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Regional Multilateralism: The Next Paradigm in Global Affairs
by Mylonas, Harris; Yorulmazlar, Emirhan
Publisher: CNN World
Publication Type: In the News
The Cold War and the early post-Cold War periods were relatively easy to define and comprehend. The first was roughly the struggle between two superpowers forming a bipolar system where almost...
Published Date: January 2012 More
Lost in Transition: Youth, Work, and Instability in Postindustrial Japan
by Brinton, Mary C.
Lost in Transition tells the story of the “lost generation” that came of age in Japan's deep economic recession in the 1990s. The book argues that Japan is in the midst of profound changes that...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: December 2011 More

Discovering Diverse Mechanisms of Migration: The Mexico-U.S. Stream from 1970 to 2000
by Garip, Filiz
Migrants to the United States are a diverse population. This diversity, captured in various migration theories, is overlooked in empirical applications that describe a typical narrative for...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: December 2011 More
Repeat Migration and Cumulative Remittances as Mechanisms for Wealth Inequality in Mexico
by Garip, Filiz
To evaluate the distributional impact of remittances in origin communities, prior research studied how migrants’ selectivity by wealth varies with migration prevalence in the community or...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: December 2011 More
Sovereign Debt Disputes: A Database on Government Coerciveness During Debt Crises
by Enderlein, Henrik; Trebesch, Christoph ; von Daniels, Laura
This paper measures “debt disputes” between governments and foreign private creditors in periods of sovereign debt crises. We construct an index of government coerciveness, consisting of...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: December 2011 More
A Eulogy for Financier Ted Forstmann
by Ferguson, Niall
Publisher: The Daily Beast
Publication Type: Op-ed
Some of you knew Ted Forstmann much better than I did. Most of you knew him much longer. When Ted’s family and closest colleagues asked me to join Mayor Bloomberg and Charlie Rose in offering a...
Published Date: November 2011 More
Romney to the Rescue
by Ferguson, Niall
Publisher: The Daily Beast
Publication Type: Op-ed
This column is for Ted Forstmann: financier, fun lover, and philanthropist, who died on Nov. 20. But it’s not just for him. It’s to him. Ted, I’m worried. I wish you were still around to...
Published Date: November 2011 More
What Really Went Wrong in Greece?
by Mylonas, Harris
Publisher: CNN.com
Publication Type: Op-ed
After reading about the Greek debt crisis for over a year now, you might think you understand what it’s all about. You’re probably wrong. International media focus on how the Greek government...
Published Date: November 2011 More
Fiscal Devaluations
by Gopinath, Gita
We show that even when the exchange rate cannot be devalued, a small set of conventional fiscal instruments can robustly replicate the real allocations attained under a nominal exchange rate...
Publication Type: Working Papers
Published Date: November, 2011 More
Addressing ‘the Kurdish Question’
by Martin, Lenore G.
Publisher: New York Times
Publication Type: Op-ed
It is obvious that the Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s “zero problems with the neighbors” policy no longer works, in the face of Turkey’s support for the Syrian defectors who...
Published Date: November 2011 More