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June 3, 2019

Back to the Future Part II: the Phillips curve was discovered in 1926 !?

On October 26, 1985, in Back to the Future Part II, Dr. Emmett Brown (Doc) and Marty Mac Fly go back to 1955 after trying to prevent Marty’s son from…

May 25, 2019

The Phillips curve has disappeared… not yet!

As the US unemployment rate continues to drift down to levels not seen in decades, many observers point to relatively low wage and price inflation as evidence that the Phillips…

August 13, 2018

Can we limit divergence in a monetary union?

The euro crisis sheds light on the nature of alternative adjustment mechanisms in the EMU. This article examines the exchange rate misalignments within the euro zone, using a FEER approach….

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Jamel Saadaoui
Jamel Saadaoui
Ph.D. in Economics. I am also interested in philosophy, probability and entropy.

RSS Peterson Institute Press

  • The WTO's Existential Crisis: How to Salvage Its Ability to Settle Trade Disputes December 9, 2019
    US refusal to allow the appointment of new judges (or members) to the World Trade Organization’s Appellate Body—a key component of its renowned dispute settlement system—has pushed the organization into an existential crisis. The Appellate Body no longer has the requisite number of members to hear...
  • Did Trump's Trade War Impact the 2018 Election? December 2, 2019
    Republican candidates lost support in the 2018 congressional election in counties more exposed to trade retaliation but saw no commensurate electoral gains from US tariff protection. The electoral losses were driven by retaliatory tariffs on agricultural products and were only partially mitigated...
  • Capital Controls and International Trade: An Industry Financial Vulnerability Perspective December 2, 2019
    Capital controls—or measures that governments take to restrict the amount of money that flows into and out of countries—pose significant challenges for firms that rely heavily on foreign financing to conduct business. This paper empirically evaluates effects of capital controls on trade across...
  • Are Central Banks Out of Ammunition to Fight a Recession? Not Quite. November 21, 2019
    Central banks in the three largest advanced economies (the United States, Japan, and the eurozone) have only limited ammunition to fight a recession based on the tools used to date. The Federal Reserve has the most amount of tried and tested ammunition in this group. If a recession were to hit the...
  • Inflation Targets in Latin America November 7, 2019
    Many emerging-market economies have adopted inflation targeting regimes since they were introduced by New Zealand in 1990. Latin America has not been the exception. Currently eight Latin American countries conduct monetary policy through inflation targeting regimes: Brazil, Chile, Colombia,...
  • US-China Trade War: Both Countries Lose, World Markets Adjust, Others Gain November 5, 2019
    The terms of the US-China trade war change often, but the tariff escalations have inflicted documented economic damage on both countries. Expanding the conflict will only increase the damage and reverberate across the world economy. This Policy Brief uses a computable general equilibrium model of...
  • Average Inflation Targeting Would Be a Weak Tool for the Fed to Deal with Recession and Chronic Low Inflation November 4, 2019
    The Federal Reserve faces two important monetary policy challenges: First, since the Great Recession it has struggled to move inflation convincingly up to the 2 percent target level. Second, during the next recession it will struggle to deliver enough support to the economy unless the recession is...
  • Should Monetary Policy Take Inequality and Climate Change into Account? October 28, 2019
    Should central banks take more account of ethical issues, notably the impact of monetary policy actions on the distribution of income and wealth and on efforts to combat climate change, in the design and implementation of the wider monetary policy toolkit they have been using in the past decade?...
  • WTO'ing a Resolution to the China Subsidy Problem October 22, 2019
    The United States, the European Union, and Japan have begun a trilateral process to confront the Chinese economic model, including its use of industrial subsidies and deployment of state-owned enterprises. This paper seeks to identify the main areas of tension and to assess the legal-economic...
  • The Amazon Is a Carbon Bomb: How Can Brazil and the World Work Together to Avoid Setting It Off? October 21, 2019
    The fires in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest in the summer of 2019 represent a government policy failure over many years, especially recently, as Brazilian public agencies that are supposed to curb man-made fires have been deliberately weakened. In keeping with his far-right nationalist campaign...

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Jamel Saadaoui
Jamel Saadaoui
Ph.D. in Economics. I am also interested in philosophy, probability and entropy.
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