Peterson Institute For International Economics: 22 books
From Stress to Growth
Strengthening Asia's Financial Systems in a Post-Crisis World
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Asian financial systems, which serve the most economically dynamic region of the world, survived the global economic crisis of the last several years. In From Stress to Growth: Strengthening Asia's Financial Systems in a Post-Crisis World, scholars affiliated with the Peterson Institute for International...
Responding to Financial Crisis
Lessons from Asia Then, the United States and Europe Now
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
The Asian financial crisis of 1997–98 was devastating for the region, but policymakers at least believed that they gained a great deal of knowledge on how to prevent, mitigate, and resolve crises in the future. Fifteen years later, the Asian developing countries escaped the worst effects of the...
The State Strikes Back
The End of Economic Reform in China?
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
China’s extraordinarily rapid economic growth since 1978, driven by market-oriented reforms, has set world records and continued unabated, despite predictions of an inevitable slowdown. In The State Strikes Back: The End of Economic Reform in China?, the renowned China scholar Nicholas R. Lardy...
International Monetary Cooperation
Lessons from the Plaza Accord after Thirty Years
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In September 1985, emissaries of the world's five leading industrial nations—the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and Japan—secretly gathered at the Plaza Hotel in New York City and unveiled an unprecedented effort to correct the largest set of current account and exchange rate imbalances...
Foreign Direct Investment in the United States
Benefits, Suspicions, and Risks with Special Attention to FDI from China
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Americans have long been ambivalent toward foreign direct investment in the United States. Foreign multinational corporations may be a source of capital, technology, and jobs. But what are the implications for US workers, firms, communities, and consumers as the United States remains the most popular...
Currency Conflict and Trade Policy
A New Strategy for the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Conflicts over currency valuations are a recurrent feature of the modern global economy. To strengthen their international competitiveness, many countries resort to buying foreign currencies to make their exports cheaper and their imports more expensive. In the first decade of the twenty-first century,...
Bridging the Pacific
Toward Free Trade and Investment Between China and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
The terrain of the world trading system is shifting as countries in Asia, Europe, and North America negotiate new trade agreements. However, none of these talks include both China and the United States, the two biggest economies in the world. In this pathbreaking study, C. Fred Bergsten, Gary Clyde...
Local Content Requirements
A Global Problem
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013
In the wake of the Great Recession of 2008–09, economists feared that protectionist policies might sweep the world economy, echoing the wave of tariff escalations during the Great Depression of the 1930s. To some surprise, officials were more restrained and largely avoided traditional forms of protection...
Confronting the Curse
The Economics and Geopolitics of Natural Resource Governance
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2014
Countries blessed with abundant natural resources often seek financial and political power from their supposedly lucky status. But the potentially negative impact of natural resources on development of poor countries is captured in the phrase "the resource curse." Instead of success and...
Trans-Pacific Partnership
An Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) between 12 Pacific Rim countries has generated the most intensive political debate about the role of trade in the United States in a generation. The TPP is one of the broadest and most progressive free trade agreements since the North American Free Trade Agreement...
World on the Move
Consumption Patterns in a More Equal Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
The world is poised on the threshold of economic changes that will reduce the income gap between the rich and poor on a global scale while reshaping patterns of consumption. Rapid economic growth in emerging-market economies is projected to enable consumers worldwide to spend proportionately less...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Economic growth, inflation, and interest rates have declined in Asia, just as they have in the United States and Europe. Sustaining Economic Growth in Asia explores the relevance to several Asian economies of the diagnosis known as “secular stagnation.” Leading experts on the region discuss the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Labor productivity growth in the United States and other advanced countries has slowed dramatically since the mid-2000s, a major factor in their economic stagnation and political turmoil. Economists have been debating the causes of the slowdown and possible remedies for some years. Unaddressed in...
Rich People Poor Countries
The Rise of Emerging-Market Tycoons and Their Mega Firms
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Like the robber barons of the 19th century Gilded Age, a new and proliferating crop of billionaires is driving rapid development and industrialization in poor countries. The accelerated industrial growth spurs economic prosperity for some, but it also widens the gap between the super rich and the...
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