In a recent paper on the long coincident behavior of international capital flows, commodity prices, and interest rates in global financial centers, Reinhart, Reinhart, and Trebesch (2016 and 2017) discovered the curious case of missing defaults. Despite the drying up of global capital flows and...

This book discusses legalized protectionism in the World Trade Organization and what to do about it.

The author argues that American productivity and living standards, along with those of other countries, will improve only with a renewed commitment to open multilateral trade.

This book recommends the creation of a new, alternative legal structure for collective investment, the "managed investment trust."

This book discusses banking, insurance, and securities regulation, as well as issues in consumer finance and electronic commerce.

Seemingly common-sense taxation approaches raise issues of equity, tax administration, and unintended economic consequences.

This study explains why financial services have for centuries been regulated to a greater extent than are most products that do not directly affect people's health or safety.

The authors consider whether any special circumstances justify departure from free trade in telecommunications equipment.

Economists, trade policy experts, and legislators express their views on the competitive position of the United States in world trade.

This bookconcerns the world of transnational investing and the drift in U.S. policy towards conditional national treatment and the use of foreign investors as a trade tool.