have real rates fallen? This note computes a measure of the "world" real interest rate and, where possible, a measure of … the implied future real rate. It also makes public our estimates of the "world" real interest rate so they can be used by …

countries around the world, covering issues such as freedom of association, the regulation of work contracts, employee benefits …) and competitiveness (World Economic Forum). Although our pool of respondents differs greatly from the conservative … foundations and business leaders who contribute respectively to the Fraser Institute and World Economic Forum reports, the GLS and …

The standard source for pre-WWII global freight rate trends is the Isserlis British tramp shipping index. We think it … the precipitous decline in nominal freight rates before the World War I, but it also extends the series to the 1940s …. Furthermore, our new series is linked to the post-World War II era (documented by David Hummels), so that we can be more precise …

Building on Baker, Bloom and Davis (2016), I construct a monthly index of Global Economic Policy Uncertainty (GEPU …) from January 1997. The GEPU Index is a GDP-weighted average of national EPU indices for 16 countries that account for two …-thirds of global output. Each national EPU index reflects the relative frequency of own-country newspaper articles that contain …

I explore the behavior of asset prices and the exchange rate in a two-country world. When the large country has bad …