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  • Yellen Seen as Next Fed Chairman by One-Third in Investor Poll

    Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Janet Yellen is seen by a third of international investors as the most likely to take the helm of the central bank when Ben S. Bernanke’s term ends in January.

  • Rising Revenue Undercuts Parties’ Tax-Spending Arguments

    A shrinking U.S. federal deficit is undermining the favorite tax-and-spending arguments of both Republicans and Democrats.

  • Reinhart-Rogoff’s Lesson for Economists

    What lesson can economists draw from the ruckus over a flaw found in an influential study by two Harvard University scholars? Our suggestion: Do a better job of checking one another’s work.

  • Six Ways to Separate Lies From Statistics

    The discovery of a spreadsheet error in an influential study by Harvard University economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff inevitably raises a troubling question: To what extent can we trust what any researcher claims to be true?

  • Reinhart-Rogoff Uproar Settles Nothing

    By now, you’re probably tired of all the back-and-forth on Reinhart and Rogoff. That would be Harvard University’s Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, the economists who co-authored the 2009 best-seller, “This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly,” and who are now on the firing line because of minor data errors in a 2010 working paper.

  • Refereeing Reinhart-Rogoff Debate

    The discovery of an error in an influential research paper by Harvard University economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff has sparked an academic firestorm. It’s time to sort through the wreckage.

  • Market’s $20 Trillion Yielding 1% Shows Austerity Mistaken

    At a time when politicians are squeezing budgets to cut borrowing, the bond market is clamoring for more debt, pushing yields on almost $20 trillion of government securities to less than 1 percent.

  • U of Michigan’s Wolfers Referees Reinhart-Rogoff Debate (Audio)

    Justin Wolfers, University of Michigan professor of economics and public policy and Bloomberg View columnist, discusses his op-ed "Refereeing the Reinhart-Rogoff Debt Debate" which looks at the "academic firestorm" sparked by the discovery of an error in a research paper by Harvard University economists Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff. Wolfers speaks with Bloomberg's Kathleen Hays and Vonnie Quinn on Bloomberg Radio's "The Hays Advantage."

  • Reinhart-Rogoff Rebuttal Says UMass Critics Politicized Debt

    Harvard University economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff have defended the technical aspects of a 2010 paper that’s been cited in the U.S. and Europe to bolster arguments to drive down budget deficits, saying their critics have “politicized the issue.”

  • Germany Should End Austerity, Not Ireland

    Anti-austerity fever is sweeping Europe as policy makers decide the way to get from crisis to growth involves higher spending. Well, not so fast.

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