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Five Reasons Why the Focus on Trade Deficits Is Misleading. Robert Lawrence, March 2018, Opinion, "President Trump has asserted that trade balances are a key measure of a nation’s…
What Do Trade Agreements Really Do? Dani Rodrik, February 2018, Paper, "As trade agreements have evolved and gone beyond import tariffs and quotas into regulatory rules and…
Harvard’s Porter on American Competitive Advantage. Michael Porter, February 13, 2018, Audio, "Michael Porter, a professor at Harvard Business School, discusses how small…
The missing money problem: incorporation of increased resources from wind in a representative US power market. Michael B. McElroy, February 12, 2018, Paper, "The paper…
How to Cope with Volatile Commodity Export Prices: Three Proposals. Jeffrey Frankel, February 11, 2018, Paper, "Countries that specialize in commodities have in recent years been…
Competitive effects of trade: theory and measurement. Marc Melitz, February 2018, Paper, "In this paper, I develop a simple model of heterogeneous exporters to a single…
Are Oil Prices Heading for Another Spike? Carmen Reinhart, January 31, 2018, Opinion, "The decline in the dollar’s exchange rate seems to have gathered momentum, in part…
Leaving NAFTA Makes No Sense. Kenneth Rogoff, January 24, 2018, Audio "Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University Professor, and Laura Tyson, Berkeley Haas School School of Business…
In Defense of Economic Populism. Dani Rodrik, January 9, 2018, Opinion, "Populists’ aversion to institutional restraints extends to the economy, where they oppose obstacles placed…
January 5, 2018, Paper: "What is striking in Trumpean economics – supply-side economics too – is the omission of economic growth. There is no awareness that nations at the…