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The Peterson Institute for International Economics hosts the Washington launch of the 18th Geneva Report “What Else Can Central Banks Do?” on September 14, 2016. PIIE Senior Fellow Joseph E. Gagnon and former PIIE Visiting Fellow Signe Krogstrup present the report, which they coauthored with Laurence Ball of Johns Hopkins University and Patrick Honohan of Trinity College and PIIE. Jason Cummins of Brevan Howard and Carmen Reinhart of the Harvard Kennedy School comment on the report’s recommendations. For more information, visit: https://piie.com/events/launch-geneva-report-what-else-can-central-banks-do
Lawrence H. Summers delivers the keynote address "Is It (just) Hysteresis? Disentangling the Cyclical from the Structural" at the conference "Making Sense of the Productivity Slowdown," held at the Peterson Institute for International Economics on November 16, 2015. For more information, visit: http://www.piie.com/events/event_detail.cfm?EventID=416
Mohamed A. El-Erian, chief economic adviser at Allianz, delivers the tenth Whitman Lecture, "What Lies Ahead for the Global Economy: A BRICS Perspective," on October 27, 2014, at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. For more information, visit: http://www.piie.com/events/event_detail.cfm?EventID=358
CCTV America interviewed Jacob Kirkegaard, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics who analyzed Germany’s economic situation.
The Peterson Institute for International Economics hosts its semiannual Global Economic Prospects session on September 29, 2016. David J. Stockton presents the US and global economic outlook. Adam S. Posen explores the interaction of political outcomes and potential fiscal policy, the contingent monetary responses, and the implications for the shifting G-7 policy mix. Rory MacFarquhar discusses post-election prospects for US-China relations. Jacob Funk Kirkegaard focuses on the challenging political economy of Europe and its impact on the European macro policy mix. For more information, visit: https://piie.com/events/global-economic-prospects-fall-2016
The Peterson Institute for International Economics presented its latest PIIE Briefing, Assessing Trade Agendas in the US Presidential Campaign, on September 22, 2016. The lead PIIE authors, Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Marcus Noland, discuss the striking results of their research on what the candidate proposals would actually do to the US economy. International Food Policy Research Institute Senior Research Fellow Sherman Robinson explains the rigorous reproducible methods behind these results, and Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics, discusses the PIIE analysis in the context of his own and other mainstream projections of the US economic outlook under the two candidates. For more information, visit: https://piie.com/events/launch-assessing-trade-agendas-us-presidential-campaign
The Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro Immune Disease (a non-profit organisation) are opening the world's first clinic and research centre paired with Nevada University in the United States. In october 2009 scientists from the WPI made public the discovery of XMRV in 68% of patients with CFS and published the discovery in the worlds most reputable scientific journal, 'SCIENCE'. Months later the WPI revealed that with further enhanced testing methods, the cohort of CFS patients they tested had now elevated to 98.8% positive for XMRV. Soon, psychiatrists such as Simon Wessely (who have invested their life's work in calling CFS a mental disorder) released negative studies of XMRV in persons without neuro immune disease, using decades old frozen blood samples from psychiatric c...
CCTV America interviewed Gary Hufbauer, Reginald Jones Senior Fellow at Peterson Institute for International Economics about the future of Cuba's economy.
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Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX) discusses “Rethinking Trade and Reframing the Trade Debate” on September 27, 2016, at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. For more information, visit: https://piie.com/events/rethinking-trade-and-reframing-trade-debate
Senior Fellow Jeffrey J. Schott, Research Associate Cathleen Cimino-Isaacs, and Research Analyst Euijin Jung present their new Policy Brief Implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership for the World Trading System on July 14, 2016, at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Professor Byung-il Choi of Ewha Womans University discusses the Brief from a Korean perspective—and thus from a potential, not current, Trans-Pacific Parternship (TPP) member country view. For more information, visit: https://piie.com/events/release-implications-trans-pacific-partnership-world-trading-system
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Richard Baldwin, professor of international economics at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, discusses the global value chain revolution and trade policy at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) on June 14, 2016. Anabel Gonzalez, senior director of the World Bank Group Global Practice on Trade and Competitiveness, and J. Bradford Jensen, senior fellow at PIIE, share their commentary on Baldwin’s analysis. For more information, visit: https://piie.com/events/global-value-chain-revolution-and-trade-policy
Ahead of the United Kingdom's "Brexit" referendum to decide whether to stay in the European Union or not, experts at the Peterson Institute for International Economics discussed the long-term impact of the vote at an event on June 2, 2016. Simeon Djankov spoke about the repercussions for intra-EU coalitions and developments in Eastern Europe. Jacob Funk Kirkegaard discussed the critical issues of labor movement: migration to the European Union and intra-EU flows to the United Kingdom. Chad Bown examined the trade and investment realities for the United Kingdom and European Union in the case of Brexit and any positive possibilities arising out of a “no” vote. Adam S. Posen commented on UK financial and monetary policy. For more information, visit: https://piie.com/events/long-term-impacts-b...
"Trade Trifecta in 2015?" February 12, 2015 The Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs is Baltimore's premier foreign policy forum and it is our mission to keep residents of the Baltimore region up to date on the pressing foreign policy topics of the day. We are a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to civic education in international affairs and we welcome all who are interested in participating. Non-members are more than welcome to attend Council events for a modest fee of $25 and guests of Council members may attend for $20. Membership, which entitles one to free entry to all programs, typically sixteen each year, is $60 annually for an individual or $90 for a husband and wife. Our channel features a list of recent programs, 2011-present, as well as a set of 17 programs w...
Hans-Werner Sinn, president of Ifo Institute for Economic Research, discusses his new book, The Euro Trap: On Bursting Bubbles, Budgets, and Belief, at the Peterson Institute for International Economics on September 15, 2014. The book offers a critical assessment of the history of the euro, its crisis, and the rescue measures taken by the European Central Bank and the community of states. For more information, visit: http://www.piie.com/events/event_detail.cfm?EventID=346
The Peterson Institute for International Economics released a new PIIE Briefing, Assessing the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Market Access and Sectoral Issues, on February 2, 2016, analyzing the market opening and sectoral aspects of the TPP and the ramifications for governments, businesses, workers, and households in the United States and abroad. Event materials are available at: http://www.piie.com/events/event_detail.cfm?EventID=425