New research with some counter-intuitive results on how trade impacts pandemics. Would renationalization of specific value chains increase resilience?

The crisis has reaffirmed the dollar’s role as the ultimate safe haven but at the same time it has also widen the faultlines.

The hazards of the recent U.S.- China deal that might have gone unnoticed.

After the financial crisis opposition to capital controls wavered. Two very recent papers examine whether limits on capital mobility achieve their financial and macroeconomic goals.

The U.S. has been chipping away at the WTO for the last two years. How does today’s situation compare to the U.S.-Japan trade war of the 1970s?

Many have highlighted the recent fall in the dollar’s share of global FX reserves as a sign of the dollar’s waning dominance. What does the data really show?

New research on how the recent protectionist trend has affected the US and Europe.

Dani Rodrik and Kemal Derviş advocate two different types of global governance: one that emphasizes national sovereignty and one that emphasizes the role of international institutions. Quite thought-provoking!

As the odds for a US dollar intervention rise, economists wonder what the long term impact might be and whether a weak dollar could benefit the US economy.

At the end of May 2019 the Treasury published its currency manipulation report.  The report is considered to be a  reductio ad absurdum  and a Niagara of nonsense.