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Raghuram Rajan, the governor of the Reserve Bank of India and among the few economists who foresaw the last financial crisis, warned last week that «
some of our macroeconomists are not recognizing the overall build - up of risks.
Not exact matches
Dean Baker is a
macroeconomist and co-director
of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC.
Based on estimates
of labor force and productivity growth at the time, if you asked a standard - issue
macroeconomist back then where real GDP would be today, this is the line she would have showed you.
Macroeconomists can contribute by moving beyond their traditional models
of business cycles to contemplate the possibility
of secular stagnation.
One
of the most fortunate events in my life was to study under four brilliant economists at Stanford, who also formed my dissertation committee - Ronald McKinnon, an influential and original scholar in international economics; Thomas Sargent, a leading «rational expectations» theorist; John Taylor, also a «rational expectations»
macroeconomist (currently serving in the Bush administration, and a leading candidate to succeed Alan Greenspan at the Fed, according to the Wall Street Journal), and Robert Hall, who heads the official Recession Dating Committee
of the National Bureau
of Economic Research.
But
macroeconomists lacked the statistics needed to follow how land prices — that is, the «non-building» aspect
of real estate value — were affected by the business cycle.
Fischer was among the premier
macroeconomists of his generation at MIT, before pivoting to a career in public service.
In his 1999 paper Determinants
of Democracy, Harvard
macroeconomist Robert Barro finds a significant relationship between more equal educational opportunity between the sexes and the «target» level
of democracy (for which elections serve as a proxy).
There are a lot
of dopey opinions on saving, particularly from
macroeconomists.