Bøker utgitt av The Peterson Institute for International Economics

This book offers research on how climate change mitigation may yield benefits or impose costs on the global economy.

This book demonstrates how structural forces have produced the decline in manufacturing jobs, and these forces are not likely to be reversed. Analyzing the effects of trade, technological change, production efficiencies, and consumer spending patterns on manufacturing employment, shows that efforts will not return manufacturing to past levels.

This volume analyze the impact of sustained lower productivity growth on public finances, social protection, trade, capital flows, wages, and inequality. It concludes that slow productivity growth could aggravate inequality and increase concentration of market power and also proposes ways that countries can cope with these consequences.

William R. Cline analyzes whether reforms of capital requirements for banks have gone far enough. He calculates how much higher bank capital reduces the risk of banking crises. This study also challenges the recent "too much finance" literature, which holds that in advanced countries banking sectors are already too large and are curbing growth.

The world is poised on the threshold of economic changes that will reduce the income gap between the rich and poor on a global scale. Tomas Hellebrandt and Paolo Mauro detail how this important moment in world history will unfold and serve as a warning to policymakers to prepare for the profound effects on the world economy and the planet.