Bernanke on The Economics of Happiness

Ben Bernanke’s speech this weekend focuses on this highly-popular area of research: you can read it here.

Breakfast with Nouriel Roubini

The FT profiles ‘Dr Realist’ – you can read it here.

How to Deflate Property Bubbles

The Economics Focus slot in this week’s Economist covers various policy interventions that can help to deflate property bubbles – you can read it here.

Blue Bonds

There has been much discussion of the potential role of a common euro area bond  –  Bruegel have released a paper analysing such ‘blue bonds’; you can download it here.

Rogoff on European Sovereign Debt

Ken Rogoff reflects on the European sovereign debt crisis in this FT article.