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Peter Boone is Chair of Effective Intervention at the London School of Economics’ Center for Economic Performance.

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  1. Time to Relax Global Travel Restrictions
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    Time to Relax Global Travel Restrictions

    Jul 30, 2021 Peter Boone & Simon Johnson argues that it is not people visiting relatives who ensure that all the coronavirus variants will spread.

  2. From Lockdown to Lock-In
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    From Lockdown to Lock-In

    Apr 30, 2020 Simon Johnson & Peter Boone show how countries' varying responses to the pandemic will lead to long-term constraints on human mobility.

  3. The Euro Awaits Its Verdict
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    The Euro Awaits Its Verdict

    May 22, 2012 Peter Boone & Simon Johnson

  4. Europe’s Monetary Cordon Sanitaire
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    Europe’s Monetary Cordon Sanitaire

    Nov 14, 2010 Peter Boone & Simon Johnson

  5. Brady Bonds For the Eurozone
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    Brady Bonds For the Eurozone

    Sep 15, 2010 Peter Boone & Simon Johnson

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    Tick TikTok Goes Globalization

    Kenneth Rogoff

    The bipartisan push to ban TikTok in the US reflects both the growing distrust of China and lawmakers’ limited understanding of the tech world. While there are legitimate national-security concerns associated with the platform, a US ban could end up accelerating deglobalization.

     thinks efforts to restrict American users’ access to the app are hypocritical and counterproductive.
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    To Reconstruct Turkey, Rebuild Its Democracy

    Daron Acemoglu & Cihat Tokgöz

    Turkey's massive death toll from the earthquakes in February attests to a much larger problem. From an overly powerful construction lobby and endemic corruption to the steady erosion of democratic institutions, it is clear that the country now needs a thorough political and economic transformation.

     think the country needs not just a new government but a broader economic and political transformation.
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    India’s Boom Is a Dangerous Myth

    Ashoka Mody dismantles the hype around a rosy economic narrative that is actually becoming bleaker by the day.
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    Halting the Authoritarian Drift

    Kaushik Basu considers the dynamics that lead political leaders down the road to tyranny, paranoia, and aggression.
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    Xi’s the Boss

    Nina L. Khrushcheva says the Chinese leader's recent visit to Moscow was intended, first and foremost, to show who is in charge.
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    Can “Cooperative Rivalry” Work?

    Jean Pisani-Ferry worries that America and China will be unable to find common ground on preserving the global commons.
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    The Fed’s Role in the Bank Failures

    Raghuram G. Rajan & Viral V. Acharya show how the US central bank's liquidity policies created the conditions for runs on uninsured deposits.
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    Policymakers Keep Solving the Wrong Banking Problem

    Andrés Velasco argues that recent market turmoil has revealed that the sector’s main vulnerability is unavoidable.
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    An Insolvency Iceberg?

    Takatoshi Ito considers the risk that other banks will experience liquidity problems as interest rates continue to rise.

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