Ben Moll on the Basics of HANK Models and How They Can Be Applied to Policymaking
Ben Moll is a professor of economics at the London School of Economics, and is well known for his work on income and wealth distribution in macroeconomics and its implications for policy. Ben joins th...
9 Mar 202058min
Scott Sumner on How Central Banks Should Respond to the Coronavirus Threat
Scott Sumner is the Ralph G. Hawtrey Chair of Monetary Policy at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and a returning guest to Macro Musings. Scott joins the show today to talk about the re...
2 Mar 202054min
Paul Schmelzing on the 'Suprasecular' Decline of Global Real Interest Rates
Paul Schmelzing is an economic historian, a visiting scholar at the Bank of England and a postdoc at the Yale University School of Management. Paul has written an influential new paper on the long his...
24 Feb 20201h
Ernie Tedeschi on Output Gaps, Labor Markets, and the State of the Economy
Ernie Tedeschi is a policy economist and the head of fiscal analysis at Evercore ISI, a macro advisory firm. He is also an occasional contributor to The Upshot section at The New York Times. Previousl...
17 Feb 20201h 5min
Brent Skorup on Autonomous Vehicles, Flying Cars, and Airspace as a Scarce Resource
Brent Skorup is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center where he specializes in transportation technology, telecommunications, aviation, and wireless policy. Brent also serves on the FCC's bro...
10 Feb 202055min
Marc Lavoie on Canadian Central Bank Policy, Real-time Payments, and the Post-Keynesian Tradition
Marc Lavoie is a professor of economics at the University of Ottawa and an author a recent article on the Bank of Canada's operating system. Marc is also the coauthor of a popular textbook titled, *Mo...
3 Feb 20201h 1min
Joseph Gagnon on Central Banks' Ability to Fight the Next Recession
Joseph Gagnon is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and formerly, a senior staffer at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Joseph is also a returning guest to Mac...
27 Jan 202057min
Macro Musings Producers' Special – A Recap of 2019 and a Glimpse into the Future
To accompany the new year, David Beckworth is joined by the producers of Macro Musings, Marc and Carter, to talk about the highlights of the podcast throughout 2019, including their personal favorite ...
20 Jan 202056min
