Author Archives: Menzie Chinn
What Should Emerging Market Economies Do?
Some thoughts on how choices between monetary autonomy, exchange rate stability and capital account openness — and reserve accumulation/decumulation — relate to macro outcomes.
“A Forensic Analysis of Global Imbalances”
Just published in Oxford Economic Papers, a paper by Chinn, Eichengreen and Ito. From the abstract:
Asymmetries in Aggregate Supply in Two Frameworks
And Implications for Current Macro Policy
Dispatches XXVI: So Much for Shrinking All Government
From Jason Stein and Daniel Bice in the Milwaukee Sentinel Journal:
Gov. Scott Walker’s administration rewarded the new hardline Capitol Police chief and his top deputy with double-digit pay raises earlier this year after moving the pair on paper to phantom jobs for two weeks and then back to their real posts.
Some Economic Implications of Global Climate Change
Each time I post something on the environment, a number of readers admonish me to get back to economics. Well, it’s been obvious to many observers that the two are interlinked. Consider one graph from NOAA, and two others from Economic Benefits of Increasing Electric Grid Resilience to Weather Outages, a joint CEA and DOE report, released on Tuesday.
The Yen’s Progress and Japanese Exports
I’m just back from Japan, where disappointing GDP statistics have reinforced the fact that the economy is still far from full recovery.
Counterproductive Tendencies in Wisconsin Policy Debates
Reader John (sometimes Jack), who disapproves of my posts on Wisconsin, politely asks:
Dr Chinn,
Would you be willing to flesh out your background so as to better understand your positions in your research and blog postings?
Where were you born?
Where were your parents born?
Do your parents espouse your same political leanings?
Do you intend to remain in Wisconsin after you retire?
If not, where do you intend to move to?
Guest Contribution: “(Taylor) Rules versus Discretion”
Today, we’re fortunate to have Alex Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy, Assistant Professor of Economics at Lehigh University, David Papell and Ruxandra Prodan, Professor and Clinical Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Houston, as Guest Contributors.
Ever Expanding Government Employment
…in the minds of the too-busy-to-consult-data, but have time to comment on blogs