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What Macroeconomists Are Missing

Harvard Business Review

Serodio thought a post I had written citing the complaints of former European Central Bank chairman Jean-Claude Trichet and author Jonathan Schlefer was too dismissive of modern macro, in particular the dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models that dominate academic and central bank macro research.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

The boom-bust tendencies of Wall Street mean we need tougher capital requirements for banks, Greenspan now says, and maybe even a forced return to the partnerships that once dominated investment banking. I used to discuss the issue at the Fed, “What do we get by being very successful in forecasting?” And I say a bubble.