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Sunday, December 22, 2013

Roubini : Yellen is dovish, but she is not the only one to decide

Could Janet Yellen, Ben Bernankes successor at the Fed, be even more dovish than expected and postpone the tapering even further?

Nouriel Roubini : Yellen is dovish, but she is not the only one to decide, under Bernanke the Fed has developed into a collegial democracy, it’s not the kingdom it used to be under Greenspan anymore. All of the twelve Members of the FOMC have their own strong view and the chairman has to forge a collective decision. And all of them, including Yellen, are convinced that QE hast to be phased out at some point. If the economy will create about 200000 jobs a month and the unemployment rate declines, even if in part due to a falling participation rate, then the FOMC will start doing less QE. Yellens dovishness will manifest itself in a more aggressive forward guidance rather than in a sort of QE forever. - in www.fuw.ch

Nouriel Roubini

Nouriel Roubini

Nouriel Roubini is an American professor of Economics at New York University`s Stern School of Business and chairman of RGE Roubini Global Economics

Nouriel Roubini, (born March 29, 1958, Istanbul, Turkey), Turkish-born American economist and educator who was best known for predicting the 2007–08 subprime mortgage crisis in the United States and the subsequent global financial crisis.

Born to Iranian Jewish parents, Roubini moved with his family to Iran and Israel before they settled in Italy in 1962. After a year at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he studied economics at Bocconi University in Milan (B.A., 1982) and Harvard University (Ph.D., 1988), where he specialized in macroeconomics and international economics. He joined the economics faculty at Yale University in 1988 and taught there until 1995, when he moved to New York University. He also served as a visiting scholar to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), held single-year terms on the White House Council of Economic Advisers (1998–99) and at the U.S. Department of the Treasury (1999–2000), and cofounded (2004) the consulting firm Roubini Global Economics. Roubini spent much of his early career studying countries that experienced extreme economic failures, such as Mexico (in 1994), Thailand and other countries associated with the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Russia (1998), and Argentina (2000). He determined that each shared one common element: a massive current account deficit.(www.britannica.com)

Nouriel Roubini is the Chairman and CEO of Roubini Macro Associates, LLC, his own global macroeconomic consultancy firm. He is also a professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Dr. Roubini has extensive policy experience as well as broad academic credentials. From 1998 to 2000, he served as the senior economist for international affairs on the White House Council of Economic Advisors and then the senior advisor to the undersecretary for international affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department, helping to resolve the Asian and global financial crises, among other issues. The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and numerous other prominent public and private institutions have drawn upon his consulting expertise.