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Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Globalization
Contact Info:
Phone: +1-603-646-2939
E-mail: matthew.j.slaughter@tuck.dartmouth.edu
Location:
Hanover, NH
October 6, 2009
Op-Ed
Financial Times
Matthew Slaughter writes that as the crisis and recession recede, U.S. policymakers must refocus on persistent structural problems, particularly income inequality.
See more in Geoeconomics, Trade
May 26, 2009, Washington D.C.
Transcript
Members of the Squam Lake Working Group on Financial Regulation, a collection of fifteen leading economists and academics, discuss their recommendations for reforming global capital markets.
See more in Financial Crises, Geoeconomics, International Finance
May 26, 2009
Video
Watch members of the Squam Lake Working Group on Financial Regulation, a collection of fifteen leading economists and academics, discuss their recommendations for reforming global capital markets.
See more in Financial Crises, Geoeconomics, International Finance
May 26, 2009
Audio
Listen to members of the Squam Lake Working Group on Financial Regulation, a collection of fifteen leading economists and academics, discuss their recommendations for reforming global capital markets.
See more in Financial Crises, Geoeconomics, International Finance
May 7, 2009
Op-Ed
Wall Street Journal
Matthew J. Slaughter argues that "President Obama's recent soundbites suggest an uncompetitive auto industry."
See more in United States, Financial Crises, Geoeconomics, Trade
March 24, 2009
Transcript
A media conference call with CFR fellows Steven Dunaway, Matthew Slaughter, and Sebastian Mallaby on issues relevant to the G-20 summit.
See more in Economics
March 11, 2009
Op-Ed
Wall Street Journal
Paul Danos, Matthew J. Slaughter, and Robert G. Hansen argue that the Employ American Workers Act will actually decrease the total amount of jobs available.
See more in Financial Crises, Labor, Immigration
December 10, 2008
Audio
Listen to Matthew J. Slaughter, adjunct senior fellow for business and globalization at CFR, discuss U.S. trade priorities for the next administration as part of CFR's State and Local Officials Conference Call Series.
See more in Geoeconomics, Trade
November 20, 2008
Op-Ed
Wall Street Journal
In this Wall Street Journal op-ed, Matthew Slaughter argues that a bailout for America's Big Three automobile companies could come with substantial costs, including decreased foreign direct investment into the U.S. and diminished access to foreign markets.
See more in Financial Crises, Congress
June 26, 2008
Op-Ed
Financial Times
As emerging economies in Middle East and Asia become bigger foreign investors they are facing a new protectionist trend in many countries across the globe, write David Marchick and Matthew Slaughter.
See more in Emerging Markets, International Finance
June 26, 2008
Transcript
See more in United States, Economics, Economic Development, Industrial Policy
June 2008
Council Special Report No. 34
Council Special Report
In the past three years, many countries have adopted or expanded regimes to review inward foreign direct investment (FDI) for either national or economic security purposes, reducing the quantity and quality of global FDI flows. The policy recommendations in this report aim to correct this protectionist drift by proposing guidelines for how countries can better regulate FDI yet still reap its economic benefits.
See more in United States, International Finance
April 2, 2008
Op-Ed
Wall Street Journal
Matthew J. Slaughter argues that our immigration policy keeps out many of the world’s best workers, and as a result threatens America’s competitiveness. The solution? Eliminate the cap on H1-B visas.
See more in United States, Immigration
March 27, 2008
Op-Ed
Wall Street Journal
Ford Motor Company recently announced it will sell its Jaguar and Land Rover divisions to India's Tata Group. In this Wall Street Journal op-ed Matthew Slaughter argues that such foreign direct investment has long been a source of strength for the American economy. American policy makers should strive to make the U.S. a premier location for the dynamic, high-productivity activities of globally engaged companies—both insourcing companies and U.S. multinationals alike.
See more in United States, India, Economic Development, Technology Transfer
September 26, 2007
Op-Ed
Wall Street Journal
Many are viewing the UAW-GM strike as Exhibit A for how globalization damages America . Matthew Slaughter argues that America ’s automobile industry is a prime example of the aggregate gains generated by the dynamic and interrelated forces of trade, investment and technological change. He questions how the presidential contenders will craft an American economic policy that both allows greater globalization and also spreads its gains as widely as possible.
See more in United States, Labor, U.S. Election 2008
July 17, 2007
Op-Ed
Wall Street Journal
The Information Technology Agreement signed in 1996 played a significant role in the doubling of productivity growth over the past decade. To maintain this rate of income growth, further liberalization is needed.
See more in Business & Foreign Policy, Trade, Technology and Foreign Policy
July/August 2007
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
Globalization has brought huge overall benefits, but earnings for most U.S. workers -- even those with college degrees -- have been falling recently; inequality is greater now than at any other time in the last 70 years. Whatever the cause, the result has been a surge in protectionism. To save globalization, policymakers must spread its gains more widely. The best way to do that is by redistributing income.
See more in Geoeconomics
May 22, 2007
Op-Ed
Wall Street Journal
Matthew Slaughter argues that China's exchange rate policy has no long-run effect on real economic outcomes such as output and trade flows.
See more in China, International Finance
April 25, 2007
Transcript
In this special edition of the World Economic Update, the panelists consider some of the broader global economic trends such as the impact on jobs and wages, the changing role of China in the world economy, and the backlash against globalization.
See more in Economics
April 24, 2007
Video
Watch experts discuss broader global economic trends, such as the global labor market, China's changing role in the world economy, and the backlash against globalization, in this special edition of the Council's signature World Economic Update Series.
See more in China, Economics, Labor
Explore the international finance regime with a new interactive from CFR's program on International Institutions and Global Governance.
Identifying international threats and acting on them may be the most difficult job for U.S. policymakers. This report
provides an actionable road map for managing international threats before they erupt into crises and makes a strong case that preventive action is not a luxury but a necessity.
For more than a decade, the United States has mostly watched from the sidelines as Asian countries organize themselves into an alphabet soup of new multilateral groups. In this report, the authors review the relationship between pan-Asian and trans-Pacific institutions and suggest policy guidelines for a new U.S. approach to this new Asian landscape.
Complete list of Council Special Reports
Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel—a country of 7.1 million, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies— produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK? With the insights of geopolitical experts and investors, the authors examine this nation’s adversity-driven culture to answer this question and offer prescriptions for a global economy on the rebound.
In Forces of Fortune, Vali Nasr presents a paradigm-changing revelation that will transform the understanding of the Muslim world at large. He reveals that there is a vital but unseen rising force in the Islamic world—a new business-minded middle class—that is building a vibrant new Muslim world economy and that holds the key to winning the cold war against Iran and extremists.
In Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, Julia E. Sweig presents a remarkably accessible portrait of Cuba's unique place on the world stage over the past fifty years, including its internal politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting relationship with the global community.
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