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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 · Wedgetail
Economic 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 · Wedgetail
Swiss-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 · Wedgetail
Launch 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 · Wedgetail
Launch 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 · Wedgetail
Vulnerability 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 · Wedgetail
Launch 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 · Wedgetail
Slave 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 · Wedgetail
Brazil’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 · Wedgetail
Slave 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 · Wedgetail
Gloomy 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 · Wedgetail
China'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 · Wedgetail
Brazil’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 · Wedgetail
Uneasy 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 · Wedgetail
The 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 · Wedgetail
Evaluating 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 · Wedgetail
B.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 · Wedgetail
Defection, 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 · Wedgetail
The 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 · Wedgetail
The 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 · Wedgetail
Misunderstanding 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 · Wedgetail
China’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 · Wedgetail
The 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 · Wedgetail
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, 2016 · Wedgetail
US 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 · Wedgetail
The 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 · Wedgetail
Summer 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 · Wedgetail
Economic 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 · Wedgetail
The 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 · Wedgetail
The 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 · Wedgetail
China 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 · Wedgetail
Local 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 · Wedgetail
Trans-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 · Wedgetail
Release 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 · Wedgetail
A 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 · Wedgetail
State 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 · Wedgetail
Once 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 · Wedgetail
Brexit: 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 · Wedgetail
US 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 · Wedgetail
Brexit 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, 2016 · Wedgetail

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