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The European Union Continues to Lag on Banking Supervisory Transparency
Bank supervisors in the European Union have shown no improvement in publishing data on the institutions they supervise. In fact, supervisory transpare...
May 10, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
US Treasury Creates More Hurdles for Business Investment
US business investment—including research and development (R&D) outlays to create intellectual property—hasn't exactly sparkled in recent years (figur...
May 10, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Saudi Arabia’s Flawed National Economic Vision
Since 2014 Saudi Arabia has pursued a strategy to maintain market share in an oversupplied oil market, refusing to cut production as oil prices have p...
May 06, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
The Bank of Japan Turns Hesitant Once Again
After a strong effort to boost chronically low growth and inflation through aggressive monetary easing, Tamim Bayoumi and Joseph E. Gagnon say the Ban...
May 06, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Fed Still Uneasy About Steady Rate Hikes
Nobody minds a little attention now and again, but with all the drama and speculation hovering over Federal Reserve policy in recent years, policymake...
Apr 26, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
How Offshoring and Global Supply Chains Enhance the US Economy
The 2016 US presidential election campaign has rekindled the debate over offshoring—locating business operations and jobs overseas—by US-based multina...
Apr 22, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
The Fed’s Dilemma
The US Federal Reserve faces an uneasy choice. Despite solid rates of growth in the United States and China, the two engines of the world economy, the...
Apr 22, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Better than Plaza? Reflections on Today's Currency Constellation with Lawrence Summers
Since the time that we took on the project of publishing International Monetary Cooperation: Lessons from the Plaza Accord after Thirty Years, we foun...
Apr 16, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
How Much Bank Capital Is Enough?
William R. Cline says new international norms developed after the crisis fall short of optimal levels of bank capital, but US financial institutions a...
Apr 14, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Direct Trade Impact of Brazil’s Recession
Brazil’s real GDP fell by 3.5 percent in 2015 and a similar decline is projected this year. Which countries suffer the most from Brazil’s recession in...
Apr 12, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Patrick Honohan Joins the Peterson Institute for International Economic
WASHINGTON—The Peterson Institute for International Economics is pleased to welcome Patrick Honohan as a nonresident senior fellow beginning in April ...
Apr 12, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail