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Howard Davies

Financial Regulators’ Global Variety Show

PARIS – In the early phases of the financial crisis, it was fashionable to argue that the United States’ system of regulation needed a funda…
Anne-Marie Slaughter

The Coming Atlantic Century

PRINCETON – The United States is rising; Europe is stabilizing; and both are moving closer together. That was the principal message earlier …
Mahmoud Mohieldin

Getting Cities Right

WASHINGTON, DC – The developing world is experiencing rapid urbanization, with the number of city dwellers set to reach four billion in 2030…
Robin Niblett

Transatlantic Trade-Offs

LONDON – Almost two decades after the idea was first mooted, the United States and the European Union agreed last week to begin negotiating …

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Michael Spence May 18, 2013

Learning About Growth from Austerity

MILAN – In a recent set of studies, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff used a vast array of historical data to show that the accumulation of…
Barry Eichengreen May 17, 2013

Open-Access Economics

CANBERRA – The brouhaha over Carmen Reinhart’s and Kenneth Rogoff’s article “Growth in a Time of Debt” may be the most conspicuous and incen…
Dani Rodrik May 10, 2013

What Use Are Economists?

CAMBRIDGE – When the stakes are high, it is no surprise that battling political opponents use whatever support they can garner from economis…
Paul De Grauwe May 9, 2013

Debt Without Drowning

LONDON – Since the 1970’s, economists have warned that a monetary union could not be sustained without a fiscal union. But the eurozone’s le…
Daniel Gros May 8, 2013

Europe’s Irrelevant Austerity Debate

BRUSSELS – The most visible symptom of the crisis in the eurozone has been the high and variable risk premiums that its peripheral countries…
Jean Pisani-Ferry May 1, 2013

A Fateful Mistake

PARIS – Controversy is essential to the advancement of science. So the debunking of methodological flaws and a coding error in a paper by th…
Laura Tyson Apr. 30, 2013

America’s Healthy Path to Fiscal Health

BERKELEY – Over the last five years, the growth of health-care spending in the United States has slowed dramatically – to the lowest rate in…
Ricardo Hausmann Apr. 30, 2013

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Debt?

CAMBRIDGE – It has been a while since a debate among academic economists attracted so much interest from the mainstream press as has the row…
J. Bradford DeLong Apr. 29, 2013

When Is Government Debt Risky?

BERKELEY – A government that does not tax sufficiently to cover its spending will eventually run into all manner of debt-generated trouble. …
Stephen S. Roach Apr. 27, 2013

Long Live China’s Slowdown

NEW HAVEN – At 7.7%, China’s annual GDP growth in the first quarter of this year was slower than many expected. While the data were hardly d…

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