News & Events

IMF Discussion: On the Desirability of Capital Controls
Nov. 13, 2014

Discussion of Heathcote and Perri (2014). Slides.

U.S. Congressional Budget Office
Oct. 9, 2014

I joined the Panel of Economic Advisers of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

Princeton Initiative: Macro, Money and Finance 2014
Sept. 5, 2014

Following the Princeton tradition of incorporating financial frictions in macroeconomic models - scholars like Ben Bernanke come to mind - this camp tries to bring top 2nd year Ph.D. students from all leading departments together who want to write a Ph.D. thesis at the intersections between Macro, Monetary Economics and Finance. 

Directorship of Princeton's Bendheim Center for Finance
July 1, 2014

I became the director of Princeton's Bendheim Center for Finance (BCF) and stepped down as co-director of the Woodrow Wilson School's Julis-Rabinowitz Center of Public Policy and Finance (JRCPPF…

Interview on "The I Theory of Money": Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
April 22, 2014
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis published an interview on the I Theory of Money with me (see page 11-14).
Brattle Group Distinguished Paper Prize
Jan. 4, 2014
The paper "Maturity Rat Race" (with Martin Oehmke) won the Brattle Group distinguished paper prize for one of the best corporate finance papers published in the Journal of Finance 2013.
Financial Dominance
Oct. 22, 2013
Lecture on "Financial Dominance" during the Deutsche Bank Prize Ceremony for Raghu Rajan in Frankfurt on Sept 26th, 2013.  See video and
FAZ: Geldtheorie im Teufelskreis
April 17, 2013
This German newspaper article highlights the interactions between financial stability, price stability and fiscal debt sustainability.