Quantitative Ease by Carola Binder

The final version of my paper " Estimation of Historical Inflation Expectations " is now available online in the journal Explorati...

In 2003, Ben Bernanke described a central bank's communication strategy as " regular procedures for communicating with the politi...

I've written another post for the Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies blog : President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected in...

The Berkeley Economic History Lab working paper series has recently put up a new paper by Richard Sutch, " The Liquidity Trap, the G...

Lance Edwin Davis passed away this week. A renowned economic historian with major contributions in financial history and institutional econo...

I'm glad to see Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation Evangelii Guardium  featured so prominently in the media . With a 224-page docum...

Argentina's time is up. In February, the IMF censured Argentina on account of its notoriously dubious inflation statistics. Under terms...

In most financial and economic analysis, U.S. Treasuries play the role of the "risk-free" asset. They are risk-free to an approxim...

This afternoon I attended a seminar called " Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries 1700-2010 " by Thomas Piketty...

In the United States, the 1840s were "an era of fiscal crisis following a decade of fiscal exuberance," according to a  paper by ...

The Berkeley Economic History Laboratory (BEHL) launched a series of working papers earlier this year. The BEHL website notes that "Th...

In 1991, in response to considerable debt management concerns among European nations, Barry Eichengreen wrote a paper called " The Capi...