The Economist, Aug 9th 2018. ON A trip to New York in the late 1860s the journalist Henry George was puzzled. He found the rapidly growing city to be a place of unimaginable wealth. Yet it also contained deeper poverty than the less-developed West Coast. How could this be? George...
VOX – CEPR Policy Portal, 09 August 2018, by Moritz Kuhn, Moritz Schularick, Ulrike Steins. “Recent work examining the evolution of the wealth distribution has tended to not paid much attention to the role of asset prices. This column uses a new US dataset to explore the role that asset...
On the 19th of June 2018, the University of Bonn along with the Erasmus School of Economics and the European Association for Banking and Financial History (EABH) have co-organized the Workshop “Frontiers in Financial History”. Scholars and academics, from different universities, joined and discussed their latest findings on financial markets. You may have...
Süddeutsche Zeitung ,26.07.2018, by Andrea Rexer. “Vor zehn Jahren brach die Finanzkrise aus. Auch wenn sich die Wirtschaft wieder erholt hat, sind die Folgen bis heute zu spüren. Sieht man sich an, wer profitiert hat, tun sich überraschende Erkenntnisse auf”. Die Protestcamps haben sich längst aufgelöst, den Banken wurden strengere...
Handelsblatt, 25.07.2018, by Andriane Palka. “Die USA habe die „beste Wirtschaft der Geschichte“, sagt der US-Präsident. Die Lage ist auch gut – doch einer Studie zufolge nicht wegen Trump”. Donald Trump betont gerne, dass die amerikanische Wirtschaft seit seinem Regierungsantritt im Januar 2017 brummt. „Wir haben vielleicht die beste Wirtschaft der...
The Washington Post, 23 July 2018, by Matt O’Brien. One thing we can say for sure is there was a 2016 vote that significantly altered its country’s economic fortunes. No, I’m not talking about President Trump’s shock election, but rather Britain’s equally surprising decision to leave the European Union. Although, as...
AEIdeas, 19 July 2018, by James Pethokoukis. So imagine an alternate reality where Hillary Clinton campaigned a bit more vigorously in supposedly safe Big Ten blue states and eked out a narrow Electoral College victory. So no President Donald Trump. And also no tax cuts, no deregulation, no trade war. How would...
