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Stefanie Stantcheva

Stefanie Stantcheva

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Stefanie Stantcheva is Professor of Economics at Harvard University.

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  1. Inside America's Polarized Views on Race
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    Inside America's Polarized Views on Race

    Dec 13, 2021 Stefanie Stantcheva shows that the beliefs that are most predictive of policy views are also the hardest to change.

  2. Inequality and the Macron Commission
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    Inequality and the Macron Commission

    Jul 8, 2021 Dani Rodrik & Stefanie Stantcheva describe their recommendations to the French president on the global economy's main long-term challenges.

  3. Civil Liberties in a Pandemic
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    Civil Liberties in a Pandemic

    Oct 30, 2020 Stefanie Stantcheva shares findings from 15 countries on public attitudes toward the trade-offs needed to tackle COVID-19.

  4. The Post-Pandemic Social Contract
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    The Post-Pandemic Social Contract

    Jun 11, 2020 Dani Rodrik & Stefanie Stantcheva urge policymakers to pursue growth strategies that directly target the creation of good jobs.

  5. The Fog of Immigration
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    The Fog of Immigration

    Aug 3, 2018 Stefanie Stantcheva shares findings from a recent study revealing Western publics’ widespread ignorance of the issue.

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    Can “Cooperative Rivalry” Work?

    Jean Pisani-Ferry worries that America and China will be unable to find common ground on preserving the global commons.
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    The Fed’s Role in the Bank Failures

    Raghuram G. Rajan & Viral V. Acharya

    There are four reasons to worry that the latest banking crisis could be systemic. For many years, periodic bouts of quantitative easing have expanded bank balance sheets and stuffed them with more uninsured deposits, making the banks increasingly vulnerable to changes in monetary policy and financial conditions.

    show how the US central bank's liquidity policies created the conditions for runs on uninsured deposits.
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    Policymakers Keep Solving the Wrong Banking Problem

    Andrés Velasco

    When a bank fails, the first response by policymakers and the public is to blame risk-loving speculators, greedy investors, or regulators asleep at the wheel. But quenching our thirst for moral adjudication is a poor basis for policy, because the truth is both simpler and more troubling.

    argues that recent market turmoil has revealed that the sector’s main vulnerability is unavoidable.
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    An Insolvency Iceberg?

    Takatoshi Ito considers the risk that other banks will experience liquidity problems as interest rates continue to rise.
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    Can Governments Still Steer the Economy?

    Robert Skidelsky explains why international finance and geopolitics make it harder to influence major performance indicators.
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    Accounting for Casino Capitalism

    Hans-Werner Sinn draws parallels between recent bank collapses and the late-nineteenth-century “founders’ crash.”
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    Who Should Be Bailed Out Next?

    Simon Zadek urges rich-country governments to aid debt-distressed poor countries as urgently as they have their failing banks.
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    The Population Boon

    Beniamino Callegari & Per Espen Stoknes correct popular myths about the threat of demographic growth to sustainable development.
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    Where Is the Global South’s Rescue Brigade?

    Vera Songwe decries the unequal responses to liquidity crises in Silicon Valley compared to the developing world.

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