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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.
January 1, 2005—Present
| Staff: | Elliot Schrage, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Foreign Policy |
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This study will test the hypothesis that an incentive-based policy is more effective in promoting market economies and democratic politics than an approach in which Washington relies on the ostensibly transformative effects of civil society, regime change in Iraq, regional peace, or the willingness of Arab leaders to pursue reform.
March 1, 2005—April 1, 2006
| Staff: | Benn Steil, Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics |
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Made possible by the generosity of Bernard L. Schwartz, this roundtable series explores issues that affect the competitiveness of the U.S. economy. Meetings have addressed issues such as the sustainability of the U.S. current account deficit, the effectiveness of the WTO dispute settlement process, and intellectual property rights.
January 2005—Present
| Author: | Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Senior Fellow for International Economics |
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This project will result in a pamphlet examining current immigration reform attempts in the context of past immigration law reform.
January 2005—Present
| Author: | Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Senior Fellow for International Economics |
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This project will result in a book analyzing how the U.S. ought to manage immigration, taking into account policies, sociology, economics, and international relations. He calls for a benign attitude toward illegal immigration, even in the wake of September 11.
May 1, 2005—Present
| Director: | Adam Segal, Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow for China Studies |
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This series assesses innovation and technological entrepreneurship in Asia, evaluates the impact of emerging technological capabilities on American economic, political, and military power, and recommends policies designed to ensure continued U.S. technological superiority.
March 4, 2005—March 5, 2005
| Staff: | Gordon H. Hanson, Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego |
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January 1, 2005—Present
| Chair: | Timothy F. Geithner |
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| Author: | Peter B. Kenen, Adjunct Senior Fellow for International Economics Ellen E. Meade, Associate Professor of Economics, American University |
This project will result in a book considering the prospects for the regionalization of the international monetary system. The authors will begin by comparing the various exisiting and soon-to-exist forms of currency consolidation and then examine the prospects for future monetary unions, particularly among NAFTA, MERCOSUR, and East Asian nations.
February 8, 2005—Study Group Meeting
| Director: | Manuel Hinds, Former Salvadoran Finance Minister |
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| Chair: | Sergio J. Galvis |
This project examined the desirability of dollarization in developing countries as well as its role in promoting international financial stability.
January 1, 2005—June 30, 2006
| Staff: | Edward J. Lincoln, Director, Center for Japan-U.S. Business and Economic Studies, New York University |
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This project will examine the fundamental international economic changes that have occurred globally in the past half century, discuss how they affect security and stability in the world, and explore how American foreign policy should respond.
June 16, 2005—June 17, 2005
Co-sponsored by the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and The Neil D. Levin Graduate Institute of International Relations and Commerce.
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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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