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Shadow Banking and Capital Markets: Risks and Opportunities
2016 — This study examines the proliferation of financial nonbank credit intermediation, also known as shadow banking. The study notes that unregulated or imperfectly regulated shadow banking activities, particularly those in China, undermines financial stability by way of unregulated banking structures.
Learn more »Oil and the Global Economy
2016 — Abdlatif Al-Hamad and Philip Verleger, Jr. discuss the many challenges facing the oil industry and the global economy. Al-Hamad discusses the impacts of the current price cycle in the Middle East and North Africa region while Verleger discusses three forces that he believes “threaten to permanently transform the oil industry.” Learn more »
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Are Trump’s Policies Hurting Long-Term US Growth?
August 06, 2018 — Kenneth Rogoff, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, argues that U.S. presidents’ economic policies mostly show in the long-term, and that today’s strong economic outlook is the result of President Bush’s and President Obama’s policies, not President Trump’s. Although he expresses concern for the long-term economy from the administration’s protectionist trade policy, reduction of funding for research and environmental protection, Rogoff also expresses hope about the administration’s efforts to use technology and big data to improve vocational training and the retraining of displaced workers.