A Comparison of Monetary Anchor Options, Including Product Price Targeting, for Commodity-Exporters in Latin America
Seven possible nominal variables are considered as candidates to be the anchor or target for monetary policy.
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American and Chinese Power after the Financial Crisis
The article discusses the world dominance of the U.S. as a superpower in relation to the global financial recession of 2008-2009 and the rising influence of China in world affairs.
Let's Make a Deal
Can the Doha trade talks ever be brought to a close? Without a final consensus, the global trading system remains fragmented.
Enhancing Food Security in an Era of Global Climate Change: An Executive Session on Grand Challenges of the Sustainability Transition, San Servolo Island, Venice – June 6-9, 2010.
The goal of the workshop was to build a more strategic and integrated perspective on the threats and opportunities latent in the food / climate issue, and to discuss the hard challenges of moving forw
US Trade and Wages: The Misleading Implications of Conventional Trade Theory
Conventional trade theory, which combines the Heckscher-Ohlin theory and the Stolper-Samuelson theorem, implies that expanded trade between developed and developing countries will increase wage inequa
Do Developed and Developing Countries Compete Head to Head in High-tech?
Concerns that (1) growth in developing countries could worsen the US terms of trade and (2) that increased US trade with developing countries will increase US wage inequality both implicitly reflect t
A Comparison of Monetary Anchor Options for Commodity-Exporters in Latin America and the Caribbean
Throughout, the history of the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region, natural resource wealth has been critical for its economies.
Determinants of Agricultural and Mineral Commodity Prices
The 2009 conference, jointly hosted by the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis at the Australian National University, considered the substantial rise in global
Growth After the Crisis
This book has been prepared for the Commission on Growth and Development to evaluate the prospects for economic growth in developing countries in the wake of the world financial and economic crises of
The Remnibi Since 2005
Thanks to deft diplomatic footwork, a US-China confrontation over the renminbi has been avoided – or at least postponed. This is a very good thing.
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