Links for 03-28-17

• How the Federal Reserve controls interest rates - James Hamilton
• The welfare state in the age of globalization - Branko Milanovic
• Trump’s Abuse of Government Data - Adam Davidson
• The Fed's successful tightening - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• China’s Estimated Intervention in February - Brad Setser
• Old Keynesian Multipliers: Cross-Section and Time-Series - Nick Rowe
• Hysteresis with a financial twist - Bayoumi and Eichengreen
• The productivity slowdown’s dirty secret: A growing performance gap - VoxEU
• What Is the Role of Antitrust in a Free-Market Economy? - Luigi Zingales
• How Should Econometrics Be Taught? - Marc Bellemare
• The FHA’s Up-Front Mortgage Insurance Premiums - Liberty Street
• Money that Poured in from Russia - Economic Principals
• Economics: Part of the Rot, Treatment, or Some of Each? - Peter Dorman