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Each project page contains the name of the project director, a description of the project, a list of meetings it has held, and any related publications, transcripts, or videos.
December 1, 2004—January 1, 2006
| Staff: | Benn Steil, Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics |
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This meeting series is designed to bring Council members together in a small seminar environment to discuss new and innovative thinking at the intersection of economics and foreign policy.
December 1, 2004—Present
| Staff: | Peter B. Kenen, Adjunct Senior Fellow for International Economics |
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This roundtable series examines the prospects for regional monetary integration and other developments likely to affect the organization and functioning of the international monetary system.
February 10, 2004—February 10, 2004
| Staff: | Benn Steil, Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics |
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This conference explored NAFTA's economic performance, its implications for continued North American integration and its lessons for the crafting of American trade policy.
November 12, 2004—November 12, 2004
| Staff: | Benn Steil, Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics |
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Morning Panel 1: Macroeconomic Policy and the U.S. Deficits
Morning Panel 2: Monetary Policy in a Liquidity Trap
Luncheon Panel: Policy Challenges in an Interdependent World
Afternoon Panel 1: Inflation Targeting
Afternoon Panel 2: Macroeconomic Policy in the European Union
March 8, 2004—May 25, 2005
| Staff: | Elliot Schrage, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Foreign Policy |
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This roundtable series explored the influence of multinational corporations and business leaders in the Middle East and North Africa and discussed whether the private sector, as a byproduct of its operations, could influence development.
January 1, 2004—Present
| Staff: | James P. Dougherty, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Foreign Policy |
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America’s ability to encourage innovative ideas has helped to establish it as the world’s economic and military leader. However, technological developments over the past thirty years have spawned an increasingly globalized world and created new challenges to American pre-eminence. This roundtable series investigates how the government’s response to these challenges will affect America’s global economic and political standing.
This roundtable series is made possible by the Bernard and Irene Schwartz Foundation.
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In Money, Markets, and Sovereignty, the authors present a fascinating intellectual history of monetary nationalism from the ancient world to the present and explore why, in its modern incarnation, it represents the single greatest threat to globalization.
In The Closing of the American Border, Edward Alden goes behind the scenes to tell the story of the Bush administration’s struggle to balance security and openness in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.
In Regional Monetary Integration, Peter B. Kenen poses an important question: Should various country groups follow the lead of the European Monetary Union and form similar full-fledged monetary unions?
In contrast to conventional wisdom, the growth in government spending and heightened regulation during the Great Depression may have done much to slow economic recovery.
In this report, Benn Steil shows that the financial crisis is the inevitable bust of a classic credit boom, and explains how monetary, taxation, and home ownership promotion policy combined with other feaures of the financial system to fuel an unsustainable buildup in debt. He recommends significant reforms to reverse the debt financing bias and make the system more resilient to falls in asset prices.
In order for policymakers to tackle today’s global economic crisis, this report argues, they must go beyond bailouts and stimulus packages and focus on one of the crisis's root causes: imbalances between savings and investment in major countries.
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