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2020, Paper, "One hundred years ago, Professor Arthur C. Pigou published his key insight that taxing a negative technological externality would improve social welfare. This has…
Can Withholding or Damage Improve Welfare in Bilateral Trade Mechanisms? Eric Maskin, 2020, Paper, "We study the welfare consequences of allowing the mechanism designer to…
Data Gaps and the Policy Response to the Novel Coronavirus. James Stock, March 2020, Paper, "This note lays out the basic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemiological…
Pandemics Fragilities: Halt in Hyper-specialized GVC and the Big-Dollar-Hunger. Laura Alfaro, March 2020, Paper, "The risk of pandemics or natural disasters made clear the…
Trump is missing the big picture on the economy. Lawrence Summers, March 24, 2020, Opinion, "As an economist, I am normally enthusiastic when presidents or other political leaders…
The Paradox of Corporate Globalization: Disembedding and Reembedding Governing Norms. John Ruggie, 2020, Paper, "The political economy of the post-World War II West was shaped by…
February 26, 2020, Opinion: "At the start of this year, things seemed to be looking up for the global economy. True, growth had slowed a bit in 2019: from 2.9% to 2.3% in the…
February 24, 2020, Opinion: "The COVID-19 outbreak seems to have raised the odds of a global recession dramatically. But even if no downturn materializes in the near term,…
February 17, 2020, Paper: "Using credit-registry data for Spain and Peru, we document that four main types of commercial credit—asset-based loans, cash flow loans, trade finance…
February 5, 2020, Paper, "The trade war has received an enormous amount of attention. Its impacts today have been limited because the U.S. and China have been a bit restrained.…