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Rethinking Trade and Reframing the Trade Debate
Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX) discussed “Rethinking Trade and Reframing the Trade Debate” on September 27, 2016, at the...
No location · Sep 27, 2016 · WedgetailEconomic Situation in Brazil and Latin America
Arminio Fraga of Gávea Investments and Robert Zoellick, chairman of Goldman Sachs’ International Advisors, spoke at the ...
No location · Sep 26, 2016 · WedgetailSwiss-EU Pragmatism on Immigration Will Have Limited Bearing on Brexit Negotiations
The emerging notion among Brexit optimists that the United Kingdom could use Switzerland as a template for negotiating n...
No location · Sep 23, 2016 · WedgetailLaunch of Assessing Trade Agendas in the US Presidential Campaign
Yesterday, Marc Noland presented his research on the presidential candidates' trade policies that he co-authored with Sh...
No location · Sep 23, 2016 · WedgetailLaunch of Assessing Trade Agendas in the US Presidential Campaign
The Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) presented a new PIIE Briefing, Assessing Trade Agendas in the ...
No location · Sep 22, 2016 · WedgetailVulnerability to Sanctions I: Park and Walsh
As the discussion shifts ineluctably towards sanctions in the wake of the fifth test, attention also naturally shifts to...
No location · Sep 22, 2016 · WedgetailLaunch of the Geneva Report: What Else Can Central Banks Do?
The Peterson Institute for International Economics hosted the Washington launch of the 18th Geneva Report “What Else Can...
No location · Sep 14, 2016 · WedgetailSlave to the Blog: August Catch-Up Edition II
Yesterday, I reviewed some of the most important developments surrounding the peninsula, starting with the North Korean ...
No location · Sep 07, 2016 · WedgetailBrazil’s Post-Impeachment Economics
Financial markets’ renewed fondness for Brazil—the country’s stock market has rallied 60 percent this year—is hard to sq...
No location · Sep 06, 2016 · WedgetailSlave to the Blog: August Catch-Up Edition I
No sooner do we go on vacation then the world goes to hell in a handbasket. More seriously, developments on the Korean p...
No location · Sep 06, 2016 · WedgetailGloomy Autumn in Store for Europe
Europe is about to experience a hectic start of the political season, with more problems on its hands than at any time i...
No location · Sep 02, 2016 · WedgetailChina's New Economic Frontier: Overcoming Obstacles to Continued Growth
China's economy is at a pivotal moment, as it faces both imminent and long-term challenges that may significantly hamper...
No location · Aug 31, 2016 · WedgetailBrazil’s Economic Malaise Rekindled as Olympic Flame Goes Out
Monica de Bolle outlines the tough economic challenges facing Brazilian acting President Michel Temer now that the Olymp...
No location · Aug 31, 2016 · WedgetailUneasy Calm at Fed’s Jackson Hole Conference
Adam S. Posen says the mood at the annual Economic Policy Symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City...
No location · Aug 31, 2016 · WedgetailThe sky fell on the US poultry industry last year. But NAFTA and the TPP helped protect US exports.
Migrating birds don’t pay much attention to border regulations, it turns out. But last year’s “bird flu” outbreak, a hug...
No location · Aug 30, 2016 · WedgetailEvaluating the IMF’s Performance on Financial-Sector Aspects of the Euro Area Crisis
The Peterson Institute has posted The IMF’s Role in the Euro Area Crisis: Financial Sector Aspects on its website, and a...
No location · Aug 29, 2016 · WedgetailB.R. Myers: North Korea’s Juche Myth I
I have never put much weight on ideological explanations of North Korea’s domestic or foreign behavior. To be sure, the ...
No location · Aug 03, 2016 · WedgetailDefection, Labor Exports and Border Control
Revised August 2 3PM. An earlier version of this post reported that the UN staff from the Office of the High Commissione...
No location · Aug 02, 2016 · WedgetailThe Democratic Party Platform: the Asia Dimension
Last week, I looked at the Republican Party platform document, significant not for its substantive effect if Mr. Trump p...
No location · Aug 01, 2016 · WedgetailThe Republican Bankruptcy Illusion
There is now near-unanimity that the United States' Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation, enacted in 2010, did not en...
No location · Jul 31, 2016 · WedgetailMisunderstanding North Korea’s Celebrity Culture
For nearly a year I have been carrying around with me an essay by David Zeglen titled “It’s the Thought That Counts: Nor...
No location · Jul 29, 2016 · WedgetailChina’s SOE Reform—The Wrong Path
A key component of China’s SOE reform strategy—mergers of the largest firms in the same industry—seems very unlikely to ...
No location · Jul 28, 2016 · WedgetailThe Divergent Postcommunist Paths to Democracy and Economic Freedom
This paper presents evidence from 29 postcommunist countries that the economic transition has been more successful than ...
No location · Jul 28, 2016 · WedgetailSlave to the Blog: The Will Rogers Edition
The American humorist famously observed, “If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.” Some folks internalize this adv...
No location · Jul 27, 2016 · WedgetailUS Exit From WTO Would Unravel Global Trade
In his latest attack on US trade policy, Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump has threatened to exit the 16...
No location · Jul 26, 2016 · WedgetailThe US Filed a WTO Dispute to Save Jobs—by Increasing Imports from China: Here’s Why
In the latest salvo against free trade, Donald Trump argued that the World Trade Organization is a disaster and fails to...
No location · Jul 26, 2016 · WedgetailSummer Reading: Diamond, Plattner and Walker, Authoritarianism Goes Global
Last year, I wrote about the problem of “democracy promotion in reverse” and spotlighted a website managed by the Intern...
No location · Jul 26, 2016 · WedgetailEconomic and Political Freedoms Diverge in Eastern Europe
Political analysts often assume that economic and political freedoms go together. Increase property rights and the oppor...
No location · Jul 25, 2016 · WedgetailThe Next European Financial Capital: London
The race to succeed London as the next European financial capital is on. “We know that groups based in the City are plan...
No location · Jul 25, 2016 · WedgetailThe North Korean Economy Contracted Last Year. Maybe.
The Bank of Korea has released its annual North Korean GDP estimates, and the BOK has concluded that the North Korean ec...
No location · Jul 25, 2016 · WedgetailChina Chart: Tracking China’s Debt
Chinese banks were at it again in June with another steep increase in the amount of lending. New renminbi loans increase...
No location · Jul 22, 2016 · WedgetailLocal Content Requirements: Backdoor Protectionism Spreading Under the Radar
Local content requirements (LCRs), or more broadly “localization rules,” have become a popular protectionist tool to fav...
No location · Jul 22, 2016 · WedgetailTrans-Pacific Partnership: An Assessment
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) between 12 Pacific Rim countries has generated the most intensive political debate a...
No location · Jul 21, 2016 · WedgetailRelease of Implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership for the World Trading System
The Peterson Institute for International Economics released the Policy Brief Implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnersh...
No location · Jul 14, 2016 · WedgetailA Slow Negotiation Might Help Achieve a Better Brexit Solution
What happens now to the relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union, after the Brexit referendum? It ...
No location · Jul 05, 2016 · WedgetailState of Play in the Chinese Steel Industry
Steel overcapacity is a global problem and China, the world’s largest steel-producing country, is at the center of the d...
No location · Jul 05, 2016 · WedgetailOnce Again, Sanctions Enforcement
In an earlier post, I talked about the qualitative evidence that North Korea is starting to experience distress, and not...
No location · Jul 05, 2016 · WedgetailBrexit: What a Difference a Week Makes
Britain’s decision to part ways with the European Union in a referendum last week was a classic example of what former U...
No location · Jul 01, 2016 · WedgetailUS and Global Trade: Economic Fact and Political Fiction
Proponents of more open trade may have oversold its benefits during the 1990s heyday of commercial liberalization. Now t...
No location · Jul 01, 2016 · WedgetailBrexit Is a Disastrous Experiment in Deglobalization
Brexit is an experiment in deglobalization. As the pound tanks and British politics implode, investment will dry up and ...
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