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Ed was a macro economist based in Barcelona, who specialized in growth and productivity theory, demographic processes and their impact on macro performance, and the underlying dynamics of migration flows.

He was a lovely person and a prolific blogger in his time. Ed’s analyses can be found on his “Don’t Shoot the Messenger” blog on www.economonitor.com, at the India Economy Blog, A Fistful of Euros, Global Economy Matters and Demography Matters. He was a founding member of all these weblogs.

Economy

Latvia: The Demographic Price Of Procrastination

Edward Hugh Jul 28, 2010

One of the things I think we can safely say about the impact of the current economic crisis is that the face of Macro Economic theory will never be the same again. Quite what the macro economics of the future will look like is too early to…

Economy

Interpreting The Stress Tests

Edward Hugh Jul 28, 2010

Evidently there is now a considerable debate out there about the famous (or should that be infamous) CEBS stress tests. Methodologically all sorts of weaknesses have been identified, but in many cases these are decidedly beside the point.…

Economy

Under Stress

Edward Hugh Jul 26, 2010

After a long and rather tense wait, the initial response to the publication of the European bank stress tests was always going to be something of an anti-climax. Indeed the results should hardly have comes as a surprise to anyone It is…

Political Economy

Oh It’s All Gone Quiet Over In The Eurozone!

Edward Hugh Jul 14, 2010

Pretty hard to argue now the Spanish bank borrowing from the ECB is simply in line with the country’s share of total GDP I would have thought. Also, after having trended upwards ever so slightly for a couple of months, Spain’s industrial…

Economy

Biting The Fiscal Bullet In Poland

Edward Hugh Jul 14, 2010

There is a good deal of speculation in the press at the moment over the tricky issue of whether or not Poland will be able to comply with its agreed deficit-reduction deadline on the basis of the latest budget proposals announced by the…

Economy

Is There A Global Economic Slowdown In The Works?

Edward Hugh Jul 12, 2010

According to Ralph Atkins writing in the Financial Times last week, “the pace of Germany’s recovery is helping dispel fears of a “double dip” recession across the continent as a result of the crisis over public finances in southern European…

Economy

Croatia: On The Brink of What?

Edward Hugh Jul 8, 2010

As Croatia enters the final stage of its EU membership talks, it is perhaps a fitting moment to review the other half of the picture, namely where the Croatian economy finds itself, and what the outlook might be for a continuing convergence…

Monetary System

Migration Flows and Economic Sustainability In The Baltics

Edward Hugh Jun 13, 2010

Here’s the third in the series of paper abstracts submitted to the Bologna conference in 2007 and which weren’t considered sufficiently interesting to be selected for presentation. This time the topic is migration and the Baltics, and the…

Monetary System

A Word Of Thanks To The IMF

Edward Hugh Jun 13, 2010

That was the week that was, it’s over, let it go……. Well I don’t suppose it’s that often that people get the opportunity to enthuse about the International Monetary Fund. Normally you find people like Joseph Stiglitz, or Naomi Klein, who…

Political Economy

The Price Of Power

Edward Hugh Jun 11, 2010

Hell, it seems, knows no fury like the financial markets being told you are about to become the next Greece. The poor Vice President of the election-winning Fidesz party, Lajos Kosa, had no idea what was in store for him when he calmly…