optimising Production: Industrial Policies in Networks
    • Confronting Inequality: How Societies Can Choose Inclusive Growth
    • Sources of US Greenhouse Gas Emissions
    • Housing Market in Belgium
    • Housing Market in Malaysia
    • How finance affects income inequality
    • Housing View – March 8, 2019
    • Housing Market in Malta
    • A profile of Branko Milanovic, a leading scholar of inequality
    • Housing View – March 1, 2019
  • ►February(34)
    • Macro reasons to loath protectionism
    • Macroeconomic Gains from Reforming the Agri-Food Sector: The Case of France
    • Macro Aspects of Housing
    • Are Labor Market Indicators Telling the Truth? Role of Measurement Error in the U.S. Current Population Survey
    • Gross National Happiness and Macro Indicators in Bhutan
    • Housing Market in Australia
    • Housing View – February 22, 2019
    • Real exchange rates for economic development
    • The whys and wherefores of short-time work: Evidence from 20 countries
    • Some Proposals for Improving Work, Wages, and Skills for Americans
    • Wellbeing measurements, Easterlin’s paradox and new growth models: A perspective through gross national happiness
    • Housing Market in Slovenia
    • Housing Market in Nepal
    • Labour mobility and adjustment to shocks in the euro area: The role of immigrants
    • The forecasting record
    • Two hundred years of health and medical care
    • The China shock and its impact on income inequality in Vietnam
    • A Look at Housing, Mobility and Welfare
    • Economics for Inclusive Prosperity (EfIP)
    • Inequality of Opportunity, Inequality of Income and Economic Growth
    • Housing View – February 15, 2019
    • Housing Market in Croatia
    • Housing Market in the Netherlands
    • Subsidising labour hoarding in recessions: New evidence from Italy’s Cassa Integrazione
    • Fiscal Policy and Development : Human, Social, and Physical Investments for the SDGs
    • Improving Youth Labor Market Outcomes in Emerging Market and Developing Economies
    • Dani Rodrik on Industrial Policies
    • Housing View – February 8, 2019
    • House Prices in Italy
    • Housing Market in Poland
    • 58 Episodes of Hyperinflation (Venezuela is #23)
    • Building an adequate U.S. labor and social protection system for the 21st century
    • Housing Market in the United Arab Emirates
    • Housing View – February 1, 2019
  • ►January(34)
    • Budget Deficits and Debt: Background and Tradeoffs
    • Stock market turbulence: is US recession risk rising?
    • Revenue Mobilization and Inequality in Senegal
    • Gender Gaps in Senegal: From Education to Labor Market
    • Natural Resources in Senegal Before and After the Recent Oil and Gas Discoveries
    • Beyond Okun’s law: Introducing labour market flows
    • A Comparison of Alternative Programs for Climate Policies
    • Commodity Terms of Trade: A New Database
    • Ukraine: Residential Property Price Index
    • Housing Market in Hong Kong
    • Housing View – January 25, 2019
    • Does Ultra-Low Unemployment Spur Rapid Wage Growth?
    • Predicting recessions using term spread at the zero lower bound: The case of the euro area
    • The Inequality Paradox: Rising Inequalities Nationally, Diminishing Inequality Worldwide
    • A Global Human Capital Index
    • Intergenerational mobility in the US: One size doesn’t fit all
    • Public good or private wealth?
    • Is there a middle-income trap? Singular growth patterns in Panama
    • Gross National Happiness and Macroeconomic Indicators in the Kingdom of Bhutan
    • Housing View – January 18, 2019
    • Public Debt Through the Ages
    • Special Issue: The Appropriate Role of Government in U.S. Mortgage Markets
    • Resource Booms and the Macroeconomy: The Case of U.S. Shale Oil
    • Housing Market in Finland
    • The Key to Gentrification
    • Chart of the day…. or century?
    • Housing View – January 11, 2019
    • Factors in Unemployment Dynamics
    • Transport Infrastructure, City Productivity Growth and Sectoral Reallocation: Evidence from China
    • Regional differences in the Okun’s Relationship: New Evidence for Spain (1980-2015)
    • 2019 AEA's papers on Inequality
    • 2019 AEA's papers on Energy and Climate Change
    • Housing View – January 3, 2019 [2019 AEA Annual Meeting Special Edition]
    • Countries are advancing efforts to stop criminals from laundering their trillions
• ►2018 (424)
  • ►December(37)
    • Housing Market in Bolivia
    • Top Ten Posts of 2018
    • Top charts of 2018
    • Transmission of U.S. Monetary Policy to Commodity Exporters and Importers
    • Paper Tigers
    • Services sector export in Europe
    • Wired for Work: Exploring the Nexus of Technology & Jobs
    • GDP predictions are reliable only in the short term
    • Housing View – December 21, 2018
    • Housing Market in Cambodia
    • Housing Market in Kosovo
    • Is Carbon Capture and Storage on the Verge?
    • GDP predictions are reliable only in the short term
    • Housing View – December 14, 2018
    • The Housing Boom Is Already Gigantic. How Long Can It Last?
    • China’s High Savings: Drivers, Prospects, and Policies
    • First-in, first-out: Driving the UK's per capita carbon dioxide emissions below 1860 levels
    • Beyond Okun's Law: Output Growth and Labor Market Flows
    • 100 Million and Counting: A Portrait of Economic Insecurity in the United States
    • Universal Basic Income: Debate and Impact Assessment
    • Media Sentiment and International Asset Prices
    • Drivers of commodity price booms and busts in the long run
    • Optimal Control of a Global Model of Climate Change with Adaptation and Mitigation
    • Overfitting in Judgment-based Economic Forecasts: The Case of IMF Growth Projections
    • You are needed but not your skills: Challenges to manufacturing workers in the wake of globalisation
    • Crowdsourcing Economic Forecasts
    • Housing View – December 7, 2018
    • The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years
    • Why “Green Growth” Is an Illusion
    • From Harvard to the IMF
    • A Worldly Philosopher (or Two) at 100
    • The macroeconomic benefits of gender diversity
    • A Planet at Risk Requires Multilateral Action
    • Are Housing Price Cycles Asymmetric? Evidence from the US States and Metropolitan Areas
    • Decentralized Environmental Regulations and Plant-Level Productivity
    • Per capita income, consumption patterns, and carbon dioxide emissions
    • Cyprus: Housing Market
  • ►November(43)
    • House Price Synchronicity, Banking Integration, and Global Financial Conditions
    • Finding Success
    • Housing View – November 30, 2018
    • Global uncertainty is rising, and that is a bad omen for growth
    • A Look Back At the Housing Stories of 2018
    • Understanding Behaviour of Home Buyers Across Countries
    • Grim Stock Signals Piling Up as Wall Street Mulls Recession Odds
    • A New Canadian Macroeconomic Database
    • How does monetary policy affect income and wealth inequality?
    • Personal Income Tax Progressivity: Trends and Implications
    • Is Inflation Domestic or Global? Evidence from Emerging Markets
    • Populism and Civil Society
    • Solow on Friedman's 1968 Presidential Address and the Medium Run
    • Distance and Decline: The Case of Petersburg, Virginia
    • Housing View – November 23, 2018
    • Economic Growth and Carbon Emissions
    • Developments in Spain's Housing Market: Already a Cause of Concern?
    • The Evolution of Zipf’s Law for U.S. Cities
    • Belize: Climate Change Policy Assessment
    • Monetary policy and climate change
    • The Contribution of Foreign Migration to Local Labor Market Adjustment
    • After the credit squeeze: how labour market flexibility can strengthen firm growth and employment
    • Text-mining IMF country reports
    • Superstar Firms and Cities
    • Housing View – November 16, 2018
    • Macroprudential Policies and House Prices in Europe: An Overview of Recent Experiences
    • House Prices in Iceland
    • House Prices in United Kingdom
    • Simple Rules for Climate Policy and Integrated Assessment
    • Inequality and Social Policies
    • Formality and Equality - Labor Market Challenges in Mexico
    • The Price and Welfare Effects of The Value-Added Tax: Evidence from Mexico
    • T. N. Srinivasan: An economist for all seasons
    • Chile: Housing Market Developments
    • Housing View – November 9, 2018
    • The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the childhood roots of social mobility
    • Dynamic chart: World’s ten largest economies, 1961 to 2017
    • Balancing Financial Stability and Housing Affordability: The Case of Canada
    • An Economist’s Guide to Climate Change Science
    • Fall 2018 Journal of Economic Perspectives Available On-line
    • Deindustrialization and Employment in Morocco
    • Workers of the World, Revise!
    • Housing View – November 2, 2018
  • ►October(33)
    • Deregulating Job Protection: Surprising IMF/OECD Messages
    • Becker Friedman Expectations Conference
    • Remembering Albert Hirschman's Tunnel Effect
    • Older Americans would work longer if jobs were flexible
    • Expansions Don't Die of Old Age
    • Timothy Taylor on Rent Control Returns
    • Housing View – October 26, 2018
    • Global Alcohol Markets
    • Do Remittances Help Growth? A Lebanon Story
    • When the Market Drives you Crazy: Stock Market Returns and Fatal Car Accidents
    • More evidence that it’s really hard to ‘beat the market’
    • Housing View – October 19, 2018
    • Highlights of the Economic Outlook for the Euro Area
    • Assessing Housing Risk
    • Common factors of commodity prices
    • The economics of artificial intelligence: Implications for the future of work
    • The secular decline in US employment over the past two decades
    • Housing and Macroeconomics
    • Are published oil price forecasts efficient?
    • Housing View – October 12, 2018
    • Inequality in and across Cities
    • Why Has the Stock Market Risen So Much Since the US Presidential Election?
    • Georgia: Residential Property Price Index
    • Gender, Technology, and the Future of Work
    • Economic Gains from Gender Inclusion: New Mechanisms, New Evidence
    • Fun Facts about the Nobel Prize
    • Finance and pollution
    • Housing View – October 5, 2018
    • Why economy watchers obsess over the U.S. monthly jobs report
    • Measuring unfair inequality
    • Sectoral Booms and Misallocation of Managerial Talent: Evidence from the Chinese Real Estate Boom
    • House Price Synchronization and Financial Openness: A Dynamic Factor Model Approach
    • House Prices in Philippines
  • ►September(26)
    • Francesco Saraceno on the End of the (Macro) Consensus
    • Technology and the Future of Work
    • Housing View – September 28, 2018
    • What is the yield curve forecasting?
    • Underemployment in the US and Europe
    • Growth and well-being: policy should not be based on GDP alone
    • Housing View – September 21, 2018
    • House Prices and Labor Mobility in Norway: A Regional Perspective
    • Affordable Housing: Views from Albert Saiz
    • Urban Revitalization: The View from the Trenches
    • RIP Deena Khatkhate, far-sighted IMF and RBI economist
    • Systemic Banking Crises Revisited
    • Housing View – September 14, 2018
    • Fintech, Inclusive Growth and Cyber Risks in the MENAP and CCA Regions
    • Housing Market Developments in Austria
    • House Prices in Portugal
    • Carbon Taxation for International Maritime Fuels: Assessing the Options
    • New Evidence that Unions Raise Wages for Less-Skilled Workers
    • A Shorter Work Week?
    • Understanding the Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Employment
    • Housing View – September 7, 2018
    • Housing Market in Latvia
    • RIP Herman Stekler, A Forecasting Giant
    • The Measurement and Macro-Relevance of Corruption
    • How can central banks deal with climate change risks?
    • Mitigation Policies for the Paris Agreement: An Assessment for G20 Countries
  • ►August(22)
    • Housing View – August 31, 2018
    • What Drives OPEC’s Quota Decisions?
    • Does Globalization Lower Tax Rates?
    • Counting the Oil Money and the Elderly: Norway's Public Sector Balance Sheet
    • The Economic Impact of Policies to Boost the Employment of Saudi Nationals
    • Housing View – August 24, 2018
    • Credit Supply and Housing Speculation
    • Victories Against Air Pollution
    • Forecasting Failures and the Need for Automatic Stabilizers
    • Employment Protection Deregulation and Labor Shares in Advanced Economies
    • Housing View – August 17, 2018
    • Inequality in the Middle East
    • The Global Liveability Index 2018
    • Per Capita Income, Consumption Patters, and CO2 emission
    • Housing View – August 10, 2018
    • Housing Market in Hungary
    • The Impact of Higher Temperatures on Economic Growth
    • Twin Deficits in Developing Economies
    • Predicting Fiscal Crises
    • Housing View – August 3, 2018
    • What Are Economists Getting Wrong Today?
    • International Corporate Tax Avoidance: A Review of the Channels, Magnitudes, and Blind Spots
  • ►July(40)
    • Happy 106th birthday on July 31, Milton Friedman!
    • Housing Price, Credit, and Output Cycles: How Domestic and External Shocks Impact Lithuania’s Credit
    • Housing Market in Singapore
    • Twin Deficits in Developing Economies
    • Difficulties of Making Predictions: Global Power Politics Edition
    • Heterogeneity and Persistence in Returns to Wealth
    • Housing Market in China
    • Housing View – July 27, 2018
    • Housing Market in Slovak Republic
    • House Prices in Peru
    • Fundamental Drivers of House Prices in Advanced Economies
    • Housing in Romania
    • Income inequality in the U.S. by state, metropolitan area, and county
    • EIU global forecast - Growth will slow in 2019
    • Is the Cycle the Trend? Evidence from the Views of International Forecasters
    • The Globalization of Farmland
    • Housing View – July 20, 2018
    • Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Global and US
    • A carbon tax would be less regressive than energy efficiency standards
    • How To Improve Housing Affordability in Canada's Dynamic Regions?
    • Balancing Financial Stability and Housing Affordability: The Case of Canada
    • WEO July 2018: Less Even Expansion, Rising Trade Tensions
    • The Surge in Second Home Investments: Causes, Consequences, and Cures
    • Football’s minnows demonstrate how poor countries can catch up
    • House Prices in Vietnam
    • Macroprudential Policy: Implementation, Effects, and Lessons
    • Housing View – July 13, 2018
    • Financial globalisation and the welfare state
    • Climate Change and NYU Volatility Institute
    • Bank Competition, Risk Taking, and their Consequences: Evidence from the U.S. Mortgage and Labor Markets
    • Housing View – July 6, 2018
    • House Prices in Mongolia
    • Optimal inflation and the identification of the Phillips curve
    • Germany's Housing Market: Preventing Financial Excesses
    • New Zealand: Managing Housing Market Imbalances
    • Housing in the United States
    • Housing Affordability in New Zealand and Policy Response
    • Worries about the yield curve
    • Revamping inflation targeting in New Zealand 30 years after its inception
    • Can the Income-Expenditure Discrepancy Improve Forecasts?
  • ►June(51)
    • Housing: Is This Time Different?
    • The Irish Commercial Real Estate Market: Synchronization and the Role of External Factors
    • Housing Market in Czech Republic
    • Housing View – June 29, 2018
    • Fiscal Policy and the Shifting Goalposts
    • Fiscal Stimulus in a Monetary Union: Evidence from Eurozone Regions
    • Dani Rodrik's preface to Santiago Levy's Book
    • Assessing Fiscal Space: An Update and Stocktaking
    • World Economic Outlook Forecast Tracker
    • House Prices in Lithuania
    • How Did Fiscal Rules Hold Up in the Commodity Price Crash?
    • Drivers of Labor Force Participation in Advanced Economies
    • Six unconventional introductions to economics
    • Yahoo! Launches Recession Prep Guide
    • The Macroeconomic and Distributional Implications of Fiscal Consolidations in Low-income Countries
    • Christopher Pissarides: “I knew the route to happiness was a good job”
    • The Effects of Weather Shocks on Economic Activity: What are the Channels of Impact?
    • Housing View – June 22, 2018
    • Housing Market in Denmark
    • Differences in consumption baskets across households and the distributional consequences of monetary policy
    • Alongside rising top incomes, the level of living of America’s poorest has fallen
    • Coping with Natural Disaster Risks in Sri Lanka
    • Female Labor Force Participation: A New Engine of Growth for Sri Lanka?
    • Housing Market in Sri Lanka
    • Structural Transformation in Sri Lanka
    • Thaler on the Evolution of Behavioral Economics
    • Are House Prices and Homeownership Moving in Tandem?
    • Summer Reading: Recommendations by Experts on Housing Markets
    • 5 Things You Need to Know About the IMF and Climate Change
    • House Prices in Switzerland
    • What makes a country good at football?
    • Optimal Monetary Policy For the Masses: the James Bullard and Larry Summers View
    • Housing View – June 15, 2018
    • Bangladesh Reaches Middle Income Status
    • Labor Market Implications of the Exposure to Routinization
    • IMF on Operationalizing Gender Issues
    • IMF on Operationalizing Inequality Issues
    • Impact of Emigration
    • House Prices in Qatar
    • Housing View – June 8, 2018
    • Snapshots of the Salubrious US Labor Market
    • Housing Market in Romania
    • The U.S. Personal Saving Rate
    • Financial Stability and Inequality: A Challenge for Macroprudential Regulation
    • Inequality in China – Trends, Drivers and Policy Remedies
    • House Prices in Thailand
    • Labor Market Duality in Korea
    • Why A Recession In 2019 Is Possible When Unemployment Is At 50-Year Lows
    • Growth or Inclusion? With the right policies, countries can pursue both objectives
    • Labor Force Participation in U.S. States and Metropolitan Areas
    • Housing View – June 1, 2018
  • ►May(53)
    • Finance, the state and innovation
    • House Prices in Qatar
    • On the Macroeconomic Consequences of Over-Optimism
    • Forecasting Forum – May 2018
    • House Prices in Colombia
    • Exchange rate forecasting on a napkin
    • Options for Carbon Mitigation and Transportation Policy in the Netherlands
    • Fundamental Drivers of House Prices in the Netherlands? A Cross-Country Analysis
    • Central bank policies and income and wealth inequality
    • Services Development and Comparative Advantage in Manufacturing
    • The ‘suprasecular’ stagnation
    • Wage Moderation in the Netherlands
    • The Infrastructure & Real Estate Nexus: Three Case Studies
    • A Look at Housing Affordability: From a Design Perspective
    • Housing View – May 25, 2018
    • Housing Market in Estonia
    • Do IMF fiscal forecasts add value?
    • The FOMC versus the Staff, Revisited: When do Policymakers Add Value?
    • Yes, we should fear the robot revolution
    • Chart of the Week: Greenery and Prosperity
    • Labor Force Participation in U.S. States and Metropolitan Areas
    • Uber and the labor market
    • Housing View – May 18, 2018
    • Biggest fear for world growth is fear itself as markets fret
    • IEO Releases an Update to its 2007 evaluation of Structural Conditionality in IMF-Supported Programs
    • Poverty and inequality in Latin America
    • Fiscal Consolidation and Income Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
    • The macroeconomic effects of fiscal consolidation in Latin America and the Caribbean
    • Strengthening natural disaster resilience a savings fund proposal
    • An overview of the Bahamian labor market
    • IMF Global Debt Database
    • Housing View – May 11, 2018
    • Gender Equality: Which Policies Have the Biggest Bang for the Buck?
    • Remittances and labor market outcomes in LICs, MICs and Fragile States
    • What Drives Labor and Product market Reforms in Advanced Countries?
    • Lawrence R. Klein and the making of large-scale macro-econometric modeling, 1938-1955
    • Macroeconomic Forecasting in Germany has changed after the Great Recession?
    • GDP Growth Rate Projection in Asia Pacific
    • Low Inflation in Asia
    • 21st-century Indian economists
    • 20th-century Indian economists
    • Is inflation dead?
    • Spring 2018 Journal of Economic Perspectives is Online
    • The IMF’s Fight Against Corruption
    • Housing View – May 4, 2018
    • Learning from Hurricane Sandy? Rising Seas and Housing Values in New York
    • Retail Apocalypse Postponed Not Cancelled
    • Housing Market in Israel
    • How much does infrastructure boost an economy?
    • El-Erian on What’s Wrong with Economics
    • Revisiting the 1990s Debate on Globalisation
    • Inequality in US Life Expectancy
    • Inequality and Poverty in Israel
  • ►April(30)
    • Forecasting Forum – April 2018
    • "Back to Basics" videos
    • Rethinking the macroeconomics of resource-rich countries: A new eBook
    • What Information Does the Yield Curve Yield?
    • Fiscal Consolidation in Latin America and the Caribbean
    • Housing View – April 27, 2018
    • Growth Acceleration in the West African Economic and Monetary Union
    • Okun’s Law in Brazil and Three of Its Metropolitan Areas
    • Understanding Singapore’s Housing Market
    • Housing in Africa: A Crisis or An Opportunity?
    • Housing, Urban Development, and the Macroeconomy
    • Building a Better IMF: Report on IEO work, Spring 2018
    • Housing View – April 20, 2018
    • New Book: Fiscal Policies and Gender Equality
    • Stabilizing China’s Housing Market
    • World Economic Outlook, April 2018 Cyclical Upswing, Structural Change
    • Economic Growth from Octavian to Obama
    • Do Wide-Reaching Reform Programmes Foster Growth?
    • Housing View – April 13, 2018
    • Housing as a Financial Asset
    • Global Investors, House Price Dispersion, and Synchronicity
    • For Home Prices in London, Check the Tokyo Listings
    • Financial Times: IMF Shows Poor Track Record at Forecasting Recessions
    • Work-Welfare Trade-offs and Structural Unemployment in Luxembourg
    • Impact of Monetary Policy on Luxembourg
    • Housing View – April 6, 2018
    • House Prices in Mongolia
    • Housing Market in Luxembourg: Assessment and Policy Recommendations
    • What Lies beneath? A Sub-National Look at Okun’s Law in the United States
    • The IMF and Fragile States
  • ►March(37)
    • Dani Rodrik on Globalization and its Discontents
    • Forecasting Forum – March 2018
    • Fostering Incentives for Women to Work to Promote Long-Term Growth in Iran
    • Expanding Iran’s Non-Oil Exports
    • Housing View – March 30, 2018
    • Monetary Policy, Labour Income, and Inequality
    • The Gains from (Services) Trade
    • Housing View – March 23, 2018
    • How much people make
    • Paul Ehrlich: "Collapse of civilisation is a near certainty within decades"
    • A housing recovery without homeowners
    • House Prices in Nambia
    • Creative Destruction, the Uber Effect, and the Slow Death of the NYC Taxi Cartel
    • Housing View – March 16, 2018
    • The Distributional Effects of Government Spending Shocks in Developing Economies
    • The Long-Run Decoupling of Emissions and Output: Evidence from the Largest Emitters
    • The Distribution of Gains from Globalization
    • A Look at Housing in Latin America
    • Rethinking and Expanding Research on Housing Policy with a Global Perspective
    • Okun’s Law in China: Understanding China’s Labor Market Resilience
    • Can Central Bankers Become Superforecasters?
    • The time series figures for the most basic of business cycle macro analyses: What is to be explained and accounted for
    • Economic Forecasts with the Yield Curve
    • Forecasts in Times of Crises
    • Significant Shifts in Malaysian Labor Market
    • Housing Market in Belgium
    • Housing Market in Malaysia
    • Housing View – March 9, 2018
    • Gender Inequality in Nigeria: Macroeconomic Costs and Future Opportunities
    • Distributional Impact of Fiscal Reforms in Nigeria
    • IMF Paper Looks at How Inflation Anchoring Affects Growth
    • How Well Do Economists Forecast Recessions?
    • Economic Fluctuations in Sub-Saharan Africa
    • House Prices in Namibia
    • Welfare Gains from Market Insurance: The Case of Mexican Oil Price Risk
    • Inflation Anchoring and Growth: Evidence from Sectoral Data
    • Housing View – March 2, 2018
  • ►February(26)
    • Warren Buffett Summarizes Investment Lessons from Winning His 10-year Bet that a Passive S&P 500 Index Fund Would Out-Perform Actively Managed Hedge Funds
    • The UK's Housing Problem...
    • G-20 Thematic Workshop on Residential and Commercial Property Price Indices
    • Housing View – February 23, 2018
    • Mortgage Finance and Culture
    • Housing Market Imbalances in Australia: Development, Prospects, and Policies
    • The New Minimum Wage Policy in Korea
    • Youth (Un)Employment in Korea—Recent Trends Drivers
    • Labor Market Duality in Korea
    • Housing View – February 16, 2018
    • UK's Housing Market
    • House Prices in Korea
    • Korea: Macroprudential Policy and High Household Debt
    • Labor Mobility and the Role of Housing Prices in UK
    • Regional Disparities and Inclusive Growth in UK
    • The Harsh Realism of Adam Smith
    • Housing View – February 9, 2018
    • What Is Supply and Demand?
    • What Is GDP?
    • What is Inflation? Back to Basics
    • Malta: Address Housing Market Pressures
    • House Prices in Indonesia
    • Country Experiences With Macroprudential Policies
    • Housing View – February 2, 2018
    • Adapting to Climate Change: Pricing Right, Taxing Smart, and Acting Now
    • How Well Do Economists Forecast Recessions? A Groundhog Day Update
  • ►January(26)
    • Scaling-up the Inclusive Growth Agenda in the Arab Region
    • Housing Market in Malta
    • Foreign Direct Investment and Women Empowerment: New Evidence on Developing Countries
    • Housing View – January 26, 2018
    • A Narrative Database of Major Labor and Product Market Reforms in Advanced Economies
    • FocusEconomics Announces 2017 Analyst Forecast Awards Winners
    • Household Credit, Global Financial Cycle, and Macroprudential Policies: Credit Register Evidence from an Emerging Country
    • The Effectiveness of Housing Market Policies in Hong Kong
    • Inequality and Poverty across Generations in the European Union
    • Housing, Household Debt and Policy
    • 2018 AEA Annual Meeting’s Papers on Climate Change and Energy
    • Housing View – January 19, 2018
    • Tonga’s Housing Sector
    • Regulatory Cycles: Revisiting the Political Economy of Financial Crises
    • 2018 AEA Annual Meeting's Papers on Inequality
    • Housing View – January 12, 2018
    • 10 top thinkers on Development, summarized in 700 words by Stefan Dercon
    • Workshop: Trade Policy, Inclusion and the Rise of the Service Economy
    • For Vietnam, Greener Growth Can Reduce Climate Change Risks
    • Growth-Equity Trade-offs in Structural Reforms
    • Housing View – January 5, 2018 [2018 AEA Annual Meeting Special Edition]
    • Okun’s Law in Russia
    • GDP growth forecasts and information flows: Is there evidence of overreactions?
    • CO2 Emissions in UK
    • David Hendry on Why Forecasting Fails
    • The Rate of Return on Everything: 1870–2015
• ►2017 (200)
  • ►December(24)
    • Housing View – December 29, 2017
    • The Top 17 of ‘17
    • Housing in Bolivia
    • 13 economists on the research that shaped our world in 2017
    • The Economics Debate, again and again
    • Housing View – December 22, 2017
    • House Prices in Cyprus
    • Housing Market in Finland
    • The Impact of Fiscal Consolidations on Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
    • Housing View – December 15, 2017
    • How can Natural Gas from TAP increase Productivity?
    • Medium Term Growth in Albania
    • Okun's Law in Finland: Declining Labor Market Sensitivity
    • Finland’s Labor Market
    • 2018 Housing Forecasts
    • Housing View – December 8, 2017
    • Welfare vs. Income Convergence and Environmental Externalities
    • Macroprudential Policy in China's Real Estate Market
    • Housing in the Maldives
    • Djibouti’s Quest for Inclusive Growth
    • 2017 Year in Review: A Look Back At the Housing Stories
    • The State of Housing Market in Africa
    • Growth for the Bottom 40 Percent: The World Bank Group’s Support for Shared Prosperity
    • Housing View – December 1, 2017
  • ►November(15)
    • New eBook: Ordoliberalism: A German oddity?
    • Housing View – November 24, 2017
    • House Prices in Philippines
    • Korea’s Paradigm Shift for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth: A Proposal
    • Mexico's Structural Reform Agenda": Early Signs of Success"
    • Housing in Sweden
    • Growth and Jobs in Developing Economies: Trends and Cycles
    • Housing View – November 17, 2017
    • Inequality in Financial Inclusion, Gender Gaps, and Income Inequality
    • Hollowing Out: The Channels of Income Polarization in the United States
    • Dani Rodrik Takes A Crack at Neoliberalism
    • Housing View – November 10, 2017
    • Productivity and Pay: Is the Link Broken?
    • Roads or Schools: A Critical Tradeoff
    • Housing View – November 3, 2017
  • ►October(17)
    • Inequality in Brazil: A Regional Perspective
    • Building Resilience to Natural Disasters: An Application to Small Developing States
    • Debt Sustainability Analyses for Low-Income Countries: An Assessment of Projection Performance
    • Housing View – October 27, 2017
    • Property Tax in Africa
    • The Macroeconomic (and Distributional) Effects of Public Investment in Developing Economies
    • Housing Market in Cambodia
    • Housing View – October 20, 2017
    • Aggregate Uncertainty Shocks and Sectoral Productivity
    • Housing View – October 13, 2017
    • Capital Account Liberalization and Inequality
    • The IMF’s Fiscal Monitor on Tackling Inequality
    • House Prices in Spain
    • A Closer Look at Employment Creation in Spain since the Crisis
    • Housing View – October 6, 2017
    • IMF Fiscal Advice to Saudi Arabia
    • Who’s the fairest of them all? Ranking countries combining incomes and inequality
  • ►September(20)
    • Housing View – September 29, 2017
    • The Unequal Burden of Rising Temperatures: How Can Low-Income Countries Cope?
    • Better thy Neighbor? Cross-border Effects of Fiscal Actions
    • Housing View – September 22, 2017
    • Corruption in Latin America: Taking Stock
    • Growth That Reaches Everyone: Facts, Factors, Tools
    • House Prices in Portugal
    • The Youth in Portugal through the Crisis
    • The Public Sector Wage Bill in Portugal
    • Global House Prices: An Update
    • Housing View – September 15, 2017
    • Increasing Resilience to Large and Volatile Capital Flows: The Role of Macroprudential Policies in Cambodia
    • Increasing Resilience to Large and Volatile Capital Flows: The Role of Macroprudential Policies in Sweden
    • Does Okun’s Law Hold in Swaziland?
    • Okun’s Law in Black and White
    • Housing View – September 8, 2017
    • Stan Fischer: A Class Act
    • Oil Prices and Inflation Dynamics: Evidence from Advanced and Developing Economies
    • Why economic forecasting has always been a flawed science
    • Housing View – September 1, 2017
  • ►August(13)
    • Are Emissions Decoupling from Growth?
    • Perspective and Trends in the US Housing Market
    • Housing View – August 25, 2017
    • Housing Finance and Real Estate Markets in Colombia
    • Housing View – August 18, 2017
    • Inequality in China – Trends, Drivers, and Policy Remedies
    • Assessing China's Residential Real Estate Market
    • Housing View – August 11, 2017
    • Stabilizing the System of Mortgage Finance in the United States
    • Housing View – August 4, 2017
    • Bridging the Gap: Forecasting Interest Rates with Macro Trends
    • Japan’s Lifetime Employment and Gender Inequality
    • Japan: Risks Emerging from Real Estate?
  • ►July(29)
    • Housing Market in Singapore
    • Housing in the U.S.
    • A Profile of Assaf Razin
    • Housing View – July 28, 2017
    • Why economists cannot forecast recessions
    • Housing in the Euro Area
    • Ten Ways to Expand U.S. Growth
    • Housing: From Immobile and Illiquid to Mobile and Liquid
    • Meeting EU Climate Pledges: Assessing Some Potential Policy Refinements
    • Inequality of Opportunity, Inequality of Income, and Long-term Growth
    • What Explains the Decline of the U.S. Labor Share of Income? An Analysis of State and Industry Level Data
    • Forecasting: How to Map the Future Global Business
    • Housing View – July 21, 2017
    • Women Are Key for Future Growth: Evidence from Canada
    • Housing in St. Kitts and Nevis
    • Housing in United Arab Emirates
    • Housing in Poland
    • Housing View – July 17, 2017
    • Inequality in Brazil: A Micro-data Analysis
    • Staying the Role Model: Advancing Gender Equality in Rwanda
    • How Advanced Economies Tackle Housing Market Imbalances: Lessons for Canada
    • Housing Market in Germany
    • Housing View – July 10, 2017
    • Fostering Inclusive Growth
    • Environment and Climate Change in Vietnam
    • House Prices in Lithuania
    • Are House Prices Overvalued in Norway?
    • International Jobs Report 2017:H1
    • Housing View – July 5, 2017
  • ►June(18)
    • Cross-Country Spillovers of Fiscal Consolidations in the Euro Area
    • House Prices in Peru
    • Housing View – June 27, 2017
    • House Prices in Ireland
    • House Prices in Czech Republic
    • Income Inequality and the Welfare System in Ireland
    • Construction Sector: The World’s Next Productivity Story?
    • Global Housing Watch - Q2 2017
    • Forecasting Long-Term Interest Rates: A Long History of Errors
    • House Prices in Iceland
    • Denmark's Housing Market
    • Rodrik on Financial Globalization and Inequality
    • Dani Rodrik on the populist backlash against globalization
    • Understanding Today’s Stagnation
    • House Prices in Thailand
    • Colombia's Housing Market
    • Is the United States Becoming Less of an Optimal Currency Area?
    • Colombia's Peace Agreement Can Give Fillip to Inclusive Growth
  • ►May(12)
    • Inclusive Growth Framework
    • The Quest for Inclusive Cities
    • Trading with China : Productivity Gains, Job Losses
    • Housing Construction: The Current State, Policy Implication, and the Future
    • Asia Continues to Be the World Growth Leader
    • Every Woman Counts: Gender Budgeting in G7 Countries
    • Belt and Road Initiative: Strengthening Financial Connectivity
    • Housing Market in Luxembourg
    • The Informal Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa
    • Restarting Sub-Saharan Africa’s Growth Engine
    • Macroprudential Policy in New Zealand
    • House Prices in Malaysia
  • ►April(8)
    • Understanding Housing Supply: Views from Joseph Gyourko
    • Going for (Inclusive) Growth
    • International Experience of Limits on LTV, DSTI, and LTI Ratios
    • A Closer Look at Global Housing
    • Housing Market in San Marino
    • Workshop on Forecasting Issues in Developing Economies
    • Corruption and Growth in Ukraine
    • Housing Market in Netherlands
  • ►March(18)
    • The Power of Two: Inclusive Growth and the IMF
    • Das House-Kapital: A Long Term Housing & Macro Model
    • Build It and They Will Come: A New Data Set on Services Exports
    • Housing Market in Israel
    • Steve Malpezzi on Housing Markets
    • House Prices in Slovak Republic
    • Inflation-Forecast Targeting for India
    • Jobs and Happiness
    • Does Money Buy Happiness? Evidence from China
    • House Prices in Belgium
    • OPEC’s Rebalancing Act
    • IMF on the Decline in Labor Share of Income
    • Trade Integration in Latin America and the Caribbean
    • Trade, Growth and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
    • Global House Prices: An Update
    • Creative Financing for Affordable Housing
    • Shaping the Future of Construction: Insights to redesign the industry
    • Morocco: Reducing Gender Inequality Can Boost Growth
  • ►February(13)
    • Housing Market in Africa: What We Do and Don’t Know
    • Housing Market in Malta
    • House Prices in Macao (SAR)
    • House Prices in Australia
    • Okun's Law: Fit at 50?--Revised Paper and Dataset
    • House Prices in Indonesia
    • Turkey's Tourism Sector: Recent Developments and the Impact on the Broader Economy
    • House Prices in Morocco
    • Housing Market in Ireland
    • Housing Market in Turkey
    • House Prices in Austria
    • Groundhog Day Tradition: 2017 Stekler Award for Courage in Forecasting
    • Increased Social Inclusion in Uruguay– the Role of Government Policies
  • ►January(13)
    • The Fruits of Growth: Economic Reforms and Lower Inequality
    • Okun's Law and Phillips Curves in Asia
    • Macroeconomic Structural Policies and Income Inequality in Low-Income Developing Countries
    • House Prices in Spain
    • Where are Oil Prices Headed?
    • House price measurement: Recent progress
    • Toward Inclusive Globalization
    • IMF WEO Forecasts: A Shifting Economic Landscape
    • An Economy for the 99%
    • IMF Executive Board Discusses Macroeconomic Prospects and Challenges in LIDCs
    • Decoupling of Emissions and GDP: Now you see it, now you don’t
    • Inclusive Growth and the IMF
    • Three Economists Walk into a Bar: Ouch! (The Perils of Forecasting)
• ►2016 (131)
  • ►December(18)
    • The Top 16 of ‘16
    • Financial Information and Macroeconomic Forecasts
    • Bolivia's Gains from the 2000s Gas Boom
    • Monetary Policy and Inequality
    • The Fed and the U.S. Economy: Hitting the Bull's Eye?
    • (Not) On The Road Again: Americans Are Moving Less
    • Housing Market in Switzerland
    • GDP Demystified
    • Put Forecasting in Its Final Resting Place
    • A Tale of Transition : An Empirical Analysis of Economic Inequality in Urban China
    • When China Sneezes Does ASEAN Catch a Cold?
    • Forecast Errors and Uncertainty Shocks
    • The IMF is Not Asking Greece for More Austerity
    • Housing Market in Chile
    • Housing Market in Namibia
    • Austerity and Inequality: New Evidence from the IMF
    • European Unemployment: Deja Vu All Over Again?
    • Will Interest Rates Stay Low?
  • ►November(11)
    • Housing Policies: What Works?
    • Global House Prices: Time to Worry Again?
    • Spillovers from the Oil Sector to the Housing Market Cycle
    • Housing in Developed and Developing Countries
    • Mexico’s welfare gains from hedging oil-price risk
    • House Prices in Mexico
    • Global Housing Watch Quarterly Update
    • International Jobs Report: Global Unemployment Inching Up Again
    • Housing Market in Sweden
    • Can Property Taxes Reduce House Price Volatility? Evidence from U.S. Regions
    • Was Krugman Right? Unemployment during the Great Recession
  • ►October(14)
    • A “New Normal” for the Oil Market
    • Housing in the U.S.: Affordable or Not?
    • Employment, Efficiency, Equity: Evolution in IMF Thought
    • Technology, Efficiency and Equity
    • Top 100 in global finance: two from the IMF make the cut
    • Gone with the Wind: Estimating Hurricane Climate Change Costs in the Caribbean
    • Goodbye Gentle Jim: Links to Jim Gordon’s Contributions
    • Greenspan and I: My Memories of the Maestro
    • Does Growth Create Jobs? Evidence for Advanced and Developing Economies
    • Verdict on Greenspan: Mallaby’s New Biography Delivers
    • Rethinking the Oil Market
    • Jobs and Growth: Outlook and Policy Response
    • Financial Globalization, Inequality and the Top 1%
    • IMF Research on Inequality: A Primer
  • ►September(6)
    • Macroprudential Policy in Ireland
    • Housing Market in Portugal
    • Global Housing Affordability: What Do We Know?
    • Will Trump Win?
    • Developments in Global Real Estate
    • Immigrants and the Housing Market
  • ►August(17)
    • House prices in Korea
    • Growing Apart, Losing Trust? The Impact of Inequality on Social Capital
    • Global and Local Housing Markets: The View From Experts at the Dallas FED
    • Is Uncertainty Hurting Productivity?
    • Workshop on Global Labor Markets
    • Housing Market in China
    • How Reliable is China’s Output Data?
    • Climate Mitigation Policy in China: The Many Attractions of Carbon or Coal Taxes
    • How Accurate Are Private Sector Fiscal Forecasts? Evidence from the Great Recession
    • Demographic Dividends, Gender Equality, and Economic Growth: The Case of Cabo Verde
    • Can Reform Waves Turn the Tide? Evidence on the Effects of Structural Reforms
    • Global Housing Watch Update
    • Special Issue on Global Labor Markets: Call for Papers
    • Japan: Minimum wages as a policy tool
    • Labor Mobility in the United States
    • Okun’s Law: Fit at 55?
    • Real Estate Market in Ireland
  • ►July(16)
    • Housing Market in United Arab Emirates
    • Issi Romem on BuildZoom and the U.S. Housing Market
    • Jobs and Growth: The Evolution in IMF Research
    • Karl E. Case: Remembering A Top Housing Market Guru
    • Evictions and Housing: Why Should We Care?
    • House Prices in Peru
    • Housing Market in Poland
    • House Prices in Czech Republic
    • What Keeps France's Unemployment High?
    • House Prices in Norway
    • Female Labor Force Participation in Poland
    • OPEC’s Strategic Actions and the 2014 Oil Price Crash
    • The Role of Productivity Growth in Reducing Regional Economic Disparities in Poland
    • Norway: The Transition from Oil and Gas
    • Housing Market in Germany
    • The Danish Housing Market: An Update
  • ►June(3)
    • State of Global House Prices: An Update from the Experts
    • UK's Housing Market
    • Canada's Housing Market
  • ►May(9)
    • Housing: Microdata, macro problems
    • House Prices in Colombia
    • House Prices in Lithuania
    • House Prices in Luxembourg
    • House Prices in Slovenia
    • UK's Housing Market
    • Housing Sector Developments in Australia and New Zealand: Diverging Tales
    • Housing Market in Malaysia
    • House Prices in Hungary
  • ►April(3)
    • Understanding the Commercial Real Estate Investment Ecosystem
    • Openness, Austerity and Inequality
    • Let's Get Fiscal
  • ►March(11)
    • Marja C Hoek-Smit on Housing Markets in Developing and Emerging Countries
    • Oil Prices and the Global Economy: It’s Complicated
    • Breaking the Link between Housing Cycles, Banking Crises, and Recession
    • Monetary Policy and Financial Stability: Canada’s House-Price Dilemma
    • Financial Stability and Interest-Rate Policy
    • Make in India: Which exports can drive the next wave of growth?
    • House Prices in Indonesia
    • House Prices in Montenegro
    • House Prices in Belgium
    • Sharing the Growth Dividend: Analysis of Inequality in Asia
    • Housing Market in Fiji
  • ►February(11)
    • Housing Market in the United Kingdom
    • Inequality and opening up to foreign capital and inequality: some new results
    • Experts Weigh in on the State of the Global Housing Market
    • Financial Development, Inequality and Poverty: Some International Evidence
    • The IMF’s Interest in Inclusive Growth: Promising or PR?
    • International Jobs Report
    • House Prices in Austria
    • House Prices in the Netherlands
    • House Prices in New Zealand
    • House Prices in Morocco
    • A Groundhog Day Tradition: The Stekler Award for Courage in Forecasting
  • ►January(12)
    • The Unemployment Picture in 2016
    • Experts Confer on State of China’s Housing Market
    • Global Housing Watch Quarterly Update
    • “Growth is devilishly hard to predict”
    • Four Questions About Recent Developments in UK's Housing Market
    • Housing and Systemic Risk
    • Housing Market in Malta
    • Hong Kong Property Prices: Ripe for a Correction?
    • Housing Market in Ireland
    • Housing Developments and Macroprudential Measures in Slovak Republic
    • Mortgage market in Poland
    • Effectiveness and Channels of Macroprudential Policies: Lessons from the Euro Area
• ►2015 (108)
  • ►December(5)
    • The Top Ten Blogs of 2015
    • Thomas Sargent Recounts History of U.S. Debt Limits
    • Understanding China's Housing Market
    • Housing Market in Kuwait
    • Sweden's Housing Market
  • ►November(10)
    • Labor Migration across U.S. States: An Update
    • Fund Fires Employment Guru?
    • Canada's Housing Market: Which Way Now?
    • Sovereign wealth funds in the new era of oil
    • IMF's Thanksgiving message: ensure benefits of foreign capital are shared broadly
    • Forecasting: Who keeps the score?
    • House Prices in Mexico
    • House Prices in Finland
    • Effects of Wage Moderation in the Euro Area
    • International Jobs Report
  • ►October(9)
    • Housing Markets: Balancing Risks and Rewards
    • Global House Prices: Gloom, Boom or Doom?
    • On U.S. Labor Market Slack: Updated Estimates of the Impact of Uncertainty on Unemployment
    • Is the Phillips Curve alive? And should we care?
    • Union power and inequality
    • Spillovers of Unconventional Monetary Policy
    • Dialogue with Angus Deaton
    • The Frenchman Who Reshaped the IMF
    • Are Australia's House Prices Overvalued?
  • ►September(12)
    • US Housing Market: An Update
    • India's Housing Market: What's happened? What's next?
    • The Stekler Award for Courage in Forecasting (Recessions Inaccurately)
    • Developments in Israel's Housing Market
    • Housing Market in Saudi Arabia
    • Israel’s Labor Market: High Inequality, Low Productivity
    • Rising House Prices and Household Debt: A Twin Boom in Norway?
    • Metals and Oil: A Tale of Two Commodities
    • Macroprudential Policies in the Philippines
    • What Lies Behind Norway’s Low Unemployment Rate?
    • Norway: Peak in Oil Fortunes?
    • Labor Day Special: How Countries Rank on Whether Growth Creates Jobs
  • ►August(11)
    • Behind the commodities bust
    • Chile's Housing Market
    • Spain's Housing Market
    • China: How Big Is the Risk of a Real Estate Slowdown and Does It Matter?
    • Johan Norberg: India Awakes
    • Recent Labor Market Reforms in Spain: A Preliminary Assessment
    • House Prices in Jordan
    • House Prices in United Arab Emirates
    • Price Expectations and the US Housing Boom
    • House Prices in Europe
    • House Prices in Singapore
  • ►July(12)
    • Should Emerging Markets Fear A Fed Lift-Off?
    • On the Globalization of Real Estate and its Consequences
    • US Housing Market: An Update
    • House Prices in Czech Republic
    • House Prices in Japan
    • LTV and DTI Limits—Going Granular
    • Housing Market in Lebanon
    • IMF Staff Paper: Unionization, Minimum Wages and Inequality
    • House Prices in Germany
    • Housing Market in Poland
    • Housing Market in France
    • US Housing Market
  • ►June(7)
    • Latest Work on Macroprudential Policy
    • Housing Supply in Canada
    • House Prices in Ireland
    • Fiscal Forecasting Follies: Private Sector vs. Government
    • Housing Finance and Real-Estate Booms: A Cross-Country Perspective
    • House Prices in Colombia
    • House Prices in Luxembourg
  • ►May(8)
    • House Prices in Peru
    • House Prices in Switzerland
    • China's Housing Market
    • Europe's Housing Market
    • House Prices in Korea
    • House Prices in Brazil
    • House Prices in Thailand
    • House Prices in Jordan
  • ►April(4)
    • Current State of House Prices Across the Globe
    • Re-thinking Housing Markets
    • House Prices in the United States
    • House Prices in Qatar
  • ►March(9)
    • Global Housing Watch Newsletter
    • Inequality in China
    • House prices in Ireland
    • Housing Wealth and Inequality
    • House Prices in Indonesia
    • House Prices in Iceland
    • House Prices in Belgium
    • House Prices in Malaysia
    • House Prices in Malta
  • ►February(16)
    • Lower unionization associated with increased inequality: IMF F&D
    • Jobs & Inequality: Special Feature in Finance & Development
    • Global Housing Watch Newsletter
    • Uncertainty and U.S. Unemployment
    • New Results on Capital Account Liberalization and Inequality
    • House Prices in Slovenia
    • Tom Sargent on U.S. and Europe: A Blast from the Past
    • Oil Prices and Employment: Some Evidence from US States
    • Is Manufacturing Still a Key to Growth?
    • International Jobs Report: It's Not Just About US
    • The Secret of the (Economic) Universe
    • Labour mobility in the EU: dynamics and policies
    • Persistent Overoptimism about Economic Growth
    • On Groundhog Day, Honoring A Forecasting Giant
    • Global Housing Watch Newsletter
    • House Prices in Advanced and Emerging Economies
  • ►January(5)
    • House Prices in Canada
    • House Prices in Ireland
    • State of Housing Markets Across the Globe
    • Global Joblessness Returns To Precrisis Levels In New IMF Employment Gauge
    • Housing Recoveries: Denmark, Ireland, Netherlands and Spain
• ►2014 (76)
  • ►December(6)
    • House Prices in Georgia
    • House Prices in Denmark
    • Macro-Prudential Policies in Kuwait
    • Macro-Prudential Policies in Turkey
    • House Prices in Netherlands
    • IIMB-IMF Conference on Housing Markets, Financial Stability and Growth
  • ►November(1)
    • Does Growth Lower Unemployment? (Was Krugman Right Yet Again)?
  • ►October(6)
    • House Prices in Cyprus
    • House Prices in Singapore
    • Seven Questions on the Global Housing Markets
    • Global Housing Watch
    • Is Unemployment Inevitable?
    • Global Housing Prices: It’s a Tale of Two Worlds
  • ►September(6)
    • Moving on: Labor mobility in the United States
    • What Lies Beneath: A Sub-National Look at Okun’s Law
    • House Prices in Austria
    • House Prices in Switzerland
    • House Prices in Czech Republic
    • House Prices in Slovak Republic
  • ►August(6)
    • House Prices in Sweden
    • House Prices in Norway
    • Are You Cut Out To Be A Macroeconomist? A Simple Test
    • House Prices in the Philippines
    • House Prices in Lebanon
    • House Prices in China
  • ►July(8)
    • House Prices in the United Kingdom
    • House Prices in the United States
    • House Prices in Chile
    • House Prices in Germany
    • House Prices in Iceland
    • House Prices in Spain
    • House Prices in United Arab Emirates
    • House Prices in France
  • ►June(4)
    • House Prices in Colombia
    • House Prices in Poland
    • Era of Benign Neglect of House Price Booms is Over
    • House Prices in New Zealand
  • ►May(13)
    • Labor Rewarded
    • Not Your Father's Service Sector
    • House Prices in Switzerland
    • House Prices in Finland
    • House Prices in Colombia
    • The Science of Inequality
    • The IMF's Andy Berg reviews Piketty
    • House Prices in Hong Kong
    • Minimum wages and firm employment: Evidence from China
    • House Prices in Luxembourg
    • House Prices in Estonia
    • Macroprudential Policies in Asia
    • House Prices in Qatar
  • ►April(7)
    • Global House Prices: Continue Rising
    • Minimum Wages and Employment
    • Okun Isn't Brokun': Sorry to Sound like a Brokun' Record
    • House Prices in Malaysia
    • The taxman cometh: IMF Book Forum on Piketty’s Capital
    • “There will be growth in the spring”: How well do economists predict turning points?
    • IMF's World Economic Outlook--April 2014
  • ►March(5)
    • Robert Barro doesn't look 70
    • IMF Releases Independent Assessment of its Forecast Accuracy
    • House Prices in Malaysia
    • Lipton Releases IMF Paper on Fiscal Policy and Inequality
    • House Prices in Belgium
  • ►February(8)
    • The IMF on Inequality: New Ostry-Berg Paper on Redistribution
    • House Prices in Spain
    • Does Debt Hurt Growth? Revisiting Reinhart and Rogoff
    • Okun’s Not Brokun’: Jobs and Growth are Still Linked
    • House Prices in Australia
    • House Prices in Israel
    • Unconventional Energy Boom in Canada
    • House Prices in Canada
  • ►January(6)
    • House Prices in Peru
    • Global House Price Index Continues To Inch Up
    • Davos council recommends “two-handed” approach to tackling unemployment
    • House Prices in Slovenia
    • House Prices in Uruguay
    • Boom, Boom: Measuring the Economic Impact of the US Energy Revolution
• ►2013 (61)
  • ►December(4)
    • House Prices in Ireland
    • Reforming Dual Labor Markets In Advanced Economies
    • The China Chill & the Shale Gale: The IMF’s Commodity Market Review
    • Moving closer? Changing patterns of labour mobility in Europe and the US
  • ►November(3)
    • 'Austerity' and Inequality at the G-20
    • Stijn Claessens kicks off housing conference
    • Are Jobs and Growth Still Linked? Stress-Testing Okun's Law
  • ►October(4)
    • House Prices in Brazil
    • Blanchard on Unemployment, Flexibility & IMF Advice
    • Nobel Prize winner Robert Shiller on house prices … and Eliot Spitzer
    • The ‘Shale Gale’ and the ‘China Chill’: the IMF’s Commodity Market Review
  • ►September(12)
    • Global House Prices: falling, recovering, or bubbling?
    • Judging Jeff Sachs
    • Distributional Consequences of Fiscal Consolidation
    • Global House Price Watch
    • Okun's Not Broken: Jobs and Growth are Still Linked
    • "Austerity" and Inequality: Engaging UNICEF
    • House Prices in Austria
    • U.S. “Structural” Unemployment: Updated Estimates
    • House Prices in the Nordics
    • House Prices in Sweden
    • House Prices in Norway
    • A Marxist theory is (sort of) right
  • ►August(8)
    • Stan Fischer: A Class Act
    • Florida vs. Spain: Labor Mobility within Currency Unions
    • The Driving Force behind Construction in Europe
    • The Stock Market 'Prediction Charade'
    • Okun's Law during the Great Recession: jobs and growth are still linked
    • House Prices in Germany
    • House Prices in France
    • House Prices in Spain
  • ►July(6)
    • House Prices in United Arab Emirates
    • House Prices in the U.S.
    • House Prices in China
    • House Prices in the United Kingdom
    • House Prices in Malta
    • House Prices in Chile
  • ►June(3)
    • Does Fiscal Consolidation Raise Inequality?
    • House Prices in Ireland
    • MAULDIN: Economists Are Totally Clueless About The Economy
  • ►May(6)
    • Tackling Unemployment: Return of the Two-Handed Approach
    • House Prices in Switzerland
    • What’s Holding Back Hiring?
    • House Prices in Belgium
    • Krugman on “How the Case for Austerity Has Crumbled”
    • House Prices in New Zealand
  • ►April(8)
    • Great Recession and Not-So-Great Recovery
    • Free to Spend, Developing Economies Recover Quicker
    • Krugman on why this global recovery is different
    • What Next for the Eurozone? Macroeconomic Policy and the Recession
    • How the IMF became the friend who wants us to work less and drink more
    • Why is the Global Recovery So Weak?
    • IMF Urges Caution on Union Policy
    • How Labor Markets Can Support Workers, Economic Growth
  • ►March(1)
    • House Prices in Malaysia
  • ►February(2)
    • Global House Price Watch
    • House Prices in Canada
  • ►January(4)
    • House Prices in Denmark
    • House Prices in Hong Kong
    • The Myth of the Jobless Recovery
    • Growth Forecast Errors and Fiscal Multipliers
• ►2012 (56)
  • ►December(5)
    • House Prices in France
    • Macroprudential Policies and Housing Prices
    • An assessment of the US jobless recovery through a non-linear Okun’s law
    • How the IMF and the World Bank contribute to a job-rich global recovery?
    • Seven Questions on Turning Points of the Global Business Cycle
  • ►November(3)
    • A Project in Every Port
    • Honoring a Forecasting Giant
    • Okun's Law: Fit at 50?
  • ►October(6)
    • Restoring Hope: Policy Options for Jobs & Growth
    • Are We Headed for Another Food Price Crisis?
    • The global impact of the ‘food supply crunch’
    • State of Global Labor Markets
    • IMF's latest commodity outlook
    • Jobs and Growth: Can’t Have One Without the Other?
  • ►September(5)
    • House Prices in Korea
    • Global House Prices Still Showing Down Trend
    • The Construction Sector: Reeling or Rolling?
    • House Prices in Ireland
    • Global House Price Watch
  • ►August(4)
    • House Prices in Singapore
    • Interview with IMF Fellow Olivier Coibion
    • Is Long-Term Unemployment Pushing Up Structural Unemployment?
    • House Prices in the US
  • ►July(3)
    • Successful Austerity in the United States, Europe and Japan
    • IMF Says Global Recovery Weak and Vulnerable; Depends on Resolving Euro Area Crisis
    • How Vulnerable Is Sweden’s Housing Market?
  • ►June(6)
    • 2011: “Anything but a boring year” in the energy market
    • Unemployment: Cyclical or Structural?
    • Five Reasons for Global Resilience to Oil Price Rises
    • IMF Analyst Sees Global Slowdown Biggest Oil Worry
    • Seven Questions about Income Inequality
    • Labor Markets through the Lens of the Great Recession
  • ►May(5)
    • IMF Photographic Talent Through the Lens
    • House Prices in United Arab Emirates
    • People in Economics
    • IMF BOOK FORUM: The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
    • Why’s austerity so unpopular in Europe? Because it’s not working.
  • ►April(3)
    • Jobs and Growth: Can’t Have One Without the Other?
    • The Global Recovery: Where Do We Stand?
    • Is U.S. Long-Term Unemployment Set to Decline?
  • ►March(3)
    • Seven Questions: Unemployment through the Prism of the Great Recession
    • House Prices in Philippines
    • House Prices in Ireland
  • ►February(6)
    • Fred Bergsten: will the euro survive?
    • BP’s Cheerful Energy Outlook for 2030
    • House Prices in Singapore
    • House Prices in Lebanon
    • House Prices in Norway
    • Do Groundhogs make Better Forecasters than Economists?
  • ►January(7)
    • Tom Sargent on European and U.S. Economic Woes—and History
    • Davos told that stimulus and social protection vital for growth
    • Manufacturing: Hope or Hopeless?
    • Global Think Tanks Rankings
    • “Treat us right, not white”: MLK Day 2012
    • How Inequality Damages Economies
    • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Boom, Gloom or Doom?): Global GDP Outlook from Ethan Harris
• ►2011 (41)
  • ►December(6)
    • In Memoriam: All Economists Great and Small
    • More Housing Woes on the Horizon?
    • House Prices in Canada
    • Housing Market in Korea
    • JEC Report Highlights Critical Role of Unemployment Insurance
    • GLOBAL HOUSE PRICE MONITOR
  • ►November(3)
    • How does Fiscal Austerity affect the 99% vs. the 1%?
    • IMF Book Forum on “Lost Decades: The Making of America’s Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery”
    • What’s the Secret to Economic Growth? We Just Don’t Know
  • ►October(4)
    • World of Work Report 2011: Making markets work for jobs
    • A golden oldie: Nobel Prize winner Tom Sargent on Unemployment
    • Invitation to an Event. Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery
    • De-Mythologizing Fiscal Consolidation
  • ►September(4)
    • As World Leaders Meet, Global Unemployment Is Topic No. 1
    • New York Times, Huffington Post and the Washington Post on the recent F&D article
    • Whom Will it Hurt? The Short-Run Impacts of Fiscal Consolidation
    • Roubini ups his recession probability from 40% to 60%
  • ►August(1)
    • Presentation video on "Long-Term Unemployment- Causes, Costs, Cures"
  • ►July(3)
    • How do Countries Rank in Energy Security?
    • More on Structural Unemployment: Manufacturers Struggling to Find Skilled Workers
    • Overhaul Career and Technical Education
  • ►June(4)
    • The great jobs mismatch
    • Profile of Economics Nobel: George Akerlof
    • How Often Do Forecasters Revise their Forecasts?
    • The Economic Crisis and the U.S. Policy Response: Just Right, Too Little or Too Much?
  • ►May(4)
    • Huffington Post on cyclical vs. structural unemployment
    • The Elusive Quest for Energy Security
    • New Evidence on Cyclical and Structural Sources of Unemployment
    • Econbrowser on cyclical vs structural unemployment
  • ►April(8)
    • Energy Security: Depend, but Diversify
    • Biz Beat: No easy answers at UW conference on unemployment
    • New Evidence on Cyclical and Structural Unemployment
    • University of Wisconsin Conference on Long term Unemployment
    • Shirkers of the World, Unite!
    • Econbrowser on Energy Independence
    • IMF Sees Oil Prices Staying High
    • Oil price hike fuels recession fears
  • ►March(3)
    • OECD Energy Diversification Changes Largely Reliant on Gas Uptake: IMF
    • First, let's shoot all the forecasters
    • Rising Oil Prices Highlight Need for Diversification
  • ►February(1)
    • Oil: The Once and Future Shock?
• ►2010 (14)
  • ►December(5)
    • Hit #2. Research on the unemployment crisis also makes The Globalist Top Ten
    • Interview with Joe Stiglitz makes The Globalist's Top Ten Features
    • Nobel-worthy
    • China: Property Bubble in the Making?
    • Whether Cyclical or Structural, Unemployment is a Human Tragedy
  • ►November(2)
    • Gloom & Doom … or Boom? The Movie
    • The Unemployment Crisis: Costs, Causes, Cures
  • ►October(3)
    • Bouncing Between Floors? Globally, House Prices are Up and Down
    • Economics Nobel George Akerlof Takes Up Research Position at IMF
    • More Room to Fall? Prospects for Housing Markets
  • ►September(3)
    • Gloom & Doom … or Boom?
    • Happy Labor Day: Celebrate Workers, Don't Forget the Unemployed
    • The Return of Dr. Doom
  • ►August(1)
    • Construction Activity Finally Picks Up