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CEPR launches Global Trade Alert
CEPR has launched Global Trade Alert. GTA, directed by Simon Evenett, provides real-time information - and analysis - of measures taken by governments during the global downturn that are likely to discriminate against foreign commerce.
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Boosting the availability of trade finance in the current crisis: Background analysis for a substantial G20 package
CEPR Policy Insight No. 35 lays out some recent facts and explains the decisions made at the G20 London Summit regarding the supply of trade finance.
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The theory of the fiscal stimulus: How will a debt-financed stimulus affect the future?
A new CEPR Policy Insight takes a close look at the Keynesian theory underlying the policy of fiscal stimulus being undertaken or considered in many countries, led by the US.
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Campa named as Spain's new deputy finance minister
The Spanish government has named CEPR Research Fellow José Manuel Campa as its new deputy finance minister.
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Trade policy in a time of crisis: Suggestions for developing countries
Gary Hufbauer and Sherry Stephenson
in new CEPR Policy Insight look at whether a change in developing countries' trade policy
might relieve some of the pain from the current crisis.
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Brunnermeier wins Bernácer Prize
CEPR Research Fellow Markus Brunnermeier has received the 2008 Bernácer Prize, awarded to European economists under the age of 40 who have made outstanding contributions in macroeconomics and finance.
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Saez receives Clark Medal
Emmanuel Saez, Co-Director of the Centre's Public Policy Programme, has received the 2009 John Bates Clark Medal.
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Danthine appointed to Board of Swiss National Bank
CEPR Research Fellow Jean-Pierre Danthine has been appointed to the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank.
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Euro Area in recession since January 2008
CEPR’s Euro Area Business Cycle Dating Committee announced today that economic activity in the euro area peaked in the first quarter of 2008. The peak marked the end of an expansion that began in the third quarter of 1993 and lasted 57 quarters. The latest employment data from Eurostat confirm that the Euro area entered a recession in the first quarter of 2008. Identifying the month in which activity peaked is more difficult for the euro area, but the Committee’s best judgement is January 2008.
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Sibert appointed to Iceland Monetary Policy Committee
Anne Sibert, a CEPR Research Fellow, has been appointed as a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Iceland.
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Incentive roots of the securitisation crisis and its early mismanagement
A new CEPR Policy Insight attributes the ongoing financial crisis to the economic and political difficulties of monitoring and controlling the production and distribution of safety-net subsidies.
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Liquidity insurance for systemic crises
In this new Policy Insight Enrico Perotti and Javier Suarez explain how a liquidity and capital insurance arrangement could provide emergency liquidity (and perhaps capital) and protect the economy against systemic crisis.
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Ekholm appointed Deputy Governor of Sveriges Riksbank
Karolina Ekholm, a CEPR Research Affiliate, has been appointed Deputy Governor of the Sveriges Riksbank.
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Reforming financial supervision and the role of central banks: a review of global trends, causes and effects (1998-2008)
Over the last ten years the financial supervision architecture and the role of the central bank in supervision therein has undergone radical transformation. A new CEPR Policy Insight addresses three questions. Which are the main features of the supervisory architecture reshaping? What explains the increasing diversity of the institutional settings? What are so far the effects of the changing face of banking and financial supervisory regimes on the quality of regulation and supervision?
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Two systemic problems
In a new CEPR Policy Insight, Axel Leijonhufvud explains how lack of regulation and failed monetary policy caused the failure of financial markets.
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The crisis of 2008: Structural lessons for and from economics
In a new Policy Insight, CEPR Research Fellow Daron Acemoglu provides his views on what intellectual errors have been made and what lessons these errors offer moving forward from the crisis of 2008. He suggests that economic theory still has a lot to teach academics and policy makers as we make our way through the crisis.
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CEPR researcher Armin Falk receives the German Leibnitz Prize
The central public funding organization for academic research in Germany -
the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) annouced that the Gottfried
Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis will go to Armin Falk for his outstanding work
in the field of behavioural economics and economics.
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What world leaders should do to halt the spread of protectionism
The global financial crisis is starting to affect trade. Nations around the world have already raised tariffs in 2008. The new protection is modest – so far. But as the recession deepens, a vicious circle of protectionism is a real possibility. The latest E-book from VoxEU.org - published on Thursday, 4 December - collects essays from some of the world's leading economists on how to fight the threat of protectionism.
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Crisis Management in the European Union
In a new CEPR Policy Insight, Sylvester Eijffinger looks at what the EU has been doing and should be doing in terms of managing the global crisis.
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What G20 leaders must do to stabilise our economy and fix the financial system
Leaders of the G20 nations are meeting this weekend to discuss financial markets and the world economy. Announced just a few weeks ago, this summit is both very unprepared and very important. The world economy and world financial markets are in a delicate state. The latest E-book from VoxEU.org - published on Monday, 10 November - collects essays from some of the world's leading economists on what the G20 should do.
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The Icelandic banking crisis and what to do about it
According to the authors of CEPR Policy Insight No. 26, Iceland has two options: either join the EU and EMU and keep its international banking activities domiciled in Iceland, or retain its own currency and move its foreign currency banking activities to the euro area.
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