Interesting proposals here.
Month: April 2013
There has been plenty of commentary over the past day or so on insights into the statistical work undertaken by Reinhart and Rogoff in their paper on growth and debt published in the Papers and Proceedings of the 2010 AEA Annual Meeting.
Their conclusions on public debt are represented in this chart (below the fold) from the paper, with the subsequent emphasis put on the (slightly) negative average growth rate for countries with a Debt/GDP over 90%.
Euro Crisis Roundtable
Chair: Kevin O’Rourke, Chichele Professor of Economic History, University of Oxford
Speakers: Richard Portes, Hans-Werner Sinn, Alan Taylor
Date: Thursday, 18th April
Time: 4pm
Venue: The J M Synge Theatre, Room 2039, Ground Floor Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
This is a jointly organised lecture by the IIIS and the Trinity Long Room Hub. This lecture series is an associated event of the Irish Presidency of the Council of the EU. The series will run from January to June. Admission is free and all are welcome.
A discussion of the future of the euro area with leading experts. Hans-Werner Sinn is President of the CES-ifo Institute and one of Germany’s most prominent economists. Richard Portes is Professor at London Business School and President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Alan Taylor is Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia and an expert in financial economics and economic history.
The Economic Policy Panel will be held in Dublin later this week – the papers are here.
The IMF has released a new paper here, in tandem with its major macro conference today and tomorrow.