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A Conference on "Analyzing (External) Imbalances"

{ Posted on Feb 07 2012 by Menzie Chinn }
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Last week I had the opportunity to attend an IMF conference (organized by Olivier Blanchard, Krishna Srinivasan, and Hamid Faruqee) focusing on the critical issue of assessing the sources of the pre-crisis imbalances in systemically key countries. The proceedings ...Read More »

Net Exports, Exports, Real Exchange Rates and Manufacturing

{ Posted on Feb 02 2012 by Menzie Chinn }
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Several observers have noted that exports have increased substantially since the President made his commitment to doubling exports. [1] The most recent GDP release confirms improvement in the net exports to GDP ratio (ex. oil imports) and real exports, and ...Read More »

"Financial Integration and Global Rebalancing"

{ Posted on Jan 09 2012 by Menzie Chinn }
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I organized the International Economics and Finance Society panel on "Financial Integration and Global Rebalancing" at the Allied Social Sciences Association meetings in Chicago. In the end, the papers fit together much better than I had anticipated; they all dealt ...Read More »

Thoughts on Europe, November 2010 and December 2011

{ Posted on Dec 01 2011 by Menzie Chinn }
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Back in November of last year, when Jeff Frieden and I were putting the finishing touches on Lost Decades, we wrote: Many countries with foreign debts in their own currency reduce their real debt burden by allowing their currency to drop ...Read More »

Exports in the Recovery (II)

{ Posted on Nov 15 2011 by Menzie Chinn }
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Following up on my previous post on the export contribution in the recovery (averaging 2.6 ppts since the trough), here are some additional observations. First, export growth in the current recovery has been substantially greater from the trough than in ...Read More »

Guest Contribution: "What can exports tell us about the economy?"

{ Posted on Nov 07 2011 by Menzie Chinn }
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Today, we are fortunate to have Jay C. Shambaugh of the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University as a guest contributor. There has been considerable debate lately about why the U.S. economy continues to struggle. Some -- notably economists ...Read More »

Exports in the Recovery

{ Posted on Nov 03 2011 by Menzie Chinn }
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Just a quick observation today, elicited by a question: what has been a consistent source of growth since the recovery began? Read More »

The Dollar and the Renminbi as International Currencies

{ Posted on Oct 26 2011 by Menzie Chinn }
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There's been a lot of discussion of the potential rise of the Renminbi as an international currency. In particular, Jeffrey Frankel has recently written a paper on the subject (blogpost), backed in part on research we did in our papers ...Read More »

“Financial Stability in Emerging Markets: Dealing with Global Liquidity”

{ Posted on Oct 25 2011 by Menzie Chinn }
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That was the title of a conference in Beijing (October 21st), organized by the Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), and the German Development Institute (DIE). I had the privileged of delivering ...Read More »

"International Policy Implications and Lessons From the Global Financial Crisis"

{ Posted on Sep 30 2011 by Menzie Chinn }
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Last Friday and Saturday, the JIMF 4th Annual Conference at UC Santa Cruz took place, organized by Joshua Aizenman (UCSC & NBER), Robert Dekle (USC) & James Lothian (Fordham University & JIMF) and sponsored by JIMF, SCCIE-UCSC, and the FRBs ...Read More »
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