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Kenneth Rogoff

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Kenneth Rogoff, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University and recipient of the 2011 Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics, was the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund from 2001 to 2003. He is co-author of This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (Princeton University Press, 2011) and author of The Curse of Cash (Princeton University Press, 2016).

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  1. Why the Russia Sanctions Are Missing the Mark
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    Why the Russia Sanctions Are Missing the Mark

    Mar 3, 2023 Kenneth Rogoff explains why Western restrictions were not as economically devastating as many had hoped.

  2. Too Soon for Global Optimism
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    Too Soon for Global Optimism

    Jan 31, 2023 Kenneth Rogoff warns that the Ukraine war and economic fragmentation are still jeopardizing world growth prospects.

  3. The Looming Financial Contagion
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    The Looming Financial Contagion

    Jan 2, 2023 Kenneth Rogoff explains why aggressive monetary tightening might exacerbate the coming economic downturn.

  4. Will Crypto Survive?
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    Will Crypto Survive?

    Nov 25, 2022 Kenneth Rogoff assesses the strategies regulators could adopt in the aftermath of the FTX debacle.

  5. China’s Diminishing Returns
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    China’s Diminishing Returns

    Oct 31, 2022 Kenneth Rogoff explains why the country’s economically crucial real-estate sector is unlikely to bounce back anytime soon.

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    Price Stability vs. Financial Stability?

    Willem H. Buiter

    If the US Federal Reserve raises its policy interest rate by as much as is necessary to rein in inflation, it will most likely further depress the market value of the long-duration securities parked on many banks' balance sheets. So be it.

     thinks central banks can achieve both, despite the occurrence of a liquidity crisis amid high inflation.
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    Fifty Years of Floating Currencies

    Jeffrey Frankel explains why the shift toward exchange-rate flexibility after 1973 was not a policy failure, as many believed.
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    What Do America’s Spies Really Think About China?

    Kent Harrington thinks the intelligence community’s annual threat assessment should have delved deeper on the issue.
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    Waking Up to the World’s Water Crisis

    Quentin Grafton, et al. see three overarching priorities for the first global water conference in almost a half-century.
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    Peace Requires Betrayal

    Shlomo Ben-Ami shows why Ukraine and Russia will most likely have to pursue an unpopular endgame to stop the bloodshed.
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    Lessons from the SVB Collapse

    Lucrezia Reichlin

    Although Silicon Valley Bank was not deemed to be systemically important, its insolvency forced the US Federal Reserve to head off systemic contagion and exposed the inadequacy of the FDIC’s partial deposit insurance regime. The financial-stability framework adopted after the 2008 crisis obviously needs another overhaul.

     considers what the bank’s failure should mean for the current financial-stability framework.
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    It’s the Banking Regulations, Stupid

    Antonio Foglia traces the Silicon Valley Bank failure back to fundamental flaws in the prevailing governance framework.
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    Confronting the Global Water Crisis

    Mariana Mazzucato, et al. offer a seven-point blueprint for preserving one of the planet’s most important natural systems.
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    Revisiting America’s War of Choice in Iraq

    Richard Haass considers the enduring lessons from a foreign intervention that was both ill-conceived and poorly executed.

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