Media, Popular Writings & Public Lectures
Sky News asks me whether higher public sector pay would lead to inflation.
Jan 4 2023
Financial Times Survey of top 101 UK economists
Jan 3 2023
Macro Musings Podcast, Interview on the UK crisis, the strong $, fiscal policy and inflation, and monetary policy shocks
Nov 2022
Euronews: Autumn statement: Hunt strives to play up UK's performance as he sets out austere budget
I talk about the autumn statement and Brexit.
17 Nov 22
Note on the UK Fiscal Crisis of 2022
Ethan Ilzetzki, Oct 2022
GB News: Interview about the UK economy
Oct 19, 2022
CNN: Two vie to replace Boris Johnson. Neither has 'a true plan' to fix its ailing economy
Anna Cooban, July 24, 2022
LSE Explainer on inflation and interest rates
July, 2022
Guardian: I'm quoted on ERC research funding and Brexit
Lisa O'Carroll, 25 April 2022
Bloomberg Radio: Interview about Chancellor's Spring Statement (UK Budget) (minute 16)
March 23, 2022
BBC News (TV): Interview about the UK Cost of Living Crisis
February 12, 2022
FT: The Poisoned Chalice of the Fed Chair Job
John Plender, Nov 26, 2021
GWG - ECFIN - JRC Conference on the "Assessment of Output Gaps and Potential Output in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath". Slides
Macro Musings Podcast, Dec 2020 Interview on the euro, exchange rate volatility & inflation prospects
Newsweek: The World Is $277 Trillion in Debt So Why Aren't Economists More Worried?
Alex Hudson, Nov 24, 2020
Project Syndicate: The Calm Before the Exchange Rate Storm,
Ken Rogoff, Nov 10, 2020
Brookings Panel on Economic Activity,
Presentation, Sep 24, 2020
Times: Video explainer on public debt
July 8, 2020
Guardian: How worrying is Britain's debt? Surprisingly, we economists say: not very
Op ed, June 2020
Les Echos: L'internationalisation de l'euro toujours au point mort,
Nessim Aït-Kacimi, Jun 10, 2020
VoxEU: Ramping up ventilator production: Lessons from WWII
Article, April 2020, (with Hugo Reichardt)
FT: Europe First: taking on the dominance of the US dollar
Martin Sandbu, Dec 5, 2019.
FT: What the ECB Bashers Get Wrong,
Martin Sandbu, Nov 7, 2019
IMF Annual Research Conference:
Discussion on public debt and r<g around minute 55, November 2019
FT: China's currency will not replace the US dollar,
Colby Smith, Sep 19, 2019
Globes
Interview, Jan 2018 (in Hebrew)
Les Echos: La productivité, ça se cultive,
Jean-Marc Vittori, 25 Sep 2017
Macro Musings podcast, May 2017
Economist: Donald Trump and the Dollar Standard,
Free Exchange, Feb 9, 2017.
Invstr Video on fiscal policy, Nov 2016
CfM Public Lecture: Fiscal Policy During Recessions and Recoveries, LSE Feb 2014
LSE US Centre Blog on the Affordable Care Act, 2013
BBC: Interview, September 2012
Mar 2012
New York Times: Vector Autoregressions and Keynesian Macro
Paul Krugman (blog post) Oct 17, 2011
Economist: Tuesday Morning Quarterbacking
Buttonwood, Aug 11, 2011
CNN: Debt deal: No cause for celebration
Op Ed, Aug 1, 2011
Econbroser: Multiplier estimates, across countries, across states, across time
July, 2011
Irish Independent: State stimuli won't work without fall in interest rates, says research
Brendan Keenan, Dec 16, 2010
Wall Street Journal: Why the Spending Stimulus Failed
Michael Boskin, Dec 1, 2010
New York Times: The Two Cultures
David Brooks, Nov 15, 2010
American Enterprise Institute: Government Response to Financial Crisis,
Presentation, Oct 2009
A Victory for Mudell-Flemming
Greg Mankiw, blog post, Oct 5, 2009
New York Times: Multiplying Multipliers
Paul Krugman (blog post) Oct 1, 2009