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PB21-12: Overheating debate: Why not in Japan?

Egor Gornostay and Madi Sarsenbayev

PB21-11: Economic costs and benefits of accelerated COVID-19 vaccinations

Joseph Gagnon, Steven Kamin and John Kearns

PB21-10: Improving China's participation in resolving developing-country debt problems

Martin Chorzempa and Adnan Mazarei

PB21-9: Startups in the United States during the pandemic reflect some dynamism amid job losses

Simeon Djankov and Eva (Yiwen) Zhang

PB21-8: The evolving gender gap in labor force participation during COVID-19

Simeon Djankov, Eva (Yiwen) Zhang, Pinelopi Goldberg and Marie Hyland

PB21-7: Does the new fiscal consensus in advanced economies travel to emerging markets?

Olivier Blanchard, Josh Felman and Arvind Subramanian

PB21-6: The unappreciated trend toward unilateral trade liberalization

Robert Lawrence

PB21-5: Will industrial and agricultural subsidies ever be reformed?

Gary Hufbauer

PB21-4: Uncertain prospects for sovereign wealth funds of Gulf countries

Julien Maire, Adnan Mazarei and Edwin Truman

PB21-3: Sovereign wealth funds are growing more slowly, and governance issues remain

Julien Maire, Adnan Mazarei and Edwin Truman

PB21-2: Fiscal resiliency in a deeply uncertain world: The role of semiautonomous discretion

Peter R. Orszag, Robert E. Rubin and Joseph Stiglitz

PB21-1: Raising a caution flag on US financial sanctions against China

Jeffrey Schott

PB20-17: China's Financial Opening Accelerates

Nicholas Lardy and Tianlei Huang

PB20-16: Using purchasing power parities to compare countries: Strengths and shortcomings

Patrick Honohan

PB20-15: Taming the US trade deficit: A dollar policy for balanced growth

Joseph Gagnon

PB20-14: Impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on individual mobility and the importance of socioeconomic factors

Julien Maire

PB20-13: Sovereign debt relief in the global pandemic: Lessons from the 1980s

Edwin Truman

PB20-12: Lebanon's monetary meltdown tests the limits of central banking

Patrick Honohan and Adnan Mazarei

PB20-11: A possible IMF Pandemic Support Facility for emerging-market countries

Matthew Fisher and Adnan Mazarei

PB20-10: US unemployment insurance in the pandemic and beyond

Jason Furman

PB20-9: When more delivers less: Comparing the US and French COVID-19 crisis responses

Jérémie Cohen-Setton and Jean Pisani-Ferry

PB20-8: A new policy toolkit is needed as countries exit COVID-19 lockdowns

Olivier Blanchard, Thomas Philippon and Jean Pisani-Ferry

PB20-7: Women scaling the corporate ladder: Progress steady but slow globally

Soyoung Han and Marcus Noland

PB20-6: What might have been: Globalization on the medal stand at the Tokyo Olympics

Soyoung Han and Marcus Noland

PB20-5: Reviving the potency of monetary policy with recession insurance bonds

Julia Coronado and Simon Potter

PB20-4: Securing macroeconomic and monetary stability with a Federal Reserve–backed digital currency

Julia Coronado and Simon Potter

PB20-03: What US strategy gets wrong about China in Africa

Cullen S. Hendrix

PB20-2: Automatic stabilizers in a low-rate environment

Olivier Blanchard and Lawrence Summers

PB20-1: Developing Countries Can Help Restore the WTO's Dispute Settlement System

Anabel González and Euijin Jung

PB19-19: The WTO’s Existential Crisis: How to Salvage Its Ability to Settle Trade Disputes

Jeffrey Schott and Euijin Jung

PB19-18: Are Central Banks Out of Ammunition to Fight a Recession? Not Quite

Joseph Gagnon and Christopher Collins

PB19-17: US-China Trade War: Both Countries Lose, World Markets Adjust, Others Gain

Sherman Robinson and Karen Thierfelder

PB19-16: Average Inflation Targeting Would Be a Weak Tool for the Fed to Deal with Recession and Chronic Low Inflation

David Reifschneider and David Wilcox

PB19-15: The Amazon Is a Carbon Bomb: How Can Brazil and the World Work Together to Avoid Setting It Off?

Monica de Bolle

PB19-14: Global E-Commerce Talks Stumble on Data Issues, Privacy, and More

Gary Hufbauer and Zhiyao Lu

PB19-13: Hyperinflation in Venezuela: A Stabilization Handbook

Gonzalo Huertas

PB19-12: Chinese Investments in the US and EU Are Declining—for Similar Reasons

Jacob Kirkegaard

PB19-11: China, Like the US, Faces Challenges in Achieving Inclusive Growth Through Manufacturing

Robert Lawrence

PB19-10: Keeping Up with the Future: Upgrading Forecasts of Political Instability and Geopolitical Risk

Cullen S. Hendrix

PB19-9: The Rise of Global Innovation by US Multinationals Poses Risks and Opportunities

Lee Branstetter, Britta Glennon and J. Jensen

PB19-8: Iran Has a Slow Motion Banking Crisis

Adnan Mazarei

PB19-7: Fiscal Policy Options for Japan

Olivier Blanchard and Takeshi Tashiro

PB19-6: Efforts of Oil Exporters in the Middle East and North Africa to Diversify Away from Oil Have Fallen Short

Adnan Mazarei

PB19-5: Survival of the International Monetary Fund and Global Economic Cooperation

Edwin Truman

PB19-4: The Return of Economic Nationalism in Germany

Jeromin Zettelmeyer

PB19-3: Opening Internet Monopolies to Competition with Data Sharing Mandates

Claudia Biancotti and Paolo Ciocca

PB19-2: Public Debt: Fiscal and Welfare Costs in a Time of Low Interest Rates

Olivier Blanchard

PB19-1: China Should Join the New Trans-Pacific Partnership

Peter Petri and Michael Plummer

PB18-25: A Better European Architecture to Fight Money Laundering

Joshua Kirschenbaum and Nicolas Veron

PB18-24: Impact of Italy’s Draft Budget on Growth and Fiscal Solvency

Olivier Blanchard, Alvaro Leandro, Silvia Merler and Jeromin Zettelmeyer