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Op-Eds
Some Sanctions Against Russia Actually Achieve Their Foreign Policy Goals
Op-Eds
The Price of Nostalgia: America’s Self-Defeating Economic Retreat
via Foreign Affairs
Testimony
China’s pursuit of leadership in digital currency
Martin Chorzempa (PIIE)
Op-Eds
Ericsson Lawsuit Against Samsung Shows Why Reforming Trade Law is Critical
via Issues & Insights
Op-Eds
Japan needs US to return to CPTPP to expand trade pact
Jeffrey J. Schott (PIIE)
via Mainichi
Op-Eds
The Post-Vaccine Risk Phase
Olivier Blanchard (PIIE) and Jean Pisani-Ferry (PIIE)
via Project Syndicate
Op-Eds
How China Can Make Its Shrinking Workforce More Educated
Tianlei Huang (PIIE) and Nicholas R. Lardy (PIIE)
via Caixin Global
Speeches & Papers
A Path to Prosperity: The Macroeconomic Benefits of Four Immigrant Regularization Scenarios
Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda (UCLA North American Integration and Development Center), Sherman Robinson (PIIE), Marcelo Pleitez (UCLA North American Integration and Development Center), Kassandra Hernández (UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative), Rodrigo Domínguez-Villegas (UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative ) and Abel Valenzuela Jr. (Institute for Research on Labor & Employment)
via UCLA Institute for Research on Labor & Employment
Testimony
Quantitative Easing: Committee to examine whether inflationary fears justified, the future of QE, and the merits of ‘helicopter money’ approaches
via Economic Affairs Committee, UK Parliament
Speeches & Papers
Measuring human capital using global learning data
via Nature