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Gita Gopinath of the IMF to deliver Susan Bies Lecture on Economics and Public Policy

Economist Gita Gopinath, first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), will headline the Susan Bies Lecture on Economics and Public Policy at Northwestern University at 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 25.

Exchange Rate Transmission To Prices In Emerging Asia And The Role Of Global Shocks

Over the past 25 years, central banks in emerging Asia have improved their monetary policy frameworks, helping to anchor inflation expectations and support broader macroeconomic stability. While this has also contributed to enhancing the resilience of Asian economies ...

A review of new findings on the links between US-China trade and inequality

The links between US-China trade and inequality – Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs

Remote wages in a globalised labour market | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal

Web-based job platforms that match employers and workers around the world to trade tasks which are delivered online are becoming increasingly popular. This column uses a new dataset from one of the largest job platforms to examine remote wages across locations and offshorability of work. Remote wages are more equalised than local wages across countries, but wage gaps across

India-born Gita Gopinath to Become First Deputy MD of IMF

Gita, a US national and overseas Indian citizen was appointed to her current position in October 2018. She was...

Measuring countries and sectors in GVCs

There is no doubt that the production of goods and services has become increasingly globalized since the 1970s, but this trend is one that is hard to measure. Ideally, the best way would be to use firm-level trade and census data across countries, but such data are very rare.

Ronald Findlay, 1935-2021 | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal

Ronald Findlay, who passed away in October 2021, was one of the great trade theorists of his generation. As this column by one of his former students explains, he will be remembered for his brilliant intellect, his encyclopaedic knowledge of theory and history, and most of all for his modesty, warmth and supportive friendship.

Globalisation and the economic geography of social activism

João Amador, Filippo di Mauro Economic globalisation faces a legitimacy crisis that is fuelled by scandals along the globalised value chains characterising modern-day international production. The collapse of the Rana Plaza factory building in Bangladesh in 2013 is an example that received global attention. Campaigns by internationally active advocacy (or watchdog) non-governmental organisations (NGOs) like Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network, China Labour Watch, etc. play a key role in exposing and creating awareness of what they consider ‘unethical’ practices in international value chains. These NGOs and their campaigns are key mediators of the general criticism of economic globalisation, which has emerged over the past decades, and which has culminated in the so-called ‘globalisation backlash’ of recent years (Rodrik 2017, Pastor and Veronesi 2018, Colantone et al. 2021).

Continuing the United Kingdom's Trade Relationship with Mexico (web version)