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Dec 31 08 9:13am EDT

The Year in Research

Once again, here's a completely subjective rundown of the most noteworthy academic research that sprung forth from academia in 2008. 1) Subprime All the Time What we learned, sort of learned, and should have learned about the financial crisis: Bubble ... Continue


Dec 19 08 7:52pm EDT

Mind Your Value Judgements

In the leadup to government bailouts this year, a number of commentators said that if the U.S. did succumb to some sort of systemic crisis, it would have shown that despite its wealth, it's no better than a banana-republic ... Continue


Dec 19 08 3:45pm EDT

S.E.C. Short-Sale Ban: Pretty Much Useless

That's the conclusion from the preliminary results of a new paper by Ekkehart Boehmer of Texas A&M, Charles Jones of Columbia, and Cornell's Xiaoyan Zhang. They studied the impact of the short-sale ban which lasted between mid-September to early October and ... Continue


Dec 19 08 2:31pm EDT

Advice from Japan: Don't Forget TARP 1

Delivered via Janet Yellen, who just came back from a trip to East Asia: analysts universally concluded that the government needs to help banks get toxic assets off their balance sheets. Otherwise, banks will remain focused on the potential for ... Continue


Dec 18 08 8:57pm EDT

Chart of the Day: Money Market Stress Easing

The Libor-OIS spread is getting within striking distance of its pre-Lehman levels: The big moves down in October were related to the bank recapitlization plan and the announcement of the Fed's programs to buy assets from the non-financial sector. It's ... Continue


Dec 18 08 5:57pm EDT

House Price Bubble Deflated?

Interesting set of charts from a presentation by Columbia's real estate guru Chris Mayer showing house prices relative to 50-year trends: It looks like there is a bit of mean-reversion going on here, but two factors make Mayer think that ... Continue


Dec 16 08 11:03pm EDT

Where Were the Whistleblowers?

Mark Gimein points to "a legal precedent set in the Bayou case that should scare the heck out of anyone who once invested with Madoff but who managed to get out safely in the last few years: Any investors who ... Continue


Dec 13 08 10:20pm EDT

It's Just a Recession

In this week's Off the Charts column, NYT's Floyd Norris describes how the young and old are having a very different experience so far in this one-year-old recession: There are now more jobs than there were a year ago for ... Continue


Dec 12 08 7:46pm EDT

Comparing American and European Unemployment Insurance

With the economy in tatters and the Democrats in control of the presidency and Congress come January, it would seem like the perfect time for an expansion of various social insurance schemes -- a New Deal II. But no doubt ... Continue


Dec 11 08 4:33pm EDT

Back to Normal?

The Fed released the Q3 Flow of Funds report this afternoon, and the news was not altogether surprising: Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. household wealth fell in the third quarter by the most on record as property values and stock ... Continue


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