New links for students

A useful link for economics students taking my Intermediate Macro class

http://blog-imfdirect.imf.org/2012/05/20/economics-new-links-for-students-from-the-imf/

Financial Crises: A Summary

Read this piece online by Rag Rajan about the causes of the financial crisis and possible solutions. For those who have read about this topic before, there wont be anything very new on it, but for those who have yet to read on the topic, its a good summary of the past 6 years.

Below is the link to the paper.

http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/raghuram.rajan/research/papers/FA%20May%202012.pdf