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Competition and stability in banking
In CEPR Policy Insight No. 50, Xavier Vives models the trade-off between competition and stability in the banking sector.
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Understanding the GATT’s wins and the WTO’s woes
In CEPR Policy Insight No. 49, Richard Baldwin argues that tactics used to get consensus at the last Round pushed the organisation into decision-making’s “impossible trinity” (consensus, uniform rules, and strict enforcement).
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A Safer World Financial System: Improving the Resolution of Systemic Institutions
The 12th Geneva Report on the World Economy argues that policy-makers must improve national resolution frameworks and adopt rules governing cross-border resolutions.
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Rebalancing the Global Economy: A Primer for Policymaking
A new Vox ebook aims to provide policymakers and their advisers with
up-to-date, comprehensive analyses of the central facets of global economic
imbalances ahead of the G20 summit in Toronto.
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Unequal Compliance: The 6th GTA Report
The latest GTA report presents a comprehensive global overview of protectionist trends since the last G-20 summit in September 2009.
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Completing the Eurozone rescue: What more needs to be done?
The euro’s crisis is not over. Measures taken in May were critical but they were palliatives not a cure. The Eurozone rescue needs to be completed. A new Vox eBook gathers the thinking of a dozen leading economists on what more needs to be done.
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Global Challenges at the Intersection of Trade, Energy and the Environment
This volume of presentations and discussions from a CTEI conference looks at how we can increase economic well-being and expand trade, while promoting the optimal use of the world's energy resources and protecting and preserving our shared environment.
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Africa Resists the Protectionist Temptation: The 5th GTA Report
With the return to economic growth of many industrialised economies in either late 2009 or the first half of 2010 came the hope that protectionist pressures would ease in the world economy through 2010. The latest GTA report shows that, if anything, the period since January 2010 has been one of the busiest for the Global Trade Alert team.
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Duflo awarded John Bates Clark medal
Programme Director Esther Duflo has been awarded the American Economic Association's John Bates Clark medal for 2010
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The US-Sino Currency Dispute
Thanks to deft diplomatic footwork, a US-China confrontation over the renminbi has been avoided. But the US Treasury has merely postponed the publication of its report on foreign currency manipulators, and the dispute may overshadow the G20 meetings in June and November. The 28 short essays in this eBook, edited by Simon J Evenett, provide the best available economic, legal, political, and geopolitical thinking on the causes and likely consequences of the dispute.
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On the benefits and costs of a monetary union
This new Policy Insight asks why countries would share a single currency, and addresses some aspects missing from the current debate on the benefits of the euro area.
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Will Stabilisation Limit Protectionism? The 4th GTA Report
The latest report from Global Trade Alert examines whether macroeconomic stabilisation has altered governments' resort to protectionism, with a focus on the Gulf Region.
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Bailing out the Banks: Reconciling Stability and Competition
This new CEPR report assesses two related aspects of the policy response to the unprecedented financial crisis, competition policy and financial regulation
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India in the G20: Macroeconomic Policy Coordination, Regulation and Global Governance
This volume brings together papers from a CEPR/NCAER conference in New Delhi aimed at stimulating a dialogue between European and Indian researchers on G20 agenda issues.
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New publications from PEGGED
Policy Briefs and Policy Papers from the PEGGED research project, including the latest by Stijn Classens and Jeffry Frieden, are now available online.
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Financial system reform proposals from first principles
Alberto Giovannini highlights some fundamental characteristics of the recent financial crisis and identifies ways to make the financial system stronger.
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CEPR Researcher Fellows awarded ERC "Advanced Grants"
Eight CEPR Researcher Fellows have been selected by the European Research Council in its second competition for "Advanced Grants", created to fund pioneering frontier research in any field.
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The saga of Icesave
This new CEPR Policy Insight looks at the issues arising from the collapse of Landsbanki
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Ambulance economics: the pros and cons of fiscal stimuli
This new CEPR Policy Insight suggests that the 'Keynesian ambulance' of fiscal stimuli in response to the crisis may have averted a Great Depression.
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Effective Crisis Response and Openness: Implications for the Trading System
This volume of papers from CEPR and the World Bank assess the cross-border impact of policy responses to the crisis.
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The Great Trade Collapse: Causes, Consequences and Prospects
A new VoxEU.org ebook aims to inform the world trade ministers what economists know about the trade collapse.
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Income contingent tuition fees for universities
The financial position of the UK Government suggests that its university sector may have its funding squeezed. This CEPR Policy Insight argues that universities should be able to charge income contingent tuition fees if their teaching costs are not met by the current tuition payments.
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Macroeconomics and the Crisis: A Personal Appraisal
In a new CEPR Policy Insight, Axel Leijonhufvud argues that theories that assume that the economy is a stable general equilibrium system, albeit beset with some frictions and imperfections, do not hold true in general and that we need a new paradigm of economic thought.
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Liquidity Risk Charges as a Macroprudential Tool
Liquidity risk charges were proposed in February 2009 as a new macro-prudential tool to discourage systemic risk creation by banks.
A new CEPR Policy Insight refines this proposal in order to clarify challenging issues surrounding the implementation of liquidity risk charges.
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CEPR/ESI 2009 Prize
CEPR/ESI 2009 Prize for the Best Central Bank Research Paper awarded to Lucia Alessi of the European Central Bank
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How big are fiscal multipliers?
Economists do not agree on one question crucial to evaluating governments' responses to the crisis: how much stimulus does spending provide?
A new CEPR Policy Insight examines how the characteristics of an economy impact on the size of fiscal multipliers.
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Broken Promises: a G20 Summit Report by Global Trade Alert
The 2nd Report from Global Trade Alert reveals how the G20 countries have broken their 'no protectionism' pledge.
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Honohan appointed Governor of Irish Central Bank
Research Fellow Patrick Honohan has been appointed as Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland.
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Economists and economics: What does the crisis tell us?
In the past year or so, bashing economists has become a fashionable sport. This CEPR Policy Insight looks at the lessons to be learned from the crisis for economics as a discipline and for its practitioners.
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Will they sing the same tune? Measuring convergence in the new European system of financial supervisors
The impact of the current financial crisis on EU members has introduced a sense of urgency to the coordination/centralization of financial supervision debate.
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Djankov appointed as Minister for Finance for Bulgaria
Simeon Djankov, CEPR Research Fellow in the Development Economics Programme and chief
economist of the finance and private sector vice-presidency of the World Bank, has
recently been appointed Minister of Finance for Bulgaria.
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Curbing instability: policy and regulation
This new Policy Insight identifies, from the standpoint of risks to macroeconomic stability, three major problems posed by our present financial system.
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The fateful allure of protectionism: Taking stock for the G8
This new ebook summarizes the views of leading researchers and trade policy practitioners, who met at a CEPR-World Bank conference to assess the cross-border impact of policy responses to the crisis.
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CEPR launches Global Trade Alert
CEPR has launched Global Trade Alert. GTA, directed by Simon Evenett, provides real-time information - and analysis - of measures taken by governments during the global downturn that are likely to discriminate against foreign commerce.
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