We examine changes in the spatial distribution of good jobs across US commuting zones over 1980-2000 and 2000-2021. We define good jobs as…
Growing up an only child in China at the end of the 20th century, Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and CID…
Once upon a time in the world of development finance, it was assumed that simply investing in developing economies was enough—that the flow…
Manufacturing jobs, once the backbone of the modern US economy, have declined as a share of GDP over recent decades, darkening…
Shipping has long been the invisible hand of world trade, propelling globalization and the growth of emerging economies. Ships move 90…
We study sovereign external debt crises over the past 200 years, with a focus on creditor losses, or “haircuts”. Our sample covers 327…
The future of developing countries lies in services. Enhancing productivity in labor-absorbing services in particular must be an essential…
The U.S.-China conflict is threatening continued global economic prosperity and this has inspired a variety of predictions and…
We build on Baqaee and Farhi (2019, 2021) and derive a theoretically-grounded criterion that allows targeting bans on exports to a…
This chapter draws attention to the potential of safeguards in a system with a variable geometry. Section 1 considers the benefits from…