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Save to My PortfolioMissing Markets: Fostering Market Based Solutions to Major Risks

Thursday, June 05, 2008
9:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Washington, DC

Reuters/Andy KingHurricanes, retirement, home-buying and tax-base erosion all pose financial risks. Yet markets to reduce these risks are elusive. The Hamilton Project at Brookings released papers at a discussion on how sound public policy can play a critical role in helping to foster new markets or expand existing markets in ways that could provide widely shared benefits. Read More

Financial Services, Mortgage Market, Retirement, Financial Institutions, Financial Markets

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Save to My PortfolioThe Middle-Class Squeeze

Gregg Easterbrook and Elizabeth Warren, January 11, 2008, American Public Media, Marketplace

Brookings Expert Gregg Easterbrook and Harvard Law School's Elizabeth Warren discuss the squeeze on the American middle class. Read More

Cost of Living, Health Care, Housing, Economic Mobility, Income Distribution

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Save to My PortfolioAppreciation, Inflation, and China's Competitiveness

Geng Xiao, September 22, 2007, 21st Century Business Herald

Geng Xiao argues that China’s inflation must be viewed not just as a current monetary issue, but rather as a part of the country’s long-term economic development. Read More

China, China's Economy, Development, Inflation, South Asia

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Save to My PortfolioChina: The Correct Sequence Should be Inflation First, Appreciation Second

Geng Xiao, August 30, 2007, Nanfang Daily

Geng Xiao says development of China’s financial sector would help maintain a stable rate of inflation, and prepare the Chinese economy for measured currency revaluation.
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China, China's Economy, Inflation

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Save to My PortfolioBehind the CPI Figures

Geng Xiao, August 20, 2007, 21st Century Business Herald

Geng Xiao addresses concerns that inflation in China has led to a rise in food prices. To solve the current imbalances, he argues, China must allow its interest rates and the prices of its raw materials and energy to adjust to natural market levels. Doing so would increase demand, supply markets’ efficiency, and wage levels. Read More

China, China's Economy, Development, Inflation, Developing Countries

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Save to My PortfolioInflation First, Appreciation Second: China’s Practical Choice

Geng Xiao, July 30, 2007, The Brookings Institution

In response to China’s growing global current account surplus, Chinese policymakers should focus first on raising the inflation rate and then allow for currency appreciation, argues Geng Xiao. Read More

China, China's Economy, Inflation, Economic Development, Emerging Markets

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Save to My PortfolioThe Interaction of Labor Markets and Inflation

William T. Dickens, Lorenz Goette, Erica Groshen, Steinar Holden, Julian Messina, Mark Schweitzer, Jarkko Turunen and Melanie Ward, February 2007, The Brookings Institution

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Macroeconomics, Wages, Labor Markets, Inflation

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Save to My PortfolioPrivatize Social Security? No

Henry J. Aaron, 1-Nov-04, The New York Daily News

Opinion by Henry J. Aaron, The New York Daily News (11/1/04) Read More

Retirement, Macroeconomics, Saving, U.S. Economy, Inflation

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Save to My PortfolioWhat's Ahead After The GDP's Big Surge

George L. Perry, October 21, 2003, The Brookings Institution

Opinion by George L. Perry (10/31/03) Read More

Mortgage Market, Macroeconomics, Trade, Budget Deficit, U.S. Economy

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Save to My PortfolioThe Epidemiology of Macroeconomic Expectations

Christopher D. Carroll, January 2002, CSED Working Paper 25

CSED Working Paper No. 26: Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Civil Violence: Guatemala 1977-1986 Read More

Macroeconomics, U.S. Economy, Inflation

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Save to My PortfolioHave New Human Resource Management Practices Lowered the Sustainable Unemployment Rate?

Adam Posen, Jessica Cohen and William T. Dickens, 15-May-01, The Brookings Institution

Paper by Jessica Cohen, William T. Dickens, and Adam Posen (5/15/03) Read More

Macroeconomics, Unemployment, U.S. Economy, Labor, Inflation

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Save to My PortfolioOptions for Stabilization Policy: A New Analysis of Choices Confronting the Fed

George A. Akerlof, George L. Perry and William T. Dickens, February 2001, Brookings Institution

In this policy brief, the authors propose an alternative to the conventional natural rate model. It is based on behavioral assumptions that we believe are more realistic than those underlying the natural rate model and that are backed by research on Read More

Macroeconomics, Unemployment, U.S. Economy, Inflation, Governance

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Save to My PortfolioComments on Charles Wyplosz Paper: Do We Know How Low Should Inflation Be?

William T. Dickens, 2-Nov-00, The Brookings Institution

Brookings Economic Papers Read More

Macroeconomics, U.S. Economy, Inflation

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Save to My PortfolioComments on Charles Wyplosz Paper: Do We Know How Low Should Inflation Be?

William T. Dickens, November 02, 2000, The First European Central Banking Conference

Commentary by William T. Dickens (11/02/00) Read More

Macroeconomics, Unemployment, Inflation, U.S. Economy, Labor

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Save to My PortfolioNear Rational Wage and Price Setting and the Long Run Phillips Curve

George A. Akerlof, George L. Perry and William T. Dickens, June 2, 2000, The Brookings Institution

Brookings Economic Papers Read More

Macroeconomics, Unemployment, Inflation, U.S. Economy, Labor

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George L. Perry

George L. Perry

Senior Fellow, Economic Studies

Long-time editor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, George Perry is currently researching business conditions, exchange rates, and fiscal and monetary policy.
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William T. Dickens

William T. Dickens

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Economic Studies

Bill Dickens researches the malleability of cognitive ability; fiscal effects of investment in early education; the relationship of inflation, wage and unemployment; and economic development. He is currently collaborating in using data on individual wage changes to measure the extent, nature, causes and consequences of wage rigidity.

 
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