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I am currently writing my PhD defence speech and, while searching for inspiration, I am checking what others wrote at their times of breakthrough. It is somewhat interesting and symbolic what Arthur Burns and Paul Volcker wrote in their Per … Continue reading →

http://www.tse.fi/EN/media/events/Pages/DissertationDefenceLicSocScAleksandraMaslowska.aspx

The European Financial Stability Facility, the euro area’s bailout fund, lost its top credit rating at Standard & Poor’s after earlier downgrades of France and Austria. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-16/s-p-cuts-efs-facility-to-aa-from-aaa.html

“You’ve got to feel sorry for the people at the Fed who have to keep cleaning up the mess that the fiscal policy makers leave,” MacGuineas said. More in Bloomberg’ story: Central Banks Ease Most Since ’09 to Avert Europe-Led … Continue reading →

You JUST need to answer to a question:  how to manage the orderly exit of one or more member states from the European Monetary Union. The Wolfson Economics Prize, second in the amount after the Nobel Prize is founded by Lord … Continue reading →

Mario Draghi, the new ECB president has started his presidency with an interest rate cut. Considering average EMU inflation being higher than the target “below but close 2%”, what is the policy ECB having now? Promoting growth at the cost … Continue reading →

Congratulations to this year’s winners of Nobel prize in economics! http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/ I’m happy to see that the area of my research is being awarded with such a high prize.

http://www.apple.com http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-05/steve-jobs-who-built-most-valuable-technology-company-passes-away-at-56.html

http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-16/end-the-fed-s-dual-mandate-and-focus-on-prices-john-b-taylor.html Sent from my iPod