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Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

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Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and a visiting professor at Princeton University. 

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  1. The Necessity of a Global Debt Standstill that Works
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    The Necessity of a Global Debt Standstill that Works

    Apr 23, 2020 Patrick Bolton, et al. say any repayment freeze to help emerging economies withstand COVID-19 must include all private creditors.

  2. The COVID-19 Default Time Bomb
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    The COVID-19 Default Time Bomb

    Apr 9, 2020 Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas & Chang-Tai Hsieh call for a comprehensive debt moratorium to free up funds for developing countries to fight the pandemic.

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    The Transatlantic World Will Never Be the Same

    Carl Bildt urges Europeans to prepare for the worst from Donald Trump’s America, which is behaving like an adversary.
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    Making Sense of the Tariff Chaos

    Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg considers whether the zero-sum logic behind the new US policy will spread.
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    Is Trump Engineering the Decline and Fall of the Dollar?

    Jeffrey Frankel

    Dollar devaluation and dollar dominance are not necessarily mutually exclusive. But the approach to weakening the greenback that US President Donald Trump’s administration is considering would almost certainly spell the end of the US dollar’s reign as the dominant international currency.

     exposes fundamental flaws in the US administration’s vision for weakening the greenback.
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    Trump’s War on Foreign Aid and the Rise of Transactional Diplomacy

    Bright Simons highlights the global implications of the administration’s decision to shut down USAID.
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    Insuring Coastal and Ocean Resilience

    Ekhosuehi Iyahen explains how the insurance industry can mobilize private capital toward nature-based solutions.
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    What AI Can Learn From Aviation Safety

    Sylvain Duranton & Vanessa Lyon explain why the technology’s future depends on ensuring system integrity and preventing misuse.
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    America’s Big Trade Win

    Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

    Despite the uncertainty surrounding global trade, there are some bright spots – namely, booming trade in services. And here, ironically, the United States is leading the way, running a services trade surplus with most major economies and generating millions of good jobs for American workers.

     encourages the US government to acknowledge the country’s impressive success in exporting services.
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    Germany’s Incoming Government Has Embraced Military Keynesianism

    Tom Krebs & Isabella M. Weber warn that current plans to boost military spending will unnecessarily undercut other priorities.
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    Will the Dollar Continue to Fall?

    Jim O'Neill explains why the US currency has been declining despite widespread expectations to the contrary.

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