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Author Eric Lonergan

Eric Lonergan

Eric Lonergan is a macro hedge fund manager, economist, and writer. His most recent book is Supercharge Me, co-authored with Corinne Sawers. He is also author of the international bestseller, Angrynomics, co-written with Mark Blyth, and published by Agenda. It was listed on the Financial Times must reads for Summer 2020. Prior to Angrynomics, he has written Money (2nd ed) published by Routledge. He has written for Foreign Affairs, The Financial Times, and The Economist. He also advises governments and policymakers. He first advocated expanding the tools of central banks to including cash transfers to households in the Financial Times in 2002. In December 2008, he advocated the policy as the most efficient way out of recession post-financial crisis, contributing to a growing debate over the need for ‘helicopter money’.

When big data is worse than a sample of none

Eric Lonergan
10th June 2017
Finance & Asset Pricing, Theory & Other Problems
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Michael Mauboussin uses a very simple exercise to illustrate how difficult it is to statistically distinguish skill from luck. Investors are often deemed geniuses or fools based on small samples. Think of those...

The economics of partying too hard

Eric Lonergan
10th June 2017
Theory & Other Problems
What is the difference between work and leisure? A distinction based on paid and unpaid activities is incomplete. A better distinction is between activities we want do and those we don’t enjoy. But this is also...

Why do asset prices move?

Eric Lonergan
25th April 2017
Finance & Asset Pricing
6
Discussions of volatility tend to reveal eccentric views of asset price determination. 'Uncertainty' is deemed to increase and decrease with remarkable frequency. This is particularly odd given that what we don...

The case for a new economics

Eric Lonergan
26th February 2017
Economic History, Helicopter Money, Monetary Policy, Theory & Other Problems
3
What’s really wrong with NAIRU Earlier this year, Matthew Klein at FT’s Alphaville, made a typically punchy and well-argued case for abandoning a cornerstone of the current macro policy framework - the NAIRU...

Has the Bank of Japan solved the ‘Piketty problem’?

Eric Lonergan
19th February 2017
Definitions of Money, Economic History, Finance & Asset Pricing, Helicopter Money, Monetary Policy
Japan’s unlikely re-distribution Why is the Bank of Japan (BoJ) trying to raise the rate of inflation? Taking account of its demographic profile, Japan's economic performance has been impressive by developed w...

Renzi’s referendum, Europe’s future

Eric Lonergan
6th December 2016
Economic History, Money in Europe
1
It seems apposite that Matteo Renzi's term as Italian Prime minister should end in this way. This referendum was a surreal distraction. Italy does not need faster political decision-making. Good decisions alway...

Blogoff – The Curse of Cash

Eric Lonergan
19th November 2016
Definitions of Money, Helicopter Money, Monetary Policy, Theory & Other Problems
4
Rogoff's law - the opposite is usually true Punning on Kenneth Rogoff's surname is proving irresistible. He has just launched a new economics blog, which should prove rich in thought-provoking missives. Conf...

Where next? Monetary policy in a post policy-rate world

Eric Lonergan
9th October 2016
Helicopter Money, Monetary Policy, Money in Europe, Theory & Other Problems
4
Three new bazookas Recent shifts in policy direction by global central banks may prove to be profound. The Bank of Japan and the ECB appear to be conceding that further bond purchases and lower policy rates ar...

The Bank of Japan is testing Romer’s hypothesis

Eric Lonergan
24th September 2016
Economic History, Monetary Policy, Theory & Other Problems
1
Has the last thirty years of macroeconomics been a waste of time? World Bank chief economist, Paul Romer, has again written a very important critique of modern macroeconomics – or more specifically the academi...

Fiscal subservience – a reply to Chris Sims

Eric Lonergan
16th September 2016
Definitions of Money, Helicopter Money, Monetary Policy, Money in Europe, Theory & Other Problems
Chris Sims is a deeply thoughtful economist and his paper at the recent Jackson Hole conference has rightly received a lot of attention, notably from Gavyn Davies, in the FT, and Paul Krugman. It is simultan...
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    Eric Lonergan
    9th August 2014

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  • CNBC: market sell-off is ‘noise’

    Eric Lonergan
    17th February 2018

  • Monetary policy & babysitting: why rates are so low, and ‘what’s next?’

    Eric Lonergan
    7th August 2016
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