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Slave 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, 2016US 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, 2016The 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, 2016Summer 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, 2016Economic 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, 2016The 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, 2016The 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, 2016China 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, 2016Local 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, 2016Trans-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, 2016Release 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, 2016A 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, 2016State 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, 2016Once 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, 2016Brexit: 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, 2016US 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, 2016Brexit 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 ...
No location · Jul 01, 2016Brexit: Is the Financial System Ready?
“Some market and economic volatility can be expected as this process unfolds. But we are well prepared for this.” Those ...
No location · Jun 30, 2016Dangers of Following the Path to an Offshore Britain
Infamously 20 years ago, in assessing whether Britain should join the euro, one of the five tests was whether it would b...
No location · Jun 22, 2016What Can China Accomplish with its G-20 Presidency?
China is about to step up for the first time as host of the G-20 this September and the country has been working hard to...
No location · Jun 22, 2016Diplomatic Update June 2016
Recent months have seen a flurry of diplomatic activity among the Six Parties, but as always with substantial uncertaint...
No location · Jun 22, 2016The Hamburger Summit
Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again bromance with Kim Jong-un is apparently on again. The presumptive Republican presiden...
No location · Jun 21, 2016Kim and Yang and Lankov on the Rise of the Informal Economy
We are currently in a holding pattern, waiting to find out whether the closure of Kaesong, multilateral and bilateral sa...
No location · Jun 17, 2016Launch of the OECD’s 2016 Economic Survey of the United States
Ángel Gurría, secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), presented the OECD’...
No location · Jun 16, 2016The Global Value Chain Revolution and Trade Policy
Richard Baldwin, professor of international economics at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, discussed the the global value ...
No location · Jun 14, 2016The Republican Foreign Policy Statement
Last week, Speaker Paul Ryan unveiled a 25-page foreign policy strategy document at the Council on Foreign Relations, wh...
No location · Jun 13, 2016Regional Convergence in China
Six years ago, all of China’s regions were still growing at a real rate of 10 percent or more. Taking into account popul...
No location · Jun 10, 2016Hazel Smith’s North Korea: Markets and Military Rule
Hazel Smith has written a sweeping book on North Korea that summarizes her long engagement with the country entitled—qui...
No location · Jun 10, 2016Brazil's Fiscal High Dive into Olympics 2016
The Olympic Games may offer Brazilians a temporary reprieve from the bad economic news plaguing the country, but Monica ...
No location · Jun 09, 2016North Korean Forced Labor in the EU
A few weeks ago VICE released a remarkable documentary on North Korean forced labor in Poland, which provides a unique g...
No location · Jun 09, 2016China Policy Communications Under Scrutiny as Economy Gains Global Prominence
Uncertainty about China’s economic future has underpinned a substantial portion of global market volatility of the past ...
No location · Jun 08, 2016China's Market Economy Status and Antidumping: A $100 Billion, $10 Billion, or $1 Billion Dispute? Part 1
Despite its success as an export powerhouse, China has long protested that it has been relegated to the status of a “non...
No location · Jun 08, 2016The Screw Turns II: The Expansion of European Sanctions
On Monday, I talked about the new US Treasury designation. Last week, another shoe also dropped in the form of new Europ...
No location · Jun 08, 2016How Dependent Are US Consumers on Imports From China?
If you are in the market for a new cell phone or a laptop, you better hope that the United States does not impose puniti...
No location · Jun 07, 2016Modi's US Visit Offers Window for Economic Opening
C. Fred Bergsten says Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's last official visit to the United States under President Bar...
Washington, United States · Jun 06, 2016The Screw Turns I: New US Financial Sanctions
This week, we lead with two developments on the sanctions front; today, the Treasury ruling that places new constraints ...
No location · Jun 06, 2016Black Market Contest Winner Announced!
We finally have a winner for the black market exchange rate contest! The contest, announced on March 16, was motivated b...
No location · Jun 04, 2016Recent Economic Developments, the Productive Potential of the Economy, and Monetary Policy
The Honorable Jerome H. Powell, member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, delivered the speech “Re...
No location · May 26, 2016Building on Asia's Strengths During Turbulent Times
Changyong Rhee, director of the Asia and Pacific department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), delivered the spee...
No location · May 26, 2016Academic Sources: Gartzke and Kroenig on “Nukes with Numbers”
In the last ten years, there has been an explosion of quantitative research on nuclear weapons. The basic structure of t...
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