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Menzie Chinn

Affiliation: University of Wisconsin

Menzie Chinn is Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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Menzie Chinn's Latest Articles | 78

Some Speculation Regarding Asian-American Voting Patterns in 2012

Nov 29, 2012| 

Noahpinion asks: “[W]hy did Asian-Americans break so strongly for Obama? I provide my (slightly different) answer. As Noahpinion observes, given Asian American’s... Read »

Imminent Recession?

Oct 2, 2012| 

So says David Malpass in the WSJ: Data released this week by the Commerce Department waved bright red recession flags—orders for durable goods fell 13.2% in August... Read »

Would Regulation of Libor Have Passed Senator Shelby’s Benefit-Cost Analysis?

Jul 19, 2012| 

Senator Shelby, Ranking Republican of the Banking Committee, has sponsored The Financial Regulatory Responsibility Act, which seeks to restrict implementation of... Read »

May Temperatures, Economic Implications

Jul 15, 2012| 

From NOAA: The United States reported its warmest spring since records began in 1895,… … with 31 states in the eastern two-thirds of the country observing... Read »

NOAA: Warmest March on Record

Apr 10, 2012| 

And the first three months of 2012 were also the warmest first quarter in the contiguous United States, according to NOAA. Figure 1: Temperature departures from... Read »

UK: Into Recession

Jan 26, 2012| 

So much for expansionary fiscal contraction in the UK. Not that that’s a surprise. The UK Office of National Statistics has just released preliminary estimates... Read »

Has Austerity Brought a Boom in the UK?

Nov 10, 2011| 

Or Generalissimo Francisco Franco redux. In “UK: Economic growth, double-dips and the PMI,” (G. Buckley, Deutsche Bank, Nov. 4, 2011, not online): UK... Read »

Wealth Inequality

Oct 13, 2011| 

Dismissing the plots of income inequality in previous posts [0] (related posts [1] [2]), an Econbrowser reader asks: “Do you concur that measures of the wealth... Read »

The World Close to Stall Speed

Oct 11, 2011| 

Or at least OECD plus China, on the basis of the OECD’s Composite Leading Indicators for August 2011: Figure 1: from OECD These series are scaled so that... Read »

Graphic of the Day: Who Borrowed? Who Loaned?

Jul 29, 2011| 

A picture says a thousand words. From the NYT yesterday: In particular, who racked up $6.1 trillion in debt?  Read More →

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