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Category Archives: international
Guest Contribution: “Capital Controls in Brazil: Effective”
Today we are fortunate to present a guest contribution written by Marcos Chamon, Senior Economist in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund, and Márcio Garcia, Associate Professor of Economics at PUC-Rio. The views expressed in this blog are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the IMF, its management, nor its Executive Board.
On China, and Preventing the Financial Runs of August
Reasoned analysis and careful decisionmaking is required.
China’s economic slowdown
U.S. stock prices as measured by the S&P500 fell almost 7% last week. What’s going on?
Value of S&P500 index over last 3 months. Source: Google Finance.
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Guest Contribution: “Recent Experience with Monetary Sovereignty”
Today we are fortunate to have a guest contribution by Helen Popper, professor of economics at Santa Clara University.
Guest Contribution: “Should Emerging Markets Fear A Fed Lift-Off?”
Today we are fortunate to have a guest contribution written by Carolina Osorio Buitron, Esteban Vesperoni, and Prakash Loungani, from the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund. The views expressed in this blog are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the IMF, its management, nor its Executive Board.
A Brief Note on Yuan Exchange Rate Pass-through to US Imports from China
In today’s WSJ, Justin Lahart notes “China Wind Chills U.S. Earnings”, and presents an interesting graph of import prices, which inspired me to look more closely at the issue.
Guest Contribution: ‘Only Tsipras Can “Go to China”’
Today we are fortunate to have a guest contribution written by Jeffrey Frankel, Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard University, and former Member of the Council of Economic Advisers, 1997-99. An earlier version was published in Project Syndicate.
“Spillovers of conventional and unconventional monetary policy: the role of real and financial linkages”
That’s the topic of a conference sponsored and hosted by the Swiss National Bank and co-sponsored with the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the Dallas Fed, the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and the Journal of International Money and Finance.
Guest Contribution: “What Europeans think about Europe in the aftermath of the crisis”
Today, we’re fortunate to have a guest contribution by Jeffry Frieden, Stanfield Professor of International Peace at Harvard University, and author of the newly published book Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy (Princeton University Press, 2015). This post is based upon this paper.