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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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CEPR/ESI 2008 Prize
CEPR/ESI 2008 Prize Winners of the Best Central Bank Research Paper at the BIS in Basel: Timothy Besley (Bank of England, LSE and CEPR, Neil Meads (Bank of England) and Paolo Surico (Bank of England)
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Monetary Policy Roundtable
On 30 September, the Bank of England and the Centre for Economic Policy
Research jointly hosted a Monetary Policy Roundtable. This was the first
in what is expected to become a regular series intended to provide a forum
for economists to discuss key issues affecting the design and operation of monetary policy in the United Kingdom.
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Rescuing our jobs and savings: What G7/8 leaders can do to solve the global credit crisis
A new VoxEU.org publication
Barry Eichengreen, Richard Baldwin, 9 October 2008
Without rapid and coordinated action by G7/8 leaders, this financial crisis could turn into a jobs crisis, a pension crisis and much more. This column introduces a collection of essays by leading economists on what the G7/8 leaders should do this weekend. The dozen essays present a remarkable consensus on a few points: we need immediate, coordinated global action that includes recapitalisation of the banks.
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Martin Feldstein
Martin Feldstein recently stood down as President of the National Bureau of Economic Research, after 30 years of exceptional leadership. A dinner celebrating his accomplishments with the Bureau was held in Cambridge, MA, on 24 July. Richard Portes, President of CEPR, prepared for presentation at the dinner the attached remarks on the international impact of NBER in the Feldstein era.
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Peg the Export Price
In CEPR Policy Insight No. 25, Jeffrey Frankel discusses the merits of a peg to the export price for countries specialized in the production of a mineral or agricultural commodity.
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VoxEU.org is one year old
Vox was launched one year ago. Over 550 economists have written 440 columns for Vox in its first year, including some of the profession’s academic greats.
Vox readership has tripled since August 2007. Currently, Vox receives over 10,000 unique visitors a
day from almost a half million distinct IP addresses. The average number of page views is about
35,000 per day (or 7.3 million in total). Vox celebrates its first birthday with a series of great
columns on monetary policy and on international trade; and new features, including audio interviews
with Vox authors, a conference and workshop listings service, and a weekly newsletter.
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Winters appointed Chief Economist at DFID
L Alan Winters, a Research Fellow and Co-Director of the CEPR International Trade Programme from 1987 to 1994, has been appointed Chief Economist at the UK Department for International Development.
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Politics, Economics and Global Governance: The European Dimensions
is a collaborative project, funded by the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme for research. The project website is currently under construction.
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"SCIFI-GLOW - SCience, Innovation, FIrms and markets in a GLObalized World" - new project launched in June 2008
SCIFI-GLOW is a collaborative project, funded by the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme for research. The project website is currently under construction.
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The Competitiveness of European Firms in the Euro Age (EFIM2008)
Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, University of Bologna for Bruegel, and Thierry Mayer, University of Paris I for CEPR, coordinate EFIM.
The key question this projects aims at resolving is Does the Euro make European firms fitter for global competition?.
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CEPR Programme Director awarded 2008 Fundación Banco Herrero Prize
Diego Puga, co-director of CEPR's International Trade and Regional Economics Programme, has been awarded the 2008 Fundación Banco Herrero Prize. The Prize is given annually to a young Spanish researcher (resident in Spain or abroad) under the age of 40 for his or her outstanding contributions to the fields of economics, business or social sciences.
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The CEPR/ESI 12th Annual Conference on 'The Evolving Financial
System and the Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy'
The Annual Conference will take place on 25/26 September 2008 in Basel and will be co-organised with, and hosted by, the Bank for International Settlements.
The topic of the 12th CEPR/ESI Annual Conference will be 'The Evolving Financial System and the Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy'
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The Need for an Emergency Bank Debt Insurance Mechanism
In a new CEPR Policy Insight, Javier Suarez proposes the creation of an Emergency Bank Debt Insurance Mechanism (EBDIM) as an alternative to the massive lending of last resort (LLR) operations undertaken by central banks since the start of the subprime crisis.
CEPR Policy Insight No. 19
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CEPR Research Fellow awarded Carlo Alberto Medal
CEPR Research Fellow Enrico Moretti has been awarded the 2008 Carlo Alberto Medal. The medal is awarded to an outstanding Italian economist under 40.
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Lessons from the 2007 Financial Crisis
What caused the current North Atlantic financial crisis, how can it be fixed and how can the likelihood of future crises be reduced? CEPR Policy Insight No. 18 addresses these issues at length.
CEPR Policy Insight No. 18
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Introducing a Global Database on Migrant Stocks
Migration matters and will matter more as the lopsidedness of the world age-profile works its way through into labour and product markets. Surprisingly, there has been no global dataset on migration stocks until now. CEPR Policy Insight No. 17 introduces a new database maintained at the University of Sussex.
CEPR Policy Insight No. 17
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Seppo Honkapohja appointed to the Bank of Finland's Board
CEPR Research Fellow Seppo Honkapohja has been appointed
as a Member of the Board of the Bank of Finland from January 2008.
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Europe's superstar firms
In a new CEPR Policy Insight, Researchers Thierry Mayer and Gianmarco
I.P. Ottaviano reveal new facts that are essential for future
policy-making to foster competitiveness among European firms in the
international market and for the ongoing process of trade
liberalisation.
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