Blogs&Reviews

Creating zombies and disinflation: A cul de sac for accommodative monetary policy
Viral Acharya, 11 November 2019

Viral Acharya describes how ultra-accommodative monetary policy might have worked against its own objectives of restoring inflation and growth.
The October truce on US-China trade failed to address subsidies
Chad Bown, Jennifer Hillman, 04 November 2019

Chad Bown and Jennifer Hillman argue that reversing the Trump administration’s go-it-alone, tariffs-only strategy and adopting a new approach on subsidies is the only way to resolve the trade conflict with China.
Sense and nonsense in the public discussion of the future of work
Richard Baldwin, 01 November 2019

Richard Baldwin discusses how globalisation and automation are about to get personal for hundreds of millions of North Americans and Europeans who don’t work in factories
Why the CPTPP could be the answer to the US-China trade war
Peter Petri, Michael Plummer, 30 October 2019

China’s joining the CPTPP could ease tensions with the US, accelerate growth, diversify markets, and modernise the country. Peter Petri and Michael Plummer ask what’s not to like?

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Bridging the divide between developed and developing countries in WTO negotiations

Anabel González, 19 March 2019

Anabel González argues that the “developed-developing” dichotomy does not serve the WTO membership well, and proposes some steps to help integrate developing countries in global trade.
The 2020 (US) recession

Antonio Fatás, 14 March 2019

As the US approaches its longest ever period of expansion, Antonio Fatas argues that low unemployment is unsustainable and that if past patterns are any guide, a recession must be around the corner.
Is increasing workers' bargaining power a way of raising real wages?

Simon Wren-Lewis, 13 March 2019

Simon Wren-Lewis asks why real wages in the UK are still lower than before the Global Crisis, when the size of the economy as a whole surpassed its pre-crisis level in 2013.
Democracy and injustice

Diane Coyle, 12 March 2019

Diane Coyle reviews books by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt and by Sven Linqvist which, on the face of it, looked competely different but ended up being about the same thing: race.
Is the German debt brake the worst fiscal rule ever?

Simon Wren-Lewis, 11 March 2019

In this post, Simon Wren-Lewis argues that the debt brake is doing the German people harm and needs to change.