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| Lawrence H. Summers
September 29, 2021, Video: "DAY 2 - SESSION 6. (KEYNOTE LECTURE) CENTRAL BANKING IN A POST-COVID ECONOMIC WORLD Lawrence H. Summers Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus, Harvard University." Watch Via Bangko Central on Youtube
HKS Author - Lawrence Summers
| Jeffrey Frankel
September 23, 2021, Opinion: "Many aspects of cryptocurrencies are baffling, not least the success of a joke like Dogecoin. But El Salvador’s recent adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender alongside the US dollar is perhaps the strangest and potentially most worrying example of all."…
| Edward Glaeser | David Cutler
September 2021, Book: "One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the pandemic has only accelerated. Cities can make us sick. They always have—diseases spread more easily when more people are close to one another. And disease is hardly the only ill that accompanies urban density. Cities have been demonized as breeding grounds for…
| Josh Lerner
September 16, 2021, Paper: "Black- and Hispanic-owned funds control a very modest share of assets in the private capital industry and encounter difficulties in raising first-time funds, despite the fact that their performance is indistinguishable from other funds’ returns. We explore this seeming paradox. We find that the size of the follow-on funds raised by minority managers is less sensitive to the performance of the previous fund than that…
| Bruce Schneier
September 13, 2021, Video: "Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by the Economist. He is the New York Times best-selling author of 14 books -- including Click Here to Kill Everybody -- as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter Crypto-Gram and blog Schneier on Security are read by over 250,000 people. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman-Klein…
| Dani Rodrik | Stefanie Stantcheva
September 13, 2021, Video: "In early 2020, Emmanuel Macron established a commission of renowned international experts to analyse the major economic challenges facing France and other similar economies. The commission recently published their report, "The Major Future Economic Challenges", outlining key recommendations that would allow countries to respond more effectively to these challenges. At this event, we focused in more detail on one of…
September 9, 2021, Video: ""Dominant Currency Paradigm in International Economics" Gita Gopinath, International Monetary Fund (IMF)" Watch Via AG Econ on Youtube
Non-HKS Author Website - Gita Gopinath
| Kenneth Rogoff
September 8, 2021, Opinion: "Journalist James Glassman and economist Kevin Hassett took to these pages in March 1998 to dismiss concerns of a stock market bubble and offer a rationale for why stocks could still go a lot higher. That was already sticking their necks out. But then they stuck them out further, arguing—with many qualifications—that…
| Cass R. Sunstein
September 7, 2021, Book: "How we became so burdened by red tape and unnecessary paperwork, and why we must do better. We've all had to fight our way through administrative sludge—filling out complicated online forms, mailing in paperwork, standing in line at the motor vehicle registry. This kind of red tape is a nuisance, but, as Cass Sunstein shows in Sludge, it can also impair health, reduce growth, entrench poverty, and exacerbate inequality…
| Edward Glaeser | David Cutler
September 7, 2021, Audio: ""Not only was our healthcare system failing us in its job of keeping us healthy for as little dollar and resource costs as possible, now we know it's also failing in its ability to keep us safe from pandemic."" Listen Via the Talking Beats Podcast
HKS Authors - David Cutler and Edward Glaeser