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The G-7 and the Global Economy
Adewale “Wally” Adeyemo, deputy assistant to President Obama and deputy national security advisor for international econ...
No location · May 19, 2016Academic Sources: Victor Shih at the Journal of East Asian Studies on Chinese Elites
With the 7th Party Congress coming to a close, some of the most significant outcomes are likely to relate to promotions ...
No location · May 12, 2016North Korean Threats and Asset Markets. Again.
It has long been alleged that North Korea has the capacity to impose asymmetric damage on the financial markets of its n...
No location · May 11, 2016The European Union Continues to Lag on Banking Supervisory Transparency
Bank supervisors in the European Union have shown no improvement in publishing data on the institutions they supervise. ...
No location · May 10, 2016US Treasury Creates More Hurdles for Business Investment
US business investment—including research and development (R&D) outlays to create intellectual property—hasn't exactly s...
No location · May 10, 2016United Nations DPRK Needs and Priorities
Last week, Marc Noland walked through WFP/FAO food security report, and reports that North Korea might be entering a new...
No location · May 10, 2016Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
Branko Milanovic, City University of New York, discussed his new noteworthy book, Global Inequality: A New Approach for ...
No location · May 09, 2016Kim Jong Un Doubles Down I: The Opening Speech and the Central Committee Report
The two documents we have from the 7th Party Congress so far—Kim Jong Un’s opening speech and his report on the work of ...
No location · May 09, 2016Saudi Arabia’s Flawed National Economic Vision
Since 2014 Saudi Arabia has pursued a strategy to maintain market share in an oversupplied oil market, refusing to cut p...
No location · May 06, 2016The Bank of Japan Turns Hesitant Once Again
After a strong effort to boost chronically low growth and inflation through aggressive monetary easing, Tamim Bayoumi an...
No location · May 06, 2016Brexit Scenarios for June 24
Scenario 1: The UK Votes to Stay in the EU If UK voters decide to remain in the EU, the deal forged by Prime Minister Da...
No location · May 02, 2016Thinking About the Day after Brexit
Will they or won’t they? The question facing voters in the United Kingdom (UK) on June 23—whether or not to leave the Eu...
No location · May 02, 2016Fed Still Uneasy About Steady Rate Hikes
Nobody minds a little attention now and again, but with all the drama and speculation hovering over Federal Reserve poli...
No location · Apr 26, 2016North Korean human rights activity in Australia
Yesterday I discussed new modeling of Korean unification by Warwick McKibben, Jong Wha Lee, and Larry Weifeng Liu. Anoth...
No location · Apr 26, 2016A new model of Korean unification
This past Friday I had the pleasure of participating in a conference on Korean unification held at the Australian Nation...
No location · Apr 25, 2016TPP and the Environment
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, is an ambitious trade deal involving the United States and 11 other countries. Th...
No location · Apr 22, 2016How Offshoring and Global Supply Chains Enhance the US Economy
The 2016 US presidential election campaign has rekindled the debate over offshoring—locating business operations and job...
No location · Apr 22, 2016The Fed’s Dilemma
The US Federal Reserve faces an uneasy choice. Despite solid rates of growth in the United States and China, the two eng...
No location · Apr 22, 2016Billy Graham meets Kim Il-sung
As a teenager in Appalachia, my father drove a milk truck (though as far as I know, I am not the subject of the Kentucky...
No location · Apr 22, 2016Better than Plaza? Reflections on Today's Currency Constellation with Lawrence Summers
Since the time that we took on the project of publishing International Monetary Cooperation: Lessons from the Plaza Acco...
No location · Apr 16, 2016Europe's Welcome Attempt to Harmonize Rules on Asylum Seekers
Europe's migration crisis has reinforced the importance of recent proposals by the European Commission to overhaul the s...
No location · Apr 15, 2016Migration emergency over (for now), but not because of the EU-Turkey deal
Following the March 20 deal between the European Union (EU) and Turkey, the refugee flow from Turkey to Greece has decli...
No location · Apr 15, 2016How Much Bank Capital Is Enough?
William R. Cline says new international norms developed after the crisis fall short of optimal levels of bank capital, b...
No location · Apr 14, 2016Diplomatic Moves
The challenges of getting back to the Six Party Talks are so great that too much emphasis should not be put on the faint...
No location · Apr 14, 2016Stephan Haggard Podcast on the North Korean Economy
It is difficult to assess the state of the North Korean economy, but we have increasing anecdotal evidence from defector...
No location · Apr 13, 2016Direct Trade Impact of Brazil’s Recession
Brazil’s real GDP fell by 3.5 percent in 2015 and a similar decline is projected this year. Which countries suffer the m...
No location · Apr 12, 2016Patrick Honohan Joins the Peterson Institute for International Economic
WASHINGTON—The Peterson Institute for International Economics is pleased to welcome Patrick Honohan as a nonresident sen...
Washington, United States · Apr 12, 2016