Global Development and Trade
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CBO director meets with SIEPR scholars, students
CBO director meets with SIEPR scholars, students
November 12, 2021
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A recent Reuters poll of climate economists shows that hitting the Paris Agreement goal of net-zero carbon emissions will require sizable investments in a green transition.
October 25, 2021
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Research by SIEPR's Susan Athey and Nicholas Bloom is cited in "The Economist": Has the pandemic has given economists a new lease of life?
October 23, 2021
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As the debate about California-to-Texas migration pits low-cost, anti-regulation Texas against higher-income, socially liberal California, San Francisco Chronicle cites [...]
September 24, 2021
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SIEPR's Scott Rozelle, an expert on rural development in China, weighs in on China's economic outlook, efforts to end poverty, and what's in store for "the China we don't see."
September 14, 2021
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SIEPR's Michael Boskin joins Bloomberg's David Westin to discuss the economic ramifications of the recent U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
August 30, 2021
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As unrest puts some of the world's most vulnerable to the test, Marshall Burke discusses how #climatechange acts as 鈥渁 finger on the scale that makes underlying conflict worse.鈥
August 30, 2021
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With central bank currencies (CBDCs) on the rise alongside cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and dogecoin, SIEPR's Darrell Duffie points to CBDCs as an attractive alternative [...]
August 13, 2021
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SIEPR's Ramin Toloui is in talks to be President Biden's nominee for assistant secretary of state for business [...]
July 30, 2021
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SIEPR's Darrell Duffie remarks on the impact of the reserve currency status of the U.S. dollar.
July 28, 2021
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Inflation has spiked. Is it time to worry?
Consumer prices are rising and so are fears of inflation. SIEPR鈥檚 Monika Piazzesi weighs in on the pricing surge and potential warning signs.
July 27, 2021
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鈥淭he U.S. should develop a clear strategy for how take advantage of the strength of the dollar,鈥 says SIEPR's Darrell Duffie.
July 24, 2021
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鈥淏illion wise, trillion foolish鈥: Expanding vaccine-production infrastructure could have saved the global economy almost $5 trillion, according to research by SIEPR's Susan Athey.
May 15, 2021
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Research by SIEPR Faculty Fellow Christopher Tonetti shows how competition from imports pushes domestic laggards to adopt more efficient practices and technologies.
May 05, 2021
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The Economist highlights a recent paper by SIEPR Sr Fellow Chad Jones on the unintended consequences of a declining population on economic growth: Fewer people means fewer ideas.
March 27, 2021
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China's national exam that determines where a student goes to college influences students鈥 economic prospects for years to come, according to research by Hongbin Li and colleagues.
February 23, 2021
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From India and Zimbabwe to the U.S. and Mexico, a growing body of COVID-era studies indicates the need for building trust in health systems and combatting misinformation [...]
February 15, 2021
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Trailblazing economist and presidential adviser Edward Lazear dies at 72
The SIEPR senior fellow founded the field of personnel economics.
November 24, 2020
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A worrisome global scenario draws on a study by Faculty Fellow Marshall Burke on the effect of climate change on economic inequality.
October 05, 2020
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"There's just a lot of things that say [poverty in China] is going to be a persistent problem," said Scott Rozelle, co-director of 成人大片's Rural Education Action Program.
July 02, 2020