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Susanne Dambeck

One-Way Street Toward Interdisciplinarity?

For a successful interdisciplinary team – bring in some real experts!

Nadine Gärber

LNLM15 wants YOU!

The definitive guide on applying for LNLM15 as a young scientist.

Bernard Oyayo

If Moneylenders can do it, why not Microfinance Institutions?

Bernard Oyayo, participant of #LindauEcon14, introducing his research on the commercialisation of Microfinance Institutions.

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Panel Discussion: Strategic Behaviour, Incentives and Mechanism Design

Meeting participant Andrew Gimber on the lively discussion that took place at #LindauEcon14.

Frances Coppola

Christopher Sims: Fiscal Pessimism

In my previous post about Christopher Sims’s lecture at Lindau, I concentrated on his remarks about the increasing “moneyness” of financial assets. When both conventional “money” and other financial assets are highly liquid and fungible, monetary and fiscal policy become indistinguishable. What does that imply for price stability and the role of central banks? The traditional quantity […]

Oluwasola Omoju

The future of Nigeria’s power sector post-reform

8 reasons the ‘Power Sector Reform Roadmap’ may not be enough.

Stephanie Hanel

Dorothy Hodgkin: The Queen of Crystallography

2014 marks the 50th anniversary of Dorothy Hodgkin’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry: memories of a Lindau ‘veteran’ who had already been a living legend when she participated in the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings.

Terhi Ravaska

James Mirrlees: Interesting, important taxation

#LindauEcon14 participant Terhi Ravaska on the relevance of optimal Taxation theory to policy making.

Frances Coppola

Christopher Sims: Ultra-liquidity

Technology changes and post-crisis monetary policy are making financial assets and money indistinguishable. Central banks now need to work in partnership with fiscal authorities.

Simon Engelke

#LindauEcon14 Encounters

Lindau Blog Reporter Simon Engelke met some of the brilliant Young minds of #LindauEcon14. Here are his impressions.

Michele Gazzola

Multilingualism and social justice in Europe

Reducing the number of the official languages of the European Union is a bad idea, as Michele Gazzola explains.

Phil Thornton

Daniel McFadden: Understanding better how people really make choices

The way our brains work is key to understanding how consumers really make choices, argues Nobel Laureate Daniel McFadden.