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Twitter is free to ban users
Jan Bouwens, 22 February 2021

Jan Bouwens discusses the decision by Twitter and other social media platforms to ban President Trump and members of his campaign, and the objections to the bans raised by politicians.
Fiscal policy and international cooperation in a Covid world
Vitor Gaspar, Felipe Larraín Bascuñán, 15 February 2021

Vitor Gaspar and Felipe Larrain argue that COVID-19 is a pandemic that can only be controlled globally with the international community acting together, and identify four main key policy priorities going forward.
Export controls on COVID-19 vaccines: Has the EU opened Pandora’s Box?
Simon Evenett, 11 February 2021

Will the EU's trading partners be reassured by the new export regime on COVID-19 vaccines? If not, what could they do about it? And, could this spiral out of control? Simon Evenett outlines five scenarios going forward.
Tax policy for the post-Covid era
Rabah Arezki, Grégoire Rota-Graziosi, 03 February 2021

Rabah Arezki and Grégoire Rota-Graziosi explore what the legacy of Covid-19 will be for our tax systems and several dimensions for the required rethinking

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Sound and fury signifying nothing except newspaper headlines

Jon Danielsson, 12 April 2018

The financial press had a field day when volatility hit a high in early February. In this post I argue that it was not all that extreme. The high point of volatility was only the 103th highest volatility in the past 88 years.
Ergodicity: Is the past probable?

Roger Farmer, 11 April 2018

This post accesses the little-hyped concept of ergodicity. In an exploration of economic forecasts, I argue that ergodicity must be injected into probability models. From that ensues trips into the butterfly effect, multiple equilibria, and the representative agent approach.
Five unanswered questions on Brexit

Thomas Sampson, 10 April 2018

In this post I examine a recent policy paper from the UK government that looks at trade in a post-Brexit EU and lay out several issues in need of consideration.
The market’s troubling message

Ashoka Mody, 01 April 2018

Financial markets are better than economists in sensing non-linearities, the critical junctures where fundamental shifts occur. This article argues that politics, economics, and finance are threatening to shake things up; it’s no time to look away.

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