Economy

Analysis

    • Q&A

    U.S.-China Trade Relations—The Next Dispute?

    Since China’s domestic consumption is unlikely to grow fast enough to adequately balance the rising savings rate in the United States, global trade tensions are going to continue to escalate until a long-term solution is reached.

    • Article

    Can the United States Double Exports in Five Years?

    Exports have become an important contributor to U.S. growth in recent years and will be crucial to the recovery. President Obama’s recently announced target of doubling exports in five years, however, appears overly ambitious.

    • Q&A

    Boom or Bust for China’s Economy

    While China is likely to enjoy solid growth again this year, its policy solutions to achieve short-term economic objectives have made long-term rebalancing even more difficult.

    • Article

    Exchange Rates and the Crisis: The Dog That Didn’t Bark

    During the financial crisis, exchange rates adjusted in a remarkably orderly way. Policy makers should be aware, however, that severe exchange rate tensions still require their attention.

    • Op-Ed

    The Real Lessons from the Google-China Spat

    Google’s defiance of the Chinese government will likely remain a crucial moment in China’s relations with the West in general, and should be viewed as a lesson on China’s political calculations behind its policy toward Western companies.

    • Op-Ed

    Never Short a Country with $2Trillion in Reserves?

    The idea that massive levels of foreign currency reserves are a guarantor of economic stability is based on a profound misunderstanding both of history and of the nature of reserves, which are almost totally useless in protecting large economies from domestic bubbles.

    • Article

    Is a Sovereign Debt Crisis Looming?

    Skyrocketing government debt is emerging as a new risk to the global recovery, prompting calls for stimulus withdrawal. Sustaining growth, however, should remain policy makers’ top priority.

    • Op-Ed

    Why No U.S. President will Bomb Iran

    The Obama administration’s deadline for Iran to enter discussions on the nuclear issue has passed. In spite of claims from Washington that “all options are on the table,” the economic crisis makes a military response to Iran infeasible.

    • Op-Ed

    Davos: What's the Point?

    The annual World Economic Forum meeting at Davos is not about deal-making. It is about networking and status-seeking behavior among people with a common background, and the emerging world, women, and the poor are hugely under-represented.

    • Op-Ed

    Why Trade War is Very Likely to Break Out This Year

    The contraction in global demand set off by the financial crisis has led to escalating trade tensions between China and the United States, and a breakdown in trade will slow the global recovery and create hostility and mistrust between major economies whose cooperation is necessary to resolving important global problems.

Carnegie Economists

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    Rozlyn C. Engel
    Nonresident Scholar
    Geoeconomics and Strategy Program
    Rozlyn C. Engel is a nonresident scholar in the Geoeconomics and Strategy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she focuses on global macroeconomic risks, U.S. economic policy (foreign and domestic), and questions facing the economic intelligence community.
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    Yukon Huang
    Senior Fellow
    Asia Program
    Huang is a senior fellow in the Carnegie Asia Program, where his research focuses on China’s economy and its regional and global impact.
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    Moisés Naím
    Distinguished Fellow
    Moisés Naím is a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a best-selling author, and an internationally syndicated columnist.
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    Michael Pettis
    Nonresident Senior Fellow
    Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
    Pettis, an expert on China’s economy, is professor of finance at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management, where he specializes in Chinese financial markets.
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    Sinan Ülgen
    Visiting Scholar
    Carnegie Europe
    Ülgen is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, where his research focuses on Turkish foreign policy, nuclear policy, cyberpolicy, and transatlantic relations.

Carnegie Experts on
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    Cornelius Adebahr
    Nonresident Fellow
    Carnegie Europe
    Adebahr is a nonresident fellow at Carnegie Europe. His research focuses on foreign and security policy, in particular regarding Iran and the Persian Gulf, on European and transatlantic affairs, and on citizens’ engagement.
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    Salman Ahmed
    Nonresident Senior Fellow
    Geoeconomics and Strategy Program
    Salman Ahmed is a nonresident senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he focuses on the future of U.S. national security strategy and its role in promoting national economic interests.
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    Thomas Carothers
    Harvey V. Fineberg Chair for Democracy Studies
    Senior Vice President for Studies
    Thomas Carothers is senior vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is a leading authority on international support for democracy, human rights, governance, the rule of law, and civil society.
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    James F. Collins
    Nonresident Senior Fellow
    Russia and Eurasia Program;
    Diplomat in Residence
    Ambassador Collins was the U.S. ambassador to the Russian Federation from 1997 to 2001 and is an expert on the former Soviet Union, its successor states, and the Middle East.
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    Judy Dempsey
    Nonresident Senior Fellow
    Carnegie Europe
    Editor in chief
    Strategic Europe
    Dempsey is a nonresident senior fellow at Carnegie Europe and editor in chief of Strategic Europe.
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    Evan A. Feigenbaum
    Vice President for Studies
    Evan A. Feigenbaum is vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he oversees research in Washington, Beijing and New Delhi on a dynamic region encompassing both East Asia and South Asia.
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    François Godement
    Nonresident Senior Fellow
    Asia Program
    Godement, an expert on Chinese and East Asian strategic and international affairs, is a nonresident senior fellow in the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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    Paul Haenle
    Maurice R. Greenberg Director’s Chair
    Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
    Paul Haenle holds the Maurice R. Greenberg Director’s Chair at the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center based at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Haenle served as the director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia Affairs on the National Security Council staffs of former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama prior to joining Carnegie.
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    Kheder Khaddour
    Nonresident Scholar
    Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center
    Kheder Khaddour is a nonresident scholar at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. His research centers on civil military relations and local identities in the Levant, with a focus on Syria.
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    Jessica Tuchman Mathews
    Distinguished Fellow
    Mathews is a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She served as Carnegie’s president for 18 years.
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    Marwan Muasher
    Vice President for Studies
    Muasher is vice president for studies at Carnegie, where he oversees research in Washington and Beirut on the Middle East.
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    Douglas H. Paal
    Nonresident Scholar
    Asia Program
    Paal previously served as vice chairman of JPMorgan Chase International and as unofficial U.S. representative to Taiwan as director of the American Institute in Taiwan.
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    Pang Xun
    Resident Scholar
    Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
    Pang Xun is a resident scholar at the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, where she is part of the China and the Developing World Program.
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    George Perkovich
    Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Chair
    Vice President for Studies
    Perkovich works primarily on nuclear strategy and nonproliferation issues; cyberconflict; and new approaches to international public-private management of strategic technologies.
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    Tang Xiaoyang
    Deputy Director
    Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
    Tang Xiaoyang is a resident scholar and the deputy director of the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy and an associate professor in the Department of International Relations at Tsinghua University. His research interests include political philosophy, China’s modernization process, and China’s engagement in Africa.
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    Dmitri Trenin
    Director
    Carnegie Moscow Center
    Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, has been with the center since its inception. He also chairs the research council and the Foreign and Security Policy Program.
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    Milan Vaishnav
    Director and Senior Fellow
    South Asia Program
    Vaishnav’s primary research focus is the political economy of India, and he examines issues such as corruption and governance, state capacity, distributive politics, and electoral behavior.
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    Richard Youngs
    Senior Fellow
    Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program
    Richard Youngs is a senior fellow in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, based at Carnegie Europe. He works on EU foreign policy and on issues of international democracy.

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