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Can Globalization Still Deliver?

Dr. David Lipton, first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), delivered the Institute’s six...

Trump to KORUS: Drop dead

The last time I checked in on Donald Trump, he was threatening to inflict on China “a depression the likes of which you ...

Gravity and the Weight of the Fed’s Zero Lower Bound on Interest Rates

The Federal Reserve implemented its first rate hike last December. At that time, the Fed anticipated another four hikes ...

North Korea: Back on the Terrorism List?

North Korea was placed on the US government’s list of state sponsors of terrorism in 1987. Its inclusion on the list was...

Brad Glosserman and Scott Snyder on Japan-Korea Relations

Last month, I had the pleasure of hosting both Scott Snyder (Council on Foreign Relations) and David Straub (Stanford’s ...

The G-7 and the Global Economy

Adewale “Wally” Adeyemo, deputy assistant to President Obama and deputy national security advisor for international econ...

Academic Sources: Victor Shih at the Journal of East Asian Studies on Chinese Elites

With the 7th Party Congress coming to a close, some of the most significant outcomes are likely to relate to promotions ...

North Korean Threats and Asset Markets. Again.

It has long been alleged that North Korea has the capacity to impose asymmetric damage on the financial markets of its n...

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. ...

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 s...

United Nations DPRK Needs and Priorities

Last week, Marc Noland walked through WFP/FAO food security report, and reports that North Korea might be entering a new...

Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization

Branko Milanovic, City University of New York, discussed his new noteworthy book, Global Inequality: A New Approach for ...

Kim Jong Un Doubles Down I: The Opening Speech and the Central Committee Report

The two documents we have from the 7th Party Congress so far—Kim Jong Un’s opening speech and his report on the work of ...

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 p...

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 an...

Brexit Scenarios for June 24

Scenario 1: The UK Votes to Stay in the EU If UK voters decide to remain in the EU, the deal forged by Prime Minister Da...

Thinking About the Day after Brexit

Will they or won’t they? The question facing voters in the United Kingdom (UK) on June 23—whether or not to leave the Eu...

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 poli...

North Korean human rights activity in Australia

Yesterday I discussed new modeling of Korean unification by Warwick McKibben, Jong Wha Lee, and Larry Weifeng Liu. Anoth...

A new model of Korean unification

This past Friday I had the pleasure of participating in a conference on Korean unification held at the Australian Nation...

TPP and the Environment

The Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, is an ambitious trade deal involving the United States and 11 other countries. Th...

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 job...

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 eng...

Billy Graham meets Kim Il-sung

As a teenager in Appalachia, my father drove a milk truck (though as far as I know, I am not the subject of the Kentucky...

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 Acco...

Europe's Welcome Attempt to Harmonize Rules on Asylum Seekers

Europe's migration crisis has reinforced the importance of recent proposals by the European Commission to overhaul the s...

Migration emergency over (for now), but not because of the EU-Turkey deal

Following the March 20 deal between the European Union (EU) and Turkey, the refugee flow from Turkey to Greece has decli...

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, b...

Diplomatic Moves

The challenges of getting back to the Six Party Talks are so great that too much emphasis should not be put on the faint...

Stephan Haggard Podcast on the North Korean Economy

It is difficult to assess the state of the North Korean economy, but we have increasing anecdotal evidence from defector...

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 m...

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 sen...

America owes the Philippines more than empty praise