Global Development and Trade
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As the debate about California-to-Texas migration pits low-cost, anti-regulation Texas against higher-income, socially liberal California, San Francisco Chronicle cites [...]
September 24, 2021
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SIEPR's Scott Rozelle, an expert on rural development in China, weighs in on China's economic outlook, efforts to end poverty, and what's in store for "the China we don't see."
September 14, 2021
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SIEPR's Michael Boskin joins Bloomberg's David Westin to discuss the economic ramifications of the recent U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
August 30, 2021
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As unrest puts some of the world's most vulnerable to the test, Marshall Burke discusses how #climatechange acts as “a finger on the scale that makes underlying conflict worse.”
August 30, 2021
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With central bank currencies (CBDCs) on the rise alongside cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and dogecoin, SIEPR's Darrell Duffie points to CBDCs as an attractive alternative [...]
August 13, 2021
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SIEPR's Ramin Toloui is in talks to be President Biden's nominee for assistant secretary of state for business [...]
July 30, 2021
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SIEPR's Darrell Duffie remarks on the impact of the reserve currency status of the U.S. dollar.
July 28, 2021
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Inflation has spiked. Is it time to worry?
Consumer prices are rising and so are fears of inflation. SIEPR’s Monika Piazzesi weighs in on the pricing surge and potential warning signs.
July 27, 2021
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“The U.S. should develop a clear strategy for how take advantage of the strength of the dollar,” says SIEPR's Darrell Duffie.
July 24, 2021
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“Billion wise, trillion foolish”: Expanding vaccine-production infrastructure could have saved the global economy almost $5 trillion, according to research by SIEPR's Susan Athey.
May 15, 2021
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Research by Faculty Fellow Christopher Tonetti shows how competition from imports pushes domestic laggards to adopt more efficient practices and technologies.
May 05, 2021
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The Economist highlights a recent paper by Sr Fellow Chad Jones on the unintended consequences of a declining population on economic growth: Fewer people means fewer ideas.
March 27, 2021
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China's national exam that determines where a student goes to college influences students’ economic prospects for years to come, according to research by Hongbin Li and colleagues.
February 23, 2021
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From India and Zimbabwe to the U.S. and Mexico, a growing body of COVID-era studies indicates the need for building trust in health systems and combatting misinformation [...]
February 15, 2021
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Trailblazing economist and presidential adviser Edward Lazear dies at 72
The senior fellow founded the field of personnel economics.
November 24, 2020
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A worrisome global scenario draws on a study by Faculty Fellow Marshall Burke on the effect of climate change on economic inequality.
October 05, 2020
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"There's just a lot of things that say [poverty in China] is going to be a persistent problem," said Scott Rozelle, co-director of Stanford's Rural Education Action Program.
July 02, 2020
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Co-sponsored by and the Stanford Economics Association, the COVID-19 Policy Hackathon drew more than 800 participants from 78 countries.
June 22, 2020
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"It will be extraordinarily hard to reach a consensus on a new director general when there isn’t any underlying consensus among members on what the WTO is supposed to do," [...]
June 17, 2020
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“The abruptness of this shock [COVID-19] is much larger than the 2008 global financial crisis,” said Ramin Toloui, an assistant Treasury secretary for international finance [...]
June 01, 2020