Spiegel Online, 29 September 2018, by Thomas Fricke. In der Wohnungskrise geht es um mehr, als nur möglichst schnell Unterkünfte fürs Volk zu schaffen. Die Preisexplosion könnte das Land auf noch gefährlichere Weise spalten, als es ohnehin schon der Fall ist. [….] Problem erkannt. Bemühen erkennbar. Weil in Deutschland zu langsam gebaut...
Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 3, 2018, by Victor Gojdka. Ein Starökonom mischt die Volkswirtschaft auf: Wenn Moritz Schularick die Gegenwart verstehen will, dann blickt er in die Vergangenheit zurück. Wenn Moritz Schularick die Gegenwart verstehen will, dann blickt er in die Vergangenheit zurück: Zehn Jahre, 20, 100, 150. Er lässt sich alte Wälzer...
Quartz, September 1, 2018, by Gwynn Guilford. In 1953, Don Barksdale became the first African-American named to the National Basketball Association All-Star team. That same year, Leontyne Price’s performance of “Summertime” at a Metropolitan Opera gala made her the first African-American to sing with the famed New York company. It was also the year that...
The Wall Street Journal, Sep 3, 2018, by Benjamin Harris. Benjamin Harris (@econ_harris) is a visiting associate professor at the Kellogg School of Management and was the chief economist to Vice President Joe Biden. [….] Famous housing economist Robert Shiller lamented in a 2014 paper that “nothing fundamental has changed” in housing finance since...
European Council on Foreign Relations, 14, September 2018, by Sebastian Dullien. It seems we have not learned the lessons of the recent past and may be doomed to repeat them in the future. In recent weeks, media outlets across the world have marked the ten-year anniversary of a signal event in...
The Institute for Macroeconomics and Econometrics is looking for two Research Assistants (10h/week). The position will be based at the Macrohistory Lab at the Institute for Macroeconomics and Econometrics under the direction of Prof. Moritz Schularick. Our research group focuses on macroeconomic and financial history of the 19th and 20th...
Foreign Affairs, September 13, 2018, by Manuel Funke, Moritz Schularick, and Christoph Trebesch. Why the Effects Haven’t Faded? The 2008 financial crisis was devastating to the world economy. Just how devastating is something economists still argue over. It is not easy to add up the costs of bank bailouts, a lost decade of economic growth, spiking...
