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Rising Tide: Is Growth in Emerging Economies Good for the United States?
by Lawrence Edwards and Robert Z. Lawrence
February 2013

In 1963, US President John F. Kennedy said that "a rising tide lifts all the boats. And a partnership, by definition, serves both parties, without domination or unfair advantage." US international economic policy since World War II has been ba ... More >>



Understanding the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Policy Analyses in International Economics 99
by Jeffrey J. Schott , Barbara Kotschwar and Julia Muir
January 2013

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a big deal in the making. With the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations at an impasse, the TPP negotiations have taken center stage as the most significant trade initiative of the 21st century. As of ... More >>



The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Asia-Pacific Integration: A Quantitative Assessment
Policy Analyses in International Economics 98
by Peter A. Petri , Michael G. Plummer and Fan Zhai
November 2012

While global trade negotiations remain stalled, two tracks of trade negotiations in the Asia-Pacific—the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement and a parallel Asian track—could generate momentum for renewed liberalization a ... More >>



Global Economics in Extraordinary Times: Essays in Honor of John Williamson
edited by C. Fred Bergsten and C. Randall Henning
November 2012

Over the course of five decades, John Williamson has published an extraordinary number of books, articles, and other pieces on topics ranging from international monetary economics to development policy and bridging scholarly literature and polic ... More >>



Private Rights and Public Problems: The Global Economics of Intellectual Property in the 21st Century
by Keith E. Maskus
September 2012

Intellectual property rights (IPRs)—patents, copyrights, and trademarks—have moved from an arcane area of legal analysis and a policy backwater to the forefront of global economic policymaking. Apple and Samsung's patent battle illust ... More >>



Devaluing to Prosperity: Misaligned Currencies and Their Growth Consequences
by Surjit S. Bhalla
August 2012

Experts have long questioned the effect of currency undervaluation on overall GDP growth. They have viewed the underlying basis for this policy—intervention in currency markets to keep the price of the home currency cheap—as doomed to ... More >>



Transatlantic Economic Challenges in an Era of Growing Multipolarity
Special Report 22
edited by Jacob Funk Kirkegaard , Nicolas Véron and Guntram B. Wolff
July 2012

Shifts in global economic dominance are by nature tectonic and never precipitated by single events. The Great Recession of 2008–09, however, has presented the European Union, its common currency the euro, and the United States with new globa ... More >>