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Rebalancing the Global Economy: A Primer for Policymaking

Stijn Claessens, Simon J Evenett, Bernard Hoekman, 23 June 2010

This Vox eBook aims to provide policymakers and their advisers with up-to-date, comprehensive analyses of the central facets of global economic imbalances and to identify and evaluate potential national and systemic responses to this challenge.

The US-Sino Currency Dispute: New Insights from Economics, Politics, and Law

Simon J Evenett, 15 April 2010

Thanks to deft diplomatic footwork, a US-China confrontation over the renminbi has been avoided. But the US Treasury has merely postponed the publication of its report on foreign currency manipulators, and the dispute may overshadow the G20 meetings in June and November. The 28 short essays in this eBook provide the best available economic, legal, political, and geopolitical thinking on the causes and likely consequences of the dispute.

The Great Trade Collapse: Causes, Consequences and Prospects

Richard Baldwin, 27 November 2009

This VoxEU.org eBook aims to inform the world trade ministers what the economists know about the trade collapse.

Macroeconomic Stability and Financial Regulation: Key Issues for the G20

Mathias Dewatripont, Xavier Freixas, Richard Portes, 2 March 2009

This new eBook analyses a range of policy proposals for how the G20 process and the London Summit might bring about concrete, implementable results that can restore confidence and lead the way to recovery.

The First Global Financial Crisis of the 21st Century Part II: June – December, 2008

Andrew Felton, Carmen M Reinhart, 23 February 2009

A second compilation of Vox columns dealing with the ongoing crisis, in three parts: How did the crisis spread around the world? How has the crisis upended traditional thinking about financial economics? How should we fix the economy and financial system?