Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Anatomy of a Banking Crisis
There is a banking crisis. Again. Banking regulators were asleep at the switch. Again.
Can it Happen Again?
Emerging Markets and the Balance of Payments: Challenges to Growth and Sustainability
A model that captures key vulnerabilities and structural weaknesses of developing countries’ trade and production structures.
Victoria Chick (1936-2023)
The Quasi-Inflation of 2021-2022: A Case of Bad Analysis and Worse Response
Why the conventional tools of the Phillips Curve, NAIRU, potential output, and money-supply growth are useless
Time Bomb in Global Finance
High-level Panel Discussion: Development Prospects in a Fractured World
As 2022 comes to a close, panelists discuss the immediate prospects for the global economy, the dangers of a lost decade for developing countries and what needs to be done to put the SDGs back on track.
Bankman-Fried, Political Money, and the Crash of FTX
How Showering Money on Both Parties Paralyzed Regulators
You’re Living in a World Wrought by the Federal Reserve. Notice Anything Wrong?
In her new book, veteran Wall Street watcher and economist Nomi Prins warns that central bank strategies deployed since the financial crisis are destroying the real economy, worsening inequality, and creating societal chaos.
Green Power Pools and Electricity Pricing: Practical Ways Out of the UK Energy Crisis
The current energy market structures, including the short-run-marginal-price-on-all nature of the current wholesale market, are not fit for a transition to a renewables-dominated system.
Big Tech: Not Only Market But Also Knowledge and Information Gatekeepers
How do we regulate an information utility?