Labor Market Slack and Monetary Policy
NBER (2015-04-21)
In the wake of a severe recession and a
sluggish recovery, labor market slack cannot be gauged solely in terms of the
conventional measure of the unemployment rate (that is, the number of
individuals who are not working at all and .. more |
Islamic Finance : Opportunities, Challenges, and Policy
Options IMF (2015-04-21)
The SDN discusses the main policy issues
and challenges in building an inclusive and safe Islamic finance industry, with
emphasis on Islamic banking and Sukuk markets. To this end, it discuses why
Islamic finance matters, taking i .. more |
The European Central Bank's Greek problem AEI
(2015-04-20)
John Maynard Keynes famously observed that if you owe your
bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe it a million, it has a
problem. One has to wonder what he might have said of Greece and the European
Central Bank .. more | |