Coronavirus crisis: now is the hour of MMT

Modern Monetary Theory has received mixed response from macroeconomists, but could the coronavirus crisis and the policy responses to it provide the perfect natural experiment to test MMT's predictions? Tim Phillips talks to Peter Bofinger, former member of the German Council of Economic Experts.
Part of CEPR & VoxEU's Covid-19 webinar and videocast series

Topics: Covid-19 Macroeconomic policy

Tags: COVID-19, MMT, Modern Monetary Theory

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Peter Bofinger

Professor for Monetary Policy and International Economics at the University of Wuerzburg, member of the German Council of Economic Experts and CEPR Research Fellow

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CALL FOR PAPERS - Vienna Symposium on Foreign Exchange Markets

17 - 18 August 2020 / Palais Coburg, Vienna, Austria / WU Vienna - Research Institute for Capital Markets
CEPR Household Finance Seminar Series - Tuition, Debt, and Human Capital

21 - 21 August 2020 / Online /
2020 Annual Meeting of the Central Bank Research Association

1 - 3 September 2020 / The London School of Economics and Political Science / Central Bank Research Association
Social Outcomes Conference 2020

3 - 4 September 2020 / Blavatnik School of Government at University of Oxford (Oxford, UK) / Government Outcomes Lab, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.
CEPR Household Finance Seminar Series - Exploited by Complexity

4 - 4 September 2020 / Online /

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